Chapter 6 Hadumin
Nuer Qiandu Division, established in the seventh year of Yongle. The administrative office is located in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River to the Erdaobai River in Jilin. Changbai Mountain is located under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Frontier Affairs. During the period of Ming Xizong, Wei Zhongxian interfered in the government and politics, co-opted the eunuchs, and his minions spread all over the country, wantonly killing the Donglin Army, and lied to Xizong to burn down the world's academies on the grounds of the "palace transfer case", and executed countless scholars, and the government was in chaos. In 1626, Nurha's army attacked Ningyuan and was defeated by Yuan Chonghuan, and soon after, Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, and the Ming Dynasty began a 15-year war with the Manchu tribes and peasant armies.
Changbai Mountain is the birthplace of the Manchu people, and the long historical changes have made this nation gradually grow, from the earliest hunting nation to three major tribes: Jianzhou, Haixi and Savage. Before Nurhachi raised an army, it was divided into four major tribes: Jianzhou, Changbai, Donghai, and Hulun, and Changbai Mountain belonged to three tribes, Zhusheli, Neyin, and Yalu River. In the course of history, the major tribes of the Manchus fought and killed each other, fought flesh and blood, and all called the king and called the chief, until the appearance of Nurhachi unified the Jurchen tribes, which can be said to be the most important heroic figure in the history of the Manchus.
1624......
Hadumin is the daughter of a shaman of the Bead Sheri tribe. The Manchus worship shamanism, shamanism advocates spirituality with nature, worships totem culture, and has hundreds of prayers to communicate with the gods. In the tribal villages, the new shaman is designated by the previous generation of shamans, and he is given a set of items such as a god hat, a god robe, a god drum, etc., and a bronze condor. The hat is framed with iron bars, and there are antlers on the back, and the number of horn forks represents the grade of the shaman. Use roe deer skins as drums, dance spiritually, and dance drums. The waist bells hit each other and rang, and the streamers flew in all directions, like a hundred spirits spreading their wings, and like warriors on the battlefield, in order to show the majesty of the gods.
Hadumin is a little shaman who has not yet reached the age of inheritance, and since she was a child, she has not only to learn to recite prayers and learn to dance, but also to learn to communicate with the gods, ghosts, and all things, so don't look at her as only 15 years old, but she is also a little witch doctor in the village who knows a little about exorcism, asking gods, and seeing a doctor.
On this day, she went hunting in the mountains with her brother in the same village, and the road was closed by heavy snow in Changbai Mountain in September and October, and no one dared to enter the mountain in this month if it were not for the old hunters in the village. However, this brother from the same village is not, although he is not an old hunter, he has hunting skills and strong survival ability. His name is Zarha, and he has been in the mountains with his grandfather since he was a child, and he is 18 years old this year. It is rumored that he entered the mountains for a whole month in December, but he still retreated with his whole body, did not freeze to death, was not buried by the snow, and even killed a big tiger. What a skill this is, so he has become the pride of the whole village, and he is the prince charming in the hearts of the girls to be married in the village.
In this month, when you go into the mountains to hunt, you can always catch a lot of prey, and the crops do not harvest grain in winter, and you are itchy when you are idle, and Hadumin always pesters this big brother to take her with her, one is fun, and the other is that you can always eat delicious game when you come back from hunting.
The snow covered the mountain, and Zarha carefully identified the footprints hidden under the snow, looking for the direction of the prey. Hadumin jumped up and down behind him.
"Brother Zharha, I've been walking for so long today, why haven't I seen anything."
Zarha held his foot and looked at the sky, "It's cold early this year, and there is more snow than in previous years, covering the footsteps, it's hard to find!" ”
"But," Hadumin pouted unhappily, "aren't they here to catch rabbits with you?" ”
Zarha kindly touched Hadumin's head, "Don't worry, Minmin, there is Brother Zarha, don't talk about the little rabbit, catch a big tiger for you to make a small leather skirt, are you happy?" ”
Hadumin's eyes suddenly lit up, "Really? Brother has to be a talker! ”
"Well, it must count!" Zarha nodded heavily, her expression revealing infinite love and joy.
"Huh? Rabbit! Suddenly, Hadumin shouted in the direction of the secondary forest, "Hurry! There's a rabbit there! ”
"Where?" Zarha looked for prestige and saw a little gray rabbit swoop into the forest and disappear. Zarha turned back to Hadumin and said, "Wait here, see my brother catch a big rabbit for you!" After saying that, he also flashed into the jungle.
Hadumin jumped happily behind him, "Brother, come on, brother!" ”
But time passed minute by minute, and Zalha still didn't come back, and the snow slowly drifted in the sky, and a slight north wind blew. Growing up in Changbai Mountain, Hadumin knew that this was not a good sign. As soon as the sun sets, the north wind mixed with the snowflakes turns into a blizzard. If the blizzard is together, let alone her, even the big black bear that dominates the mountains will not be able to survive under the wind and snow. She was a little anxious, and more than an hour passed. She didn't dare to leave, first, she couldn't find her way home, and second, she knew what would happen to Zarha if she couldn't find her when she came back.
But the hunger and the cold made it impossible for her to wait any longer, and she decided to give it a try, what if Brother Zarha was injured and needed her help, it was better to try than to freeze to death here, wouldn't it?
She walked cautiously in the direction of Zarha's rabbit, the winter snow made it more and more difficult for him to walk, this is a shrub of this life, and it is extremely difficult to walk in itself, she can only follow the footprints left by Zarha, which are still faintly visible. The wind became more and more urgent, the snow became heavier and heavier, and the crystal snowflakes were blown by the north wind and the pain on the face was like a whip. She knew it would be too late if she didn't hurry. But when he walked to an empty depression, the footprints were gone, Hadumin panicked, after all, she was still a girl, and anxious tears flowed out, where should I go, should I go back, but in case Brother Zarha ...... She didn't dare to think about going, she resolutely went down, she chose to go to a pine forest, this is completely intuition, the intuition of a girl who has not been in the world. She seemed to think that Brother Zarha was waiting for her in front of her, holding a little rabbit to make her happy, and she unconsciously quickened her pace and stepped into the forest.