Chapter 250: New Year's Festival

In the blink of an eye, the New Year Festival has arrived.

This day is the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and since the beginning of history, this Spring Festival is the most important festival of all festivals.

Wei Luo was awakened by Yin Yun as soon as the mist rose and the morning light just appeared.

She wore a freshly made lilac robe and combed her hair in fashion. This hairstyle, somewhat similar to that of later generations, is also long hair draped and tied only with a tie on the forehead. However, other Yue women like to paint ochre and graphite on their left and right cheeks. With these two colors painted on his face, coupled with the fingers on his lips, the whole person has a kind of witch aura.

And witch qi is popular in Chu and likes it.

Wei Luo had just gone out, thought about it, and went back to the room to dress himself up a little more ordinary, and then walked out.

When she walked out, Jian Ji and Yin Yun, both dressed in newly made clothes, knelt outside the gate near the street. In front of the two people, there was a large table made of three pieces. On top of a few tables, there are fresh, hot rice, and there are four bowls of rice. Next to the rice, there is a whole roasted sheep's head, a cow's head, and a horse's head! These three animals were called Taigao by the people of the time. In addition, there are some deer breasts, rabbit meat, millet soup, beam rice, dates, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and white cakes.

Wei Luo looked at the bull-headed horse head suspiciously, especially at the horse's head, which she could recognize, it was a two-year-old horse with a black mane and a black tail.

As far as she knows, ordinary people can't afford to offer such sacrifices, at most they just offer a sheep's head. Oxen are nothing, like a horse's head, which is the most expensive and most noble item.

According to the understanding of the people, this is already a very noble sacrifice.

Wei Luo came behind the two. She leaned slightly and knelt below Yin Yun.

This morning, there was a little fog, and the sky was very cold, but there was no snow.

About a quarter of an hour later, a drum beat came from the main street. The sound of the drums was getting closer and closer, interspersed with the sound of the piano and so on.

After another quarter of an hour or so, a group of middle-aged men dressed in straw sandals, with bamboo crowns on their heads, and with ochre and ink on their foreheads and cheeks, painted with strange patterns, came over under the leadership of an old man.

On both sides of this group, there is a team of musicians, this instrument has bells, chimes, qins, se, phoenix flutes, dragon flutes, sheng, xun, the music played, in the middle of peace, with a touch of joy, this music Wei Luo has heard, called "Zhaoping".

What made Wei Luo curious was that there was a drum sound in this music.

Wei Luo knew that the drum was noble in this era, and it was a musical instrument that only emperors and princes could enjoy. Even if Chu Xiong won the championship, causing the ritual music to no longer be as noble as before, this drum is still difficult to hear among the people.

Come to think of it, today is the Chinese New Year Festival, and everything is different.

Three drums sounded, and the old man who was at the front waved his hand, and after causing everyone to stop, he strode in front of the three.

He came to Yin Yun's face, took three steps back, knelt down, and walked towards the three animals, his hands stretched out in front of him, and he fell flat, and his forehead touched the ground.

The old man did not stand up after three consecutive salutes. He just straightened up.

The old man kept his waist up, and Yin Yun and the two sat up straight.

The old man stared at Yin Yun, who was kneeling in the middle and at the front, and asked solemnly, "Who is the ancestor who actually sacrificed with a horse's head?" ”

Yin Yun looked at him solemnly, and replied loudly: "My ancestor business deed!" ”

As soon as he said this, everyone went back and forth. Together with those drumming musicians, they all bowed to Yin Yun!

Shang Qi is the founding emperor of Shang. I didn't expect this Yin Yun to be orthodox Yin Shang.

After the old man received Yin Yun's answer, he stretched out his hands and bowed to the ground again.

This salute, the old man was directed at Yin Yun himself, and Yin Yun sat straight and straightened at this time, and accepted the old man's salute alive.

