Volume 2 Playing with the Tribe Chapter 172 Tribal Exchange Meeting (Wedding)
The matter was successfully concluded, Cang and Shuilian were very happy, and Ding Qi also informed the leaders of the tribes to stay and attend the wedding of the hunting captain of the Ding tribe, and arranged for people to go hunting and prepare more meat. This time is not like the courtship bonfire, but everyone who participates in the exchange party, including the slaves, must not only have enough to eat, but also make everyone eat well. Even invited people from the Blue Bird Tribe and the Red Bull Tribe to help peel, cut, and cook meat, and the entire exchange venue instantly became a sea of joy.
Surrounded by the women of her own tribe, the water lotus dressed her beautifully from top to bottom. The clothes are a deerskin clothes, the Ding tribe skillfully made them, this is a team member who is usually reluctant to wear, and when he saw that the captain did not have suitable clothes for marriage, he quickly took out the animal skin clothes he hid and gave them to Shuilian.
The deerskin is reddish-brown in color, and it looks more festive, and there is no need to distinguish between men and women. His hair was also cleaned up and trimmed with a straight knife borrowed from Tinchi. He wore a necklace of animal teeth from the tribe of power around his neck, a pair of animal bone rings on his wrists and ankles, and a feather of a golden eagle in his hair. As for where do the golden eagle feathers come from? Of course, Ding Qi took advantage of Xiaojin's unpreparedness and plucked it from it.
Cang was cleaned up by everyone after the return of the hunting team, the beard on his face was shaved with a straight knife, and his hair was trimmed slightly, which looked particularly handsome and refreshing. The clothes are still used in the original, and the soil or ash on them is directly wiped clean with wet deerskin.
Since there was no witch, the leader of the tribe, Tinchi, the Aragami in everyone's mind, took the initiative to officiate at the wedding. Before the wedding began, the Kurahe Water Lotus, the Black Water Tribe's Mizusawa Leader, the Blue Tiger Leader of the Force Tribe, the Blue Eagle Leader of the Blue Bird Tribe, and the Black Bull Leader of the Red Bull Tribe, were gathered together to explain the process of the wedding.
The wedding process is the kind of welcoming relatives, worshipping heaven and earth, and entering the cave room that Ding Qi himself has experienced, but a ceremony of Ding Qi praying to heaven is added in front of worshipping heaven and earth, indicating that the wedding of Cang and Shuilian is recognized by heaven and earth, and blesses the two and their descendants with health and good fortune.
He and Mizusawa should be the elders of both men and women, and they should accept the worship of the two, the leader of the blue tiger as the witness, the leader of the black bull as the officiant, and the leader of the goshawk as the worship of heaven and earth. The matters that everyone needs to pay attention to are also explained clearly, and what words and actions need to be said, including the later links of entering the cave room and making trouble in the cave room, are also arranged, so that everyone can participate. As for the final candle night in the cave room, only Cang and Shuilian only need to participate, and others really can't participate.
On the edge of the two shacks of the tribe, Ding Qi also arranged for someone to build a small shack as their new house, which was cleaned up.
Ding Qi mainly wants to solidify the marriage ceremony in this way and spread it through various tribes, which is a very meaningful activity, but Ding Qi does not want the kind of woman to ask the man for a large bride price in the future, which is beyond the original intention of marriage.
Everything is ready and the wedding celebration begins!
The bridegroom rode the chestnut horse and led a white mare, surrounded by all the hunting team, to the outside of the rest area of the Blackwater tribe, ready to welcome the bride back to the tribe not a few steps away. Riding a tall horse to marry Shuilian, it can be regarded as coming up in terms of specifications, and it is not an insult to the other party.
The hunters stood in front of the rest and danced an unknown dance. Far away, Ding
Qi had to ask the leader of the blue tiger next to him, and the other party explained that it was a dance that sang the god of spring, and that spring had arrived, everything had revived, and the animals had entered the period of courtship. So this is also a particularly auspicious dance, which is suitable for this scene.
After the dance, a woman from the Blackwater tribe came out and sang a song with her voice open, which meant welcoming friends from afar, which was also appropriate. After that, Shui Lian came out in the company of the tribe's female companions, but she was also surprised to see that she was going to ride on the back of a white horse, first, she had never ridden a little worried, and secondly, she was surprised by what Cang had not said before, and instantly loved Cang even more.
Under the appeasement of Cang, Shuilian sat on the back of the horse, and Cang pulled the reins of the white horse and rode the horse first, through a few tens of meters of open space, and returned directly to the outside of the tribe's shack. After dismounting, he stood in front of a shelf with three different animals on it, which was regarded as three animals dedicated to the heavens. The chestnut horse and the white mare were pulled back into the ring, but they didn't want the little two blacks to be there and scream, like a little ruffian whistling.
