The so-called "two gods" used to be very famous in the folklore of the Northeast, because it was closely related to one word, that is, "dancing god".

The so-called dancing god, simply put, is a ritual that allows the living to communicate with the 'dead' or 'gods and monsters', speaking of which has a history that ordinary people can not imagine, as early as ancient times, people were afraid of the gods of nature, and after groping, they found a way to communicate with the 'gods', and this ritual is one of them.

To be more precise, this is a branch of shamanic witchcraft, and it is also one of the few mysterious methods that has survived to this day, and we can often find the shadow of witchcraft in history and wild history, ancient emperors believed in the mandate of heaven, and when something important happened, they would sacrifice to the heavens and pray for help.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus believed in shamanism since the Jurchen period, until the Qing Dynasty Taizu Nurhachi gained power, even if we are in the Shenyang Forbidden City today, we can still see the things used in the shamanic ceremonies of the year, which shows the respect and awe of the royal family for shamanism at that time.

After the run-in of history, although shamanism no longer exists, but this ritual has been preserved in another form, which is what we now call the 'dancing god', which is evolved from the 'shaman exorcism dance' at that time, and even more so in the northeast of the birthplace of the Manchus (north of present-day Shanhaiguan), and even the local opera form has its presence in the two-person turn.

Dancing God, generally refers to two people, usually a man and a woman or two men, or two men and two women to complete a form of 'please God', in the whole ritual process, by a person with a unique physique as a 'fairy' when the 'vessel', here the unique physique refers to' Those who have evil bones, evil bones, can be understood as a kind of physique, and to put it simply, these people are born with eight characters are not hard, or their lives are not perfect, and their fire is not prosperous, maybe you and I have this kind of people around us, their common point is that they have a bad physique, they are easy to get sick, love to cry, and it is easy to be suddenly afraid at night, and maybe they will see or encounter some things that ordinary people can't see.

In fact, to put it bluntly, in this world, there are many such people, some of them don't know about their physique until they die, and the name of this kind of person in the ritual of 'dancing gods' is called 'great god', except for a few liars, 'great gods' have very little to do, most of them feel as if they are sleeping, and they don't know what happened after being possessed.

The other person in the ritual plays an important role, they are the experts who support the whole ceremony, and they are called 'two gods' and '' in the local dialect, and they usually refer to themselves as 'helpers'.

During the ceremony, the great god wore a robe and a flower jacket, held a gold needle and silver thread, wore a crown of flowers and a hundred flowers, and wore a waist bell and foot bell, while the helper held a single-sided eight-string donkey skin drum, and sang loudly through the secret lyrics with the donkey skin drum, in order to play the role of 'please the gods' or 'tune the breeze'.

To say that although this sounds evil, but it is not groundless, this thing was really common in the countryside before the founding of the People's Republic of China, but after forty-nine years, it was basically extinct for a period of time, as for the reason, I won't say more here.

At that time, when my grandfather heard that this cripple was actually a 'dancing god', his heart couldn't help but be mixed with sadness, he was happy that this cripple was very honest, what should be is what, he would not fool them, and the sad thing was ...... Damn, the big god of jumping is usually two people.,Now this year is to break the superstition and defeat the cow ghost snake god.,Where to go to find him the 'big god'?

The old lame man seemed to see that my grandfather was worried, so he said to my grandfather: "You don't have to worry, I am different from other gods, as long as you can help me, I can do it myself." ”

"Really?" Seeing that hope appeared again, my grandfather hurriedly asked the old lame, "How can I help?" ”

The old lame man told my grandfather that his method of dancing gods is different from that of ordinary dancing gods, he has some kind of means, no matter who it is, as long as it is not born with a 'first life' person, it will be possessed by something invited, and my grandfather immediately took the initiative to ask for help, hoping that the old cripple would open up immediately, but the old cripple shook his head, and he said to my grandfather: "Brother, you are a handful of years old, and you can't afford to toss if you really want to invite God." ”

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at my grandmother, my grandmother understood what it meant at that time, although she was afraid, but she looked at her man, although he usually said that he was not doing business, but he was also very good to her, the so-called husband and wife love deeply, so my grandma thought about it, or nodded tremblingly.

The matter was settled, and the old lame man said that the real dancing god must wait for the dark sky, which is the respect of 'them'.

Since ancient times, the theory of yin and yang, all things have their own rules, people must abide by it from birth, say out and do, say down and rest, this is the rule, if forcibly broken, the intestines must be damaged, this is why people who often stay up late are not in good health, science calls this law the biological clock.

It can be said that the day is the time of human activities, and the night belongs to those invisible to the naked eye of the 'things' activity time, although people and their lives will not intersect, but just said, in ancient times there were able to communicate with them to obtain some benefits from the 'talker', is the so-called into the temple to burn incense, meet the Buddha kowtow, beg them to do things, can not let them accommodate you, this is the most basic courtesy.

My grandmother was in a nervous mood and hot some food, the old lame man was full of food, then he fell asleep, it seems that he fled all the way to here, it is indeed a lot of bad sins, and my grandfather and grandparents where can sleep, can only wait quietly with their arms, until one or two o'clock in the second half of the night, the old lame man woke up, he woke up without a word, directly opened his broken baggage, inside is a clean black cotton jacket and some things, the old lame man washed his face, put on the black cotton jacket, Then he took out a tiara and two strings of bells and gave them to my grandmother, who told her to put them on, and gave him some words.

The old lame man said to her, wait a minute, close your eyes, it's better not to think about anything, don't talk if you have a chill on your body, and the most important thing is not to run no matter how scared you are, because as soon as you run, the things you invite will run with you, and then you will be exhausted to death.

