The following two chapters add to the first 200-story building in the Book Review District. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info┭┮_┭┮

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In the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Sheng had no plans to hold group activities. After all, it's still the rainy season, and if it rains heavily during group activities, the atmosphere may be even worse.

However, in the afternoon, Li Sheng let most of the workers take a holiday, leaving only the necessary personnel on duty. Many departments are not on duty, but almost all members of the security team are not allowed to take holidays, they need to work shifts.

Li Sheng also returned to the villa in the afternoon, but did not go to the south. He needs to prepare for the Chinese New Year.

Tia took Dalaro, who was almost three years old, and stood under the door to direct Li Sheng's couplet: "A little bit in the left corner." ”

Li Sheng stood on a wooden chair and gestured. Moved the position a little bit according to Tia's intentions, turned back and asked, "What now?"

"Seems to be fine. ”

Li Sheng pasted the couplet with both hands, flattened it all the way with his palms and pressed the couplet against the wall. Then he stood a little farther away and looked at it, and it was indeed quite accurate.

"Li, this is so beautiful, where to hang it?" Chahi held a Chinese knot with the golden word "Pour Fu" in the middle.

Li Sheng thought for a moment and said, "This one hangs on the wall above the TV." ”

Chahi was a little reluctant: "Can you hang my room? I like it." ”

Dalalo broke free of Tia's hand, ran to Chahi with his little feet, stretched out his two hands and said, "I want!" The little one spoke Portuguese well.

Tia hurriedly followed, took the Chinese knot from Chahi's hand, and said, "This big one is going to be hung in the hall." I also bought some smaller ones. I'll find it for you. ”

Dalalo is still very obedient to this sister who is much older than herself, because she will bring him delicious food every time.

Chahi pouted and said, "But I like this." The others are too small. She said with a smile on her face. "Sister Tia, is this okay for me? ”

Tia glanced at Li Sheng, who was watching the play, and then turned around and said, "That's not good, if this is given to you, Daralo will also ask for it." But there's only one big one. ”

"Then you give it to me quietly. Chahi blinked and whispered.

The Darallo is small, but not stupid, and his two little hands are raised high, and he says loudly, "I want it." ”

Tia smiled and gave the Chinese knot to Li Sheng, winking at him.

Li Sheng had no choice but to say to Chahi: "Wait a minute, I'll hang two small ones in your room." "Then take something and hang it on the wall.

Chahi pouted and said, "Stingy!"

Tia pinched her face and said with a smile, "Chahi is the most angry, don't worry about us." ”

"Hmph, I won't bother with you. When I go to Huaxia again, I buy four big ones and hang them on the four walls. She said and ran to the bag to find two half-sized ones, and said. "These two are mine. ”

Tia saw that Dalaro had also run over, and also found him two for him to hold.

Li Sheng watched them make trouble, and at the same time pasted the door god.

After it was done, Tia looked at it and thought it was very good, the big part of the gate was red and festive. She saw that the sun was still very high, and said to Li Sheng: "I heard from my mother that the farm also sent these things to the family. I don't think they'll use it. Shall I go back and help them?"

Before returning to China, Zhang Feng asked the Chinese in Brazil to help write the couplets, and then let the printing house print them. Thomas gave one to each family. But it is indeed a bit choking to get foreigners to post couplets. Even Tia, who has learned Chinese, may not know that it is Shanglian.

However, Zhang Feng had already prepared, and each couplet was accompanied by a piece of paper, which prompted the upper and lower couplets.

Li Sheng saw that everything seemed to be done at home. He thought about it for a moment and felt that there really wasn't much he needed to do. In fact, the biggest etiquette of the Chinese New Year is not to post couplets or invite door gods, but to worship gods. He doesn't know which god to worship here, so he doesn't need to do these things. And it was still early, so he said, "I'll go with you and see." ”

Flying to the Jilolo tribe, Li Sheng found that they were preparing to have a bonfire party again.

Tia went to talk to her mother, and Li Sheng talked to the men. However, Li Sheng and they don't have much to say, so they can only talk about family life. Their Portuguese is still not very smooth. Li Sheng listened a little hard. But the children are more accurate. It's just that Li Sheng and those little kids don't have much to say.

Tia took a few half-grown children from the helicopter to move the things she had brought with her, all of which were for the Spring Festival.

Li Sheng and Taclolo were talking, smiling as they watched her go about her work.

Taclolo was quite satisfied with this son-in-law—he didn't care if Li Sheng was married to Tia, anyway, he had already married his daughter—he patted Li Sheng on the shoulder, and said in Portuguese, which was still rather lame, but could be understood, "Tia, you are getting better and better! ”

Li Sheng smiled and said, "I will take care of her." ”

"Good. Taclolo's swarthy face smiled like a chrysanthemum.

At this time, Tia came over with a few couplets and asked Li Sheng, "Li, how do you divide the upper and lower couplets?"

Li Sheng unpacked the package, took a piece of paper on it and said, "Look at this." ”

Tia took it and looked at it, smiled and said, "So there is one on this." That's how it goes. She turned and jumped two steps, then turned back and asked. "Is it posted over there?"

