Section 132: The Chief of the Red (2)

Then these hands and feet, triumphant people in red finally unveiled the red scarves on their faces, began to eat and drink as they wanted, we finally saw their true face of Lushan, they do look different from the Central Plains, a bit like the feeling of Westerners, high nose bridge, deep big eyes, facial features are very three-dimensional, like a sculpture, and their hair is more distinctive, eye-catching, even in modern society, the Khitan hairstyle can definitely be described as a cool word. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info Men all have hair in a variety of styles, different hairstyles, colorful, varied, different, some cut off the top of the head, keep the rest of the hair, look like a circle, some leave a disconnected lock of hair on each side of the forehead, cut off all the others, and some leave a lock of hair at the back of the head. They took great pains to put the swan feathers that the red-clothed chief had given them on their heads of different shapes and shapes, and they talked and laughed, and they ate meat and drank wine in large bowls.

I saw Qiong brewed jade liquid, the wine was fragrant, the staggered chips, the hearty drink, but also drank and had fun, so happy, and their entertainment activities were also particularly interesting, unseen, unheard of, these Khitan people in Liao used glutinous rice, white sheep pith oil, made into fist-sized rice balls, a bit like Japanese sushi, and then these red-clothed people happily sat in the felt tent and did not move, and threw rice balls out of the window. If the rice balls thrown out are even, they will play music, drink feasts, and continue to drink, and what is even more interesting is that once it is an odd number, the red-clothed man who throws the odd number of rice balls must be stuffy in the felt tent for 7 days before he can get out of the felt tent. There is also a unique style of singing and dancing in front of the fun, unique style, distinctive, the most interesting of them is that some blue-faced fanged wizards will shake bells, hold bows and arrows, sing and shout around the felt tent, and the Khitan people in the felt tent are busy sprinkling salt into the fire pond, patting the ground, for a while, there is a chaotic sound outside the felt tent; the salt in the felt tent crackles in the fire, the sound of slapping the ground ping-pong, they call it a frightened ghost, so that they can drive away evil, drive away bad luck, and have great luck.

And these red-clothed people drink very well, a big bowl, a big bowl directly into the mouth, as if drinking nectar, really a thousand cups of not drunk, happy in it, because the Khitan people are good at drinking, and even a few of their emperors are a little drunk, such as Liao Shengzong, who is often drunk, he once gave such an order: in the case of his drunkenness, the minister should not act according to his various decisions, but wait until the next day for him to review the decision. Once, Liao Shengzong once set out from the custom of hospitality and poured a foreign envoy to death with wine. Liao Muzong is even more addicted to alcohol, he often gets drunk at night, and only gets up at noon the next day, the people of the country call him the king of sleep, Liao Muzong is drunk and kills people, and finally he was killed by several waiters who were afraid of being executed by him in drunkenness.

We are all hungry, not too interested in wine, but relish, devouring all kinds of delicacies, and these big fish and meat also have the most precious dish, that is, the head goose feast, which is placed in the white swan they have just killed, the meat is extremely delicate, the taste is good, the leader is alone in the upper seat, he triumphantly took the head of the swan as a reward and fed it to Hai Dongqing, the two Hai Dongqing greedy gluttony. Xiao Fei whispered to me with a hippie smile, "Brother, you are lucky, the toad has finally eaten swan meat." We are really lucky, if in the modern society, this is a national first-class wild animal, under key protection, we eat swan meat is a violation of the criminal law. ”

There is also a dish of hot pot shabu-shabu is also particularly delicious, the aroma is tangy, ten miles of fragrant, the beef and mutton cut thin as a thin shreds gently into the inside, a few seconds can be put into the flooded mouth gluttony, a feast, the Khitan people not only eat shabu shabu, and the way to eat is also very particular, with a large number of colorful seasoning dishes, and now eat shabu shabu form is basically the same, after scooping up it is stained with a variety of colorful condiments to eat, it seems that this shabu mutton hot pot is also invented independently by these nomads, because in the nomadic process, it takes a long time to cook large pieces of meat, which is not conducive to migration at any time, and the meat is cut into thin slices can be cooked quickly, which is especially practical during the war. In the past, people thought that the Mongols invented hot pot shabu-shabu, but the large murals in the tombs of the Liao Kingdom unearthed in many places in modern society prove that the invention patent of hot pot shabu should belong to the Khitans, and it seems that they have contributed to our Chinese cuisine.

At this time, another red-clothed man came in with joy, "The emperor is very happy today, because those of our subordinate countries have come to pay tribute today, you can hear how rich, the Dongdan Kingdom and the former Bohai Kingdom have paid tribute to 1,000 horses, the Jurchen tribe has paid tribute to 10,000 horses, the Zhibugu and other countries have paid tribute to 10,000 horses, Zhu Bu and Wu Duwan and Tide have each paid tribute to 20,000 horses, Xixia and Murowei have each paid tribute to 30,000 horses, and there are also Yueli Du, Caiali, Orimi, Punuli, Tieli and other tribes, each pay tribute to 300 horses, this year our luck is good, the emperor asked you to share some horses, we don't have to recruit another army to buy horses, really God help me, double happiness, congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince Yelu Hongji-" Those red-clothed people cheered and shouted in a row, because in the Khitan campaign of the Liao State, the number of horses, cattle, and sheep plundered was rewarded. For the various tribes that were conquered, the tribute demanded by the Liao court was mainly livestock. The Khitan people regarded the rich and poor as rich and poor according to the number of cattle, sheep and horses they raised. According to volume 271 of the "Zizhi Tongjian: Later Liang Ji", the Khitan people of Liao attached great importance to the number of cattle, sheep and horses. But, Prince Yeluhongki, who is he? The one who stands tall in front of me with a strange mask, I really want to unmask him and see what he really looks like.