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Eight cups of wine and eight immortals, the glorious tree bears concentric fruits.

After drinking eight glasses of wine from the groom, they sang the song of unity hand in hand.

Nine glasses of wine and nine orders, the Milky Way crosses the sky with two stars.

After drinking nine cups of wine from the groom, the unicorn Ruiye celebrates the age.

Ten glasses of wine are perfect, and double happiness should be poured together.

After drinking ten cups of sprinkling of the groom, the winged handsome birds both flew. ”

Uncle Luo finished speaking, and at this time Jiang Wenwen said: "Uncle Luo, tell me what is going on with the Ox King Festival? and then tell us about the toast of the Ox King Festival!"

Uncle Luo did not refuse, he said: "This Niuwang Festival, the legend is that it was on the eighth day of the fourth month of a certain year a long time ago, and it is also said that on the eighteenth day of April, the Tujia people once retreated to a flooding river in a battle with foreigners. There was no ferry on the river, and the Tujia soldiers could not swim, and when the pursuers were approaching, a buffalo swam over in the river. Some of them rode on the back of the ox, and some of them grabbed the tail of the ox, and crossed the river smoothly, saving their lives. Later, in order to commemorate the life-saving grace, the Tujia people set the eighth day of April as the 'Ox King Festival'. Every year on this day, no matter how busy the farm work is, the Tujia people have to let the ploughing water rest, and feed it with rice, wine, eggs, or rice, grain, soybeans and boiled feed, and then, with wine, fruits, incense and paper candles to pay tribute to the ancestors of the cow. ”

Uncle Luo introduced the Ox King Festival, and then recited the toast of the Ox King Festival: "The Ox King crossed the ancestors back then, and the grace of saving his life was remembered." Today, we will drink wine and invite cattle to drink, and we will be strong and healthy when we are full of food and drink. Eating grass uphill is like a sickle, and drinking water down the river is like a fountain. The ploughman does not need to pull the plough and rake, but drags the rake like an arrow. ”

Jiang Wenwen listened to the legend and toast of the Ox King Festival, and said to Tian Limai with a smile: "Mai, I think that the section from the Baijia Bamboo Forest to Shangsitai can also set up a Tujia Festival Corridor. ”

"Wenwen, I've been thinking about it, is it better to set it up in that corridor, or in Chenxi Dazhai?" Tian Limai said.

Luo Sisi smiled at this time and said, "Brother, Sister Wenwen, you didn't have any doubts just now, did you?

Tian Limai looked at Jiang Wenwen and said to Luo Sisi: "Luo Sisi, you originally had this purpose, we really have to thank you, so why don't you just say it?"

"Hmph, brother, let me say it directly, which of you will take it seriously? You don't know about my situation over the years, let alone my father's situation, you won't believe my father's understanding of Tujia culture. Roth said.

"Thank you, Sister Si, thank you for your good intentions!" Jiang Wenwen said.

Tian Limai glanced at Jiang Wenwen and said, "Wen, let's just let Uncle Luo tell us about the Tujiaxuan festival and the toast of each festival, right?"

"Okay, let's ask Uncle Luo to talk about it!" Jiang Wenwen said.

When Uncle Luo was about to speak, Luo Sisi suddenly said: "Dad, wait a while, I suddenly thought of a joke, let me tell my brother and Sister Wenwen first!"

At this time, Gao Xiaoxiao had already finished washing the dishes and chopsticks, came to the hall from the kitchen, and heard Luo Sisi tell a joke, so he said: "Si'er, after you came back, you told me a lot of jokes, but some jokes made people laugh, I don't know if what you said just now can make us laugh?"

"Mom, if you can make you laugh, you won't know until you talk about it. Roth said. So Luo Sisi said: They are also students in the third grade of primary school, and they will also want to be clowns in the future.

Chinese teachers denounced it as: "If you don't have great ambitions, you can't teach your children!"

Foreign teachers will say, "May you bring laughter to the world!"

After Luo Sisi finished speaking, everyone was stunned, and Gao Xiaoxiao said, "Si'er, are you a joke?"

"This ——, mother doesn't count as much. ”

"Okay, Luo Sisi, don't interrupt, let Uncle Luo tell us about the Tujia festivals!" Tian Limai said.

"There are many festivals of the Tujia people, and some of them are mixed with the festivals of the Han people, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chongyang Festival, etc., and there are not many festivals exclusive to the Tujia people. Uncle Luo said.

Tian Limai and Jiang Wenwen both looked at Uncle Luo.

"Then I'll talk about the Tujia 'Daughter's Association' first, which is said to be from Shi Heyao. Out of the autonomous prefecture city, to the southeast for more than 100 kilometers, there is a small river surrounded by all sides, a clear and bright river flows along the mountain, that is, Shi Heyao. Every year on the twelfth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is the traditional festival of the Tujia people here, "Daughter's Meeting". On this day, many young men and women walked out of the paths and alleys to the meeting to find the lover of their dreams.

