Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1648 Two of the Three

These legends all show that Bimos came into being a long time ago. According to Yi legend, the earliest Bimo family was the "Shi Zi Shi De" family. Later, families such as the "Liang Lin" and "She She" successively became Bimos.

According to legend, the famous Bimos are Adulpu and Biashilaze, who are famous for their great magical powers. It is said that the Bimo was originally held by the Zimo, the highest ruling class of the Yi nationality, and then by the Nuohe class, and then passed to the Qunuo class, the ruled class.

However, before the founding of New China, Bimos in the Zimo level were already very rare, and even the Nohe level was only reached by a few Gu Lao families.

A large number of Bimos are from Qunuo. Famous Qunuo Bimo families include "Jike", "Shama", "Qubi", "Ayu" and so on. These families are hereditary Bimo families with a long history.

Bimo has a very high status in Yi society and is quite sacred. The upper social classes in ancient Yi society were "Zimo Bigezhuo", where "Zi" means chieftain, "Mo" means judge, and "Bi" means Bimo.

The remaining "Ge" refers to craftsmen, and "Zhuo" refers to common people, but not ordinary people, but people from aristocratic families.

Among the five levels, Bimo ranks third. In fact, he is a great intellectual who inherits Yi culture and spreads the unified Yi language.

There is a saying in the Yi language, "If Bimo does not stand up to salute the chieftain when he arrives, it is not auspicious if Bimo stands up to salute him. However, if Bimo is forced to stand up to salute the chieftain, it is not a good sign for the chieftain.

This fully demonstrates the high status of Bimo in Yi society, and no one can infringe on Bimo's property and person. They play an important role in Yi society's religious beliefs, history, education, science and technology, life, law, marriage, etiquette, art, medicine, exploration, funerals, art, predicting the future, etc.

Even with the evolution of society, many Black Yi nouveau riche who originally belonged to slave-owning families had to hire Bimos as teachers for their families after they rose to power. This is how the Han Emperor Gaozu relied on Sun Shutong to formulate etiquette and said, "Today I know how noble it is to be an emperor."

Zhou Zhi knew that Tu Liangzhi's father was the only surviving Nohebimo, who belonged to the Jike family. The name Tu Liangzhi was the Chinese name he used when he joined the army, and he has been using it ever since.

In the old man's eyes, his son was simply an evil animal, destroying tradition and going against the will of heaven;

In his son's eyes, the old man is a feudal remnant, a monster, and an old stubborn man.

Both of them were very famous people in Lianhe Township, and even in Meigu County, but their family members couldn't get along with them.

"I think what we need more are new agricultural technologies, such as planting, breeding, farm machinery and electricity," Tu Liangzhi said, "and teachers for the nine-year compulsory education. If Bimos represent knowledge, these are the contemporary Bimos that we Yi people need most, not..."

After saying that, he glanced inside the door. He still felt a little guilty about the old man suddenly appearing.

Zhou Zhi was too lazy to argue with Tu Liangzhi about the details. After all, they were all here and there was plenty of time later. He just smiled and said, "The kids are back. Let's give them candies together. We agreed to give them one more candy after they wash their faces, so we should give Lanuo and Aguo one more too."

After saying that, he gave each of them a candy.

"You will be a good teacher." Tu Liangzhi sighed, but could only shake his head: "It would be great if the county education bureau sent you..."

After distributing candies to the kids, Tu Liangzhi asked everyone to leave. Aguo also invited Zhou Zhi to live at her house, but Tu Liangzhi stopped him, saying that they could talk about it later and let them settle down at the grain station today.

The grain station is what the locals call this place. It is actually a large building with mud walls, courtyards, buildings and wooden doors.

In the early years, this was the chieftain's house. Later, of course, the chieftain was gone, and the government turned it into a grain station.

Later, this place became a grain station, warehouse, township office, township primary school, temporary guesthouse for work teams, and even a combination of township cadres' dormitory and family compound. In short, it fits the grassroots characteristics of "thousands of threads above and one needle below".

After entering the big wooden door, there is a wing room on each side. The wing rooms are two-story. You can see that there were pillars for building a shed on the top floor in the early years. During the Tusi period, there were two watchtowers here to guard the gate. There were armed guards on duty in turns on the upper floors, and the security was very strict.

After entering the gate is a large courtyard that is similar to a small playground. There used to be sheds on both sides of the gate, where cattle and horses were tied at night and let out to graze during the day.

Unlike the Han people who like to place cattle and horses behind their houses, ethnic minorities like to place them in front. This is also an important means of declaring the family's strength.

Of course it is gone now. The row against the wall has been converted into offices of the township government and classrooms of the township primary school.

There are side rooms on both sides. One side is the kitchen, canteen, warehouse, activity room, and study room, and the other side is the family quarters, cadres' dormitory, and duty room.

The most imposing building opposite the gate is a two-story earthen-walled building with five rooms neatly arranged on the upper and lower floors. It is also a warehouse, as well as a broadcasting room, a large conference room, and an archive room.

Many rooms are empty. They were where temporary work teams from the government, grain stations, electricity, communications, etc. lived. But now they are all empty, with only bed frames but no bedding.

As soon as he entered the gate, Tu Liangcai turned off the dim light in front of the gate. At that time, Zhou Zhi was very curious about why he did that, but later he understood that it was because they were poor and had to save as much as possible.

"Abi, there are guests!" Tuliangzhi shouted as he entered the door, his voice so loud that it echoed throughout the yard.

A woman in traditional Yi clothing poked her head out from the door of the small courtyard on the right: "Hey! Welcome!"

Although he said welcome, there was a look of sadness on his face.

"Aren't there two eggs left? Scramble them. This is a college student from the provincial capital. He agreed to teach for us for a while."

"I heard that the secretary of our county is only a college graduate. Fire him!" Tu Liangzhi waved his hand.

"But that was reserved for A Zi..." The woman was a little unhappy.

"Wasn't Ah Zi back until the weekend? The hen still had time to give birth..."

Zhou Zhi waved his hand quickly: "No, no, I brought some food I bought in the county town at noon. If you don't mind, let's heat it up and eat together?"

"Is there anything delicious?" At this time, a young man came out from the dormitory building. He was dressed a little more fashionably, in jeans and a sweatshirt. "Where is it?"

"This is our township's accountant, sent by the county to help us. Wu Renzhong, you young people are easy to get along with." Tu Liangzhi said, "It will be good for you to keep company from now on."

"Hello," Zhou Zhi took the initiative to extend his hand to the young man. In his previous life, this young man and himself were known as the two of the three carriages in Lianhe Township. "My name is Zhou Zhi, and I'm here to investigate the Bimo culture."

"Hello, my name is Wu Renzhong. I came here from the County Light Industry Bureau to help. I am now the assistant to the township head and also the accountant."