The long street banquet is actually just a gathering of people to eat. No matter what ethnic group, this is how they ate in ancient times. But it is still passed down to this day, and there are very few that have not changed for thousands of years.

Nowadays, the only one that maintains a lot of traditional customs, which can be called the long street feast, is the feast used to pray for blessings in the year of the Hani people.

The Angmatu Festival is a festival of the Hani people to worship the god of the village and worship the dragon for rain. It is also the most important festival of the Hani people as a farmer's family.

According to the legislation of the Hani people, the Hani people divide the year into ten months, each month is 36 days, and the remaining five or six days are used for the New Year, referred to as the October calendar.

The October year is the first dragon day in October, which corresponds to the first day of the new year in our calendar. The New Year lasts for five to six days and is used to worship the gods and ancestors.

On this day, every family had to kill a big rooster, cook it on the spot, and never bring it into the house. Except for the girl who was about to get married, everyone in the family had to eat a piece of chicken.

After that, three rice balls and some cooked meat were made for the oldest people in the clan first. After that, it's time to prepare for their biggest gathering of the year.

Generally speaking, the Hani Angmatu Festival is held for three days and three nights in a row. On the first day, it is necessary to hold activities such as setting up a new village gate, sealing the village, sacrificing the village god "Angma", and inviting the village god to enter the village.

And the next day is the main day of the Long Street Banquet, of course, the locals are used to calling it the Long Dragon Banquet or the Street Heart Banquet. They hope to pray for the god of the village, Angma, to protect the safety of the people and animals in the village, the wind and rain, and the abundant harvest.

On the day of the festival, every household prepares a bunch of delicious dishes. What yellow glutinous rice, red rice, beef jerky, muntjac dry, meat floss, peanuts, three-color eggs. Crab stewed with egg white, pork, sheep, fish, duck and other more than 40 kinds of Hani flavor special dishes.

Then prepare the wine, carry it to the designated street and place it, one or two tables for each family, and the tables and stools of each household are connected, and a long street of several hundred meters long is set up for a banquet.

All the tables and chairs are neatly arranged and have different shapes. Sometimes it's a "one" shape. Sometimes it becomes a hollow zigzag, and maybe it may even become round, and there is no rule.

During the banquet, there were dances and staggered meals, with wine, food, beauties, and beautiful singing.

Hundreds, thousands, if not thousands, of people gather together to sing and dance. Toast to each other, that kind of scene imagines people can't help but yearn for it.

The Hani people are warm and welcoming, and if you go there, it's just in time for the Long Street Feast. It is rare to be drawn into the table by the hospitable Hani people, who enjoy the joy of festivals and delicious food with them.

In later generations, the long street banquet of the Hani people is an intangible cultural heritage of civilization all over the world. Every year, the long street banquet held in various places is always full of tourists and lively. Attract tourists from all over the world to experience it for themselves.

Now, though, this thought. I'm afraid no one has this awareness yet. But it does not prevent Wang Yong from telling the old secretary the connotation of harmony, unity, and yearning for beauty contained in it.

Of course, this is also a place for the villagers to vent. If you have money, it's better to rack your brains to get some good ingredients and invite the villagers to taste one or two.

In the future, if you are in trouble, at least there will be villagers who will remember the kindness of the original meal and help you, so that your family will not be ruined and everything will be lost!

For this kind of good thing that can unite people's hearts, the old secretary has always raised his hands to support and take the lead in responding. But the old man is also a flexible person, so he didn't copy it.

"Our village is full of Han nationality, and no matter how bastard you are during the Chinese New Year, you have to go to your relatives, this is a big deal, and I dare not delay. I think this long street banquet was held on the 27th and 8th of the lunar month of the previous year, and it will be regarded as a rule in the future, once a year, no one can be absent without reason! ”

The old secretary is completely unreasonable in this kind of thing, and it is he who he is talking about at this time. But he must also know that he is old, and the matter is settled, and it is left to the young man to do it.

If it's done, praise a few words, if you can't do it, then you will be served with a big ear scraper, and you will be sure that there will be no more problems. The old man's idea is so simple and simple, but it contains the great road of the world.

Soon, a group of people led by Zhao Qiang began to lock themselves in the conference room and bury their heads in research. Some young people kept coming in and out, trying their best to find information about the Hani patriarch's street banquet.

In order to be insured, Zhao Qiang even asked Liu Yaowu to take Wang Zhi to take the camera on a trip to southern Xinjiang, specifically to find local Hani people and folklore research experts for advice.

Na Cheng thought, just because of this incident, the elites of the Hani tribe realized that their national festivals had such a huge attraction to outsiders, and immediately told the elders of the clan the idea of promoting the long street banquet and attracting tourists.

As a result, the Long Street Banquet and the Hani people became world-famous more than ten years in advance, attracting countless guests from all over the world to come to this place surrounded by mountains and trees to experience characteristic folk customs, enjoy beautiful scenery and taste food.

