Chapter 52: Dancing the Banner (1)
Back at home, Le Lang enshrined the turtle he asked for in front of the god case, lit three sticks of incense, and worshipped, and then drove Shenmin back to ask for the turtle, while San Lang was left in the house by him to play with Lao Dao.
When he returned to the house, he saw a scene that made him jaw-dropping, San Lang and Lao Dao were sitting in the corridor with a turtle's foot and eating, and they looked like they were eating quite deliciously. Who are these people, Le Lang thought secretly.
Normally, this turtle has to be kept at home for a day to eat after it comes back, but now? Thinking that the gods should not be as knowledgeable as a little kid and an old man, Le Lang thought helplessly in his heart, so he simply went up and pulled a turtle's foot, sat on the stone under the eaves and bit it, looking quite helpless.
After a look at Lao Dao, he was eating the turtle and drinking the water, looking very comfortable, and then looking at San Lang, he bit the turtle foot with the surname of the bullet in a small bite, and the three o'clock and Xiaoxiong and Baiqiu They were lying next to him, looking desperate, Le Lang was speechless
It was getting late, Le Lang and Lao Dao came to the temple with San Lang, and this kind of lively old road would not be missed. When they came to the temple, they were already full of people, and everyone was holding a lamp in their hands, and the name of the lamp was to protect the family, which meant to bless the safety of the family. The torches that used to be used in the past, but after setting the woods on fire once, they were never used again, and they were changed to keep-lamps.
After a while, the people in the village will gather in front of the temple, holding the statue of the ancestor of Kaiji, passing through Lelang's house along the stream, bypassing several hills, going around the village and returning to the temple again, this is to commemorate the ancestors who came to this place to open up the land and the great achievements of the ancestors, in order to show the gratitude of future generations to the ancestors.
There is a big taboo on going up the mountain, that is, women are taboo, that is, women cannot follow up the mountain, which is not only a blasphemy against the gods, but also indirectly shows that there are no men in Xiaoxi Village, and they all rely on women to go up the mountain. I remember one year, some women were curious, followed the crowd up the mountain, that is, in that year, the rain was so strong that the annual festival had to be stopped, and then the villagers were very angry when they found out, and they condemned the women who followed, and since then no woman has dared to follow the mountain.
It was getting dark, and everyone lit the lanterns, and the lights were as bright as the stars in the sky. The twenty-four leaders invited the idol to the chair chair, and the old man carried it to the mountain after worshipping.
Under the dark night sky, two stout men carried a huge gong, next to a person holding a thick gong mallet knocked the gong in front of the road, the huge gong resounded throughout the four fields, the night avoidance, birds and beasts frightened away, the charm and the ghosts were all hidden, the back twenty-four heads carried the chair sedan chair on the god walked behind, and then behind was a group of people holding the family lamp, the endless lights were like a fire dragon walking in the village, where they passed, the firecrackers rang out, the fireworks flew wildly, so lively.
Le Lang stood at the entrance of the temple, looking at the long line of lights in the distance, and sighed, he couldn't go up the mountain if he wanted to dance the flag, think about walking in it with the lights, firecrackers and fireworks on both sides, and fireworks flashed in the sky from time to time.
Looking at the envious gaze of San Lang on the side, Le Lang touched his head comfortingly, let's talk about it a little bigger, it's so small, if you are not careful, you may get lost in the jungle. He glanced at the lights in the distance again, and then pulled Saburo into the temple, where the seventh, sixth, Naruto, and Shinmin were already recuperating, just waiting for the performance later.
Each of them wore a white short-sleeved shirt with the words "Cunhoutang" engraved on their left chest, which is the name of the village martial arts, which is next to the Dayu Temple and is a place specially used to teach villagers martial arts and lion dance.
Shen Min They wore a white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers, black cloth shoes, and a red ribbon around their waists, and they were very energetic, and Lelang also wore a uniform dress that was issued by the village, and it was issued every year.
"Shenmin, where are your wives?" Le Lang asked Shen Min.
This kind of liveliness, almost the whole village people have come, the square in front of the temple has been lit around a row of thousands of watts of electric lights, the square around the illumination as if day, left and right are set up a number of stands, the stands have long been crowded with black pressure crowd, even the stage is full of a large number of people watching the lively drama and children.
"Isn't it over there? With Cai Shaoqing and them. Shen Min pointed to the crowd sitting on the stage and said, Le Lang took a look, his wife and the sixth and seventh wives were also among them.
"Ask her to help take care of Saburo, otherwise you won't be free later,"
"San Lang, let's go, go over there with grandpa, grandpa will give you something to eat." As soon as Le Lang finished speaking, Lao Dao suddenly appeared behind him and said.
Lao Dao sat in the stands on the left, where there were some old people and some VIPs invited by the village. The annual festival is very grand for Xiaoxi Village, so every year the village will invite some people who are highly respected or from the surrounding villages to come and participate.
"I'm going to be here with Uncle Ah Lang," San Lang cried out at the old way.
"San Lang, go over there with Grandpa Lao Dao, there is delicious food over there, and Uncle Ah Lang will be very busy later, so he can't take care of San Lang." Le Lang touched Saburo's head and said.
"It doesn't matter, Saburo will take care of himself." San Lang held his little belly and said to Le Lang confidently.
"Uh," Listening to San Lang's words, Le Lang couldn't help scratching his head helplessly, but he rolled his eyes and said to him: "Wait a while, there will be a lot of people, and when the time comes, if you are not careful, Uncle Ah Lang will not be able to find San Lang, so what should I do?" San Lang and Grandpa Lao Dao will go over there, and when Uncle Ah Lang is done with his work, he will come to San Lang, okay. ”
"Hmm," Saburo hesitated for a long time and finally agreed to follow the old way.
Le Lang finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it, and at this time, Ah Cong and the monkey came over.
"Why didn't you come until now," Le Lang asked at them when he saw Ah Cong and the monkey.
"There was a bit of a delay," Ah Cong explained, and when he saw Shen Min and them sitting in the temple, he walked over to greet them.
"Here, I guess there won't be a seat at this late hour, you just stand here, you can still see it a little more clearly here, and after we finish dancing the flag, we will go to my house to drink together." Shen Min pointed to the corner of the corridor at the entrance of the temple and said to him.
"There's no need to drink, it's estimated that you have a lot of guests today, so let's go to Alangna."
"Well, you guys can go to him,"
"Ah Lang, it's time,"
In addition to Le Lang and them, there are also a bunch of old people beating gongs and drums and the lion dance team in the village, and it is one of the lion dancers who is called Le Lang. He said that the procession carrying the gods up the mountain was about to descend at this time, and that their group of banners, lion dancers, and gongs and drums were going to meet them at the foot of the mountain.
Le Lang didn't dare to delay when he heard this, and talked to Ah Cong and them again, then walked to the temple and pulled out the big flag from the stone pier with the big flag, walked out of the temple, and led the way in front. Behind Le Lang is a man wearing a boy's hood, he holds a handful of green leaves in his hand and leads a male lion with a green face and fangs to follow slowly, behind the lion is a group of old men beating gongs and drums, and a group of people are beating and beating to the foot of the mountain.
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