Chapter 339 Crossing the Miao District

Although Tian Xiuyan is only twenty years old, he looks much older than Wen Zhang, Zhang Quanyi and other peers, if he puts on a black dress, he has a similar demeanor to the old man in black I saw in front of the Young Emperor's Mausoleum, maybe this is the so-called cultivator,

Being able to meet the saint mentioned by the great wizard Jiang Yang, Tian Xiuyan was also quite excited, although he didn't know where the "saint" of the saint Tian Jing said, but he believed that his father would never lie to him, Tian Xiuyan entered the house, and made a Miao salute to me: "I have seen the son of Huyan." ”

"You are Tian Xiuyan."

"Hui Gongzi, exactly."

"Tian Xiuyan, your father said that you are willing to follow me."

"Childe, my father said that Childe is the saint in the words of the great wizard, and you are naturally willing to cultivate your face."

I looked at Tian Xiuyan and said seriously: "Whether I am a saint or not, it doesn't matter to you, the foundation of cultivation lies in cultivating the mind, in my opinion, the saint that Master Jiang Yang said is in your own heart." ”

Tian Xiuyan was stunned: "In my heart." ”

"The way of cultivation lies in enlightenment, from understanding to comprehension, and finally to enlightenment, Tian Xiuyan, you know Chinese, you naturally know how to write the word Wu, the left side of this word is the heart, the right side is me, the ancients made words is not very interesting, hehe, you slowly understand it." I smiled and said, "Okay, it's almost time, it's time for us to go, Tian Xiuyan, do you have any luggage to pack." ”

"Childe, you only need a few changes of clothes to fix your face."

"Well, I'll see you at the door of the Righteous Building in a quarter of an hour."

Along the way, Tian Xiuyan's words were very few, which seemed to be extremely inconsistent with his age, perhaps because he had followed Jiang Yang since he was a child, until noon on the third day, when we came to the fork in the official road, Tian Xiuyan took the initiative to say: "Childe, it will be a lot farther to go from here to Shanxian Mansion through Guangnan West Road, why not go west directly from the original Puning Prefecture (now Anshun, Guizhou)." ”

Wen Zhang said: "Brother Tian, the Puli Department of Puning Prefecture has belonged to Mongolia ten years ago, and that road cannot be taken. ”

"Yes, the Puli Department belongs to Mongolia, but I know that there is another way, we can pass through the Miao family territory in the south of Puning Prefecture, so that we can also directly reach the original Dali border, and there are also gathering places for our Miao people along the Dali border."

Wenzhang asked, "Is it safe?" ”

"Gongzi Wen, the road I said is basically the residence of my Miao people along the way, and if there are not many people, it should be safe."

I was interested: "Fixing your face can save you a few days of travel." ”

"Go back to Gongzi, at least three or four days."

"What if we have a team of two or three hundred people."

Tian Xiuyan subconsciously looked around and said: "Childe, two or three hundred people are too many, the target is too big, it is easy to attract the attention of the Mongols or the Puli people, if there are a hundred people, everyone changes into Miao costumes, I think it should be feasible." ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Okay, that's it." ”

Yuan Jian persuaded: "Childe, let's think about this matter again." ”

"It's okay, wouldn't it be more dangerous for us to go to Shanxi, there is a face-fixing, I think the Miao brothers will help."

"Okay."

I told Yuan Thorn separately that Tian Xiuyan was the inheritor chosen by the guardian, and Yuan Thorn also trusted the person who could be chosen by the guardian, as the heir of the Valley of the Kings, of course Yuan Thorn knew the meaning of the guardian, although he was only a person from the outer hall, but he also had almost pious respect for the guardian,

There are many Miao tribes, but there are few contacts with each other, but the Miao people everywhere have one thing in common, that is, the respect for wizards, in addition to presiding over the sacrificial activities, the wizards in the Miao people generally have to work part-time as doctors, and the learned wizards also serve as the gentlemen in the tribe, teaching children to learn, if it is a great wizard, it will make the Miao people respect it even more, the wizards of the Miao people generally do not set up ancestral altars, do not apprentice, do not hereditary, before officially becoming a wizard, they must hold a ceremony to establish the gods, This kind of ritual needs to be presided over by the great wizard to be effective, the higher the cultivation of the great wizard, the more high-grade the god-standing ceremony, as for the guardian, only some of the leaders of the big tribe and the great wizard know, so, for the ordinary Miao people, the guardian is not like the great wizard, respected by the entire Miao people,

Among the few great wizards, Jiang Yang is the most famous among them, when he was young, Jiang Yang once traveled all the Miao residential areas, and after becoming a great wizard, he presided over a lot of ceremonies, so in the hearts of Miao people, Jiang Yang is the chief wizard of the entire Miao people,

Since Tian Xiuyan was ten years old, Jiang Yang has taken his only heir to practice, and in the past ten years, Tian Xiuyan has almost been to Miao villages all over the country.

The history of the Miao nationality is very long, occupies a very important position in the long history of the Chinese nation, but it is also through hardships, the birthplace of the Miao nationality is roughly located in the upper and middle basin of the Yapan River, the Min River, the Bajiang River, and the Jialing River in Sichuan today, and has gone through five great migrations in thousands of years, from the ancient period to the Yanhuang period, and then to the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, and finally to the Song Dynasty, before gradually settling down, the vast majority of the Miao people have settled in a fixed residential area, and this pattern has continued to later generations.

I arranged: "Sir, you are responsible for selecting the candidates who will accompany us through the Miao District, and the rest of the people will wait in Wuhezhai, the gathering place of Miao people on the border of Dali, through Guangnan, and at the same time pass a message to Yao Zhaohui and Ye Dongsheng, and let them go directly to the outside of Tianlong Temple to wait. ”

"Yes, Childe."

