Chapter 976: Drums

When I return to Lijiagou, Kuanguahu Lake, and Dushui Creek, I have to go to it anyway, and "Mountains and Rivers with the Same Root" must be watched.

There are even many tourists who missed "Gan Jiang" or "Big Purple Cat", and they are not addicted to watching TV boxes at home, and then come here to experience the feeling of the big screen.

After so many projects have been completed, it is just a regular tour for the general public, and there is another type of people who are here for an in-depth tour.

They are here to experience the life of the people of Lijiagou.

In their words, material freedom has long been possible, and in Lijiagou, what they are looking for is spiritual freedom.

Experience this kind of life with the owner of the homestay, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, pottery, calligraphy, wood art, lacquer art......

Listen to literature lectures, art lectures, lectures on the three religions, go to Fawang Temple to learn zazen, go to Santai Guan to learn five bird opera...... I feel that this kind of life is life.

Even smoked bacon, sausages, insect tea, dendrobium maple buckets, even simple harvesting vegetables, feeding chickens, are all enjoyable.

Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see Nanshan!

Li Junge divides such a group of people into three categories, the first type is both love and good, this is true love, it is indeed liked from the heart, and the more you do it, the more you like it.

The second type is only bad love, when it comes to it, it is full of yearning and envy, just a few days later, such a life suddenly feels boring, this is Ye Gong is a good dragon, and what he looks forward to is a kind of imaginary beauty.

There is another category that is even more ridiculous, I have to not love it, because others think I did it badly, so I did it, purely to pretend to be forced and wronged myself.

Ah Yin couldn't see Li Junge's harsh comments, so he gave him a look: "What do you care about so much?

Li Junge said with a smile: "What do I care about what they do? I can't get busy with business, tomorrow I will take Bai Da and them up the mountain, you really don't go?"

Ayin said: "I really can't leave here, you go first, and I'll come up again when the skewers are made." ”

Li Junge said: "You have a lot of rules, anyway, I don't understand, this time I only bring eyes and no mouth." ”

"By the way, if the big brother foursome wants to make trouble when the seedlings are opened, you have to give me a top, don't say that Uncle Xiao doesn't care about their life or death, and the aunt's shelf is brought up to train them to death!"

Ayin smiled: "How can you say such an exaggeration." Meixian is now in Lijiagou, they have the backbone, and we don't need to worry about it. ”

Li Junge pouted: "Return the master's heart, the slave owner is almost ......"

Ayin couldn't laugh anymore: "You are just jealous of Meixian! People bring it well every year, but last year it was replaced by you, but there was no less complaint!"

Saying that this was strange and boring, Li Junge had no choice but to change the topic and pick up the big brush: "Come on, I'll go and clean up the dogs, and go up the mountain to see Grandpa Yu tomorrow." ”

Ayin said: "Then I'll pick out your clothes and pack you up." ”

Li Junge: "......"

Carrying a brush to the back mountain, he whistled and beckoned a group of subordinate dogs: "Come here to scrub and scrub, and I'm going up the mountain to see Zuzu tomorrow." ”

This washing took more than an hour, and when I came back, my grandmother and mother prepared a large bag of gifts, and Li Junge would bring them tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Li Junge took a group of dogs up the mountain.

Grandpa Yu had already packed up and dressed up, and when he saw Li Junge coming over with the dog, he smiled and said, "Bai Da, they are energetic enough today, okay!"

Bai Da is the best at watching people put down dishes, and when he heard this, he got to Grandpa Yu's side, and his tail shook violently with a sneer.

Grandpa Yu touched the dogs' heads: "It's going to be hard for them today, but Piwa has to take the drum with me first." ”

Guzang Guzang, the ancient belief of the Miao people, is of course related to drums.

The Miao family believes that the big drum made of the skin of the big cow is the place where the spirits of the ancestors lived.

It is the bond and symbol of a blood family, and the family of this blood relationship, the Miao family is called "He" or "Door", and there is a "paragraph contract".

In fact, it is similar to the patriarchal law of Confucianism, which maintains the social order of the clan internally and deals with the aggression of the enemy externally.

The "Drum Tibetan Festival" is a kind of collective ancestor worship ceremony of the ancient Miao people's ancestor worship that has been passed down from the ancient blood family.

After all, its origin is inseparable from the legend of Yongye and Ni slaughtering cows to worship the butterfly mother and usher in a bumper harvest.

However, compared to the ordinary bull sacrifice, the threshold of rules is much more complicated.

The first is that there must be a general leader before the main festival, called "Drum Hidden Head".

The "Guzotou" can be hereditary, but if the descendants of the previous Guzotou are not capable of serving as the Guzotou this time, they will have to be re-elected.

Good quality, respected, married, with children, parents alive, good economic conditions, the oldest family in the village...... A variety of conditions can be used as a reason for selection.

In addition to meeting these conditions, the most important thing is to make the final decision by tying a straw knot.

Tie the grass knot is a more popular way in this village, after the autumn harvest, presided over by the priest, all the eligible people come to tie the grass knot to participate in the selection of the drum to hide the head, and finally see who has the longest knot to choose whom, this is actually a kind of divination, let the gods make the final decision.

Four miles and eight towns, the one who has the strength to hold this festival is, of course, Hanging Sky Village.

And Grandpa Yu's prestige is too high, and no one in the village comes to campaign with him.

Therefore, he naturally became the "drum head" of this great sacrifice.

The drums of the Miao family are also divided into many kinds, and the drum Tibetan festival uses wooden drums.

The wooden drum is divided into double drum and single drum, which has always been secretive, and Grandpa Yu explained the rules of these drum Tibetan festivals to Li Junge, while leading Li Junge, from a remote and hidden granary in the wooden building, to move out two large drums of the same size.

