Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 545 Chi You Sacrifice

Chapter 540 Six Chiyou Sacrifice
After moving everything to the car, Li Junge got on the car and saw that A Yin's face was still red.

A Yin covered her face with her hands, and said in shame, "Why is Mom like this..."

Li Junge smiled and said: "The old man always wants to know the situation first-hand, ignore her, let's go up the mountain! Hey, don't you have a driver's license? Why don't you drive?"

Only now did Ayin free herself from her shyness, and said, "It's been a long time since I touched the car, so I don't know if I still remember it."

Li Junge said with a smile: "Can I forget this? It's not like a swimming bicycle. The current bicycles are automatic, how simple!"

A Yin said: "Then I will try?"

So the two changed places, and Li Junge explained to A Yin the orientation and purpose of the joystick, and then A Yin slowly drove the Raptor out of the village and headed for the Banshan Forest Farm.

The car drove steadily to the Banshan Forest Farm. Li Junge said to A Yin: "Not bad, it's pretty stable, A Yin. After two more practice sessions, I can go on the road alone."

A Yin laughed and said, "It's not as fun as the Red Devil."

Li Junge said: "You just think it's slow, Ah Yin, let me tell you, you really have to be careful when driving, especially motorcycles..."

A Yin rolled his eyes: "Oh, I got it, get out of the car and go up the mountain!"

I asked Uncle Wood to borrow a cart, unloaded everything from the Raptor, and then pushed it to the zip line, and the two started to go up the mountain.

When they got to the mountain, Ayin complained: "Look, if you have to move so many things up, how can you move them back?"

Li Junge looked around: "Why is there no one in the forest farm shed?"

Seeing a cart beside the work shed, Li Junge put his things on the cart and said, "It seems that the village is not idle, the road from the forest farm to the village should be repaired."

Li Junge pulled the cart and walked side by side on the road with A Yin.

The road is paved with stones, and it seems that there is no lack of pulling wood to the stockade, and the pressure is very solid.

Li Junge looked at the not narrow gravel road, and said to A Yin: "A Yin, do you remember? When we came up from the zip line last year, we had to walk in tandem."

A Yin laughed and said, "Yes, you still said I was like a puppy on a leash. What's going on? No one was seen along the way."

Li Junge said: "Then they must all be in the stockade. What festivals do you have recently?"

A Yin thought for a while: "Ah! Could it be that the year of Miao passed early?"

Li Junge said: "How is it possible! Although the Miao Year can be celebrated in October, winter, and twelfth lunar months, can Grandpa Yu inform you and me if the Miao Year is passed in advance?"

A Yin said: "Then I really don't know, it's almost here anyway, but let's hurry, there must be something big in the village!"

The two quickened their pace and came out from the path of the forest farm. They saw that the gate of the village at the foot of the mountain had been demolished by the smoky and ghostly atmosphere of Er Zhun. A big square with a football field.

The square was buzzing with people, all Miao people in ethnic costumes in black.

More than half of them are shiny on their heads, necks, and chests. Those are all women with various silver ornaments on their tops.

Li Junge's first reaction was: "Fuck me, this silversmith earned a lot last year and this year! If we put it all together, do you have five or six hundred catties of silver?"

A Yin flew a glance at Li Junge: "Still talking nonsense here! Hurry up and leave the car here and go home with me!"

Li Junge groaned: "Throw it here?"

A Yin was already running: "No one will take it if you throw it here, come with me!"

Li Junge hurriedly let go, ran two steps and came back to pick up a few stones on both sides of the wheel, and then turned around to chase A Yin.

All the way to Zhaiding's house, Grandma Ou and Ni's mother were wearing neat costumes, ending the belt and tying the headkerchief for Grandpa Yu.

When the three of them saw the two coming over, they all showed surprise in their eyes, but they didn't speak, but the movements of Mama Ni and Grandma Ou's hands accelerated a bit.

Miao costumes are the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Li Junge has never seen a full set in the stockade before, but this time I saw it. It is really beautiful, and it is no less beautiful than the female celebrity at the foot of the mountain.

After the whole bundle was finished, Grandpa Yu laughed and said, "It's great that you guys are here! Piwa, today is a big festival, offering sacrifices to King Miao and Chi You!"

A Yin's small mouth opened wide: "Ah? Why don't I know?"

Grandpa Yu gently touched the top of A Yin's head: "The grand ceremony only happens once in 13 years. I was powerless to do it before. Just a few village elders paid homage in the woods. This time it's different, my good girl, hurry up." Put on your clothes! Let's go down together."

Ayin smiled excitedly and left Li Junge scratching his forehead.

It was really embarrassing for the descendants of Yan and Huang to catch up with the Miao family to offer sacrifices to Chi You.

The two families were all brains out back then, so they couldn't help but smirked and said, "Why don't I go? My family cooks and waits for you to come back? Master Chi You saw a Han baby in the sacrifice, would it be When a thunder strikes, even the three animals are saved?"

Grandpa Yu laughed loudly: "How can such a free and easy person become hypocritical! You are so kind to the village, the gods can't see it?"

Ayin poked his head out of the window and said, "Erpi, if you feel embarrassed, put the SLR on your back, and be a photographer by the side!"

