The Miao people of Da Miao Village are also extremely simple, even more simple than the Qingyan Ancient Town that they visited before.

I stayed in the village is a Miao people's wooden building, although his house hangs the inn signboard, but there is no clear price, at first look at the exquisite and wide single-family wooden building I thought the price is expensive, who knows that this "Pan" surname boss in I asked about the price of the house but a little embarrassed to ask me, see how much money I give.

I asked tentatively, is one hundred and fifty yuan a day okay, because I have seen the interior of the room, it seems that all the supplies are new, the house is cleaned very clean, the hot water can be fully guaranteed, the independent wooden building has two floors, the upper floor is used for accommodation and can open the window to breathe the view, the lower floor is a bathroom and a small hall, the structure I am still very satisfied.

Unexpectedly, Boss Pan, who looked like he was just thirty years old, immediately showed a very weak expression and said to me seriously: "Girl, don't dare, this house doesn't dare to charge you so much money, so let's count it as eighty yuan a day, if you don't dislike it, we will send you three meals a day." There are tea leaves in the house, it's a dragon well, if you don't like it, you can change it, what else do you think?"

After listening to Brother Pan's words, I couldn't believe that it would be so cheap! I was also embarrassed to get up, and insisted on bargaining to 100 yuan, and Brother Pan seriously told me at my insistence that he would make the food better in the next two days, otherwise he would feel sorry for me.

I have also traveled to many places, such as Lijiang, Phoenix, Guilin and other places, to give me a very deep experience, the more fully developed scenic spots and ancient towns, the more strong commercial color, those originally simple people will also become philistine and calculating, like this can bring three meals a day, hot water full supply of pure natural independent wooden buildings, a day to charge 100 yuan and feel a bit of a stealing of the Miao people, let me feel extremely kind.

Later, I heard that the folk customs of the thousands of Miao villages on the other side of the Xijiang River are also extremely simple, and the Miao people are naturally more enthusiastic in the more closed Miao Village. To be honest, in fact, when tourists go out to play, the scenery is one thing, but the customs and folk customs are the bigger reason that attracts them, because what tourists want is to return to the basics and let go of all worldly distractions. Coming to Damiao Village made my heart return.

On the first night, Brother Pan warmly invited me to have dinner with his family, his family only received one guest that day, but also made a large plate of dishes, I found that there were wild black fish with no name, and pheasants, wild eggs and the like, I immediately felt that Brother Pan was too expensive, but I didn't expect this Brother Pan to take out a bottle of old wine sealed with mud, and said to me a little complacently: " Girl, this is the homemade wine that my cousin brought back to me from Moutai Town, in fact, it tastes the same as that Moutai wine, you are so polite, I can't be stingy, I will toast you today!"

As a result, that night, I accepted Brother Pan's toast with a little debt, although I don't know how to drink, but just the aroma of wine, I feel that it should not be inferior to Moutai. According to Brother Pan, these wild black fish and pheasants were hunted by friends in the village to the upper reaches of nearby rivers and mountains, and when they caught more, they were brought back to the village to either give them to friends or sell them to others for a few yuan. Because there are mountains near Damiao Village, there are not many residents, and there are many wild games and fish in the river, so it is common to eat black fish and pheasants, but the extra 20 yuan I give can let their family eat several times.

Hearing Brother Pan say this, I envy their lives in my heart. Miao people live here, not affected by foreign unhealthy tendencies, ancestors have been farming and hunting for generations, generally to nine or ten o'clock in the evening to rest early, the villagers usually farm and hunt nearby, when resting in the village to smoke pipes, do handicrafts or chat about farm work, the small days are so carefree day after day, the spirit is extremely relaxed and simple, is unimaginable for urban people.

As soon as I took a bath the next morning, Pan's ten-year-old daughter knocked on the door and brought breakfast, which was sour soup and shredded pork tea and fried glutinous rice cakes. Seeing such an eager girl holding such a large tray of breakfast, my heart was suddenly moved speechless, it is rude not to accept, I hurriedly rummaged through the bag for a long time, found a pen that I have been using a beautiful pen to give to the child, but the child insisted on not accepting, I said to the girl, if she doesn't want it, I won't eat, so I tricked the child to accept the pen.