"Shi He's marriage to the 'daughter meeting' has a long history, according to legend, a long, long time ago, here is far away and deep, there is no restraint between men and women, they sing and dance in labor, pour out love, private engagement, and live a free and easy idyllic life. Later, there were ten people with the surname who climbed the vines and cliffs from outside the mountain and climbed the Shihe Yao at an altitude of more than 1,700 meters. These ten surnames are Zhang, Xue, Li, Teng, Yang, Tian, Qin, Cao, Huang, and Wang, who divide their residences, take the grass as the boundary, build sheds, and start businesses, known as 'ten sheds'.

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, one of the people surnamed Xue was pushed to the 'village scholar' (a person who is knowledgeable and can command the people of a township), and the surname Xue has many women and few sons, and there are nine daughters under his knees. Children are engaged by their parents, there is no opportunity to meet, only wait for the right age, and they can only meet after the church.

"One year, Xue Xiangshi traveled far away from the mountain, returned home on July 11, and held a feast for the villagers in the whole shed to celebrate his return from traveling, Xue Xiangshi was very happy, while drinking, while talking about what he saw and heard along the way, when the wine was exhausted, he called his favorite daughter Zhenmei to his side, and instructed: 'Tomorrow is the half-moon festival, early in the morning, you and your sisters put on new clothes, go to the street to play for a day, watch the autumn scenery, just wait for this day, usually not leave the shed'.

The nine sisters were happy to descend from the sky, the third watch got up, and the fifth watch dressed up, only to see them wrapped in printed folding handkerchiefs on their heads, dressed in red and green lace clothes, black gold thread embroidered scarves around their waists, small inlaid shoes on their feet, and shining jade bracelets on their hands, dressed like flowers. Out of the door, the young man of the cottage looked from afar, not leaving the left and right, chasing each other with mountain songs, and conveying love with eyebrows, and the nine sisters were all in this day, until they returned from the moon. After that, every July 12th, they dressed up and dressed up, sneaked out of the house, and invited their neighbors and sisters to the streets.

"At that time, the girl's life was too hard, and she stayed at home all year round, except for work, she was at the door of the house, the visitors could not show up, the meal could not be served, there was no freedom, and the girls were always looking forward to the annual 'daughter's meeting'. On the day of July 12th, the daughters who have worked hard for a year wear the most beautiful jewelry, wear layers of trimmed clothes of different colors, long inside and short outside, and renovate into bamboo shoot shells layer by layer, which is called 'Jiejie Gao', which means rich and beautiful, and use the flower back basket to carry the local products on the street to catch the market, the daughters gather, compete for the beauty, and attract many young descendants.

"The descendants pretended to be idle and leisurely in the bazaar, but a pair of eyes were rolling slightly, and when they fell in love with a girl, they hurriedly walked up to greet them: 'Hey, girl, this pear is a lot of money?' The girl pursed her lips and smiled, so she talked about the price. The clever young man said, 'Oh, good girl, is this pear a golden stone or a silver egg?' and the girl was not sloppy: 'I said this big brother, what you want is the price, and what you want is the money, how tall does the pear tree grow in a year? How much does a pair of pears bear? You know the effort? The price is too high?' If the price is not down, it means that the girl looks at you and is not eye-catching, the young man quickly walks away, if the price is getting lower and lower, the young man's hope is getting bigger and bigger, when the price drops to half, the young man has to hurry up to buy all the pears, and carry the basket for the girl, and the girl will naturally go with you.

"Tujia girls see beauty with songs, and use songs as a medium. "If you sing well, cool water will light the lamp", "If you don't love you, you're good, and if you don't love your family, you can sing and play gongs and drums." At that time, there were many trees growing around the village, and there were many clean and beautiful stones in the forest, so young men and women who were interested in the forest came to the depths of the dense forest and chose a stone bench to sit down. Soon, a string of charming mountain songs floated out of the forest......

"On the top of a high mountain, uh, a hill field

Lang half of the sister came to the other

Half of Lang is planted with licorice

Half of my sister grows cucumbers

Pull the thread and wrap it up with him

On the top of a high mountain, there is a mulberry tree

A dye vat is opened at the foot of the mulberry tree

You have blue and white cloth to dye

I can dye old clothes in a new vat

Alpine leaves are fine

Let's see if your brother can blow it

If it blows Konoha barking

Only Konoha doesn't use matchmakers

The young man who was drunk by the sweet singing voice and lingering feelings of the mountain girl couldn't help but open his voice and sing a duet between men and women:

Female: Sing yo three, and solve yo three

What blooms double against double?