This can be done. If you participate as a bystander, then the ancestors on both sides should not be offended.

When A Yin came down from the embroidery tower, Li Junge looked dumbfounded.

Ayin's Miao long dress is really exquisite.

The jacket has two layers, the inner layer is machine-woven and hand-dyed blue cloth by Ni Mama at home, and the outer layer is blue satin.

The sleeves, hem and back are all embroidered into various patterns with embroidery methods such as pick and crepe.Li Junge doesn't know much about the Miao culture, and the ones he can recognize generally include dragons, tigers, sheep, fish, butterflies, insects and other animals.

Along the cuffs up to the elbows, there are beautiful patterns embroidered with red, blue, green, yellow and other silk threads in circles, like two rainbows coiled on A Yin's forearm.

Extending along the shoulder support to the upper arm, it is inlaid with rectangular flower and plant patterns.

The overall outer shirt is a buttonless cross collar with wide cuffs. In addition to repeated patterns, the sleeves and shoulders are also decorated with various patterns of silver flowers as embellishments.

The lower body is a long blue crepe skirt covered with 24 embroidered ribbons with a red background.

The streamers are also embroidered in various colors, including flowers, birds, insects, fish, mussels, frogs, dragons, and phoenixes.

Now Ayin wears a silver horn, a collar, a necklace, and is decorated with silver head flowers, silver combs, silver hairpins, silver bracelets, silver locks, earrings, rings, and embroidered boat shoes on her feet. All of a sudden, she became an image of a minority girl.

Mother Ni and Grandma Ou couldn't help covering their mouths and sniggering when they saw Li Junge's foolish son-in-law.

Ayin turned around mischievously, and the silver ornaments on his head and sleeves on his shoulders made a nice metal clanging sound.

Holding Li Junge's hand, he said, "Erpi, do you look good?"

Only then did Li Junge come back to life: "Hey! It's so beautiful! I have never seen you wear it like this, and you can wear national costumes with such an elegant taste. There is no one except A Yin! You will tell me about this later. Said on the clothes, this pattern is not ordinary and complicated, it is completely different from the bottom of the mountain! If Boss Xu sees this, he will probably go crazy!"

Grandpa Yu said with a smile: "I guess little Ayin can't tell the whole story, let's listen to grandma while we walk."

Li Junge took out the SLR camera from Grandpa Yu's house, and the family walked to Zhaimen Square together.

Grandma Ou explained to Li Junge as she walked: "Our Miao family's embroidery focuses on the combination of main and auxiliary, and there is no separate embroidery. Take the embroidered ribbon on A Yin's waist, for example, there are many contents on a ribbon."

"The butterfly on the top is the mother butterfly, the creation god in the legend of our Miao family; the dragon, phoenix, cow and bird that came down are our totems, and the bottom is the village where we have lived for generations, the mountains, rivers, houses, and pastoral grains; the decorations that come down In fact, it is not a decoration, it is the road map of the ancestors crossing the Yellow River, crossing the Yangtze River, then entering Wuling, and finally reaching Bifeng Mountain..."

This really surprised Li Junge: "Road... road map?"

Grandma Ou said: "Yes! You can see that there are some big and small squares on it, which are the big and small towns along the way. The blue ones are mountains, the green ones are water, and the yellow ones are roads..."

Now Li Junge is really convinced, this is a nation that records history with singing and embroidery!

Seeing Ayin walking in front like a deer, every streamer, the composition is so rigorous, symmetrical and coordinated; the colors are so colorful, bright and harmonious; the content is so rich and integrated; it is simply a collection The perfect works of art of the Miao people's ancestors' views on humanities, nature, history, life, and religion reflect unique and profound aesthetic concepts and elegant and unique aesthetic tastes.

Grandma Ou was still introducing: "The villains at the bottom are all gods, including Jiang Yang, Fuxi, and Chiyou..."

Li Junge shook his head in admiration: "The first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, none of them are fakes..."

More and more people gathered on the road. They were all the men who were in charge of each family. The women and children had already rushed to the square to gather together.

A wooden platform was erected on the square, and on the wooden platform, the big bronze drum that the cultural village elder was responsible for keeping had already been erected.

On one side of the wooden platform stood a wooden post, on which was tied a large water bull.

On the other side, a Dharma platform is built, and a frame is built with bamboo poles around the Dharma platform.

There are also several cone-shaped piles of bamboo and wood around the table. Li Junge took a closer look and found that they were all musical instruments such as mangtong reeds, all of which were carefully tied with red silk.

Uncle A Chong and A Tong, together with a few strong Miao family men, stood guarding the two sides of the platform with pikes in their hands.

Seeing Grandpa Yu approaching, everyone moved out of the way, and a few younger students began to blow their horns, and the humming sound circled over the square.

Everyone in the audience, no matter adults or children, fell silent.

Grandpa Yu walked to the stage, took off the big mallet from the side of the bronze drum, and began to beat the bronze drum.

The sound of the drum seemed to come from ancient times, like the sound of huge footsteps, as if there was a giant out of the sky, walking towards the village step by step.

Li Junge's camera kept taking pictures, and Ayin explained in a low voice: "The legend of our Miao family, the ancestors' gods live in the drum, and this is the ceremony of inviting the gods."

(End of this chapter)