Lunar New Year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Early in the morning, the core members of the affiliated tribes, a group of sixty or seventy people, dressed in sacrificial costumes, came to Shangying.

Shangying is the social settlement of the sub clan. The people who live in this area are all members of the sub-clan.

In order to facilitate farming, it is generally divided into 10,000 hectares of fertile land and inhabited in a lump of land, and Shigu Village is a collective term for the area of residence and cultivated land belonging to all clans.

Each clan has its own unique name for the area where the clan lives and cultivates the fields, such as Shangying of the Zi clan, Jiang Ying of the Jiang clan of Dustpan Bay, Yang Ying of the Yang clan where the Qingbao Pavilion is stationed, and so on.

At this time, Ziyun had already taken a few clan elders and a few descendants to wait for them in the open space, and Zishang was also among them.

After all, he is Ziyun's only son, and he is still the great-grandson of King Xu. If the Great Shang is not destroyed, he will be the prince.

Everyone exchanged a few words of greeting, and then the group walked towards the ancestral cemetery in the east.

On the eastern edge of Shangying, not far from the west side of the ancient river valley, there is a small piece of pine and cypress, a total of ninety-nine number, surrounded by a stone fence that is not high, and the "pine yin stone" that is a special product of the forty miles long mountain is used.

It is said that the combination of Songyin stone and century-old pines and cypresses can become a treasure of feng shui by itself, ensuring that the deceased can sleep peacefully and without interference from the world.

This ancestral cemetery only buried two people, Wen Ding and Di Yi. As for the Shang kings before Emperor Wending, they were originally buried in Bo, and after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, they were all moved to the royal tomb in the relict capital Yincheng.

As for the self-immolation of the king on the deer platform, there are no bones, only a symbolic empty grave.

In the center of the cemetery, there is a one-zhang high stone statue carved by dark colored Han jade.

These 100 people placed various sacrifices in front of the tombs of the three ancestors, and performed three prostrations and nine prostrations.

Then the people solemnly and carefully removed the weeds from the grave, and each person added a handful of soil to the grave.

In order to let the ancestors rest in peace, no one else is generally allowed to come here, so it is inevitable that many weeds and wild saplings will grow on the grave, and they will only come to clean it on major ancestral worship days.

The whole process of ancestor worship is solemn and solemn, even Zishang is also very serious, he has been instilled with the idea of "ancestor supremacy" since he was a child, if he does not take the ancestor sacrifice seriously, it is a great disrespect to the ancestors, and he will be punished by God.

After performing a big gift again, several Qi Refining Realm martial artists invited the Xuanniao statue out of the ancestral cemetery.

There are three steps in the winter ritual process: worshipping ancestors in Shangying, parade of Xuanniao, and offering to the gods.

It starts at the beginning of the hour, roughly at the second quarter of the first hour, and lasts for nearly two hours in total.

The Xuanniao statue set off from Shangying, trekking all the way, although it was relatively heavy, but after all, there were a few middle-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists carrying it, and a pillar of incense came to the highland on the southeast edge of Changshan Lake.

It is the largest granary in Shigu Village, with more cultivated land nearby, fertile soil, and more than five zhang higher than the surrounding terrain, which is very suitable for storing grain. So a granary was built.

Because the vast majority of people in Shigu Village are warriors, and there is a lot of arable land, there is a lot of surplus grain every year, so they gather here.

That's why the area was named "Tuncang". Each clan sent a part of the people to be stationed here.

The purpose of the grain storage is twofold, one is to prevent natural disasters, and the other is to provide for the people stationed here.

Some of them planted cotton and linen crops or silkworm reeling in a field in the south of the Tuncang Plateau, another part raised aquatic products in Changshan Lake on the north side, and some of them planted various fruits in the depression on the west side of Tuncang.

In addition, the people here have one or two crafts, so on a slope on the southern edge of the Tuncang Heights, a "T" shaped market is formed.

Killing pigs and selling meat, snacks, snacks, and exotic toys are all available. Tuncang is basically called Tuncang set.

At this time, the Tuncang market was crowded with more than 1,000 people, and ninety percent of the villagers came to participate in the winter festival and celebrate the New Year.

As soon as the Xuanniao statue came, everyone cheered, some people scattered flowers, some people beat gongs and drums, and some people danced dragons and lions, so it was not lively.

Xuanniao is the totemic belief of the merchants, the supreme existence among the gods of nature. Seeing the statue of the Xuanniao, they cheered from the bottom of their hearts.

Surrounded by the crowd, the statue was invited to the highest point of the Tuncang Heights, where a simple altar was built, one foot higher than the rest of the Tuncang Heights.

Ziyun and several clan elders ascended the altar, facing Shigu Mountain and Changshan Lake, worshiped nine pillars of incense in the "Mountains and Rivers Ding" on the altar, solemnly read out the sacrifices, and led everyone to worship the gods of nature: mountain gods, river gods (lake gods), forest gods, wind gods, etc., as well as the supreme god Xuanniao.

The black crowd on the street knelt down together, bowed three times and knocked nine times, and it was quite spectacular, which made people's hearts surge.

Incense is also burned in the various "shops" in the bazaar, and from a distance, the land of Tuncang is full of smoke and clouds, and the incense is flourishing.