Tinch also stood at the front and began to perform his duties as a tribal witch. The previous content is to pray to God to bless the tribe and all the people as the god of the wilderness, so that everyone can have clothes and food to eat, and live a happier and happier life, without oppression and killing. Immediately afterwards, he mentioned that marriage is a right given by heaven and earth to men and women, and as long as they truly love each other, they should not be deprived of this right, and advocated that more people should be encouraged to marry among tribes and fix the relationship between men and women, so that human beings can be orderly and their offspring will be healthier. In the end, it shows that this marriage has been recognized by heaven and earth, and everyone should be blessed, and learn more from the two newlyweds to take this step bravely.
This ceremony is very sacred, more than 200 people from seven or eight tribes present all participated, presumably it will definitely spread further, this concept of marriage has sprouted and taken root in everyone's hearts, and more and more people will accept it in the future.
At the end of the ceremony, Ding Qi and Mizusawa sat together on a stool in front of the two of them, ready to accept the newcomers' worship. The officiant and the witnesses also came to congratulate and bless the two newlyweds, hoping that they could contribute to the development of the tribal population as soon as possible.
Then the goshawk leader presided over the ceremony of worshipping heaven and earth as a guest, and his bright voice spread:
"Worship heaven and earth!"
The two of them bowed in the direction of the shelf, their faces full of seriousness, as if to represent that the two of them should take their marriage seriously and pray to God to bless them both.
"Second worship high hall!"
For the era when only his mother was known but not his father, Ding Qi's approach undoubtedly told everyone a new thing. In the absence of his parents, the tribal leader temporarily took over this responsibility. But this link undoubtedly puts a question in everyone's hearts, that is, who is his father? It is no longer possible to let your offspring not know who the father is.
"Husband and wife worship each other!"
When the two worshipped each other, their respective male and female companions had already stepped forward and pressed their heads, making the two bump hard, which also made the whole process of worshipping heaven and earth lively and much more joyful. Everyone laughed when they looked at the two newcomers who were blushing, and the unhappiness of the Blackwater tribe and the Ding tribe seemed to have been diluted a lot.
"Send to the cave!"
The goshawk leader gave an order, and the hunting team and a cadre of men and women from other tribes came in clusters of cangs and water lotuses
In the "cave room", some people with "ulterior motives" gave the newcomers problems according to Ding Qi's previous explanation, provoked both men and women, and made a group of animals who could not do it anxious, and all kinds of laughter came out of the "cave house" from time to time.
Outside, it's a different story. The roaring bonfire seemed to turn the whole sky red, and even the beasts were quiet, restrained, looking and listening or looking at the glowing field.
Outside the big bonfire, there was a row of a dozen or so small fires, on which wooden sticks were set up and prey was roasted there. And the people who did not participate in the cave house danced around the fire, which was a wedding, and it was definitely a courtship dance, and the atmosphere was particularly warm. There are also a few couples whose relationship is more clear, and it seems that they also want to try the taste of marriage.
The atmosphere of the whole wedding reached its peak when the heroes and heroines appeared, and the dances, songs, and beats filled the entire celebration venue, and even Tinch and the other tribal leaders entered the center of the dance floor to rejoice with everyone.
There was no wine, only animal meat, but that could not dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd.
The whole wedding celebration mode comes to an end with a soothing ballad "In That Far Away Place", which is now familiar and sung by most people, and it is believed that when they return, this song will spread even further.
A couple of newlyweds returned to their "cave room" in the company of everyone, and the whole space was quiet for a while, only the sound of the bonfire beeping and peeling sounded from time to time, and everyone even slowed down their breathing, listening to what was happening in the "cave room" with their ears pricked up.
There's snickering, there's snickering, there's the feeling of sitting there in earnest, expecting something to happen.
Yes!
Suddenly, there was a frightened man's shout from the "cave room", followed by a figure rushing out of it, and a man ran out of the "cave room" naked with animal skin clothes, but there was a dilemma.
He cried out in horror:
"Snakes, there's snakes in there! Who put it? ”
As soon as Cang asked, everyone outside burst into laughter. Using a snake that had just woken up not long ago to trick the two of them was something that everyone else in the field knew about except for the two of them, but I didn't expect Cang to really get tricked, and he brought laughter to everyone with his embarrassed appearance. However, there are some differences between the bride inside, I saw her holding a burning stick and slashing at the snake's head until she died. The mouth also kept saying the mantra of the Ding tribe:
"Test, scared your mother to death, but you're at this level? Scared by a snake like this? Why don't you get in and throw the snake out! ”
Domineering, mighty, spicy! This couldn't help but remind Ding Qi of the words "there is a fierce woman in the family", and he could only express his silence for Cang in his heart!
A prank, let everyone see the different performances of the two people, and this has become a laughing stock of Cang is well known to everyone, but none of the hunting team members dare to speak up, if Ding Qi knows, it is indispensable to suffer a few meals of flesh and skin, that is not ordinary people can bear, it is not an exaggeration to describe it with the word "destruction".
Laughed, made trouble, everything has to become a thing of the past, and everyone has to move towards a new life!
And the model of this wedding is only Ding Qi's perception of the wedding in his childhood memory.