Chapter Ninety-Six: Dongge's Mission

Zunyi City, Zunyi City is located in the slope area of the transition from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Hunan hills and the Sichuan Basin, with large undulating terrain and complex landform types. The altitude is generally 800~1300 meters, and it is on the second step of the national terrain. The area of Pingba and river valley basins in Zunyi City accounts for 6.57%, hills account for 28.35%, and mountains account for 65.08%.

The Da Lou Mountain Range stretches from southwest to northeast and is the watershed of the north and south water systems in the city. The types of landforms can be divided into three categories according to their genesis: erosion landform area, erosion structure landform area and erosion landform area. Among them, dissolution and erosion tectonic landforms (karst landforms) are the most widely distributed, accounting for about 75% of the land area of Zunyi City.

Zunyi City, the rivers all belong to the Yangtze River Basin, belonging to the Wujiang River water system and the Changshang Dry River (Chishui River, Qijiang River), the larger rivers are Wujiang River and its tributaries Xiangjiang River, Furong River, Hongdu River, Chishui River and its tributaries Tongzi River, Xishui River, Qijiang River and its tributaries Yangjiao River, the average water resources for many years are 17.24 billion m3, accounting for about 17.4% of Guizhou Province.

The length of the city's rivers is 9148.5km, 290 rivers are more than 10 km, and there are 412 rivers above 20km2, including 324 rivers of 20~100km2, 63 rivers of 101~300km2, 14 rivers of 301~1000km2, and 11 rivers of more than 1000km2.

Zunyi City, located in the north of Guizhou Province, belongs to the humid monsoon area of the Central Subtropical Plateau, with four distinct seasons of the year, rain and heat in the same season, long frost-free period, about 250-350 days, cloudy and sunny, the annual average temperature is 15.1 °C, the annual total radiation is between 3253~3718 megajoules / square meter, the annual sunshine hours are between 1000h~1300h, and the sunshine rate is 23%~29%.

The overall rainfall in Zunyi City is abundant, with an average annual precipitation of 900mm~1200mm and a variation range of 800mm~1600mm. Precipitation was unevenly distributed in a year, and the general trend was decreasing and increasing from east to west.

In addition to these natural landscapes, there are many folk festivals in Zunyi that are also worth visiting!

Mountain Trampling Festival: The annual grand festival of the Miao nationality is held from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of each year. On the morning of the first day, a pole-erecting ceremony is held in which a pole tied with pine and cypress branches and flower flags is erected in the middle of the hillside as a symbol of the flower-picking mountain. After the flower poles are erected, the elderly toast and bless the people, and at the same time, the sound of gongs and drums, firecrackers, and reeds are melodious, and men, women and children dance and play lion lanterns, which is full of jubilation. In the evening, the bonfire is majestic, and people sit around the bonfire to drink and sing songs all night long. Miao compatriots blow reeds, dance, sing, laugh and gather relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year.

Chopping Mars Festival: A traditional festival of the Miao people, the content of the festival is mainly to stipulate the village rules. Depending on the surname, the timing of the festival varies. Roughly July, August and September 27. Once a year, according to the people in the clan, take turns to be on duty, and the year is responsible for convening everyone to discuss the township rules and related matters, and then the family on duty should prepare wine to kill chickens, please drink "Hexin wine", and give the head of the chicken to the next year. The cycle takes turns to take turns on whose family is on duty, and holds a meeting and drinks "heart wine" at whose house.

Mountain Festival: In the third month of the lunar calendar, the spring mountain is bright, the spring rain melts, the spring swallow returns, and all things recover, which is the key moment of spring ploughing and production, and it is also the day of the Gelao people to sacrifice the mountain. The mountain is generally sacrificed on the third day of the first month of March, and some are on the first day of March or the first day. The villages of the mountain festival are organized separately. There is only one surname in a village, and the mountain sacrifice is hereditary presided over by the long house; The host faces the sacred tree, respectfully sacrifices, calls the famous mountain god to enjoy the sacrifice, and prays that the mountain god blesses the whole village with clean and safe, the five grains are harvested, the six animals are prosperous, the men will plow the oxen and harrow, the women will spin and weave, and have more children.

The slope of the mountain where the sacred tree is located is regarded as a sacred place by the Gelao people, and it is highly loved, and people are not allowed to trample on cattle and horses, and they are not allowed to cut down trees on the mountain, nor can they go into the mountain to cut firewood and grass at will, which objectively plays the role of closing the mountain and cultivating forests.

Eat New Festival: In the autumn festival of Meng, the busy farmland management is basically over, the crops are first ripe, and the harvest is in sight. The Gelao people believe that this is the result of the blessing of heaven and earth and ancestors, so as soon as the new grain is ripe, they will welcome heaven and earth and their ancestors to taste the new grain with joy and gratitude. This is the origin of the "Eat New Festival" of the Gelao people. The exact time to eat new varies from place to place. Most of them are on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a few are on the first day of July, and in the case of a leap month, it is on the first day of August.

On the first day of the seventh month, malt, bean sprouts, and grain sprouts are sent out, and the ancestors are welcomed home in front of the pillar in the hall house, and they are offered until July 13. On the day of the new festival, new ears of grain, baogu, bean pods, etc. are harvested and sacrificed together, and the gold and silver mountains made of paper are put on the table, and incense and paper are lit and the paper is recited for the ancestors to enjoy, which links the traditional eating of the new festival of the Gelao people with the July and half ghost sacrifice activities of the Han people.

All of the above shows that Zunyi is definitely a good choice for a tourist city, and you must go to Zunyi to travel to Guizhou!

But this time Song Zisu and the others didn't just come to travel, otherwise, according to Song Zisu's temperament, it would take three or four days just to raid the strategy!

"Let's stay a few more days after we arrive in Zunyi this time, we are tossing and turning every day these days, everyone is very tired, and we need to have a good rest!" As soon as he arrived at the hotel, Song Zisu booked a room for ten days, just to let everyone have a good rest!

And on Liu Fugui's side, the secret of Houtu has been slowly revealed!

It is said that after Dong Ge came to Xijiang Miao Village, he lived in a local homestay, used the computer to do a little research institute work at night, and walked around here during the day like ordinary tourists.

It seems that after coming here, Brother Dong forgot about the mission, and had no intention of looking for Chiyou's descendants.

On the night when Bai Ye and the others arrived in Zunyi, Dongge received a phone call, and then immediately returned to Guiyang the next day!

In ancient times, Jiuli was a tribal alliance that lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin and the Yangtze River basin. That is, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu region. Jiuli is the leader of Chiyou, and there are eighty-one brothers, all of whom are chieftains of Jiuli, and Chiyou is the big chief.

Chi You and the same mother and brother of eight people, including himself a total of nine people, all surnamed Li, known as "Jiu Li", that is, Li Greedy (Chi You), Li Ju, Li Lu, Li Wen, Li Guang, Li Wu, Li Po, Li Fu, Li Bi, plus seventy-two brothers, a total of eighty-one people, that is, eighty-one Li branch tribes, in the Yan Emperor Jiang Yu era, the east and the west, seized the same Fuxi descendants of the "Jiuli Kingdom" of the territory, so called "Jiuli Zhijun called Chi You".

Chiyou is the leader of the Jiuli tribe in ancient Chinese myths and legends, and is also said to be the god of the main soldiers. It is said that he had 81 brothers, who could call the wind and rain, used gold as a weapon, and often used soldiers to cause chaos. They are brave and good at fighting, and they are powerful in the world.

Yan Emperor Jiang Li descended on behalf of Li (Qi) Tian, Chiyou Jiu Li State, and Li Shi of Xiao Li State.