Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 975 Drums

Chapter 970 The Sixth Drum
When you return to Lijiagou, Paogua Lake, and Dushui River, you have to go there. You must watch "Same Roots of Mountains and Rivers".

There are even many tourists who missed "Gan Jiang" or "Purple Big Cat", and they are not satisfied with watching TV boxes at home, so they come here to experience the feeling of the big screen.

After completing so many projects, it is only a regular tour for the general public, and there is another type of people who come for in-depth tours.

They came to experience the life of Lijiagou people.

In their words, material things have long been free, and in Lijiagou, what they are looking for is spiritual freedom.

Follow the owner of the homestay to experience this kind of life, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, pottery, calligraphy, wood art, lacquer art...

Listen to literature lectures, art lectures, lectures on the Three Teachings, go to Fawang Temple to learn Zen meditation, go to Santai to learn Wuqinxi... I think this kind of life is life.

Even smoked bacon, stuffed sausages, worm tea, rolled dendrobium maple bucket, even simple harvesting vegetables and feeding chickens are all enjoyable.

Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely see Nanshan!

Li Junge divides such a group of people into three categories. The first category is love and kindness. This is true love. I really like it from the heart, and the more I do it, the more I like it.

The second category is that only love is not good. When you talk about it, you are full of yearning and envy. After a few days of living like this, you suddenly feel bored.

There is another category that is even more ridiculous, so I have no choice but to not love it, because others think that I am doing something great, so I do it, purely for the sake of pretending to be coercive and wronging myself.

Ayin couldn't see Li Junge's harsh comments, so he gave him a look: "Why do you care so much? They are all guests!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "What do I care about them? I'm too busy with business. Tomorrow I will take Baida and them up the mountain. Are you really not going?"

Ayin said: "I really can't leave here, you go first, and I will come up when the skewers are delivered."

Li Junge said: "You have so many rules, anyway, I can't figure it out, this time I'm going with only my eyes and no mouth."

"By the way, if there is any trouble with the foursome at Brother University during the seedling opening, you have to stand up to me. Don't say that Uncle Yao doesn't care about their lives, and Auntie will use her airs to train them to death!"

A Yin laughed and said, "It's not as exaggerated as you said. Meixian is now in Lijiagou, and they have the backbone, so we don't need to worry about it."

Li Junge curled his lips straight: "Returning the heart of the master, the slave owner is almost..."

Ayin couldn't help laughing: "You are just jealous of Meixian! She takes care of her well every year, but last year it was you who complained a lot!"

It's meaningless to say this, so Li Junge had no choice but to change the subject and pick up the big brush: "Come on, I'll clean up the dogs and go up the mountain tomorrow to see Grandpa Yu."

A Yin said: "Then I'll pick out clothes for you and tidy you up too."

Li Junge: "..."

Carrying a brush to the back mountain, he blew a whistle to call out a group of Xiasi dogs: "Come over here to wash and wash. I'm going up the mountain to see Zuzu tomorrow."

The wash lasted more than an hour, and when I came back, my grandma and mother prepared a big bag of gifts, which Li Junge would bring to me tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Li Junge took a group of dogs up the mountain.

Grandpa Yu had already packed up and dressed up. When he saw Li Junge bringing the dog over, he smiled and said, "Bai Da and the others are energetic today, good!"

Bai Da is the guy who is best at watching people order dishes. Hearing this, he crawled to Grandpa Yu's side, wagging his tail violently and smiling obsequiously.

Grandpa Yu stroked the dogs' heads: "Today we have to work hard for them again, but Piwa has to go get drums with me first."

Guzang Guzang, the ancient belief of the Miao people, is of course related to drums.

The Miao people believe that the big drum made of the skin of a big-gu ox is the place where the spirits of the ancestors live.

It is the bond and symbol of a blood-related family, and the Miao family called it "he section" or "door section", and established a "covenant".

In fact, it is similar to the patriarchal clan of Confucianism, which maintains the social order of the clan internally and deals with enemy aggression externally.

The "Guzang Festival" is a collective ancestor worship ritual of a long-standing blood-related family handed down from the ancestor worship of the ancient Miao people.

As for its origin, after all, it is still inseparable from the legend of Yongye and Niyong slaughtering cows to worship Mother Butterfly and ushering in a bumper harvest.

However, compared with the ordinary ox sacrifice, the rules and thresholds are much more complicated.

First of all, there must be a general leader before the big sacrifice, called "Guzangtou".

"Guzangtou" can be hereditary, but if the descendants of the previous Guzangtou are unable to serve as Guzangtou this time, they will have to re-elect.

Good quality, being respected, married, having children, living parents, good economic conditions, the oldest family in the village... Various conditions can be the reasons for the selection.

In addition to meeting these conditions, the most important thing is to make the final decision in a straw-knotted way.

Tying grass knots is a popular way in this village. After the autumn harvest, the priest presides over it. Those who meet the conditions will tie grass knots to participate in the selection of drums and heads. In the end, whoever has the longest knot will be selected. This is actually a A kind of divination, let the gods make the final decision.

Four miles and eight towns, the one with the strength to hold this festival is of course Xuantian Village.

But Grandpa Yu's prestige is too high, no one in the village came to run against him.

Therefore, he has become the "Gu Zangtou" of this great festival as a matter of course.

There are also many kinds of drums in the Miao family. Wooden drums are used in the Guzang Festival.

Wooden drums are divided into double drums and single drums, which have always been kept secret. While explaining the rules of the Drum Festival to Li Junge, Grandpa Yu led Li Junge to move out two drums of the same size from a remote and hidden granary in the wooden building. Come on drums.

