Chapter 2 Artemisia Harvesting
In the early morning, Lin Yu asked Lin Yu and Du Juan to wash and dress and tie their hair. Lin Yu held the qin, the cuckoo held the pottery incense burner, and Lin Yu led him to Nanshan.
They found a flat stone by the brook and swept it with branches. Lin Yu set up the incense burner, took out some dried herbs from a small cloth bag, lit it with a flint, and covered it with a perforated lid.
Lin Yu said: "These dried herbs are dried by Angelica Angelica and Du Heng, and I will teach you how to identify and make them next time I see them." To play the piano, you must burn incense, which is determined by Emperor Fuxi. ”
Lin Yu said: "I know that the Blue Emperor created gossip. ”
Lin Yu said: "Yu'er knows a lot. Why do you know why you came here to play the piano?" Lin Yu shook her head and said she didn't know.
Lin Yu asked again: "There is abundant spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and people exist between heaven and earth, and live with spiritual energy, but it is difficult to detect spiritual energy, why?"
The cuckoo said: "For example, a fish in the water, swimming in the water, does not know the existence of the water, once it leaves the water, it cannot live." ”
Lin Yu smiled: "This metaphor is very good. Everyone exists in the aura, but ordinary people are disturbed by mundane things and cannot meditate. What makes witches different from ordinary people is that they can naturally feel the aura of heaven and earth. Where there are mountains and rivers, it is easier to perceive the aura. Music can make people's hearts calm and elegant, and communicate the aura of heaven and earth. ”
Lin Yu turned to the girls and asked, "Have you heard the legend of Pangu opening the world?" Lin Yu and Du Juan both nodded.
Lin Yu said: "Pangu opened the world, the body turned into heaven, earth, mountains and rivers, and the essence turned into spirit. You have to understand what that means. Saying that, Lin Yu sat cross-legged on the flat stone and put the piano on his lap.
Lin Yu whispered to Du Juan: "My aunt plays the piano very well." "Cuckoo is looking forward to it. The three of them stopped talking.
The sound of the piano is like a spring in the mountain at the beginning, lively and jumping, the middle section is like a big river, and the majestic mountains meet, agitation and frustration, and finally calm like a river into the sea, the aftertaste echoes.
Lin Yu and Du Juan listened attentively. Lin Yu pressed the strings and said, "Do you want to learn?" and they nodded like garlic.
Lin Yu taught the two of them to play the piano, divination, prayers and so on every day. In the blink of an eye, it is almost the third day of March, the day of the commemoration of the dead.
Lin Yu led the two of them to the low post to pick artemisia seeds, and on this day, everyone ate artemisia baba. Pick the tip of the tender Artemisia leaves, wash them and mash them, soak them, remove the juice, dry them, mix them with glutinous rice flour and water, make them into round baba, steam them in a steamer, and eat them hot and cold.
On this day, the shrine maiden must pray to the ancestors for good fortune, rain in good time, wind and drought, disaster for soldiers, and far from diseases. Lin Yu and Du Juan followed behind Lin Yu, learning from each other. The two are quite talented and learn quite decently.