Chapter 980: Dance and Song

Young men and women from all over the country who come to visit relatives, together with the people of this village, dance around three circles inside and three circles outside, and the reed sheng in a large circle on the outermost layer is playing cheerful music.

Beautiful feathers fluttering, dazzling silver ornaments shining, feet and palms flying, young faces laughing.

Ah Yin and Li Junge also danced in it, and the two glanced at each other from time to time, their eyes full of tenderness and sweetness.

The old people have left early, and this place has become a sea of joy for the young people.

The dance lasted until midnight, and on the way back, the two heard a clear singing sound in the woods around the field.

This is the time for young men and women to sing and express their love, and the person who was in love when they just jumped to the moon is now invited together with other friends in the same situation in the village, and express their love through singing.

The lyrics sung are all-encompassing, some praise each other, some borrow things to lyrical, and some flirt and scold.

Ayin walked all the way, listened carefully all the way, and suddenly smiled: "Yo, this young man from Long'an Village is good." ”

Li Junge smiled: "Why do you hear it well?"

Ah Yin smiled: "This young man is singing an ancient song, and he is using the part of the ancient song that describes the history of his ancestors to introduce his life experience. ”

Li Junge said: "Ouch, that's the queen of the famous family!"

Ayin said with a smile: "Such a young man is even more pleasing to girls, because this song must have been dictated by his fathers, has a certain family origin, and belongs to a family with a relatively high social status in the village." ”

All the way up, in addition to the singing of the tour field, there are also many male voices singing under the back window of the Miao family's wooden building, which is the girl in the hanging sky village.

The girls were also responding with singing, and apart from the singing of young men and women, the old men of the family had no voice at all.

However, Li Junge dared to assure Mother Butterfly that the old people must not have slept, they were all eavesdropping with their ears pricked up, but they were pretending not to hear, and let the children make trouble until dawn.

Because they and their fathers also chose their favorite people in this way.

Their view of love is indeed more open and calm than that of the Han people, and it is also more romantic and healthy.

Tonight, early in the morning of the 16th, the owners of each family took their uncle's guests to cut down the maple trees.

The maple trees to be cut down have been planted a long time ago, and they have been planted for generations, and each family has several trees.

In fact, the tree to be used for the drum festival was chosen a long time ago.

The selected maple trees are marked with small swastikas, because maple trees are not just randomly selected.

Father Yin explained to Li Junge some taboos in the selection of maple trees, as a maple tree for making cattle cutters, it must be born from seeds.

That is to say, like the Lijiagou goose egg golden lychee tree, the high-branched breeding, grafting, none of them are qualified.

In addition, the tree which reissued after being cut down does not do it. And the tree selection must be the kind with two or three branches.

The Miao family's uncle, the people who went to cut down maple trees to make cattle slaughterers, most of them were guests of the uncle's family.

There are rules for choosing trees, and there are also rules for cutting trees, and it is also an ancient tradition that Father Yin first cuts three axes and then hands them over to his uncles to help cut them.

What is curious is that before cutting down the tree, a small dried fish is tied to the bottom of the cut tree with hemp rope, and the small fish remains on the tree after cutting.

Looking at the little dried fish, Li Junge thought of Grandpa Yu, the female relatives in the family, and the small dried fish on the heads of the priests.

The uncle's house, the fish, and the tree that branches the hair branches, all hint at the prayer of a pair of people to prosper.

The maple grove behind the pond is bustling with activity today, with more than 400 families cutting down trees here.

The priests were very busy, and before cutting down the tree, they had to lead the families and recite a sacrifice to the maple tree.

After the maple tree was cut down, and the branches at the top, the two uncles divided it into six knots on the spot.

Daddy Yin went and chose another tree and cut down some branches with leaves.

The high priest explained that this number, called "dusai," was used to cover the prepared cattle cutters.

This reminded Li Junge of the wrapping grass used in the Han family's sacrificial wine and the yarrow used in blending jade.

Etiquette should not be wasted, and the sense of ritual arises from these special details.

On the back mountain, a large area of slope land has been sorted out, called Spiral Cow Pond.

Why don't you use the big square under the village, the old man introduced that after the ceremony of pulling the cow whirlwind, there is also a custom of pocketing the soil, the big square is paved with granite, and you can't do this.

On the 16th, there was a big ceremony that caused a sensation in the whole village - pulling the cow swirl pond.

This ceremony marks the beginning of the culmination of the Drum Tibetan Festival.

The area around the Spiral Cow Pond is densely populated, and on the slopes of the outer circle, most of the women who stand are watching the ceremony, and most of the people in the inner circle are men.

Women can't spin the bull themselves, after all, it's a heavy thing, and it takes seven or eight men to handle it, but they can participate in the parade before and after the spinning bull.

After dinner in the morning, the two uncles and Li Junge came to the bullpen, twisted some straw into a rope, and pulled the cow out through the cow's nose.

These are two large and vigorous bulls, with shiny fur and muscles clearly visible under the skin.

Father Yin hung Grandma Ayin's flower shoes on the horns of the bull, as well as the pistol of the Hanging Harrier Zuzu, marking the identities of the two recipients.

Li Junge looked at it, and every household was busy in front of their own sacrificial cattle.