Wei Luo didn't know that this old man was a distant relative of the Zhou family, and his status was very noble, and the only people who could make him perform such a great gift were a few emperors in ancient times, as well as the orthodox heirs of Xia Shang.

After the old man made a big salute, he sat up straight, and asked again in the Qingle of "Zhaoping": "Do you have a son?" ”

As soon as he said this, Yin Yun's face turned ashamed.

He took two steps back, lowered his head, and said, "None! ”

"How can you be childless? Where is your woman? ”

After the old man asked two sentences aggressively, Yin Yun was already nodding his head to the ground, and he was so ashamed that he didn't look up again.

The old man didn't ask anymore, he turned his head to look at the sword bla, and asked, "Who is the ancestor?" ”

The sword fell and he took two steps back, he stretched out his hands forward, and after making a big bow to the old man, he said solemnly: "I am really an orphan, I don't know who is the ancestor and who is the father!" ”

The old man sighed and said no more.

He slowly stepped back and stood up, he took a few cups of sacrificial wine, and began to sing a long song.

The song sung by the old man was very monotonous, composed entirely of monosyllables, and Wei Luo listened to it, as if it were, 'The auspicious day is good, and Mu will enjoy the emperor. Fu long sword Xi jade, loud and loud. Yao Xi Yu Yao, Xi Qiongfang. Hui cuisine steamed orchid, Dian Gui wine and pepper pulp.'

This song is monotonous and weird, and it has the taste of Chu Feng Wuyin. It is very different from the tune that Wei Luo heard in Qi and Jin.

After a long song, the old man turned and left.

As the old man turned, everyone else followed, and the music went farther and farther away.

As soon as their figures left their field of vision, Yin Yun and Jian Ji stood up, carrying the sacrificial table, and strode back to the courtyard.

Wei Luo followed behind them with his hands in his hands, and did not step forward to help. Because she is a woman, she is not qualified to touch these sacrifices.

As soon as the sacrifice is brought back, it can be eaten. The three big animals, plus the rest of the wine and meat, were enough for the three of them to eat for a while.

That night, the city was lit up and the night was full of fireworks. The Yue people wore a thin drum around their waists and beat it all night. In the sound of drums, many witches were lifted by the crowd on bamboo chairs and paraded above their heads.

The witch sitting above everyone's head sang a long song, and the ranger swordsman below, in the song of the witch, pulled out the long sword one by one, patted the sword with his hand, danced with his feet, and sang along with the witch.

The next day, Wei Luo still got up before dawn.

This day is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Last night's drumming was to drive away evil spirits, and early this morning, the people will welcome the new year.

The sky was just bright, freshly washed, still disfigured, hiding the bright Wei Luo, under the leadership of Yin Yun and Jian Ji, walked towards the Xu River in the south of the city.

When they arrived, the banks of the Xu River were already kneeling with people.

Yin Yun's status is noble, he took the two of them and went straight to the front and knelt down.

No sooner had they knelt down than a drum beat could be heard in the distance.

Wei Luo looked up and saw a long river composed of rows of boats appearing in the river. The boat was divided into two teams, one on the other side of the river and one on the other side of the river. Each team had forty-nine rows.

In each row, there are nine big men. Two of them are holding boats, two in front and two in the back, and the middle three stand around a bamboo tree. Among the bamboos, there are big fish jumping around.

The sound of drums and music came from both sides of the strait.

The boat platoon came from the front of Wei Luo's people. As soon as they came to Wei Luo and the others, they saw a big man catch a fish and flick his right hand.

With a "snap", the fish landed in front of Yin Yun. Then, there was another "snap" sound of a light object falling to the ground, but one was also thrown in front of the sword.

But there is no Wei Luo's share, not only her, but all women, there is no share.

Jian Ji and Yin Yun picked up the fish on the ground at the same time and stood up. He turned and walked back.

Wei Luo was stunned, could it be that he got up so early to get such a fish?

Not wanting to expose her ignorance, she followed the two of them and walked in the direction of home.

