Volume 1 The First Cry Chapter 42 The Strange First Dream

Naoxiu played all day, and he was excited for a long time, and at night the fatigue came back, and he fell asleep as soon as he stuck the pillow.

In a daze, Naoxiu seemed to be on a plane, and next to him was an old man from Gaoli, complaining that Naoxiu took up too much space, and Naoxiu said that he might have not noticed him just now, so he quickly apologized, but the old man still didn't give up, and squeezed Naoxiu with his arm. Naohide is annoying, and a large group of people enter the cabin, led by Eiko, Toranosuke with the package, Gakujiro with a few books, and neighbors in suits or skirts, young and old, come.

When Naoxiu felt a little crowded, he found that he was actually on a big boat, the deck was very large, the space was very spacious, and a large group of people dispersed, so they began to use the soil method to make berberine on the deck, and the wooden basins and barrels were placed out to occupy a large area.

Naohide wanted to go over to help, but he couldn't get close, and when he was in a hurry, two groups of people came from the direction of Mt. Fuji, which was covered with snow in the distance, and they were arguing with each other but couldn't hear what it was.

A group of people is led by Mr. Tanan, Mr. Xuanpu, and Yokoi Konan, with Oguri Tadashun and Rihachi following behind, and the two of them quarrel while walking, and there is a group of people behind them, which looks familiar but Naohide can't recognize it alone.

The other group was led by Abe Ise Morimasahiro, followed by Katsuyoshikuni, Sakuma Zoyama, and Nakajima Saburosuke, and a large group of samurai with swords on their chests surrounded them.

Mr. Tanan, Mr. Hyun Pu, and Yokoi Konan first begged Abe Isemoru and his gang, and then scolded him, it stands to reason that there are many people on Abe's Isemoru side, but they seem to be afraid of each other and have not fought back.

Naohide was about to go to mediation, Saigo Takanaga and Okubo Ichizo appeared out of nowhere, and the two were arguing as soon as they appeared, and their sisters had been persuading them.

Yingzi and her neighbors are in full swing of their own work, while the other group of people are arguing and arguing upset.

Naohide has two big heads and is in distress, when suddenly, the tall Yoshida Shoin runs out with a knife and slashes indiscriminately, and then a bald eagle also rushes down from the sky to capture Hanako's mother and Eiko, and Naohide is so frightened that he wakes up from his dream all of a sudden.

Naoxiu sat in a daze for a while, feeling that this dream is a piece of bullshit, to say okay that's really a conscience, in the dream except for the beginning of the awkward fight with the old man of Goryeo, the rest of the time he felt that no one paid attention to him, he seemed to be watching a movie, to say no, what makes people laugh bitterly is that Mount Fuji and eagles also appeared in the dream, and then send an eggplant, then the three auspicious things of the first dream are all together.

Straight hair will be stunned, I think it must be because I put out the brazier before going to bed, so I have a strange dream from the cold, or get up honestly, and it is serious to warm up my body for a while.

After exercising, the sky was already bright, Naoxiu brushed his teeth with homemade toothpaste and toothbrush, washed his face, and went to the kitchen to cook miscellaneous dishes. In Naohide's impression, on the morning of the first day of the new year, her mother Reiko would always cook rice cakes for her father Naoyong Hori and herself. But in the first three days of the new year, isn't it forbidden to light a fire? In the same world, you may not wake up and your mind is confused.

When Naohide was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the brazier and drinking mixed boils, Eiko and the two students came again, well, Naohide got used to it too.

Yingzi asked the three of them to quickly start writing and write congratulatory messages or poems in the direction where Mensong was. Naohide remembered that this was the traditional "first pen" of Fuso's New Year, also known as "Jishu", to write down his wishes for the new year, hoping that the blessing of the god of the year could be successfully realized.

Toranosuke wrote "Smell the Chicken and Dance", Xuejiro wrote "Heaven rewards diligence", not to mention, the calligraphy of the two students is not bad, Yingzi pushes Zhixiu to write quickly, Zhixiu waves a big pen, "Promotion and Fortune" The four big characters jumped on the paper, and the two students who laughed fell, Yingzi had to rewrite it again, and Zhixiu couldn't shirk it, and wrote "Desire to be poor, go to the next level", Yingzi was satisfied.