Grandpa Yu wiped the drum that had not been used for many years with a soft cloth, and said to Li Junge: "This is the cowhide drum used to worship the ancestors. The body of the drum is hollowed out with a whole section of nanmu, and then the two ends of the nanmu are covered with cowhide, which is more than 50 years of reconstruction of the day......"

"We Miao people live together, and the regional organization formed by the blood clan, and the various villages with 'door sections' are called 'Drum Society'. ”

Therefore, the drum is a symbol of the ancestral gods, so the various rituals and activities of the drum Tibetan festival are carried out with the drum as the core. ”

Li Junge looked at these two drums, which were nearly two meters long and half a meter in diameter, which was really old.

Such a thick nanmu hollowed out to make a drum makes Li Junge's heart ache when he thinks about it.

However, Grandpa Yu didn't mean to be heartbroken at all, touching the jujube-colored drum body that had been ground out of a layer of muddy pulp, and said with some sadness: "This is handed down from the ancestors, and it is usually placed in the family of a long-married childless family." It is said that the offering of double drums can enable the childless to have children, and the children and grandchildren will continue to reproduce, so this drum has been stored in our home all the time. ”

Li Junge said: "Grandpa......"

Grandpa Yu laughed: "There's nothing to regret! Although Ayin is not a male baby, who can compare to him? ! After this year's sacrifice, I will hand over the wooden drum to the people who are willing to worship. In the past, I was afraid of meeting a loser, and I didn't take the things of my ancestors seriously......"

After speaking, he sighed again: "I heard that many villages, even the wooden drums for worshipping ancestors and the copper drums for sacrificing Chiyou, have been moved out and sold......"

"This thing is the abode of the ancestors' souls, Piwa, you say, what's the difference between selling this and selling the things in your ancestors' grave......s?

Li Junge nodded and said: "Fortunately, there are four grandfathers under the mountain, and there are grandfathers on the mountain, and the dragon boat dragon head over there in Baimi Township is not sold?"

The double drum reception is also very grand, first the double drum worship, and then Uncle Ah Chong sent the new single drum this year.

The single drum is one size smaller than the double drum, and after the drums used this year are all together, Grandpa Yu led Uncle Ah Chong and Li Junge to a mountain cliff, and worshiped the old drum that had rotted here after the last drum Tibetan festival under the cliff.

This ritual is called "turning the drum".

Uncle Ah Chong introduced to Li Junge: "The single drum is a single drum, which is slightly shorter than the double drum, and it is now made and used during the sacrifice. After the drum festival is over, the single drum is sent to a cave in the mountains to be hidden, and it is no longer used and left to rot. This is similar to the funeral in the old days of our Miao family. ”

Li Junge said: "Then the name of this drum is from here, right?"

Uncle Ah Chong said: "This is not very clear, but we say more 'Dirty Festival', which means the day of eating the internal organs of the cow, but to give you this statement, the word Guzang seems to be more appropriate." ”

In fact, seeing the shape of the wooden drum, Li Junge has already recalled it, and he has seen this custom in the book.

The fourth grandfather collected the "Yongsui Zhili Hall Chronicles, Miao Tong Chapter", "Miao Defense Preparation, Customs Examination", which have more specific and vivid records.

"Miao Tong is said to be a person who dances the drum and is dirty, and the ancestral hall of the village, and the people of the people invite Jiao ......"

"In the past few years, Haizi has been held on two days in two months, each household kills a cow, steames a stone of rice cakes, and men and women gather in the morning, more than 1,000 people, and hundreds of small .......

"Miao Wuqing's umbrella, long clothes, and hand-cranked copper bells summon the gods, and another person hits the bamboo tube, and one person hits the wooden ......"

"Its wood is in the air, the two sides are covered with raw cowhide, and one person is dressed in colorful clothes......

"The rest of the men wore five-colored clothes or red felt, and put a black gauze crown on the head of the horsetail ......"

"Miao women are also dressed, men are externally rotated, and women are internally rotated. They all raised their hands and feet, their bodies swayed, their dancing sleeves were linked, left and right, and they felt considerable. And the sound of the reed sheng corresponds to the singing, melodious and ear-catching, which is called the dancing drum dirty ......"

However, the article strongly criticized the Miao family's ancestor worship activities of slaughtering a large number of cultivated cattle and seriously affected production, and then cheered for the Qing government's explicit ban on this custom.

Of course, these can't be said to Uncle Chong, after the drum turning ceremony, it's time to go down the mountain to pick up the cattle.

The sturdy men in the Miao village, all wearing traditional clothes, have already lined up in the field to wait, plus the dogs in the village, today is the nest out.

Turning over from the back mountain pass, it is a fifteen-mile downhill passage.

The blue and cyan procession winded along the mountain road, and along the way, Grandpa Yu introduced Li Junge to the various aspects of the Drum and Tibetan Festival.

This is the first major festival of the Miao family, which is generally only held once every thirteen years and lasts for up to four years.

The drum and Tibetan festival of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, the "Zhaolong" ceremony was held on February Shenri of the first year. All the men, women and children of the society gathered at the foot of the maple god tree in the Yinglong field, and the "drum hidden head" presided over the "Zhaolong" under the colorful treasure.

Then, on the seventh day of the same year, a "waking up" ceremony was held.

On October of the following year, the "Welcoming Drum" ceremony was held.

On the auspicious day of April of the third year, the "Cattle Trial" ceremony is held.

On October Day of the fourth year, the pig killing and drum sacrifice ceremony is held, which is called the "White Drum Festival", and this is the end ceremony of the "Drum Tibetan Festival".