Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nawu Rouzi

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After more than half a year, the young eagle had grown up, and Hemiti told his wife that the eagle's indoor training had ended, and that when the grandfather fed the hungry young eagles indoors, he would put the meat on the holster on his left arm and let the young eagles come to peck at it.

The hungry falcon saw the meat and pounced desperately, and after it grabbed the small thumb-sized piece of meat, the grandfather distanced itself from it a little, and then released the raw meat for it to chatter, and again and again to open the distance between the young eagle and him, and repeatedly.

Every time the falcon is tamed, the falcon is not fed, until the falcon can fly up and quickly peck at the raw meat on the leather holster of the grandfather's arm, and the indoor training can not end until the young eagle has eliminated its fear and hostility towards people.

Now it is the grandfather who is conducting outdoor training for eagle training, and the grandfather is standing in front of the yurt, and seven or eight meters in front of the yurt is a hare with its limbs tied with ropes.

The little falcon, whose tail feathers were sewn, was standing on the shoulders of his grandfather, who took off the rings of the falcon's feet and gave a command to the falcon, who heard the loud whistle and immediately took off and swooped down on the hare.

Grandpa told Pang Dongdong that this was a precious "Bolgut eagle" (which could capture a fox and a yellow sheep), and that it would take at least three years to train and be fine, and that this falcon was so well trained that it could be exchanged for at least two horses.

Most hunters keep "Hashkh hawks" (pheasants and hares caught), which can be found everywhere in the steppe.

Hemiti told Pang Dongdong that hunters generally have to do "three nos" when they release falcons to hunt, not to feed the falcons, not to remove the blindfolds, and not to untie their feet.

Hunters only remove their blindfolds and feet when they see their prey, which is also the origin of the old saying "no rabbit or eagle".

Pang Dongdong watched with great interest as her grandfather tamed the falcon, and she told her grandfather that after the child was born, she would definitely come to the grassland to see her grandfather taming the falcon......

On the day of the "Nawu Rouzi Festival", the east just had a faint white fish belly, and the pregnant woman Pang Dongdong was still asleep, so she was dragged out of the warm quilt by her husband Haimiti, and she put on a Kazakh costume and was picked up by her husband.

Hemiti was a man who loved his wife, and when he looked at his wife who was awake from her sleep, he was reluctant to let her walk more, so he carried her to the horse, and the couple rode a tall horse to the yurt where his grandfather lived.

I saw Khemiti's aunts and uncles and young children getting up early, each dressed in national costume, standing in the open space by the sheepfold and waiting quietly.

Yesterday, while the women were busy cleaning their yurts, Hemiti, his uncle, and cousins brought a large pile of pine branches from the Guozigou Mountain.

The pile of pine branches had already been lit and became a bonfire, and the grandfather stood by the bonfire with a smoking pine branch, and asked the children and grandchildren to line up one by one to be baptized by the ancient custom to ward off evil spirits and accept the blessings of the old man.

Grandpa swirled the smoking pine branches around each person's head and muttered greetings to wish his children and grandchildren a safe and happy new year.

Immediately, the grandfather took several uncles to put the smoking pine branches at the door of the sheepfold, spread them into a long slip, and under the grandfather's shouting, the uncles entered the sheepfold and drove the sheep out.

I saw the sheep of the flock jumping swiftly over the smoking pine branches, and the grandfather prayed loudly in his mouth, wishing his livestock to be fat and strong and multiply quickly in the new year.

This is the first time that Pang Dongdong, who has lived in Xinjiang since she was a child, celebrated the Nawu Rouzi Festival on the grassland, and this fragment will always be treasured in her memory.

In addition to the entertainment activities such as playing and singing Dongbula, wrestling, holding sheep, chasing girls, and talent performances, the herdsmen on the grassland drink "Nawu Rouzi Porridge" is one of the most important links.

The Kazakh people have a particular point that if they don't drink porridge, they don't have this festival, and the so-called "Nawu Rouzi Porridge" is a thick porridge made of 7 kinds of condiments with the leftover grain and food of the previous year.

When making this kind of porridge, livestock is generally not slaughtered, and the surplus grain from previous years and the bacon stored for a winter after slaughtering in winter are used to make it, and it is made as rich as possible, indicating that the family is rich every year.

The raw materials for making porridge are rice, wheat, barley, flour, raisins, milk, bacon and other 7 kinds of raw materials.

