Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Adventure of Stealing a Girl 6

Uncle Meng sighed and said, "For this reason, I think of the legend that the seventh princess did not hesitate to dedicate herself to killing the fire demon in order to save the people from the fire, which is also the origin of our Dai Songkran Festival......

In ancient times, there was a heinous demon in the Dai area, it was a monster beast that looked like a dog, and its mouth could spew out raging flames. The villagers ran away from their homes crying, and there were no life in the fields. Its appearance brought disaster to people, so the ancients regarded it as a sign of fire and a symbol of extreme ominousness.

Because it is cruel by nature, greedy and lustful, unrelenting, and evil, it exerts lust and power everywhere it goes, causing flames everywhere, crops are not harvested, people's hearts are panicked, the people are not living, grieving and complaining, and mourning everywhere. People hate it to the core, but they can't punish it in many ways. Because its magic power is really powerful, not only can it breathe fire and wreak havoc, but also practice an immortal body, if you can't find its Achilles' heel, that is, you can't find its "training door", it is difficult to cure it. The so-called "practice" is the weak link of its body parts, that place is often soft and abnormal, both there are people who practice kung fu horizontally, and even invulnerable, there must be a place where kung fu can not be practiced, that is where the "practice door" is, and there is also a "valve".

At that time, there were seven people's daughters, seeing that the demon was so unscrupulous to harm the people, so that the people were devastated, uprooted from their homeland, difficult to survive, and their hearts could not bear it, in order to relieve the people in dire straits, they were determined to eliminate harm for the people, eradicate the demons, and return the people to health, so they went to take action, and saw its weakness, that is, its greed for women, drinking and having fun, this is its weakness. Since it is a good woman's extravagant and lascivious and violent demon beast, it is better to adopt the way of its demons, return its demon body, and be willing to sacrifice itself in exchange for the peace of the people.

The seven women of the people consulted with each other and reached an agreement, determined to lose themselves and abandon their personal happiness in exchange for the peace of the common people, and went to meet the demons together, and said that they admired its bravery, could keep them safe, and volunteered to be its wife, but in fact they were by its side, so as to find an opportunity to kill it unexpectedly and avenge the common people.

The demon saw that the seven women volunteered to give them a hug, all of them were slender, beautiful as flowers, walking like the wind swinging willows, dancing sleeves like flowers, face like peach blossoms, moth eyebrows bent and joyful, like a fairy descending to earth, than flowers to interpret words, than jade and jade fragrant, speaking to speak, like a spring water dingdong, is so pleasant to the ear, and like a pearl falling on a jade plate, making a pleasing and crisp sound. Naturally, the demon was overjoyed, and his lustful heart stirred, and he was so happy that he took them all into his bosom and made them his wife.

Although the fortress is difficult to destroy, it is easy to attack from within. Seven girls with hearts, endure humiliation, endure its ferocious ** and destruction, in order to please it, they do everything they can to meet the knot, hoping to find an opportunity to destroy the demon and eliminate harm for the people.

The hard work paid off, and after a long time, the seven clever and clever girls won their favor with them, relaxed their guard, and spent all day drinking with them, drunk and dreaming of death, and were very happy. From its drunkenness, they found its fatal weakness, which was its death hole, that is, only with its demonic hair could it be put to death. In other words, outsiders don't know where its fatal weakness is, and they don't want to kill it. At the cost of giving up their happiness and losing their virginity, the seven girls tried their best to finally discover its secrets, which shows how difficult it is and how heavy the price is.

One night, when the demon had drunk wine, he became so lustful that he took turns to commit adultery with seven girls until he was exhausted, and then he turned around and fell asleep, snoring like thunder. The seven girls shook it vigorously and found that it was as unresponsive as a dead pig, indicating that it had slept like a dead dog, and had fallen asleep like a dead dog, without consciousness after some frenzied tossing and turning on them in turns, and adding the power of wine.

Seeing that this was the best opportunity to get rid of the demon, the seven girls bravely plucked a long hair from its head and resolutely strangled its neck with its long hair. With all their strength, they tightened tighter and tighter, and the long hair gradually penetrated into the demon's neck like a saw blade, and sure enough, the demon's head was strangled off.

The girls thought they had done their job of eradicating the demon, and they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but when they were gasping for breath, they found the demon's head on the ground, and they blew their beards and rolled around with their eyes blazing. Seeing that it was about to cause a fire, this was something that the girls did not expect, but they didn't expect that the evil demon was still unwilling to die, and the head that fell to the ground could still harm people, this, what should I do?

The girls panicked and became a mess, and did not know what to do, and at the critical moment, the girl led by the leader did not care about her own safety, and in order not to spread the fire, she immediately picked up the head of the demon from the ground, and thought, I would rather die with your demon than let you endanger the world again.