As a result, this immediately attracted Brother Pan to come back the pen, helpless, I had to say that I like his children very much, if I don't accept this, I have to find another place to live. In this way, Pan Ge can be counted.

It was in this light, leisurely Damiao Village that I became familiar with Brother Pan's family, including his two children and Brother Pan's lover, Sister Li. Sister Li is also a kind person, and she is straightforward and has no city government when she chats about the world, which makes it convenient for me to better understand the national culture of my Miao compatriots.

I stayed for two days, took advantage of my leisure time during the day, walked around in the Miao village, bought local ethnic minority costumes and jewelry, and felt the idyllic scenery in the surrounding terraces and mountains.

According to Brother Pan, many young people in Miao Village have gone to the city to work, and most of those who stay in Miao Village have already started a family or have some industry, otherwise they are like unmarried young men and women, all of whom are outside.

With the development of society and the prosperity of science, although the Miao family lives a simple life and has a simple mind, after all, it has reached the 21st century, and it has long said goodbye to the days of witchcraft and Gu magic. As far as I am curious about some topics about Miao wizards and Gu arts, Brother Pan and they don't know much, only that it was a long time ago, and it was also when they were very young, I heard the elders mention it by chance, as for seeing, that is, in some Miao customs and habits, you will see similar dances and rituals, but they are all fake tricks with a performance nature, and they can't be real.

Although Miao witchcraft is almost spread in legends, when coming to Miao Jiang, many travelers have to pay attention to many Miao customs and habits to avoid violating the taboos of Miao people, one of which is not to easily drive away or kill any kind of insects in front of Miao people, which is exquisite, and it is also a thing that many tourists will be warned by tour guides or travel guides as soon as they enter Miao Xinjiang.

This warning is so special, it will naturally make many people pay attention, but the reason, in addition to the Miao compatriots' love for nature and taking some insects as pets, actually has a deeper hint, that is, there are Miao people who are good at Gu arts, and they must retreat early when they see Miao people who play with insects.

As for the legends of the local Miao folklore, there are quite a few. When Brother Pan was a child, he listened to his father and grandfather tell me a lot of local Miao legends, and two of them were particularly impressive to me:

According to Brother Pan, when his grandfather was young, he had seen two cases of using Gu techniques to cure diseases and fight methods.

It was still before the liberation, when in a small village in the mountains near Da Miao Village, there was a wizard who was proficient in Gu art, and legend has it that the sorcerer's Gu art has reached the realm of doing whatever he wants, and he can even use Gu art to cure diseases and save people, so many Miao people look for that sorcerer to see a doctor.

Brother Pan's grandfather had seen the wizard use Gu magic to see a doctor, once there was an old man in the village who was half paralyzed and couldn't get out of bed, so the family invited the wizard from afar, because Brother Pan's grandfather's family was a neighbor with the old man, so he also ran to see how the wizard cured the disease and saved people.

When the wizard performed the Gu spell, he withdrew the others, because he had to use the saliva of the boy man, so he left Brother Pan's grandfather in the room, and Brother Pan's grandfather was able to see the whole process. According to the current explanation, the sick old man is a brain tumor that compresses the central nervous system and causes hemiplegia, and the medical conditions at that time were limited, and it was certainly impossible to do a job that required high technology and high equipment for craniotomy, but the wizard had a way.

I saw that the wizard first opened a huge gourd, picked his middle finger with the tip of a needle, and dripped blood into the gourd, and then asked Brother Pan's grandfather to spit in the gourd several times in a row.

Next, the wizard pointed the mouth of the gourd at the mouth and nose of the sick old man who had fallen asleep, and with the whispered incantation between the wizard's words, he saw a large group of very small red ants crawling out of the gourd, and in an instant, the red ants crawled densely all over the face of the sick old man, and in a short time, from the old man's face seven orifices into the mind, not even one left.

During the wizard's long meditation, the time passed for more than an hour, but the wizard began to whistle very low again, a bit similar to the whistle boo of an adult man coaxing a baby to pee, and at the same time, the wizard told Brother Pan's grandfather to spit a few more mouthfuls into the big gourd, and poured a lot of honey into the big gourd in a small bottle.

