The mountain gods of Nagasaki are moody. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He hated the god of flowers and hummingbirds, insects and butterflies playing in spring and summer, so he hid in the depths of the cave and fell asleep. In the autumn and winter, when everything was withering, the mountain god in the cave woke up in anger and began to patrol the territory with a gloomy gaze. His gaze turned into a bitter cold wind, whistling among the rocks and springs, and the people and birds and beasts that dwelt in the mountains trembled and trembled, lest they make the mountain gods angry.

Only the red-haired descendants of the mountain god and the old bear are free, and they are the beloved objects of the mountain god.

I don't know when it began, but the mountain bear that lived the longest in the Changqi Mountains enjoyed the favor of the mountain gods.

Its body has become strong and powerful under the blessing of the mountain god, the fur of its limbs has turned white, and the footprints left a thick frost that the mountain people avoid it. Although the seasoned hunters had a way of killing it, no one dared to do so - if someone killed the mountain god's beloved object while he was awake, the mountain god would be furious, raining down winds and blizzards from the sky, roaring and killing all life, and the ensuing famine would take away a lot of life.

This is the bear famine.

When the cold winter passed, spring came, and the old bear and the sleeping mountain god hid in the cave together, escaping the hunting of the hunters.

Such days were repeated year after year, until one year, the cruel and cunning old bear Hamunikan was favored by the mountain god.

Hamunikan was shot blind in one eye by a hunter when he was young, and he hated humans to the core. After becoming the messenger of the mountain god, it always stormed the villages, destroyed farmland and houses, killed people and livestock, and people gritted their teeth, but did not dare to anger the mountain god.

The villagers in the mountains could only offer cloth and food to the descendants of the mountain god Chifa, begging them to restrain Hamunikan and prevent it from destroying the village.

It was a particularly cold year, the crops failed, and in the winter the villagers could not produce food for the descendants of the mountain god, and the old bear Hamunikan would run into the village every day to wreak havoc, and many villages were razed to the ground.

Three of the bravest and wisest men in the mountains heard the news, and together they decided to destroy Hamunikan.

The first man, the most beautiful maiden in the village, brought cloth and the juice of saffron and madder.

The second man, the richest merchant in the village, brought meat and wine.

The third man, the strongest hunter in the village, brought a sharp knife and a bow and arrows.

The beautiful maiden cut the clothes of the descendants of the mountain god out of cloth, and dyed the hair of the three men as red as fire with the juice of the saffron madder.

The three of them put on the clothes made by the maiden and came to the cave of the mountain god.

The merchant lit a bonfire, opened the jar of fine wine, and sang loudly while roasting meat, and the maiden danced and sang along with him. The hunter took a knife and a bow and arrows and quietly hid aside.

Hearing the singing, and smelling the smell of roasted meat and wine, Hamunikan cautiously walked to the exit of the cavern and watched quietly.

The cunning old bear saw that it was the red-haired offspring singing and making fun, so he went out with peace of mind and feasted on the deliberate welcome of the merchant and the maiden. Hamunikan ate and drank incessantly, and his stomach grew bigger and bigger, so big that he couldn't run, he was dizzy and drunk, and he was so drunk that he couldn't see or hear.

At this moment, the hunter who was hiding on the side rushed out, blinded the remaining left eye of Hamunikan with an arrow, and cut off the old bear's head with a quick knife.

The mountain god sensed Hamunikan's death and opened his eyes, and he was about to be furious, but he saw that the three people who killed Hamunikan were all red-haired sons and dressed in the clothes of the descendants of the mountain god.

The mountain god was dumbfounded, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't know what to do, and in a fit of anger, he returned to the depths of the cave and fell asleep.

The cold wind dissipated, and the villagers who had learned the news gathered around the three heroes to celebrate, and the joyous celebration lasted for several days.

——This article is selected from the "Poet Doubi Story Collection", with deletions. ——

("Qunsen Primary and Secondary School Chinese Reader", the 42nd edition of the butterfly calendar, has been banned and destroyed.) ）

"Later, every time at this time, the mountain people of Nagasaki held a festival to commemorate their heroic ancestors...... Tourists, this is the legend of the origin of the Bear Desert Festival. The next hour and a half of free activities, please do not leave the venue of the Xiong Huang Festival without permission, after an hour and a half we will meet in front of the bus, then I will raise the guide flag, everyone remember my cute little yellow chicken flag! ”

Under the lights of the evening festival, the girl in the tour guide hat stood on tiptoe and smiled vigorously, waving the flag in her hand.

