Chapter 3 The Journey to Shennongjia
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is another big festival after the Spring Festival of the Chinese people, and it is a traditional festival in our country: the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is also the last day of the New Year.
Because the ancients called the night "supper"
The first month of the first month is the first full moon of the new year, so it is called the "Lantern Festival"
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The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year, a day to worship the moon and admire the moon, and also symbolize the arrival of spring, which is the last day of the traditional New Year definition.
Buddhism has the custom of lighting lamps on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to make offerings to the Buddha.
In Taoism, the Shangyuan Festival is regarded as the birthday of the Emperor of Tianguan (Yao), the fifteenth day of the first month is the Shangyuan, the fifteenth day of July is the middle yuan, and the fifteenth day of October is the lower yuan, which belongs to the three official emperors of heaven, earth and water.
Shangyuan Festival is the birthday of Tianguan, so the lanterns are lit to celebrate the night when the lights are bright.
The Lantern Festival originated in the era of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and reached its peak through the Tang and Song dynasties.
And the real motivation of the Lantern Festival custom is that it is at a new point in time, and people make full use of this special time stage to express their wishes in life.
After Jin Haotian returned home to rest for a day, he ushered in the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the rural custom of celebrating the Lantern Festival was usually to go to his grandparents' house.
If the elders are gone, the brothers and sisters will get together, and after this unforgettable last day of the New Year, the festive atmosphere of social changes is not as strong as when I was a child, and each family has its own ideas, and they are busy with their careers for the coming year, and the idle days are only a few days a year.
In the past few years, the Lantern Festival has basically been in my house, seven aunts and eight aunts are lively, several families get together for two or three tables, aunts are busy cleaning up meals, and men are a few people at a table, taking advantage of the rare relaxation time to rub mahjong and play poker.
Cousins and cousins compete with each other for the remote control of the TV, a warm and noisy scene, forming a perfect picture of vigor and humility and harmony in the family.
Toasting each other is a tradition in my hometown, and it is a matter of delaying time and relieving the wine by arguing with each other at the banquet, once at my uncle's house, seven or eight people at a table; I drank 100 bottles of beer, and I was very curious about how my stomach could fit so much wine, and I couldn't get off the table for two or three hours after a table.
After a meal is cleaned up, a cup of tea to hydrolyze hangover is a good choice, during the break to talk about some family routines, children's school problems, what are the topics that everyone plans to do this year, and everyone talks about going back after the break.
There are many children in rural families, there are many relatives in every family, and there are some relatives in the family, and they have to prepare a banquet in the evening after going back, they are all close relatives, everyone is not pretentious, say some kind words to retain, invite each other to sit at their own house, cousins and cousins compete with each other to see whose voice is louder, and the lively living room is calm.
Looking at the parents who watched TV at home, they walked into the room and packed up their clothes to prepare for going out, a few years of working abroad, the tidying up work was so fast and natural, but the change came too suddenly, disrupting Jin Haotian's preparations, and since then he has embarked on an unknown road, everything seems to be destined, to let Jin Haotian take greater responsibility, and the future legendary life of confusion will be confused.
Walked out of the room to watch TV with his parents, his parents knew that their son was going to travel far away, and they all pulled the topic to other aspects, saying that things at home should not be worried, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar are still indispensable all year round, reflecting the hardships of the countryside, the simple life of parents, and the simple and simple thinking of parents.
Time will not stop because of people, the opportunity is always reserved for those who are prepared, I drank some wine at noon and felt a little dizzy, I ate some rice and drank some light vegetable soup for dinner, and every year on the night of the Lantern Festival, I would ask some classmates and brothers to go to Xihe Park to make Lantern Festival.
The annual Lantern Festival is also very lively, fireworks and firecrackers resound all over the world, the music fountain is colorful and dances with the song, the golden lion dances the fire dragon circles, the gongs and drums Yangge ship lamps stilt legs, surrounds the streets and alleys of the whole city, the palace culture that has been passed down for thousands of years is released in this night, thousands of doors are unlocked and thousands of lights are bright, the ground is shocked in the middle of the first month, the dragon sings and the phoenix flute moves, the Yushu ice flower turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night.
After the Spring Festival in the past few years, everyone went out relatively early, and most of the playmates and classmates who were young have gone south and north to go their own way, contributing their own strength to the prosperity of China.
It doesn't make much sense to go out alone, I went back to the room and poured a cup of tea water, came to the balcony and put down the hot tea, the cold air quietly evaporated when it was hot, lying on the window and looking at the afterglow like a bean, stroking the memories, the lonely and lonely mood, the proud and unrestrained life, painful and happy.
Jin Haotian picked up the lukewarm hot tea and drank it all in one gulp, put down the teacup and filled it with boiling water, came out to wash a hot water face, took off his contemplation, was in a good mood and watched a few episodes of the TV series, washed his feet and went to sleep, lay on the bed and picked up the black stone, and after watching it for a long time, he didn't see what was called the exit thing, the patterns on it were like the overlap of geometric figures, and the ever-changing disturbed eyes, unconsciously Jin Haotian fell asleep, and the hand holding the stone was placed on his forehead.
The moonlight in the middle of the night sprinkled all over the earth to illuminate every corner, and the moonlight on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was exceptionally bright, slowly moving through the window to shine on the black stone, feeling that the moonlight tonight was unusual, and the black stone made a trembling sound.