There are dozens of red silks on the two streets, and red lanterns are hung, so festive!

The sun rose little by little, and the time came to the second quarter of Chenzheng, and the winter ceremony was successfully concluded.

Others continued to stay in the Tuncangji, where they took out a year's worth of stock in preparation for the day, and the goods here were dazzling and varied.

In order to add to the lively atmosphere, the "merchant" also prepared a large number of broken bamboo, and made a small fire to produce a "crackling" sound, and the shopkeeper also called this "firecracker".

Later, this thing was carried forward by quilt merchants and spread all over the land of China.

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The Chinese New Year, the most important thing, of course, is to buy, buy, buy!

Don't look at Shigu Village is a closed mountain village, with a population of less than 2,000, but there are all kinds of craftsmen, and there are not a few, and the land here is vast and sparsely populated, with thousands of acres of fertile land and abundant products, and it can barely be regarded as "a large land and rich resources"

The area of the Tuncang market is not large, and the goods it has are comparable to those of a small county town outside the mountains.

In fact, the people here are not short of money, and even have thousands of dollars, they are descendants of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty, and the amount of money is just a number.

But there is a lot of money but nowhere to spend, so the commodity trading here is just a meaning, just to have fun.

Because there is no monetary benefit, their laughter is more simple and sincere.

The two streets that are not wide in the shape of "T" in Tuncang are crowded with people at this time, and the stalls of the "shopkeepers" are forced to retreat to the "façade room", which still seems crowded, but no one cares, but it is becoming more and more lively and noisy.

I usually live a simple life as a rural person, relying on my own labor to create food, and although I repeat the same thing every day, I never feel bored, and I live a fulfilling life every day.

When it came to the Chinese New Year, I bought and bought hard, enjoyed the luxury life of the nouveau riche, and lived a happy life.

Of course, only Shigu Village can be so extravagant.

That village has so many strong warriors in Shigu Village? That village has thousands of hectares of fertile land like Shigu Village? That village has so much money as Shigu Village, and they still regard money as dung?

So it's good to live in Shigu Village.

At this time, the merchant could not "immerse himself in the sea of business, buy, buy, buy!" He had just returned from the cemetery of his ancestors and taken off his sacrificial clothes.

However, he still rushed back to the Tuncang set non-stop, although it was only half an hour back and forth, but in the case of thousands of people buying wildly, the temple fair had come to an end at this time.

However, it is still comparable to the usual level of rushing to the market, the children's energy is higher than that of adults, and their enthusiasm is more lasting, and the merchants still have a lot of fun with them.

Eventually, the temple fair was terminated at the right moment.

The reason why I say "abort" is because there is still a wild meal in the evening.

Aren't those red lanterns embarrassing......

Speaking of which, the most exciting thing about the temple fair is the "national dinner" in the evening. What is more special is that the location is still the "T" shaped street of Tuncangji. I knew that one of the streets was a big slope of thirty or forty feet, and it felt unusually sour to have dinner here.

For this reason, the residents of Tuncang had to contribute all their tables and benches.

Of course, it was certainly not enough, but the carpenters in the village had already stocked up on a number of giant square tables three feet long.

As soon as the "market shopping" stage of the temple fair in the morning ended, the families did not take a break and began to be busy again: killing chickens and cows, washing rice with noodles, and cooking rice in pots......

Of course, it was not possible to keep only the residents of the cantonment busy, and hundreds of enthusiastic people also stayed behind to help, ninety percent of whom were women.

It's not that men are lazy, it's just that they don't go to the kitchen, and most of them go to help.

Thirty or forty men went to carry tables, tie pigs, kill oxen, and do some coolies.

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At sunset, the night opens, the stars are scattered, and everything is silent.

However, the tuncang was brightly lit, the fire trees and silver flowers, and the red lanterns were all lit up and hung high.

Under the dense lanterns, there are tables of different sizes, but what is the same is that each table is full of people, adults and children, and everyone is full of laughter.

On both sides of the road, there are constantly uncles and aunts in aprons shuttling back and forth, holding all kinds of delicious food in their hands.

Although there were not many of them, after a while, every table was filled with mountain dishes and wild mushrooms, and the whole countryside was like a "full banquet of Manchu and Han." ”

Zishang first tasted all the delicious food on the table, ate seven points full, and then pulled a dozen little children, ran to the side, set up a "barbecue grill", and opened a small stove.

This time, the merchant prepared more thoroughly, basically prepared a few portions of all the delicious ingredients that the adults ate, and also brought two large iron pots......

He admired Zishang's "cooking skills", both of them liked the smoky feeling, and both thought that the slightly burnt barbecue was the most delicious.

Zizhang once said with contempt that they were guilty of cheapness, and they did not eat good clean and delicious food, but had to eat their "charcoal" with excessive oil and salt, mixed with ashes, and burnt ......meat.

The whole village, young and old, enjoyed themselves frantically for an hour, and then dispersed, leaving behind a floor full of garbage and a table full of scraps.

As for these dirty, messy, poor, annoying, and bitter errands, they are all things that men who don't work during the day have to clean up.

The world is still fair after all......

The New Year's temple fair came to a successful conclusion with the sound of men's complaints and the sound of washing dishes and porcelain clattering......