After doing this, accompanied by the wizard's boo, but I saw that the ants that had crawled into the old man's head before retreated back along the seven orifices, but unlike the previous shriveled bodies, the ants that crawled out this time were full of bodies, as if they were full of food and drink, and they re-burrowed back into the gourd one by one.

Soon after the Fa was done, the sick old man woke up, and the wizard ordered someone to help the old man up, and in the astonishment of the people around him, the old man was able to walk as usual and live as usual! The wizard said that he had ordered the worm Gu to burrow into the old man's brain from the hole and devour the deadly tumor, and there should be no hindrance from there.

Another time, it was also a person in the village who had a strange disease, and suddenly went crazy and ate live creatures and swallowed all kinds of insects and snakes. Unexpectedly, after the sorcerer came to see the symptoms, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly asked the patient's family where he had been and what he had seen before the onset of the disease, but the patient's family did not know anything, and said that he was still healthy as before, but after waking up, he changed as if he had become an evil person.

According to the diagnosis of the wizard, this person is not suffering from an ordinary disease, but has been tricked by someone, and this Gu is extremely powerful, it is a spider Gu with one of the five poisons, and now the mother Gu has been entrenched in the patient's cerebral marrow, and the larval eggs are discharged everywhere in the body, according to the analysis of the appearance of the patient's beating disorder, the larval eggs have all hatched into small spiders, and then add time, as long as the Gu person gives the order, the spiders around the body will eat up the patient's flesh and blood and break out, not only that, but the spider Gu will also automatically find the relatives of other patients according to the patient's blood relationship to continue to poison。

Hearing this, the patient's family was naturally shocked and hurriedly begged the sorcerer for a way to save him. The wizard pondered for a moment and then said solemnly to the patient's relatives, since the eggs have hatched small spiders, if you want to force out the worm Gu now, I am afraid that many spiders will come out of the skin directly, which will leave many scars on the body, and thus break the phase, and ask the patient's relatives if they accept it.

At this time, human life is at stake, and the destruction of the appearance is a trivial matter, and the patient's family naturally agrees. Without further ado, the wizard took out a bottle of powder from his bosom and poured it into the water, first poured the powdered yellow liquid around the patient, and then poured the remaining yellow liquid into the patient's mouth, and after doing so, the wizard set fire to a special kind of wood from the side, and then fanned the black smoke from the wood to the patient who was tied to the tree beside him.

The terrifying scene finally happened, as the black smoke continued to smoke, countless bulges suddenly poured out from the patient's body surface, including his face, and there were obviously foreign objects moving in these bulges, causing all the bulges to expand and contract and move slightly elsewhere.

In the end, all the bulges burst, and a multicolored spider the size of a soybean crawled out of it, these spiders seemed to like the smell of black smoke, and lined up in a line in the direction of the black smoke until they died.

Seeing such a terrifying colored spider, although the patient's family was terrified, they were relieved, thinking that the patient was roughly saved, but the wizard's face turned red, and even his brows were wrinkled together, only to see him look around, and said in a slightly helpless tone: "Senior sister, you and my affairs, let's let these innocent people go." ”

It turned out that when the wizard was young, he had admired his fellow junior sister, and in order to pursue his junior sister, the wizard gave his treasured colored spider insect Gu to his junior sister. How do you know that the wizard's sister is in love with him and another teenager in the door at the same time, the love triangle has always been wandering in entanglement and pain, the wizard who was carried away by love in order to get the sister, and the rival in love started a fight, the two teenagers are hot-blooded, naturally one can't tolerate the other, so the two decided to divide the victory and defeat in the form of a Gu duel in front of the sister's eyes, as a result, the wizard killed the rival in love with Gu magic in the duel, not only was expelled from the division and fled away, but also caused the sister to hold a grudge for life, and always struggled with him.

Seeing that decades have passed, the younger sister came to the door again and attacked herself with the colored spider and insect Gu that she had sent, although no one answered around, but the wizard knew that the junior sister must be hiding nearby, with helplessness and guilt, with despair of love, the wizard could no longer bear the self-blame and guilt for many years, so he took out a dagger from his arms and wiped it off his neck.

The patient finally recovered, and just after the wizard died, a flying colored spider the size of a peanut suddenly emerged from the patient's mouth, and what was even more strange was that the wizard's body then mysteriously disappeared.