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Chapter 1234 Worship Ceremony in Ancient Town

From the point of view of the people in the ancient town, stopping their worship ceremony is tantamount to breaking the agreement that their ancestors have made with the gods guarding the dragon veins on the mountain for generations.

That would lose its protection, and even usher in the wrath of the gods.

Doesn't this mean harming them!
So of course everyone will resist.

You can't say that these people are superstitious and ignorant, after all, this is the status quo.

Otherwise, what changes would Zhong Yunqi and the others need to make?

When Zhong Yunqi was deep in thought, the old mayor in the middle of the square was already arranging the worship ceremony!
The previous three sacrificial ceremonies were presided over by the old mayor, so he naturally had no problem arranging them.

Moreover, after the strange things that happened at night during this period of time, people became more active and excited about worshiping!

The animals needed for the sacrifice were naturally collected from the ancient town, but they were not for nothing.

In the whole town, except for the elderly and children, all the money and goods that come with the members are used for the sacrifice expenses.

Of course, the most important expense is actually the people who used it for supplies and took out three animals and five animals.

It is equivalent to the whole town pooling money and goods to buy these livestock.

Of course, the worship once every ten years is actually the biggest event in the ancient town.

The lack of culture has also led to the fact that there are not many cultural activities in the entire ancient town.

Except for some festivals that have been handed down since ancient times, life in the ancient town is actually very simple and monotonous.

After the three animals and five animals are slaughtered and washed, they will be used as tribute to worship the gods on the mountain.

Of course, it is said that there are three animals and five animals, but the sacrifices that have been handed down in the ancient town are actually only three.

Moreover, it is not the whole head that is sacrificed.

This is important.

The hogs take their heads, the sheep keep their bellies, and the chickens keep them whole.

The so-called hog is another name for pig. (It was called hog in ancient times, for example, Feng Hog and Long Snake, Wolf Ben Hog ​​Tu.)
That is to say, when everyone worships the gods on the holy mountain, three kinds of sacrifices are used: pigs, sheep and chickens.

Among them, the pig needs its head, the sheep needs its abdomen, that is, the body except the head, hands, feet and limbs, and the chicken needs a whole one to be enshrined.

No one knows why.

Maybe there is no reason, the priests have always done that, so they followed suit.

In this way, after a pig is slaughtered, everything is still there except the pig's head, the sheep's head, and the front and rear legs of the sheep are also still there.

However, according to the rules of the town, the three animals and five animals slaughtered in sacrifices cannot be stored as meat.

In an old saying, what is left is a gift from the gods.

Therefore, the remaining meat will be shared and eaten by the people of the whole town.

According to the saying passed down from generation to generation, this is to share food with the gods and conclude a contract.

Worshiping the gods is to express the mind of the gods.

Eating the meat given by the gods means receiving the blessings of the gods and will receive their blessings.

This sounds, indeed, nonsense.

It is obviously the pigs and sheep raised by the people in the ancient town, but it is said to be a gift from the gods.

But is it really important?
Compared with the little meat after sharing, what can bring people more comfort is the blessing and protection of the so-called gods.

How many people are there in the entire ancient town?

Perhaps, compared with those towns outside the mountains, the number of people is completely incomparable, but there are not many.

One pig and one sheep, how many mouths can there be after everyone is divided.

However, after this sacrificial ceremony, although there are only a few bites of meat, everyone, no matter men, women, old or young, can eat very happily.

This, is it not another form, exchanging material for spiritual comfort.

After the old mayor made arrangements, the people in the ancient town, especially those in their prime, immediately started to take action.

The first step is naturally to choose the sacrifices used for the sacrifice.

Many families who have pigs and sheep at home really hope that their own pigs will be selected.

After all, there are so many families in the whole town, so many pigs and sheep, it is a kind of luck to be able to choose them as sacrifices to worship the gods.

People believe that they will receive extra blessings from the gods.

The first step is to choose the best one from these families, which is the most sacrificial.

Pigs are like this, so are sheep, including chickens, and they also choose this way.

After choosing, calculate the value of these things.

Intuitively speaking, it is the price of these pigs and sheep.

This price will be shared by all the families in the entire ancient town according to the head.

In fact, after separation, everyone really didn't contribute much, and that's not counting the elderly and children.

Then, the pigs and sheep will be carried to a fixed place to be slaughtered.

After slaughtering, take the pig's head, sheep's body, and whole chicken, and put them into a large stone pot for steaming.

In fact, in the square, that is, behind the stele, there was originally a huge stone pot.

That stone pot used to be a tool for cooking sacrifices.

It's just that, in the vicinity of the old mayor's father, they are completely gone!

No one knows when the stone pot became unusable.

Later, after the stone pot slowly shattered, the center of the square was balanced by everyone.

And people, in another place, set up earthen stoves and used large iron pots to cook sacrifices.

In fact, it is normal.

The pot used to cook sacrifices was a large stone pot that was polished when the ancient town was built.

In fact, when Wu Xian led people to build the ancient town, he wasted a lot of effort.

After all, at that time, it was necessary to make such a large pot, so it could only be polished with a whole huge stone.

But, after all, it is a stone,

If it is not moved, it should be able to survive to this day due to its stone quality.

However, every time the pig and sheep are cooked on a fire, it is a huge damage to it.

It expands with heat and contracts with cold. Over time, even if the stone materials used to make stone pots are far more iron than those used to build ancient towns, it is impossible to withstand a single fire.

After the pot was set on fire, three incense sticks were set aside.

This is not an ordinary incense, but a huge incense stick specially made by the people of the ancient town—a kind of incense wood unique to this place.

According to the rules, after the incense is extinguished, the fire can be turned off and the offerings can be taken out.

This fragrance lasts for hours at a time.

Why do sacrifices have to be cooked before they are sacrificed?
Probably the people in the ancient town had never considered this issue.

After all, it has been passed down from generation to generation to do this, so they naturally did it!
Perhaps, Wu Xian, who made the rule of offering sacrifices to the guardian gods of the holy mountain every ten years, during the autumn and white period, knew why, but he never told the people in the ancient town.

Probably, can't tell!
(End of this chapter)