The Hani people who know how to be grateful will send invitations to Wangjiazhuang every year when they hold a long street banquet, inviting them to participate in the Hani Angmatu Festival. Wangjiazhuang will also invite friends of the Hani nationality to come to Wangjiazhuang to participate in their own characteristic village banquet.

Yes, after the old secretary learned the origin of the Long Street Banquet, he stubbornly chose such a name. The people in the village get together for a meal, what is it called if it is not called a village banquet?

In order to successfully hold the first village banquet in Wangjiazhuang, Zhao Qiang, who attaches great importance to this matter, even put down his work and devoted himself to the preparation of this matter.

After studying for a long time and thinking of everything they could think of, they felt that they should hold a small-scale village banquet to try it out to see if there were any places they didn't expect in actual operation.

As a result, the villagers were soon informed that a village banquet would be held on August 1, that is, the following Saturday. For a while, Wangjiazhuang, which had just regained calm, immediately became noisy again.

"Village banquet? What for? ”

"You didn't see the notice posted in the activity center?"

"I've been planting vegetable seedlings in the greenhouse for the past two days, how can I go there if my busy feet don't touch the ground?"

"Hehe, I dare to say, this idea was definitely thought up by that kid Wang Yong. Other people's brains aren't so clever! I don't know what he thinks, how did he come up with such a lack of moral ideas? ”

A group of village men gathered on the ground, smoking cigarettes, chatting and farting.

"Fart, why is it a lack of moral ideas? Isn't it just that you want to transplant vegetable seedlings? Can you die a day or two later? If you want me to say, that's a good idea! I'm telling you, my kid's stew is a must, and this feast will open your eyes! ”

"I'll go, you've got it! Others don't know, don't I know? Isn't it the secret recipe that my sister-in-law got from Wang Yong? Do you have it at home? Do I have it at home? ”

"That's it, the pan-fried dragon fish made at home is delicious, my son can eat a big fish of seven or eight catties in one meal!"

"Bragging rights, you!"

Faced with a bunch of little thumbs raised high, the person who spoke did not dare to refute. Whose four-year-old child can eat seven or eight catties of fish and meat in one meal? I'm afraid it's only the monsters of antiquity.

But the donkey doesn't fall down, the loser doesn't lose the battle, although he said the wrong thing, but he must be able to give him a round back to be called a good man!

"Why are you bragging? What's the big deal about our family eating seven or eight catties of fish in one meal? I don't believe come home with me this afternoon, I'll open your eyes to these dogs! ”

"Cut!"

"What a shame!"

"If you don't brag about it, you can die!"

"It's not unusual for you to brag about me, but I admire why you always like to brag so much? Of course, I admire you even more for your innocent appearance after bragging, anyway, I can't do this! ”

"I said, tell me quickly, what's going on with this village banquet? Doesn't that sound right to me? Isn't the village going to invite everyone to dinner? ”

Hearing his words, everyone's eyes widened and turned their heads to look at him, and he looked down embarrassedly, so they all got up one by one, patted the dust on their buttocks, and walked away.

"I'm too lazy to take care of you, so if I don't know, I'll go and see for myself!"

I don't know who said this in the end, and then the group of people disappeared into a vast and boundless shed in an instant, leaving only one person to stand in place with his head touching his head and watching them disappear in a daze.

"Nima's, what's the big deal?"

With his hands in the field, he got up and stood up, and before he had time to pat the soil on his buttocks, he strode to the front of his greenhouse, rode his motorcycle, twisted the key, and pierced the starting lever with his foot.

With a roar, the motorcycle quickly disappeared into the greenhouse. At this moment, a group of people suddenly came out of the greenhouse, everyone look at me, I look at you, looked up and laughed and got into their own greenhouse.

A lot of villagers have gathered in front of the villager activity center, everyone tilted their heads, tiptoed, stretched their necks to look at the heads in front of them, and listened to the people inside loudly read the content and rules of the village banquet.

"This village banquet is a celebration banquet held in response to the spirit of the central government's circular on vigorously strengthening the construction of spiritual civilization, proposed by the old secretary, and unanimously agreed by all the villagers' representatives."

"This village banquet requires every family to cook at least one dish, either hot or cold. In other words, no one cares if you do one, and no one says anything about you if you do eight. ”

"The table used for the village banquet must be an old-fashioned kang table at our house, and it will be placed in the designated position from house to house. If you have a large family, you can use two tables! ”

"And what if I get three tables?"

I don't know who shouted in the crowd, and before the words fell, Zhao Qiang, who explained the rules of this village banquet to everyone in front, pointed to the crowd and scolded.

"Bintou, you little bastard, your family, your grandparents and your uncle's family can't make more than three tables, if you dare to make trouble again, I will beat you to death!" (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you very much to my old friend low-key conspirator for the two red envelopes of the 1888 starting coin! I didn't say it, it's the New Year, and the house also gives everyone red envelopes!