As soon as he walked into the middle of the street, Wei Luo saw a big man with bare arms, wearing a straw skirt around his waist and holding a kitchen knife, spinning and dancing around a sturdy cow. The cow was strange because it was not tied on a rope or tied up. It stood in the middle of the street, but it was motionless, its eyes were bright, it was alive, but it was motionless, it was very quiet.

Around this big man, dozens of women were around. Gradually, the women became more and more around, and Wei Luo couldn't help but be stunned when she saw the women behind her all surrounding the big man.

She turned around, just as Jian Ji took out a clay pot and handed it to her, and said with a smile: "There is a woman this year, and she is not afraid of welcoming spring." ”

Wei Luo took the pottery bowl in a daze, followed behind the women, and came to the big man with bare arms.

She glanced quietly and found that Jian Ji and Yin Yun, like other men, had retreated far away.

At this moment, the big man dancing around the cow suddenly raised his head and shouted!

With his shouting, all the women fell to their knees in unison.

Wei Luo hurriedly knelt down.

She had just knelt down when the big man moved.

The kitchen knife in his hand flew over, stabbed into the heart of the cow with a whoosh, and then pulled out with a swish, and in the blink of an eye, a very thin and tiny wound appeared on the chest and abdomen of the motionless fine cow.

Although the wound was only a line, a stream of blood was gushing out. I saw a richly dressed woman come forward and use the clay pot in her hand to receive a dozen drops of blood from the wound of the cow.

As soon as the woman stepped back, Wei Luo noticed that several pairs of eyes were fixed on her.

Could it be that it's her turn? Yes, it's in order of status. Her clothes were more upscale than the rest of the women.

Wei Luo stepped forward, sent the clay pot under the cow's wound, and after receiving a dozen drops of blood, he retreated.

When she took the clay pot and retreated to Yin Yun and Jian Ji's side. Yin Yun stretched out his hand to take it, raised his head, and took a sip of the fresh ox blood.

Then he gave the pot to the sword. The sword blame followed and raised his head and drank all the ox's blood raw.

After drinking the ox's blood, the two of them did not leave immediately.

Just when Wei Luo was a little puzzled, those women took the ox blood one by one and retreated one by one.

The big bare-armed man walked up to the cow again.

With a whoosh, his kitchen knife flew and stabbed again along the cow's wound.

This time, Wei Luo only saw the big man surrounding the cow, walking forward and backward. With her eyesight, she could see that the big man's knife had been cutting in the cow's body all the time. Among them, the cow's vision became fainter and fainter, and finally there was no light at all. But from beginning to end, it didn't move, it smacked.

Just as the last knife fell, only a "horn" was heard, and all the meat of the whole cow fell as if it was being torn apart by the wind at the same time.

The big man was obviously a master, the beef had just dispersed, he had already swished the kitchen knife flying, and in the flying, pieces of beef shot in all directions, and a large piece of beef flew to Yin Yun's pottery bowl like lightning and landed on it steadily.

It's just that in the blink of an eye, the cow that was alive just now is now only a standing, intact skeleton!

This kind of ability to solve cattle is really extraordinary.

When Wei Luo was secretly thinking, Yin Yun and her husband bowed to the bare-armed man in unison.

As soon as the salute was finished, the crowd began to disperse. And the big man who untied the ox walked triumphantly towards his home with the complete cow skeleton on his shoulder.

On the street, there is not only one such big man, Wei Luo walked a few streets, and saw a few such cattle man. However, among these people, there are also those who accidentally spilled the beef on the ground and stained it with soil, and even more who broke the skeleton of the cow and broke it to the ground. Wei Luo saw that such people often lowered their heads and looked lost. And the people who were around them did not bow down to the people who had failed.

When the three of them walked back to the mansion, Jian Ji turned his head to look at Wei Luo with a grin and said, "Woman, the New Year ceremony has been completed, why don't you ask my senior brother to go to the street to play together?" ”.。