Strange to say, the demon's head entered the girl's heart, and the fire on the ground was extinguished. The demon's head did not hesitate, and then closed his eyes. But when she threw the demon's head on the ground, the demon's head was resurrected, and it rolled on the ground again with its beard and eyes, and a great fire broke out on the ground. I didn't expect that the demon did a lot of evil in his life to hurt people so much, and he didn't let go of the seven girls after he died, and he was willing to die in her arms, and he was happy to indulge in their gentle township.

In order to prevent the fire from burning again and harming the people, the Seven Sisters decided to take turns holding the demon's head and changing it every year. Every year, when the person is replaced, people flush the girl with the devil's head to wash away the blood stains on her body and the exhaustion of the year. Later, in order to commemorate these seven witty and brave girls, the Dai people splashed water on each other on this day every year, and since then the Dai people have formed a grand festival of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new - Songkran Festival.

There is also a legend that is like this, according to legend, a long time ago, a Dai village living in the depths of the dense forest by the Jinsha River, one day suddenly the surrounding forest fire, exactly, the flames rose to the sky, the forest fire burned all over the mountain, the villagers were surrounded and could not escape, shouting that the earth was really miserable.

The villagers were in danger of being engulfed in flames, and suddenly there was an uproar, and the wails were boiling, shouting to the heavens and the earth, and huddled together, not knowing what to do, and crying in despair. At this desperate moment when the villagers shouted that the sky should not be used and the earth was not spiritual, a Dai man named Li Liang, in order to protect the village and save the people from the fire, bravely stepped forward, regardless of the danger, rushed out of the fire net, picked out buckets of river water from the Jinsha River, splashed the mountain fire, wanted to extinguish the mountain fire, did not let the villagers die in the fire, determined to protect the village, not to let the villagers be displaced.

With the support of his faith, relying on his tenacious perseverance and indomitable fighting spirit, he worked tirelessly to pick up one load after another, one load after another, I don't know how many times he walked back and forth, his shoulders were worn out, bleeding, his shoes ran away, and he was simply barefoot, and in his journey back and forth to carry water and extinguish the fire, he left his bloody footprints and sweat along the way, his perseverance and perseverance, and his enthusiasm and great love for the villagers.

He had the belief that he would see death as his home, and if he did not extinguish the fire, he would be buried in the fire. After a day and a night of hard work, the fire was finally extinguished by him. The villagers were saved, and they rejoiced and told each other, but his skin was scorched by the fire, and the sweat glands on his body were so roasted that he could not sweat, his mouth was dry, his nose was on fire, and he collapsed on the top of the mountain, dying.

The villagers hurriedly brought water to quench his thirst. In order to quench his thirst, he hurried to the Jinsha River, threw himself into the river, turned into a giant dragon, and went down the river, regularly came to the villagers to spread rain, prevent the ignition of mountain fires, and ensure that the villagers were in good weather and had a good harvest and live and work in peace and contentment. Others say that he turned into a big tree to protect the mountains and shade the villagers. In short, he gave his life for the people of the village, and he was willing to work for the welfare of the people after his death.

In order to commemorate him, the Dai people every year on the third day of the third lunar month, each family's house is cleaned up, sprinkled with green pine leaves, and in the selected riverside, or next to the well, with green trees to build a green shed of half a mile, sprinkled with thick pine needles under the shed, on both sides of the sink full of water, when the sun is at the top at noon, everyone walks under the shed, and sprinkles each other with pine branches dipped in water, expressing their nostalgia for him and blessings to the newlyweds. This activity continues to this day and has become a festival for the Dai people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and bless the auspicious festival - Songkran Festival.

There is also another theory, that Zhuge Liang once came here when he captured Meng Shu in the seventh, in order to influence the local people, let the people know his good, ordered the army not to harass the people, and provided them with convenience, in order to make them grateful and virtuous, taught the local Dai people to bathe, build tall houses, and plant, etc., and won the trust and support of the people, so on the third day of the third lunar month every year, everyone will sprinkle water on each other to express blessings.

On that day, people dressed in costumes, flowers and branches, chasing each other and playing, splashing when they meet people, saying some blessings such as "water splashing, Dai family prosperity", "splashing wet, happy for life", symbolizing auspiciousness, happiness and health. Under the refraction of the sun, the water splashes that represent the country and the people of the country flash with colorful brilliance, singing the praises of the country and the people, prosperity and prosperity.

The scenery is beautiful, the hearts are sweet, the singing is bright, the heart is fascinated, the unmarried men and women come to meet, the water is dedicated to splashing the people, the tourists are looking to stop, and the men and women in the water are laughing and groaning. Tourists are amazed, the local Dai people are so vibrant, as if eating sugarcane upstairs, step by step, every step is sweet!

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