The two students snickered on the side, and Zhixiu ignored them, feeling that Yingzi was thoughtful, and it was really inconsiderate to write "promotion and wealth", because the sentence following "promotion and wealth" was a bit lacking in morality.

Naoxiu asked Yingzi to write a sentence as well, but Yingzi ignored him, and put three pieces of paper in the corner of the living room with something to put on it.

After a while, a group of children came to pay New Year's greetings, and Naoxiu took out Hualin candy and gave them a boo. Hanain candy is similar to the Chinese Jiangmai sticks, which were introduced from China in the Nara period, and are Japanese sweets wrapped in a layer of black caramel, which are quite popular with mothers-in-law and mothers, but children don't like it because of its unsightly appearance.

Naohide had no choice but to take out the Koryo and Tang Ren dumplings brought back from Nagasaki and distribute them to everyone, and the children cheered. Eiko helps Naohide take out various fruits to entertain the children, and Toranosuke and Gakujiro pour them tea to prevent the children from choking.

Originally, Naoxiu made the "Imperial New Year Jade Bag", which was the New Year's money of Fusang's later generations, and each cloth bag contained more than 20 copper coins, but Yingzi told him that the "Imperial New Year Jade" was an enshrined mirror cake, and everyone would cut the mirror cake and eat it on the eleventh day of the first lunar month.

Fuso folk believe that people's souls increase over time, and the soul that is distributed each year is added together to one's own age. The enshrined mirror cake is stained with the breath of the god of the year "Suide God", so it is called "Nian Yu" and "Nian Soul". Eating the mirror cake contains the beautiful meaning of "sharing the soul of the god of the year and reaping the power of a year".

The saying of the virtual age is also derived from this cognition - when a person is still in the mother's womb, he already has a soul, so the child is already one year old when he is born.

Zhixiu was influenced by the thinking of his previous life and made a bunch of "Imperial Year Jade Bags", but it didn't go out, which is not a big deal, and when the children come to learn Lan Xue in the future, it will be rewarded in class. But Naoxiu is a little worried, do all the traversers have schizophrenia? As soon as Yingzi said that Yu Nianyu was a mirror cake, he had an impression, and if he didn't say it, he thought that Yu Nianyu was a New Year's money, and the future was worrying if he continued like this, if he was unfortunate enough to add a split personality, he would properly run to the point of no return where Yilai stretched out his hand to eat and open his mouth.

Zhixiu thought for a while, crossing similar to winning the lottery, but the result of winning this lottery is more cheating, come and come, don't worry about it, you can't change it, just close your eyes and enjoy it.

After the children finished eating the fruit, Naohide asked the two students to help distribute the kites, tambourine, masks and other things they bought yesterday, and the children played games in groups.

In the Edo period, children often played games such as sano-six, fuku-saki, beihe, and hyaken-ichi, as well as kite flying, bamboo dragonfly, machi-kai, ghost play, kendama, otedamama, solo music, and badminton.

Kite flying and bamboo dragonfly have the same content as the Chinese game of the same name.

Machiho is a role-playing game. Firefighters are tall and beautiful because of disaster relief, and children in the Edo period also liked to play the role of firefighters to fight fires. In the Edo period, the fire chiefs were called "fire chiefs", and as one of the three Edo boys, they were the idols of folk children—Edo Sano was an Edo folk idol, including the fire chief, the wrestler (sumo wrestler), and the machi, and the power (inspector).

Ghost play is Chinese hide-and-seek, choose one person as a "ghost", others hide, and then the ghost looks for people everywhere, and the first child who is caught continues to be a ghost.

Kendama is one of the most traditional toys in Fuso, also known as "Skill Jade", which is composed of a small ball with holes attached to the handle of a cross-shaped "sword". The game is to hold the handle of the "sword" and throw the ball and then put it into the wooden handle or the depression of the "sword", which is quite popular among children.