After breakfast, Pang Dongdong walked out of the yurt and found that the Guozigou grassland was crowded and lively, and the old people and children who had been "suffocating" for a winter at home came out to enjoy the sunshine.

Although the temperature in the Guozigou grassland is still very low, and there are still ice and snow that have not yet melted clean in the shade or depression of the grassland, people can't wait to take off their thick winter clothes, stand in groups on the vast grassland, bask in the sun, play with Da Lazi, and happily celebrate the Nawu Rouzi Festival.

Men, women and children all put on their own national festival costumes, met each other with their own national etiquette, took each other's hands, put them on their cheeks, and greeted and wished each other.

Pang Dongdong joined the women's team to make Nawu Rouzi Porridge, and it is more elaborate to make this Nawu Rouzi Festival Rice, which involves adding water to a mixture of seven raw materials to cook into a thick porridge-like Nawu Rouzi Rice.

This kind of porridge boiled by the Kazakh people in the Nawu Rouzi Festival is generally called Bidai Kuojie, and the thicker porridge can be eaten as rice, and the dilute can be used as a drink to quench thirst.

In the previous nomadic life, there were no tools, so wheat, barley, talmi, millet and other food were eaten, first the wheat and barley were fried, and then the talmi and millet were first boiled in water, then fried dry, and then pounded and peeled.

Fried wheat and barley are also mashed in the mortar first, then cooked with water to make porridge to eat, poured into the pot with water and salt, and then add an appropriate amount of oil, meat and other food, simmer for an hour and a half on low heat, meat, wheat, etc. are boiled to become porridge, and then properly pour in milk lump juice, yogurt or fresh milk, you can eat.

Pang Dongdong listened to Haimiti's little aunt say that there is also a way to make Nawu meat porridge, when cooking meat, the pounded wheat and other ingredients are poured into the pot and boiled together, and this porridge cooked in the broth is even more unique.

In addition to being eaten at home for lunch and dinner, it can also be used as a hospitality meal for distinguished guests, and the broth must be boiled with milk gnocchi juice or yogurt, which the Kazakhs call Buila Kojie.

There are many beautiful legends about the Nauruz festival among the Kazakhs of the steppe, whose origin is closely related to the constellations in the sky, the ancestors of the Kazakh people believed that Aries was the main god for the benefit of mankind, and Pisces was the source of human and animal diseases.

Every day of the "spring equinox", it happens to be the time when Pisces falls and Aries rises, and people choose this time to celebrate the festival in the hope of driving away the source of disease, prospering people and animals, and ushering in happiness and auspiciousness.

At noon, a large iron pot was placed in front of the yurt of Grandpa Haimiti's house, and the pine branches under the iron pot had already boiled the porridge in the pot, and the air was filled with an attractive fragrance.

At noon, the herdsmen of the Guozigou grassland tasted the porridge in front of the cauldron of their homes.

On the slightly flat grass, men, women and children who can sing and dance began to sing, sing and dance in Dongbula, and the singer played and sang the "Nawu Rouzi Song", wishing the new year prosperity and abundant milk and food.

Not far away, the vast and boundless alpine steppe is performing sheep holding and "Kiziruvar" and other activities, so it is very lively.

The "Kizyruvar" (Girl Chase) began, a favorite entertainment game for unmarried young men and women in the steppe, and a special way for them to express their love.

At the beginning of the game, a young man and a woman ride on horses and drive slowly side by side to the designated location.

On the way, the young man expressed his love for the girl he liked, and on the way back, he began to "chase the girl".

The young man turned his horse's head and galloped in front, and the girl pursued him closely, and when he caught up, he whipped and whipped at will, and the young man could not fight back.

If the girl falls in love with the young man, she will be merciful, and the girl will at most raise the whip high and whip it lightly, and the young man's heart will be sweet.

If the girl doesn't look down on this young man, then he will have to suffer more, and his body will be whipped by the girl wildly.

In the past few days, everyone has been singing, laughing, and expressing their inner joy, and the herdsmen know that after the Nawu Rouzi Festival, it means that the frequent migration and transition life will start again, and everyone will start a busy life again.

In the evening, Hemiti and his grandfather slaughtered a big fat sheep, and everyone wanted to eat the hand-caught mutton.

In the dead of night, the inky blue sky seemed deep and lofty, the stars in the sky blinked, and bursts of cheerful singing and the sound of Dongbula "dong dong" were heard from the yurts scattered on the grassland.

