"Hello, this is the ancestral grandmother's altar, you can't enter casually. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" A woman with her hair tied in a bun and a silver comb fixed to the top of her head politely stopped Chu Yang's steps about to walk towards the altar.

Chu Yang was shocked when he saw this woman.

A faint sense of blood connection came, and the woman had the blood that he had figured out.

The woman speaks Mandarin, and the ghost master of Bazhai once told Chu Yang that this is also the peculiarity of this village, their culture is all inherited in the form of singing in their special language a word named "Hidden Man", this nation is considered to be a branch of the bureaucracy in history, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was also called "Hidden Miao", and even directly regarded as the Miao people.

It was not until modern times that scholars studied their language and found that their language branch was very different from Miao, and their customs were actually only superficially similar, while their self-proclaimed meaning was "hidden and hidden" according to the meaning of their language.

In other words, this people call themselves "those who hide themselves", or "those who hide themselves".

Therefore, according to the meaning of their own claims, the nation was finally named the "hidden" tribe.

Chu Yang looked at the woman for a long time and asked, "I want to come here to find someone, but I don't know his or her name or surname." ”

He tried to say this in his native language, but the woman said:

"I didn't understand everything you said, it's our words, but some of the pronunciations are only in the song...... Where did you learn this? ”

This hidden woman saw that Chu Yang was dressed as a city person, and her appearance and temperament were completely different from the people in this area, so she thought that this person was here to collect style, and there were many people who have been recording and collecting wind here in recent years, because there is a kind of ballad handed down by the "hidden" tribe that needs to be sung by many people, this song was studied a few years ago, and foreign scholars who were led by domestic scholars listened to it, saying that it was a shocking discovery.

She doesn't know much about it, but since then, people have continued to come here to collect style, and every time they can bring income to the village, the village's singing team is said to have been invited to perform in a world-class music hall, which is said to be the oldest multi-part choral art, a living fossil of culture.

"That's a long story, do you have anyone here who can understand it all?" Seeing her say this, Chu Yang asked in the lingua franca of Huaguo.

"Yes, but it's less, the singer who specializes in singing should be able to understand!" The woman laughed, "Where did you learn it, it sounds very authentic, it's amazing, many of our young people here can't learn it all!" ”

The Hidden people love to sing, and seeing that Chu Yang knows the ancient language of the Hidden Clan, the woman sang a "Ask Song" on the way to lead Chu Yang, which is a bit of a test of Chu Yang.

Unexpectedly, Chu Yang didn't give her a response after singing, and she was strange again:

"Aren't you singing?"

"Must sing?" Chu Yang had the impression that his clan did not have this custom.

"Of course, we have to sing, everything we have here can be sung in songs, all questions can be asked in songs, and answers can be answered in songs. There are also songs that simulate the sounds of various birds, beasts, insects, and fish in this event, as well as songs dedicated to sacrifices! ”

"But I can't sing." Chu Yang said, "I haven't learned to sing. ”

"You lie, you even know the ancient language, the ancient language is only used when you sing Karma, how can you know these things if you don't learn Karma."

Chu Yang was stopped by her question, and he found that he really couldn't explain why.

Fortunately, the old singer's house arrived soon, and the woman who took Chu Yang to the old singer's house was called Shi Wenfang, and she refused to leave after taking Chu Yang to the place, because she insisted that Chu Yang must be able to sing, but she thought that her qualifications were too low and refused to sing to her, and she wanted to stay here to "expose" Chu Yang.

After a few words of conversation with Chu Yang in ancient language, the old singer shook his head and said:

"Where are you coming from, this guest? I don't understand all the pronunciations, but there are some syllables that I know exist, and some of the sounds of all the words in the song that we have to sing in front of the Octagonal Tower during the festival belong to the Kalao part, and some of these parts are difficult for us to fully understand the meaning of. ”

"Generally, if it is difficult to understand the meaning, there will be no way to continue to pass it on, since you can't understand it anymore, why do you have to sing?" Chu Yang was also surprised by what the old singer said, since he was still using it, why was the meaning of the word lost? Since the meaning of the word has been lost, why can the pronunciation still be passed down?

When the old singer saw him ask, he said:

"I don't know how you learned these pronunciations, but our hidden songs, when people from outside come to collect them, are divided into two parts: passable and unpassable. Some of your pronunciations come from our uncommunicable Kami parts, and if you can tell me how you learned them and know what they mean, I can consider answering your question. ”

In fact, if the old singer was unwilling to answer, Chu Yang could perform soul searching techniques on her to find out what he wanted to know, but this old singer had the same bloodline as Shi Wenfang, and Chu Yang could be sure that this village must have some kind of connection with his second and third brothers.

"It's my native language." Chu Yang did not search the soul of the old singer, but opened his mouth to answer the old singer's doubts, "I would have been many years ago, I came here to find my kindred." ”

"You said you came here to find your kindred, what credentials do you have?" The old singer looked at Chu Yang, this person had a good appearance, a dusty temperament, and he was wearing the kind of clothes that people from the city often wear, but he didn't have the feeling of being a half-hidden clansman.

"Words are the basis for it." Chu Yang said, "Isn't there a poem in the outside world, written when the young leave home and the eldest return, and the hometown accent has not changed and the sideburns are urging?" Since you have said that my pronunciation will never be passed on, and many of the ancient languages I know are difficult for your younger generation to learn, then of course I am of the same race as you. ”

"Why do your kindreds come out here? Why nothing is known about us here? The old singer asked.

"I can't answer you." Chu Yang looked at the old singer, "What will you do when you encounter this situation?" ”

The old singer looked at him, and finally said two words:

"Ask Sa."

The sa of the hidden tribe is the ancestral god grandmother that Shi Wenfang said before, but it is not the shaman's sa.

In the process of studying the culture of the Hidden Tribes, the Hidden Tribes are usually regarded as a heroine who exists in the legends of the Hidden Tribes. But the old singer told Chu Yang that this was in the process of the continuous development of the hidden people, and many villages that had been separated did not inherit Kami when they inherited Kalao, and this story naturally came later, but people who came here to collect wind like to listen to this, so young people like Shi Wenfang will tell this story to outsiders.

In fact, Chu Yang was already aware of this when he listened to Shi Wenfang's introduction to the story of the ancestral grandmother on the way to the singer's house, because all the folk sacrifices caused by the stories of such heroes and specific characters will have statues, and he did not see any statues of the ancestral gods and grandmothers in this village before.

The old singer said in a deep voice:

"Grandma Ancestral God is the earth and the embodiment of nature, she can control wind, rain, thunder and lightning, so there is no idol on the altar of Grandma Ancestral God, because she cannot be concretized."