"Trimming, you're in charge of clothes."

"Childe, Xiu Yan understands that there is a medium-sized Miao tribe twenty miles to the west, that tribe is called Ma Jinsheng, and the sorcerer in the clan, Mumbai, presided over the ceremony of establishing the gods by the great sorcerer Jiang Yang, so I am quite familiar with the Mumbai sorcerer and the leader of the village."

"Ma Jinsheng tribe, the name is quite interesting, okay, just go there, sir, you let Zhang Zijian and Yun Zhongfei also go to gather outside the Ma Jinsheng tribe."

The Ma Jinsheng tribe mentioned by Tian Xiuyan is located on the slope of the river valley on the northeast side of the Baishui River, and the origin of the Baishui River is because the riverbed is composed of sedimented limestone fragments, which are gray-white, and clear springs flow through, looking like a white river.

Twenty miles of land is just a piece of cake for our royal horses,

Turn a mountain peak, look at it from afar, only to see hundreds of unique stilted buildings with the ups and downs of the terrain change, layer upon layer, row upon row, magnificent, the slope of the village is planted with a piece of maple forest, this kind of maple tree is called the village tree by the Miao people, and it is also one of the customs of most Miao villages,

"Childe, there is still a legend in the name of Ma Jinsheng."

Fang Ling on the side hurriedly said, "Tian Gongzi, let's listen to it." ”

"Well, this is what the Bombay wizard told me, the reason why it is called Ma Jinsheng, is because the Miao village here is the birthplace of Miao reed sheng and Jinji dance, reed sheng is a Miao family musical instrument, popular in the black Miao, Ma Jinsheng Miao village produced by the reed sheng is the most famous, and the Jin Ji dance is the Miao family in the sacrifice, the festival is an indispensable content, the Jin chicken is one of the totems of the Miao people, it is said that in ancient times, God sent a divine bird to the Miao people gathering place, taught the Miao ancestors to engage in weaving technology, In order to worship this divine bird sent by God, the smart Miao girl used her skillful hands to weave a beautiful flower belt like a golden pheasant feathers, imitating the long tail of the golden pheasant to wrap the flower belt around the waist one by one, and also inserted silver jewelry on the head, and imitated the movements of the golden chicken danced, just like that, year after year, generation after generation, the wonderful golden chicken dance gradually spread in Miao Township. ”

I have also heard of the Jinji Dance, and in later generations, when this dance is performed abroad, it is praised by foreigners as "the sacred bird of the East, the most original ballet." ”

Fang Ling asked, "Ah, it turned out to be a divine bird, can we see this kind of dance?" ”

"Miss Fang, this kind of possible surname is not big, Miao Zhai will only perform at a specific time."

"Oh, then I'll have to forget it."

"Xiu Yan, I never knew what the difference between this black seedling and the white seedling was."

Tian Xiuyan said: "Hui Gongzi, generally speaking, the difference between black seedlings and white seedlings is not big, my Miao people have a total of seventy-two tribes, divided into black seedlings, white seedlings, red seedlings, green seedlings, long-horned seedlings, etc., the customs and culture of these tribes are basically the same, just because of the difference in clothing, and are called different names, black seedlings because the clothes and headscarves on the body are mainly black, so it is called black seedlings, if you trace its origin, simply because the ancestors of the black seedlings, that is, the ancestors of the tribe who followed the great god of Chiyou are dressed in black, And the descendants of the tribe dressed in white are Bai Miao, Black Miao and Bai Miao are the two tribes with the strongest combat effectiveness under the Great God of Chiyou at that time, and until now, the Miao family is also based on Black Miao and Bai Miao, in addition, there is a small difference in the title between the two, the wizard who is familiar to Gongzi is called a wizard in the black Miao, but it is called a priest in the white Miao, and there is not much difference in other aspects. ”

"I see."

For the understanding of black Miao and white Miao, I just came from a game played by later generations "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", because of several large migrations of the Miao people, resulting in the defects of their own writing system, before the liberation, Miao and Han people have very little contact, so in the eyes of the Han people, the Miao people are quite mysterious, and the previous information exchange is extremely inconvenient, over time, to spread falsehood, the Han people's misunderstanding of Bai Miao and Black Miao is getting bigger and bigger,

In Ma Jinsheng Miao Village, several of us were warmly entertained by the Bombay wizard and the head of the cottage, Chifeng,

After three rounds of drinking, Tian Xiuyan and Bombay and others finished talking about the old days, and explained their intentions to Mumbai: "Bombay Wizard, Chifengtou people, Xiuyan was entrusted by Jiang Yang Wizard to escort this Huyan son to Wuhe Miao Village in Dali to meet the Fortune Wizard, because he had to encounter a strong wind after going out, and his clothes and luggage were blown off, so he specially came here to ask the Bombay Wizard to help provide a hundred sets of costumes. ”

Chifeng said with a smile: "This is simple, I will let each household in this village come up with a set, but our Majinsheng cottage is not rich, so the clothes are shabby, I don't know if there is any problem." ”

"Chifengtou people are polite, I wait for those who go far away, as long as they can shelter from the wind and rain."

Mumbai said: "That's good, Xiu Yan, you sit down first, talk to the people of Chifengtou, I'll explain it, and I'll be back in a while." ”

"I'm tired of the Bombay wizards."

Chifeng said: "Xiu Yan, you go to Wuhe Village, the road is far away, and this world is not peaceful, be careful." ”

"Don't worry, the head is basically my Miao family's cottage on this road, and it should be safe."

"Well, it's just that Wuhezhai is now the territory of the Mongols, and a while ago I heard that the relics who started the riot fled to the area of Wuhezhai, so you should be more careful."

I exclaimed, "Scarry." ”