The herdsmen sit in their own yurts, with large pieces of hand-grabbed mutton on the low coffee table, as well as Kazakh snacks such as fried fruits and milk gnocchi, and the family happily lives their own national festivals.

Because Pang Dongdong is a Han girl, her grandfather attaches great importance to her, and she is pregnant, so she sits down at the coffee table and eats.

She didn't squat next to the golden samavar (a Kazakh cooking utensil) like Khemiti's aunts and pour milk tea for the men.

Aunt Hemiti brought up the hot hand-grabbed mutton, and Uncle Hemiti held the sheep's head in both hands and handed it to the grandfather sitting on the upper seat.

Grandpa took the sheep's head and said a blessing, "I wish the livestock a full circle and abundant milk."

Then, he took off the Pijake (sharp knife) from his waist, cut a piece of meat on the sheep's face, put it in his mouth, and ate it slowly.

Immediately, he cut off several pieces of sheep's ears and handed them to his four young grandsons, telling them to listen to the old man.

Then, the grandfather cut off two pieces of tongue meat and handed them to Hemiti and Pang Dongdong, telling them that they had grown up and were both obedient and able to speak.

One night, Pang Dongdong and her Kazakh relatives sang, ate, danced, and played and sang all night.

Hemiti led his wife to the open space in the middle of the yurt, where the couple danced the traditional Kazakh dance "Hala Zorha" ("Black Walking Horse").

This is a dance that imitates the movements of birds and animals, after the processing and interpretation of Kazakh herdsmen, it is exaggerated and humorous, vivid, vivid and expressive, and has strong expressiveness and appeal.

Pregnant woman Pang Dongdong danced for her relatives, Haimiti sang as much as she could, Pang Dongdong's tall figure writhed bewitching movements, and from the back, she was wearing a Kazakh costume and was completely an authentic Kazakh girl.

After the dance, Pang Dongdong was sweating profusely and a little tired, and when Haimiti saw this, he took his wife's hand and left the yurt.

The two held hands and walked towards the yurt where they were resting, and Pang Dongdong thought of the "girl chasing" during the day.

She squinted at the handsome Hemiti and quipped, "How many girls have you been whipped by in those years on the prairie?" ”

Haimiti put his arms around his wife, put his chin on the top of her head, looked up at the blue sky, and said faintly: "In the years when I lived in the grassland, I was just a spectator, and I didn't dare to play the game of chasing girls, because my beloved girl was not in the Guozigou grassland. ”

Pang Dongdong thought about the loneliness and missed the few years of life in Haimiti, long and lonely, she cried emotionally.

The next day, Pang Dongdong did not participate in the New Year's greetings of people on the grassland, but followed Hemiti to watch his grandfather tame last year's young eagle.

Among the three children born to Buick Polati and Tian Kunrong in Guangren Township, the smartest is the daughter Mina, the most honest is the son Kaiyishan, and the most cunning is the youngest daughter Arey.

The intelligent Mina has loved to learn since she was a child, and when she was young, Mina was educated by her grandmother Mrs. Tian and her mother Tian Kunrong, and memorized 300 Tang poems at the age of five.

When the children of the same age were playing with snot, kicking shuttlecocks, and throwing sandbags, she crawled on the small table and did the arithmetic homework arranged for her by her grandmother.

When she reached the age of going to school, she went to the first grade of primary school with the children in the neighborhood, and in less than half a year, she jumped two levels in a row, and attended classes in the third grade, becoming a prodigy in Guangren Township.

"Hard work pays off", 16-year-old Mina Min Kaohan was admitted to Beijing Medical University, plus a year of preparatory class, she will study and live in Beijing for 6 years.

In the 80s of the 20th century, China's political, economic, cultural and other fields involving all aspects of the country began to recover with the reform and opening up after more than ten years of dormancy.

However, in this era, China's legal system was still not sound in its infancy, and the common people, who had been complacently for many years, were most worried about the frightening phenomenon of "road rage" in addition to nagging about the frequent occurrence of corruption after tea and dinner.

A green tin train from Beijing to Xinjiang squirmed the barren tracks with heavy breath dragging its heavy body.

Mina, who spent her freshman year at Beijing Medical University, came to the bustling train station and followed the crowd of black pressure to get on the train.

According to the position of the ticket, Mina finally found her place with difficulty, and a middle-aged couple was already sitting on the bench opposite her.

Mina stood in the aisle, carrying her heavy bag and preparing to put it on the luggage rack on her seat.

It's a pity that the thin girl just lifted her bag and her hands went limp, and she failed several times.