Qin Xin looked away from the little yellow chicken guide flag and took out his mobile phone.

Zuo Ling beside him said: "This is the butterfly disaster that my aunt asked us to find." ”

Qin Xin stared down at the screen: "Well, Changqi Mountain God." He pressed his fingerprint in the sensing area behind his phone, flipping through the content related to the Bear Wilderness Festival, which had become richer after paying.

The legend about the origin of the Kumabari Festival is similar to that of the tour guide.

Time has changed, today's Changqi County has long said goodbye to famine, as the pillar of the economy is the tourism and cultural industry, the use of modern technology in agricultural production will no longer be affected too much because of the cold season, bad temper like to live at home with terrible pets of the mountain god, has now become the cash cow of Changqi County.

In order to be the first snow in the forest, every late autumn and early winter, the Changqi Prefecture Tourism Bureau will invite professional Shinto priests to hold the pre-Kumabari festival, and guide the withering of all things with butterfly blessings near the mountain shrine of Nagaki Daiyandong, wake up the irascible mountain god early, and use his wake-up breath to summon the falling snow and a large number of tourists.

Every once in a while, the Changqi County Tourism Bureau would bring in a sloth bear from the southern part of the empire.

The lifespan of the southern sloth bear is five to ten years higher than that of the local Qunsen black bear in Changqi, not to mention that the Changqi Tourism Bureau selects butterfly species that are known for their robustness and longevity every year.

After the elder of this bear arrived at the Dayan Cave Mountain Shrine, he naturally stood out, his limbs were white, and he became the new pet of the mountain god.

The fate of the bear is really unpredictable, how did I, a sloth bear from the south of the empire, be chosen to Changqi County and become the pet of the mountain god?

Just as the old bear was feasting and drinking, marveling at the miracle of the encounter, and watching the people around it sing and dance, several people in strange costumes and dyed red hair danced closer, and the euthanasia syringe in the shape of feathered arrows and long knives pierced its skin.

"So it's really ...... to talk about the fate of bears It's unpredictable. ”

Suddenly, the cold wind was strong, but it quickly dispersed, the clouds broke through the moon, and the snow was clear.

This is the aftermath of the Kumabari Festival, a ritual that causes the mountain gods to disperse the wind and snow and return to sleep.

In the winter of Nagaki, the Kumabari Festival is held many times to wake up and hypnotize the mountain god so that tourists can enjoy the wonders of the wind and snow. If it weren't for the high cost of materials and labor for the ritual, the tourist operators in Nagaki would have been eager to wake up the mountain god more than a dozen times a day.

If you want to say why Qin Xin Zuo Ling happened to have a festival on the day he came to travel...... Long before the constitution of the empire, Changqi was already the fief of a certain branch of the Liuchu Luo clan.

"There are still more than forty minutes before the start of the Bear Wilderness Festival, and I will go to reconnoiter the security deployment at the scene." Qin Xin put away his mobile phone, took off the sword bag containing Dye Qiu from behind his back and clamped it under his armpit, "The effect of the festival performance is terrifying, and the tourists can't help but shoot and kill the evil bear." ”

"There's no need to put on such vulgar social news." Zuo Ling raised his chin at the Bear Wilderness Festival-themed poster not far away.

"The couple who participated in the event and won the event can play the role of maidens and hunters in the Bear Wilderness Festival......," Qin Xin whispered, he looked around, and sure enough, there were many red-haired young men and women, "No wonder so many people have dyed their hair red." He looked at Zuo Ling's red-haired self in his clear red eyes, did his mother see this and only remembered what happened to Changqi.

"But are you okay, according to the steps of the festival, the actress of the girl will dance the folk dance of Nagi in front of everyone in the shrine." Qin Xin hesitated.

Zuo Ling looked at him seriously: "Only trash fish without self-confidence will be jealous." ”

Qin Xin nodded: "Well, I agree." ”

"So I'm fine, are you ready, girl."