"On the right side of the door! "Other places are posted he doesn't know, but he's big right in his hometown.

An old man with half-white hair walked out of a treehouse, followed by two young people: "Li, you're here." ”

Li Sheng stood up and said with a smile, "Hello Professor Nunais, have you disturbed your research?"

Antonio Diruan Nunes is the same professor who came to Silent Farm to study the Indian languages of the Amazon. He was supposed to go back to Peru during this time. However, when he heard that the Jilolo tribe was going to celebrate the Chinese New Year, he was also a little curious, so he stayed. However, most of the students he brought with him have left, and only two graduate students have stayed.

The two graduate students, a man and a woman, were both young, and both were black-haired, black-eyed Indians.

Antonio smiled and said, "No bother, we have actually collected most of the morphemes of the Gilolo language, and we were originally planning to leave. However, I heard that there was going to be a Chinese New Year here, so I planned to stay and experience it. ”

"You are welcome to stay!" Li Sheng still respects professors and experts who really want to do research. As for those who can only open a blog BB, then stay cool. "Why don't you come to my house tonight and have a New Year's dinner together. ”

"Thank you for having me. But I'd rather experience the Chinese New Year in Gilolo. Antonio said with a laugh. "I wanted to see how a foreign festival and the Gilloro people absorbed their own culture. ”

Hearing his words, Li Sheng's good impression of this old professor couldn't help but rise a little more.

The two sat down, and Antonio saw that Tia was directing people to paste red paper with square characters on both sides of the door, and also pasted engraving of character prints on the door, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Although I have been to China, I have never spent the Spring Festival in China." The red paper they are pasting now is a Spring Festival custom?"

Li Sheng nodded with a smile and said, "The ones on both sides of the door are couplets. That's a very old custom that evolved. If you go back to the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago. "It's a bit useless to talk to foreigners about the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty. So he was collectively named. "When it came to the Song Dynasty, it was almost the same as the current couplet. People express their good wishes for the coming year through the words on the couplet. ”

"What's the portrait on the door?" Antonio asked with a nodding head.

Li Sheng smiled and said, "That's the door god." The Chinese people believe that the door god can keep the demons and monsters out of the door and protect the safety and health of their families. ”

Antonio seems to be interested in this door god. He walked over and looked at it for a while, and said to Li Sheng, who followed him, "It feels like two generals!"

"Yes. These two door gods are two famous generals during the Three Kingdoms Dispute of the Han Dynasty, and they can be said to be marshal-level generals. ”

"And how did they get revered as gods?"

This Li Sheng is a little unsure of what to say. However, he saw that Tia was cutting a pair of Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong, so he went over there to find the same pair and said to Antonio: "In fact, these two are the real door gods. ”

"Oh, what's the story?"

Li Sheng nodded and said with a smile: "There is indeed an allusion. These two were the two generals of the early Tang Dynasty, one of the most powerful dynasties in Chinese history. ”

"Tang Dynasty? I know. That is the pride of you Chinese people. ”

"Huh, proud?"

Li Sheng has a different view of this pride. It's not that we don't agree with the strength of the Tang Dynasty, but to take a dynasty more than 1,200 years ago as pride, which is not a shame for modern people. It reminds us all the time that in the past thousand years, the Chinese nation has actually been going downhill. Especially in the past 300 years, for most of the time, the Chinese nation has been completely in darkness.

For hundreds of years, the Chinese people went abroad to settle abroad, and perhaps in the early days, they said that they were Song and Ming. But more than a hundred years ago, the Chinese could only say that they were Tang people. Because if you say that you are a Qing person, you are actually saying that you are a pig. In fact, at that time, many Chinese people went abroad by being sold as piglets. Therefore, Li Sheng felt that the Tang people were not a proud title at the beginning, but a self-title full of humiliation.

Li Sheng shook off his overthinking emotions and continued with a smile: "The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty came to power through a palace coup. He killed two brothers and almost all of their children. Legend has it that His Majesty the Emperor dreamed of his brother's ghost haunting him and could not sleep peacefully. These two generals were his henchmen, had high force values, and were invincible on the battlefield, and the emperor followed the advice of the Taoist priests, who could be called warlocks in the West, and let them guard outside his palace. Later, the portraits of the two generals were painted on the door, and sure enough, he never dreamed of ghosts again. This matter spread to the people, and gradually evolved into the saying of the door god. And these two are, of course, the door gods, and people hope that the bravery and evil spirit of these two generals will not dare the demons and monsters to approach. ”

Antonio laughed and said, "It's a very good story. I have to say that there are a very large number of gods in your Huaxia. ”

Li Sheng froze for a moment when he heard him say this, and said with a smile: "That's true." In ancient China, in fact, it was also believed that all things were animist. Any kind of thing can be cultivated into a god or a monster. Every river, even every well, probably has a dragon king. Every mountain has a mountain god, and every village has a land god. The myths of China are far more diverse and systematic than the myths of all peoples outside of China combined. (To be continued.) )