Mitetama is a small toy made by sewing red beans, rice, and seeds from the valley into a small cloth bag, and the gameplay is similar to that of Togalaha in northern China. The players of this type of game are generally girls.

Soloku is a spinning top, but Fuso Dule can be played by turning the center bearing with his fingers, and there is also a way to play with a short whip to make it rotate continuously.

Badminton is a game that was introduced to Fuso from Chugoku during the Muromachi period (1336-1573), similar to badminton. Badminton is believed to ward off bad luck, and at the end of the Edo period, it was customary to give a "feather board to ward off evil spirits." Badminton is loved by everyone because it represents the meaning of banishing the bad luck of a year and praying for the healthy growth of children for a year - in fact, the fundamental reason why badminton is loved by children is that it is beautiful and fun.

I usually play with the children and read books in the afternoon, and the time will soon come to the seventh day of the first month. The festival was also the official festival of the shogunate, and there was a custom of eating "seven grass porridge" for breakfast. Renji is also a festival that came from China, and it is said that the Chinese people's festival originated from the celebration of the birthday of "people", and later added the atmosphere of missing relatives and friends in addition to praying for auspicious blessings. The famous poet Gao Shi of the Tang Dynasty wrote the poem "People Send Du Er's Relics" with the sentimental sentence "This year's people remember each other, and next year's people will know where they are".

Fusang's People's Day has undergone a magic change, and the Chinese "Qibao Soup" has been changed to "Seven Grass Porridge", and according to the legend of Fusang, eating Seven Grass Porridge on Ren's Day will not get sick for a year. Generally speaking, the seven grasses of Qicao porridge refer to the seven grasses of spring, including Fuso cress, shepherd's cabbage, curvature, chickweed, baogai, turnip, and radish.

In the Edo period, the "Great Shoseki" was from the first day of the first month to the seventh day of the first month; "Matsunai" is from the 8th day of the first month to the 14th day of the first month, and "Small New Year" is the 15th day of the first month.

After the Human Day, it will soon be the opening day of the 11th day of the first lunar month, which is the day when the mirror cake is cut into "imperial jade" and eaten, which contains the beautiful meaning of "sharing the soul of the god of the year and harvesting the power of a year".

After the human festival is the small first month on the fifteenth day of the first month, which comes from the Chinese Shangyuan Festival, and there are many things to do on this day.

The first thing is to eat azuki bean porridge and pray for good health, a custom that originated in the Heian period (794-1192) of Fuso, and is described in the "Pillow Grass".

The second thing is to decorate the willow tree with a mochi flower "まゆゆ jade" with red and white rice cakes hanging on it, which is used to pray for a good harvest of grains in the new year. Customary customs vary depending on the region, but in some regions, rice cakes are kneaded into rice and other seeds, and then hung on the branches of trees in the garden, and the prayer for a good harvest is also performed.

The third thing is to burn the New Year's blessing decoration "New Year's Moon Ornament" in the garden to ward off illness and disaster. The New Year's ornaments can be burned in the temple at the beginning of the year, or they can be burned in the courtyard of the family during the small New Year's month, which has the meaning of dispelling illness and eliminating disasters.

The fourth thing is to burn the first pen, it is said that the small first moon is the day when the god of Suide returns to the realm of the gods with the smoke of the burning, and the first pen is burned in the hope that the god of Suitoku can take the first pen away and bless the wish fulfillment.

Finally, the coming-of-age ceremony "Yuan Fu" is also carried out on this day.

Fusang's Yuan costume comes from the Chinese coming-of-age ceremony——— men's "crown ceremony" and women's "Xuan ceremony". The Chinese coming-of-age ceremony mostly chooses Jiazi and Bingyin auspicious days, especially the first month of the year. After the Fuso Demon Reform, it is customary to hold it in the New Year's month.

After the New Year's Day, the New Year's Festival officially ended, and Naoxiu also captured the two students back to translate the orchid book together - Naohide Translation, and the two students recorded.