The bride's hair was long and hung down almost to her ankles. I heard Tongmei's daughter say that the girls of their clan can't cut their hair before they get married, and they have to spend a lot of energy to maintain their hair, and when they return to the door on the third day after marriage, they will cut their hair at the waist, put their hair together with the satchel they used when they were girls, and put it at their parents' house.

I've never heard of this custom, and I don't know why, even Tongmei's daughter doesn't know, and she also said that many girls don't follow this old custom anymore, because when they go to school, they will ask to cut their hair short. It's okay to study in a local village, and you won't be forced to cut it if you intercede, but those who go out to study with their parents don't have such a good treatment, and if you want to stay, you can only follow the school rules to cut your hair short, so now many young girls can't keep their hair that long.

Tongmei's daughter is one of them, she studies in the town, comes back once a month, it is inconvenient to wash her hair and take a shower at school, if the hair is too long, there is no time to toss at all, so her hair is short, and there is no way to grow it in recent years.

Speaking of this, Tongmei's daughter stared at the bride's long hair with regret and longing.

The bride begins to comb her hair after changing her clothes. The bride's hairstyle is complicated, and she has to wear a lot of headdresses, and at the end she wears a hat with a strange shape, which is inlaid with silver ornaments and bone chips.

"The bone fragments were made from the leg bones of the strongest prey that her husband had gone hunting himself, and the necklace of hers, which was made from the teeth of the same prey. Our best groom here can beat the bear, followed by the wolf, and the snake and the boar. ”

However, now the Wildlife Protection Law stipulates that you can't hunt casually, so there are basically no wolves, bears, and the most powerful ones are wild boars, snakes, and so on.

The bone fragments on the bride's head are the bones of a wild boar, and the necklace on her chest and front is also polished from the boar's teeth. Chen Xin took all this to heart, and then turned on the camera to record the entire process of combing the bride's hair.

She did not choose the front of the bride, but focused on the hands and hairstyle that combed her hair on the back and gradually took shape, and finally left a side image, so that people could not see the bride's full face, but they could feel the bride's shy and timid excitement from the camera.

On the second night, in the square in front of the low drum tower, everyone began to prepare for the evening banquet. Two bonfires were set up, one on the left and one on the right, and four sheep and six little fragrant pigs had been killed, and they were laid on the wooden shelves and hung to drain their blood. Then the two large stoves in the middle are made of bricks and stones, and the iron pot resting on the big stove is also a special pot for this kind of party, which is twice as large as the iron pot used by each family.

The shovels for stir-frying are all new shovels, and then pots of meat and vegetables are stacked in the open space next to the stove. Three earthen stoves were built by the river with big stones, steel bars were crossed with wooden shelves, and three iron pots were hung to cook hanging pot rice.

Most of their rice is cooked with taro or potatoes. It is said that because rice was not grown in the past, the staple food was the lumpy fruit of this potato and plant, and it was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that rice began to be eaten, but the whole rice could not be eaten, so it was cooked with the previous staple food, and it was found that it tasted better.

In addition to hanging pot rice, there is also bamboo tube rice. However, the bamboo rice here is simmered with pork face meat. The pork face meat is fried in advance, with capers and diced potatoes stir-fried, then mixed with rice, stuffed into a bamboo tube and roasted, the rice that comes out has the fragrance of the bamboo tube, as well as the fat of the pork face meat and the soft glutinous potatoes, sprinkled with a little salt, the taste is simply not mentioned.

The first time Chen Xin saw the fish boiled in sour soup, he poured the sour soup directly into it with a bucket. The sour soup is a white sour soup, which has a different fermentation process from the red sour soup, and the taste is more unique.

The boiled bamboo shoots are fresh bamboo shoots from the mountains, and then the fish is also self-raised rice field fish, which is an absolute green food.

There is not too much contact with the outside world, and most of the ingredients are produced and sold in-house. In particular, the rice wine specially brewed by the bride's family for this dinner is the essence of the whole banquet.

The bride's father is the most famous winemaker in the village, and there are people in the county who come to ask for wine. This time, the rice wine was brewed by the bride's father three months ago. The whole brewing time is not long, even fermentation is only about half a month, but the leached wine will be fermented for the second time in the tile jar, and then the clear wine is the rice wine they drink today.

"Our home-brewed rice wine is basically only fermented once, and the liquor is slightly cloudy, and the lees after filtering the liquor are used to cook rice balls, eggs, etc., which is very delicious. My rice wine will be ready tomorrow, and I'll cook you rice balls to eat when the time comes. Tongmei's daughter said that she will go to class next week, because they have a busy farm holiday here, so the start of school will be half a month late, and she is very satisfied to be able to eat the newly made rice wine at home before leaving.

The food eaten at the party is actually not particularly outstanding to say how special it is, the original flavor is very sufficient, but the ingredients are still the common ones, but the taste is a little more sour and spicy. Chen Xin's favorite is not the sour soup fish, but the sour noodle soup.

This kind of sour noodle soup is specially made for the elderly and children, Chen Xin didn't dare to eat it again after eating a bowl of hanging pot rice, feeling that the rice was a little hard, just Tongmei's daughter brought noodles to her to taste, Chen Xin ate a small half bowl.

There is no meat in the sour noodle soup, a simple bowl of clear water noodles, with a little sour chili pepper and shredded bamboo shoots, with pale yellow noodles, very chewy, after eating and drinking the soup, the whole body is hot.

Tongmei's daughter said that this sour soup has medicinal herbs added to it, which is to strengthen the body, young people rarely eat it, and most of them are prepared for the elderly and children, but if Chen Xin likes it, she will take her to Tong's sister's house for dinner at noon tomorrow.

"My aunt's sour noodle soup is the best, and no one in the whole village can catch up with her, especially when she also makes shredded chicken noodles in sour soup, which is air-dried pheasant meat, which tastes completely different from domestic chicken, and you will know it when you eat it." And my aunt will also make acid bacteria, slippery and spicy, slightly sour in the mouth, and I will feel a very special taste after chewing a few more times, and I will tell you what it is after you eat it tomorrow. ”

Hearing Tongmei's daughter's words, Chen Xin was hung up with an appetite, and she couldn't wait to go to the next day immediately.

The dinner lasts all night, and the bride's maiden sisters and her best friends sing a wedding song for her all night.

The content of the wedding song is actually very simple, sometimes there is not even a lyrics with actual content, that is, different tunes and the euphemism of a single word are combined into a song, and even various sounds from nature can be heard, and the men and women are divided into several voices to cooperate with each other, it is simply a large-scale vocal symphony.

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