My grandmother nodded tremblingly, and when she saw my grandfather helping my grandfather to sit up, she sat down on the edge of the kang with her feet on the ground as the old lame man had said, and then closed her eyes.

As soon as my grandmother closed her eyes, the old lame man took out a thin needle with a filament from his baggage, and the needle was shining under the oil lamp, and he took my grandmother's right hand and gently pricked my grandmother's middle finger against the side of her ring finger with the needle, and my grandmother frowned, and did not dare to speak and open her eyes.

A drop of blood pricked out of the tip of the needle, and the old lame man pinned the needle to the clothes behind my grandmother's back, and after doing this, the old lame man took the one-sided eight-stringed donkey skin drum from his baggage, lit the three sticks of incense, and nodded to my grandfather and great-grandfather, and motioned for them not to speak, and this finally began.

Knock, knock, knock, three slow and slightly dull drumbeats sounded, and the old lame man stood opposite my grandmother, suddenly bowed his head, and then opened his mouth to sing: "Suolin ~ Ruiji, please ~~ Shen'er ~~ come to ......"

The old lame's voice was very hoarse, but the tune he sang sounded very intimidating, and the last word was held up by him for a long time, and while singing this word, his hand began to exert force, and the drum beat of the donkey's skin drum gradually accelerated, knock knock, knock sound as if to knock into people's hearts.

At that time, when I listened to the old lame man talk about this, I didn't understand what he meant by 'Suolin Ruiji', and it wasn't until a long time later that I figured it out, it turned out that this 'Suolin Ruiji' was Manchu, that is, Solin (Soo-Rin sat down), and St. Regis should be pronounced 'Ruiji' (donji Lingting), Suolin Ruiji is the old lame's accent problem, this sentence means 'listen to those present', it is a blessing language for worshiping the gods, this custom has been recorded in the third volume of Yao Yuanzhi's "Bamboo Leaf Pavilion Miscellaneous Records" in the Qing Dynasty: "Manchu jumping gods." , Sa Mo recites the blessing, spins and recites. In front of the three gods, the first sentence of the text is called Ylang Solin Ruiji. ’

The book returned to the main story, the drum beat in the old lame man's hand became faster and faster, only to listen to him while knocking, while singing: "Said to fall in the West Mountain~~ smeared the sky, covered the door of the house on the lock, the gentleman on the road went to the inn, the bird ran to the mountains and forests, the tiger ran to the mountains, the birds ran to the mountains and forests, with a safe place, if the tiger ran to the mountains, it was safe, the road was broken, the stars were bright, the road was broken, and it was difficult to travel, this big village was no exception, ten families had nine locks, only one door was not closed, the cannon sounded three times, please old fairy, sigh hi, sigh ~ !! ”

The old lame man sang more and more loudly, squinting his eyes while beating the drum and continuing to sing: "Liaoyuan black soil is three-thirds, and there are difficulties in the difficulty, the poor master asks for help, but it is a pity that we have not learned all the skills, burn three pieces of God's order, and put down three sounds of earth red, three three see nine longevity wishes, all the old immortals, please listen to and hear, you are either 'Hu', or 'Chang', or 'Qingfeng' or 'Sad King', or 'Gray', or 'Yellow', or 'White Willow' or 'Zhang', the eyes of the helpers are not good, and please take on the old fairy more, alas, sighs~~!! ”

Listening to the old lame man, in fact, he didn't make much effort to dance that day, and even the words he sang omitted a lot, he said that he didn't need to work hard to sing the lyrics and even invite those things to come by himself, and the dancing god that night was just a formality, because it could feel that those 'things' had actually been in the yard all the time, maybe he was lying on the window and looking inside..................

Sure enough, before the old lame man sang a few words, suddenly my grandfather on the kang felt a cold, as if the temperature in the room had dropped several degrees, and he began to tremble, and my grandmother who was sitting on the edge of the kang also hung her head and began to yawn every time, and at the same time her head began to swing gently from side to side, just like the old-fashioned pendulum clock before, and the copper bell on her body began to ring softly.

My grandfather swallowed and foamed, he had seen the dancing god before, but he had never seen someone who 'came' so quickly, and he saw that this old cripple was a person with real skills.

The old lame man naturally knew in his heart, he saw that my grandmother had already reacted, so he slowed down the speed of the drum, but changed the frequency, and his left hand shook up and down, with the swing of his hand, the copper coins tied to the drum strings also rang, with the drum beat and the copper bell and the yawn, the atmosphere in the room was immediately strange to the apex.

I only heard the old lame man's tone turn and began to sing: "The sesame blossoms are high, the rice blossoms and bends over, the eggplant blossoms with its head down, the bud blossoms with a handful of hairs, and the fairy is not here today, and it is rare to come to the old fairy's house, if you want to come, you will come, not riding a horse and sitting in a sedan chair, as soon as you come to I know, don't make noise, don't make trouble, the majesty has more murderous energy, less murderous majesty, come here to accompany us for a while, the house is small, there are many charms, bumping into it is amazing, it is easy to do when you meet a gentleman, When you meet the villain, you will make a tongue, the buckwheat field is white, the old fairy will come soon, the sorghum field grows yellow artemisia, I think this time you have ten ** has come to ah, oops, oops!! ”

Just as he finished singing this sentence, I saw my grandmother sneez, and after a sneeze, she frantically shook her hair as if she had been evil, and stood up at the same time, she stood straight, her head was bowed, her hands kept waving, and the bells on her body kept ringing.

Here it comes!!

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