Chapter 189: Lanterns
Soon after the end of the assessment of the Mirrorless Market every year, the Lantern Festival, the largest festival celebration in the pine forest realm, will be ushered in.
All the villagers of Songlin Zijing will gather in the largest market in Zidan Village on this day, and each village will send a performance team to celebrate together, which is very lively.
This year's Lantern Festival is different from previous years, after 40 years, there are two children in Hongxian Village who were admitted to the Wujing Market for the first time, which will naturally become the focus of the Lantern Festival.
The forces of the entire Hongxian Village were mobilized and carefully prepared.
Families are busy in order to welcome the Lantern Festival.
Families with young children start preparing festive costumes for their children a few months in advance.
In the early morning of this day, before the rooster crowed, Qisheng and Man'er were caught out of the bed by Aunt Zhao, their eyes were worried, their heads were dizzy, and they let the two adults tidy up and dress like dolls.
finally dressed neatly, and was pulled to sit on the dresser, scribbling on his face.
When Qisheng opened his eyes in a daze, he was shaken by the scene in the mirror and couldn't open his eyes.
She wears a crown full of brilliant colors on her head, like a phoenix spreading its wings and flying high, made of colored silver, lifelike, colorful, and tassels made of colored silver on both sides of her ears, which crackle a little, shining dazzling under the light, exquisite and extraordinary.
Although this crown is gorgeous and luxurious, it is too heavy to bring to a child's head, and Qisheng only feels a faint pain in his neck.
Looking closely, the child's face in the mirror was snow-white, her cheeks were red, her lips were a little red, and with the bright crown, Qisheng suddenly remembered how she was sunk in the lake when she first came to this world.
"Qisheng, it's so beautiful. Man'er's voice sounded, and Qisheng turned his head to look over, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.
I saw that he was wearing a hat inlaid with various colored gems on his head, a long string of glass beads hanging around his neck, wearing a colorful brocade robe, the clothes were wide, the shape was exaggerated, and the neck, cuffs, and waist were inlaid with various colored gemstones.
She wasn't much better, like a big duck pear with a crested crest.
When the sky was slightly bright, the Zhao couple took Qisheng and Man'er out and walked all the way down the hillside, and parents went out with their children one after another.
Qisheng found that all the girls were dressed up like her, and the boys were similar to the barbarians.
The silver tassel on the top of his head rattled with every step, looking at the silver crown on the heads of the group of girls in front of him, Qisheng muttered in his heart, how much silver does this cost~
Sure enough, the wealth is not exposed~
She had always thought that Hongxian Village was just an ordinary farming village, who would have thought that it would be so rich, and every family could have such a delicate and gorgeous headdress.
If this is in purgatory, not to mention whether you can have such an identity to wear a phoenix crown, just a family that can afford this bright silver jewelry will definitely be rich or expensive.
I can't see it, this Hongxian Village is really rich.
Qisheng later learned that the villagers in the pine forest realm are diligent in farming, simple and simple, living in daily life, daily diet are plain, they can receive grain all year round, and there is no tax.
The grain harvested every year, in addition to daily expenses, will all be exchanged for silver, glass, various colored gemstones, colored silk, etc., and all the wealth accumulated over several generations is now on these two outfits.
In addition to cultivating magic energy, accumulating colorful ornaments for these two outfits can be regarded as their only common hobby.
Both outfits are family traditions, with the girl's crown going to her husband's family as a dowry, and the boy's being kept at home.
Because each couple has two children, a boy and a girl, there is a balance and a certainty, so every family has it.
Such a valuable outfit is only taken out on major holidays.
Children often wear this outfit to attend the Lantern Festival every year before they get married, and then on the day of their wedding.
But once you get married, you won't wear it anymore, you will store it well, take care of it, work hard every day, add treasure and makeup, and pass it on to the next generation.
Therefore, although everyone is not very particular about dressing up on weekdays, and often wears patched clothes, they will change into the most decent clothes on the day of the Lantern Festival.
The Lantern Festival is the birthday of the Ice Queen, and it is also the only god worshiped in the pine forest.
People dressed up in costume will first go to the village shrine to worship, and then drive colorful ploughing oxen to the largest altar in Zidan Village to worship together.
The early morning sun finally showed its face, and the air was damp, with a thin layer of mist, glowing in the sun.
Miraculously, the horns on people's foreheads faded quickly at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye.
"Your horns?" Qisheng was surprised, what was the situation.
"Every Lantern Festival, there will be a colorful mist floating in the sky, and this colorful mist is condensed with magic energy, and the horns on the forehead will disappear for three days, and if they are not tightened, the horns will come out after three days. Zhao Man'er sniffed and touched her smooth forehead with her hand.
"Colorful mist, is it the mist in the air?" Qisheng stretched out his hand, and the air was wet with extremely fine water vapor.
"The colorful mist is the blessing of the glazed patriarch, and every lantern festival is put on the door of every house, in order to collect the fog water. ”
"What do you do collecting mist water?"
"The colorful mist is a blessing rain, which can calm the nerves and purify the heart, and can also be used in medicine, and it is excellent for external and internal use. The bitter clear soup you used to drink a while ago was caused by this mist. Zhao Yiyi, thinking that Qisheng didn't know much about the customs of the Lantern Festival, so he told her about it carefully.
The festival lasts for three days, and on the first day of the festival, the villagers get up early, dress up, worship at the entrance of the village, and then wear gorgeous and expensive costumes to the market in Zidan Village, where the sacrifice ceremony is performed.
After the festival, people carry out various celebrations, singing and dancing performances, Dharma energy displays, etc., which are very lively.
Qisheng muttered in his heart, in this way, as long as the sacrificial ceremony is completed, he can move freely.
"When the sacrifice is over, can this headdress be taken off?" Qisheng held the huge crown in both hands, and his neck ached.
Aunt Zhao couldn't help but cover her mouth and nod with a smile.
The sacrificial activities were more grand and lengthy than Qisheng imagined, they arrived at Zidan Village early, but there were too many people, both men and women were dressed in colorful clothes, flowers and branches, and the outfit alone took up a lot of space, and the line was very long, but it was orderly.
Everyone restrained their expressions, their expressions were solemn, not noisy or noisy, and quietly waited to enter the altar.
After waiting for a few hours, the villagers of Hongxian Village entered the altar.
The altar is in the shape of a huge cone, with a wide staircase that spirals up to the top.
When they entered, the towering altar was already full of people, and they could only stand in the outermost circle.
Qisheng saw that the people from Zidan Village were basically at the top, and the people from Hongxian Village were at the bottom, so it seemed that the order of this altar was also very particular. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~