Bamboo leaves are green, willow leaves are green

Bamboo green willow green

Ten sisters make lanterns

M: Sing a yo three, and solve it three

Peas bloom double against double

Ducks cross rivers with short legs

You sing it again, and I'll explain it to you

……”

What Tian Limai didn't expect was that Uncle Luo could also sing mountain folk songs, and he talked about the excitement while humming and talking.

Tian Limai looked at Jiang Wenwen and said: "Wenwen, all the older generation of our Huolongping people can sing a few mountain songs, my grandfather can do it, my uncle and second uncle can also do it, but I have never heard my father sing it." ”

"Mai, what's going on, supposedly Dad, he can also hum a few words?" Jiang Wenwen said.

"Maybe my dad has a disability and hasn't been in the mood to learn to sing mountain folk songs since he was a child, right?!" Tian Limai guessed.

After a pause, Uncle Luo continued: "Young men and women who fall in love always have endless songs, from "Wanglang Song", "A Bamboo Peak", "A Pair of Starlings Flying South" to "Ten Loves", "Ten Thoughts", and "Twelve Hours...... Men give women rings, ivory combs, embroidery needles, etc., and women give men or a pair of green cloth shoes, or a pair of embroidered sock soles, or an embroidered purse. It's really the willow tops on the moon, and the two are dependent on each other at other times.

"After the young men and women whose daughters will be married by singing break up, it is difficult to have the opportunity to meet, and the singing in the forest becomes a kind of beautiful memory, and it becomes a permanent longing by the stilted building:

"Sister Chenshi embroiders,

Thinking of the slave family,

I don't know who it is?

My heart is in turmoil. ”

Bold infatuated men and women sometimes get rid of the stalk of their families and secretly tryst to eliminate the pain of repressible longing:

"At noon, I went to my sister's house,

Sister is embroidering,

Drop the flowers and don't embroider,

Get up and sift tea,

Brother, you're coming,

Ugly Shilang is going,

Pulling Lang's clothes,

Don't be a ruthless bird in the mountains,

Don't listen to the twilight chicken in the cage,

Dawn slave to you!"

Many infatuated Tujia girls arranged their marriages due to feudal parents, which turned the love wine they brewed at their daughter's meeting into endless tears:

"Six glasses of wine pour three pairs,

Hide from your father and hide from your mother.

Hide from my brother and sister-in-law,

lest the slave guard the empty house.

Three glasses of wine into the garden,

Hand climbing flowers and trees tears ripples.

Flowers bloom and fall every year,

How can anyone turn old and young?

Ten thoughts of my life,

Fate is not as good as man,

A rope hangs high in front of the church,

Early death and early rebirth......

"The leaves are green and yellow, yellow and green, and I don't know that after many years, the daughter will change, and it will become the 'daughter club' that the Tujia youth here yearn for. At the 'Daughter's Club', I started a blind date. The procedure is divided into four parts: blind date, test and marriage, tug-of-war and marriage, and worship and marriage. The young man of the Tujia family sings to his favorite woman, speaks with the song, and pours out his admiration, and if the girl takes a fancy to the man, he throws a sachet to his wishful husband. In addition, the young men of the Tujia family ran for their sons-in-law with a tug-of-war competition, and the prospective aunt had to eat the Tujia bowl of meat and reach the bamboo pole pass, and both men and women had a "side meeting". In addition, customs such as crying and marrying, hitting the iron threshold and stopping cars and horses are also interesting. If the woman's parents agree, they will choose an auspicious day to be accompanied by the woman's brother and sister-in-law and younger siblings to see the man's house, which is called 'watching the door'. Satisfied with the agreement to the marriage on the engagement, the family members of both sides asked someone to 'combine the eight characters', and the man and woman combined the eight characters on a piece of paper, each holding half as a marriage contract certificate, called 'change Geng sticker'. After changing the stickers, the man prepares the corresponding letter (meat) and tea (wine, noodles, biscuits, etc.) according to the number of the woman's elders, and is accompanied by the elders or brothers-in-law and sisters to the woman's house to recognize relatives and salute. From then on, the man had to go to the woman's house to worship. After the marriage is confirmed, the man prepares the bride price, the woman buys the dowry, and the matchmaker goes to the woman's house to discuss the marriage, which is called 'courtship'. On the first day of the marriage, the man sends the bride price to the woman's house, which is called 'passing ceremony'. In the evening, the man invited nine unmarried children among his relatives and friends to accompany the groom to drink and sing "accompany the ten brothers".

"On the first night of marriage, the Tujia girl must tear the hair off her face, comb her hair into a round sideburn at the back of her head and insert a hosta, which is called 'Shangtou' (also called pulling her face), and then set up a banquet accompanied by nine unmarried women called 'Accompany Ten Sisters'. The "Ten Sisters" are generally close friends of the bride, and the girls who are about to get married gather around a table made of several large tables, and improvise songs and dances to express the blessings and reluctance of the girls to their partners who are about to get married. ”