Miao Wa and many of Ayin's relatives also came to help, not only their own family, but also seven or eight people gathered around each big cow.

The reed sheng team has been waiting there for a long time, perhaps because the ceremony of pulling the cow swirl pond is extraordinarily grand, and the person who led the reed sheng team has been replaced by the experienced master.

The priests stood in front of the procession, waiting for the moment to come.

Most of the people who have recently passed away, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, and even sons and daughters, the voices and smiles of these people still remain in people's minds.

Because of this, there are some very special performances in the process of pulling the cow in the process of the ritual.

At twelve o'clock, the iron cannon shooter fired a cannon in front of the procession, and the procession began to walk towards the Spiral Cow Pond.

The man who carries the drum and hides the flag walks in the front;

Then there are the reed sheng pipes that are played in columns;

Grandpa Yu followed closely behind the reed sheng team with the support of the two village elders;

This was followed by the female relatives of the family.

These women, who are of higher rank in the family, are empty-handed, in a row of five or six people, forming a phalanx.

The priests walked behind them.

The two uncles led a cow together, and Li Junge, Miao Wa and others surrounded them and helped drive the cattle together.

Behind the cows, the rest of the female relatives in costumes, some of them carrying new clothes and quilts with bamboo poles.

Father Yin, who was holding a bird's gun, was also among them, and he also gestured from time to time to show the might of the ancestor of the Xuantian Harrier.

This was followed by the second, and then the third...... The teams of each family formed a long queue for a while, and the onlookers either followed, or went uphill, or up the trees. The sound of firecrackers came and went, and the crowd cheered and cheered.

Coming to the Rotary Bull Farm, the team began to circle around the four directions, and the four sides were thunderous, which was what the old man called the "Swirling Pond".

After two turns, someone grabbed a handful of mud from a mud pit that had been dug on one side and rubbed it on the back of the bull, from the tail to the neck.

Another grabbed a handful of rice and sprinkled it on the cow's back from tail to neck in the direction of the mud.

At the same time, Aunt Miao, who was waiting here, put a pair of collars on the two horns of the cow, tied the collars together with a piece of cloth, and wrapped a small dried fish around the head of the cow.

When he was done, Uncle Orion put a piece of satin on the cow's back and pulled the cow back to the cowpen, and the Whirling Pond ceremony of Ayin's family was over, and the cattle of the other family began again.

Li Junge finally had time to watch the bull spinning performances of the rest of the families.

In the Xuantang procession, there will be a person in each family, carrying the objects that the sacrificed loved before his death.

For example, if he likes to hunt, he will carry a gun, if he likes to raise birds, he will use a thin bamboo pole to pick a birdcage, if he likes to fish, there will be a person to perform the net, and if he likes to be a carpenter, he will carry a saw, planer and other carpenter tools, which is the most characteristic ceremony of the Hanging Heaven Village Drum Tibetan Festival.

Smearing soil on the back of an ox is to hope that the land will be abundant, and to scatter rice is to hope for a good harvest.

One by one, it lasted for a long time.

The procedure is the same for each family, the difference is that the performers of each family, carrying bird cages, picking clothes, and picking spinning utensils, needless to say, can only follow, and there is no more action.

Those who take farm tools, straws, and wear fishing baskets and fishing nets will have to perform corresponding actions, and every time such a time, a small climax will be ushered in on the rotating cow pond.

If the relatives sacrificed are martial arts enthusiasts, it will be too lively to watch, and the cheers will sweep through the entire Rotary Cow Pond like a torrential rain.

The bull swirling pond lasted for more than four hours in the sound of firecrackers one after another, and then gradually calmed down, and the people of Hanging Tianzhai began to prepare for the next ceremony.

The cattle were regrouped in the pen, and the whole team moved there, and the pen was flooded.

The whole bullpen only heard the sound of people, the firecrackers rumbled, the girls danced under the accompaniment of the reed sheng, the grandfather held the knife in his left hand, the grass in his right hand, and led all the crowd to dance around the herd, followed by a village old man who carried a rice basket and rice wine, he was the second drum to hide the head, the Miao language is called "Jiaxiong", this ceremony means to display the sacrifice to worship the ancestors.

The third was followed by the high priest, who had the most dried fish on his head, and who sprayed wine on the ground as he recited the words, meaning to ward off evil spirits.

Under the push of everyone, the bull kept circling in the circle, one is to show the ancestors, and the other is to let the bystanders see how good the bull is sacrificed to their own family.

In the process, the drum and Tibetan flags of each family were also gathered.

The Miao people used this kind of sacred object embroidered with totems to summon the heroic spirits of their ancestors.

There are hundreds of flags in hundreds of households, and their men carry them to worship their ancestors.

After the ox spinning was completed, and the cattle were re-settled in the cattle pen, each family, plus the representatives of each village and village, and hundreds of ancestors worshiped the procession in the sound of reeds, horns and firecrackers, like an army going out, to the bull pond that had just been trampled by the bulls.

According to the ancestral training, women are not allowed to enter the venue to participate in the conjuring, so there are more people on the surrounding mountains, densely packed with women from their own family and relatives and friends watching the excitement.

The scene of tens of thousands of onlookers was vast and shocking, full of solemnity and mystery.

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