Jin Haotian, who was asleep, subconsciously moved his body, and let go of the black stone he was holding, but the strange thing was that the stone did not slip down, and miraculously stuck to Jin Haotian's forehead, and everything could happen on the night of the full moon.
Absorbing too much moonlight, a dark halo emitted on the stone, resulting in energy fluctuations, at this time, Jin Haotian's brain is like a high-speed machine, the meridians connected to the pituitary gland tremble violently, and the violent beating of the meridians makes the brain temperature rise sharply, if it is not for the cold of the moonlight pouring in through the stone, Jin Haotian in his sleep may not see the sun tomorrow, and the best case will become a vegetative person, Jin Haotian is now like a roller coaster who can't get up and down.
The brain gradually stabilized, and it was transmitted to the depths of the brain through the connection between the pituitary gland and the stone, and the depths of the brain's memory were like a stonemason, etching a primeval jungle picture scroll in the blank space, with no gorgeous flashes, only the desolate breath of ancient times.
The moonlight shifted the stone as if it had completed its historical mission, fell on the bed and became dim, Jin Haotian's brain woke Jin Haotian up with a dragon groan, opened his eyes and was full of energy, a primitive map in his brain was like a scroll hanging in the void, exuding a quaint light, looking at the map Jin Haotian thought that the opportunity had come, turned on the light and picked up the stone has disappeared from its original color, looking at the original dream of the stone Everything is true, but to "Qiankun Bao according to the map"
I can't do it by myself.
According to the map left by Emperor Yan Shennong, it seems that there is a way to open it, and I have to go to Shennongjia by myself, is the mystery in Shennongjia, looking at the original map in my head, the mountains are twisting around a route, and I can't tell how to find this in my heart.
The rooster sang Xiao and pulled Jin Haotian back to reality, the boat was naturally straight to the bridge, since he woke up, his parents heard the sound of opening the door and got up to see, and when they saw it, they asked me to leave so early, I said no, I received a call from a friend last night to go to Shennongjia, and said in my heart, "I didn't mean to lie, some things are known but worried, white lies are sometimes more true"
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Jin Haotian said, "Dad, Mom, you better rest!" Don't catch a cold when it's cold."
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Mom then said I'll cook you something to eat before leaving, Jin Haotian said, "I'm not hungry now, someone will invite you when you eat."
Watching my parents enter the room, I washed up and came to the room, locked the trolley box in the closet, found a set of jungle clothes to bring on, walked to the door and thought about opening the wallet, took out 2,000 yuan in cash and carried it with me, put the bank card and the rest of the cash in a bag in the bedside table drawer, picked up the stone and mobile phone and walked out of the house to the road.
At half past six o'clock in the morning, there were early villagers in the countryside, packing up the vegetables that were not sold out in winter, driving a tricycle to the county seat, a village basically knew each other and greeted each other, took a hitchhiker to the station and said thank you, walked into the ticket hall There were already a lot of people there, bought a ticket to Shennongjia, waited for a while at the departure place and embarked on the journey to Shennongjia.
Shennongjia is the only well-preserved oasis in the interior of China and the only green treasure land in the middle latitudes of the world.
It has the only intact subtropical forest ecosystem in the mid-latitudes of the world today, and is the most distinctive monopoly of world-class tourism resources, with rich and colorful flora and fauna, ancient, endemic and rare.
At the beginning of the fifties of the twentieth century, there were "wild people" in Shennongjia from time to time
The report of existence came out, and a mysterious shadow has been hanging in the minds of the locals of Shennongjia for many years, lingering.
No one can tell what it is, and there is a name that is passed down from mouth to mouth: "Savage"
"Savage"
What kind of animal is exactly?
Does it have a connection to humans?
Walking upright but covered with hair, perhaps this mysterious "wild man"
What is the relationship with the primitive ancestors of humans?
Or, the so-called "savages"
Is it nothing more than an illusory legend?
"e Northwest Exotic Animal Expedition"
Go deep into the primeval forest area of Shennongjia and explore the "savages" of Shennongjia
Footprint.
Collected the "Wild Man"
of dried poop, hair and other physical objects, measured the "savage"
Footprints.
After preliminary identification, the "Savage"
It is an advanced primate that is close to humans.
Two large-scale field expeditions collected hundreds of wild man's hairs, found hundreds of wild man's footprints, many feces, and found a bamboo house where the wild man lived.
During this period, I also received hundreds of cases that I had seen "wild men"
At the same time, a lot of evidence of humanoid activities has been collected, but there has been no direct contact with humanoids for 30 years.
In ancient times, the Shennongjia forest area was a vast ocean, which was gradually upgraded into a number of landmasses through the Yanshan and Himalayan movements, and formed strata with distinctive local characteristics, such as the Shennongjia group and the manger garden group.
Shennongjia has a long history, Shennongjia is a mysterious place in the inland of China, all kinds of legends have cast a mysterious veil on Shennongjia, I have heard the old man talk about the people who passed by Shennongjia before, a pair of wrists will always put two bamboo tubes, I asked why?
The old man said, "In the past, the mountains were high and the forests were dense, and when walking on the road in the forest, they would meet wild people, and when they saw a human who looked about the same size as it, they would come out to say hello, grab your hands and hold them tightly, and grin at you, and laugh at you, at this time you can pull your hands out of the bamboo tube and slip away, otherwise when it is tired of laughing, it will stop and eat you as a snack."
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When I was a child, I listened to the old people's stories, and when I laughed and talked about the gentlemen, I was happy.