While wiping the big drum that had not been used for many years with a soft cloth, Grandpa Yu said to Li Junge: "This is the big cowhide drum used for sacrificing ancestors. The body of the drum is hollowed out from a whole section of nanmu, and then the two ends of the nanmu are covered with cowhide. , this is the reunion after more than 50 years..."

"We Miao people live together as a group, and the regional organization formed by the blood lineage has established various villages with 'door money', which are called 'drum clubs'."

"So the drum is a symbol of the gods of the ancestors, so the various rituals and activities of the Guzang Festival are centered around the drum."

Li Junge looked at the two drums. They were nearly two meters long and half a meter in diameter. They were really old.

Such a thick nanmu was hollowed out to make a drum, and Li Junge's heart ached just thinking about it.

However, Grandpa Yu didn't feel sorry for the wood at all. He touched the jujube-colored drum body that had been worn out with a layer of heavy pulp, and said sadly: "This is handed down from the ancestors, and it is usually placed in a long-married and childless family." Middle. It is said that enshrining the double drums can enable the childless to have children, and the offspring will multiply endlessly, so this drum has been kept in our home."

Li Junge said: "Grandpa..."

Grandpa Yu laughed: "There is nothing to regret! Although Ah Yin is not a boy, who can compare with him in all directions?! After this year's sacrifice, I will give the wooden drum to the family who is willing to worship. It used to be I'm afraid that if I meet a prodigal son, I won't take things from my ancestors seriously..."

After finishing speaking, he sighed again: "I heard that in many villages, even the wooden drums for worshiping ancestors and the bronze drums for worshiping Chi You have been moved out and sold..."

"This thing is the residence of the ancestor's soul, Piwa, tell me, what's the difference between selling this and selling things from your ancestral graves? It's a crime..."

Li Junge nodded and said: "Fortunately, there are four grandpas at the foot of the mountain, and Grandpa Yu on the mountain. The dragon boat dragon head over there in Baimi Township, isn't it just sold?"

The reception of the double drums was also very grand. First, the double drums were worshiped, and then Uncle A Chong presented the newly made single drums this year.

The single drum is one size smaller than the double drum. After collecting all the drums used this year, Grandpa Yu led Uncle A Chong and Li Junge to a cliff, where he hid after worshiping the last Guzang Festival under the cliff. An old drum that has decayed.

This ceremony is called "drum turning".

Uncle A Chong introduced to Li Junge: "The single drum is a single piece, slightly shorter than the double drums. It is made and used immediately during the festival. After the drum festival is over, the single drum will be sent to the cave in the mountain to hide, and will not be used again. Rotten. This is similar to the funeral in our Miao family's old time."

Li Junge said: "Then the word Guzang, that's where the name comes from?"

Uncle A Chong said: "I'm not sure about this, but we say it more as the 'Gu Zang Festival', which means the day of eating the offal of the bull, but for you to say, the word Guzang seems more appropriate and elegant. "

In fact, Li Junge had already recalled the shape of the wooden drum, and he had seen this custom in books.

There are more specific and vivid records in the "Yongsui Zhili Hall Records Miaodong Chapter" and "Miao Defense Reading Customs" collected by the fourth grandfather.

"In Miaodong, there is a so-called drum dancer, and the public temple in the Hezhai Village, which is also like the people's invitation to sacrifice..."

"It has been carried out for several years, and the Haizi will be held on a selected day in two months. Each household will kill one cow and steam rice cakes for one stone. The men and women will gather early. There are more than a thousand for the large ones and hundreds for the small ones....

"Miao Wu holds an umbrella, wears long clothes, and shakes a copper bell to summon the gods. Another person hits the bamboo tube, and the other hits the wood..."

"Its wooden sky is covered with raw cowhide on both sides, and one person is dressed in colorful clothes..."

"The rest of the men are dressed in five-colored clothes or red felt, with ponytails and black gauze crowns..."

"Miao women are also in full dress, male external rotation and female internal rotation. They all raise their hands and stamp their feet, their bodies shake, dance their sleeves together, look left and right, and they are not slow or sick. The sound of Lusheng corresponds to the singing, melodious High and low, it can be heard, and it is called a drum-drum viscera..."

However, the article strongly criticizes the ancestor worship activities of the Miao family, which slaughtered cattle in large numbers and seriously affected production, and then applauded the Qing government's explicit prohibition of this custom.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Uncle A Chong. After the drum-turning ceremony, it's time to go down the mountain to pick up the cows.

The robust men in the Miao Village, all dressed in traditional costumes, have already lined up in the Youfangchang, and the dogs in the village are all out today.

Turning over from the back mountain pass is the fifteen-mile downhill passage.

The blue-green team meanders on the mountain road, and along the way, Grandpa Yu introduces the various Guzang Festivals to Li Junge.

This is the largest festival of the Miao family. It is generally held every 13 years and lasts for four years.

The Guzang Festival, which is the official Eight Classics, held a "Dragon Recruiting" ceremony on Shenri in February of the first year.All men, women, old and young in the society gather at the foot of the maple god tree in Yinglong Field, and the "Gu Zangtou" presides over the "Dragon Recruiting" under the colorful treasure chariot.

Then on July Yin Day of this year, the "Wake Up Drum" ceremony will be held.

The ceremony of "Welcoming Drums" will be held on October Mao of the second year.

On the auspicious day of April in the third year, a "cow trial" ceremony is held.

On Chou Day in October of the fourth year, a ritual of killing pigs and offering sacrifices to drums is held, which is called the "White Drum Festival". This is the end ceremony of the "Drum Tibetan Festival".

(End of this chapter)