Riding the wind of rebirth

Also because the content of this paper is too exaggerated, Zhou Zhi was not in a hurry to publish it. This time he went to Beijing to seek the opinions of the bigwigs. After getting their affirmation, he just submitted it to the editorial department of "Literature and History". The outside world does not know about it yet.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi was very familiar with the Yi people's calendar. In addition to the October calendar, the Yi people also had two older calendars, which were not based on astronomical observations, but were two "body calendars" invented based on the human body.

One is a calendar based on the menstrual cycle of the female tribal leader, with twenty-eight days as a month and thirteen months as a year. This calendar has been used for a long time in the ancient Yi society and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even now, some Yi villages in the deep mountains still arrange their festivals according to this calendar.

Another way is to arrange it according to the fingers of the hands and feet, with twenty days in a month, eighteen months in a year, plus the "New Year's Day" to make up a year, which is called the eighteen-month calendar.

Of course, as a calendar it must be consistent with the solar year. These two physical calendars must also follow this rule, but compared to the October calendar, it is a bit rough, but it may be even older than the October calendar.

In other words, it is possible that the Chinese ancestors mastered the calendar for more than tens of thousands of years.

However, without any historical records like Xia Xiaozheng to refer to, and no carvings from the New and Old Stone Ages to verify it, Zhou Zhi could only attribute it to his own "reasonable guess."

Zhou Zhi felt that these things were very important to the Yi people, so he prepared to spread them to Erjia when he got the chance.

But Erjia obviously didn't think so. Before Zhou Zhi could say anything, he jumped over to the water's edge and said, "We caught a fish! Brother Elbow, reel in the line!"

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's just one post. Wait a little longer!"

Lifting river fishing is a little troublesome to catch fish. After the fishing tag is shaken back, you need to take one down before you can shake it back a distance, otherwise the fishing line will get tangled on the reel.

Therefore, after the first fish is hooked, there is no need to rush to take it off the hook. You can let the fish struggle freely, which will cause the lower line to shake, and the shaking of the lower line will drive other fish to hook. In this way, the entire fishing line on the lower line becomes "live bait", which increases the enthusiasm of the fish to feed.

As the fishing line shook more and more violently, it meant that fish kept biting the sub-lines. Zhou Zhi felt that his hand had considerable weight, so he swung the lower line back towards himself.

Erjia was waiting by the water. When the first fish tag was swung in front of him, he took it down, quickly wrapped the fishing line around the tag, and placed it in front of himself.

Then the second fish card appears, and continue with the same process.

Soon a fish tag with a fish on it was shaken in front of him. Erjia also took down the fish tag and wrapped it up, leaving the fish hook in his mouth and throwing them into the bucket together.

The rest of the process was done in the same way. Three or five fish of varying sizes were quickly collected. Zhou Zhi began to pull the lower line back, while Er Jia began to replace the fish tags between each clip.

After the fishing gear was restored, Erjia went to the bucket and removed the fishhook from the fish's mouth, separated the fish from the fish tag, and put the fish into the fish guard.

“Don’t be in a hurry! Make sure you know what kind of fish it is before releasing it. If it’s a protected species, it’s illegal to put it in the protected area!” Zhou Zhi, who lives by the Yangtze River, certainly knows the principle that “the stranger the fish, the faster the judgment.”

This is also a lesson. I didn't know there were fish in the Meigu River before, but later I found that there were many kinds of fish. So Zhou Zhi ran to the Autonomous Prefecture Agricultural Science Institute and found a Liangshan Prefecture Fish Survey Manual. He discovered that there were more than 50 species of fish in the Meigu River, which looked extremely desolate.

In addition to the common carp, crucian carp, black carp, broad-finned carp and the like, there are also a large number of species that are unique to plateau rivers, including a naked carp, five species of schizothorax, more than ten species of loaches, and eight species of Siluriformes.

These specialty varieties are all very delicious, but many of them are protected species, and you could be convicted if caught poaching them.

Although Zhou Zhi also knew that it was impossible for anyone in Lianhe Township to check these things now and he was the only one who could check them, he was determined to do a good job in popularizing science.

"I recognize it, it's a Ya fish! This is a Ya fish!" The Ya fish is named after Yazhou, a geographical indication of the country. Its scientific name is actually "Schizothorax schizothorax", and it is distributed in the Jinsha River, Anning River, and Meigu River.

This fish is a precious aquatic product in Yazhou. It is shaped like a carp, with scales as fine as trout. It has a smooth taste, tender meat, and is rich in nutrients. You will never get tired of eating it for a long time.

Its most distinctive feature is that there is a small bone hidden in its forehead, shaped like a sword.

According to legend, this sword was created when Nuwa accidentally dropped it into the water while repairing the sky. Therefore, this sword has become the biggest symbol to identify the authenticity of Yayu.

This fish has been very famous since ancient times. Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote: "Fish know the origin of Bing cave, and wine remembers Pitong without selling it." Song Qi of the Song Dynasty wrote in a poem: "Erbing cave, the lack of good fish. Carp and trout scales, the taste is precious and rich." They are all talking about this fish.

However, this kind of seafood, which is sold at a sky-high price in Jiazhou and Yazhou and now costs 70 to 81 kilograms, is ignored in Lianhe Township. People are very greedy for it and it is basically the first thing caught every time they go fishing.

And they are all quite big, each weighing around one kilogram. Zhou Zhi is not even willing to take those that are smaller than half a kilogram.

The Ya fish in Erjia's hand is very beautiful, with a big tail, a thin body and small scales. This kind of fish is found in Yazhou and Jiazhou. Because the river water is bluish-black, the fish is also black.

But in the Meigu River, the fish is very light in color, brownish yellow, and even has a little iridescence in the sun, which looks very beautiful.

This fish has a high oxygen requirement, so Zhou Zhi quickly stopped Erjia from showing off: "Protect them, protect them. Hehe, these fish are quite big, we're going to have a good harvest today!"

"That's why I called you barbaric early in the morning. I knew today would be a good day, but you were still not happy!" Erjia complained while taking the fish into the guardhouse.

"Do you have rice milled at home?" Zhou Zhi suddenly thought of a question and asked while shaking the pole, "Are you here to avoid work at home? Don't use me as a shield when you get beaten by your father-in-law!"

"No!" Erjia shouted, "Ada and Amo have already prepared it! They will come to the grain station to deliver the bait in a while. Amo said you are the best to us, so we will give you a five-jin piece!"

"Oh my God, if every family has the same idea as you, Amo, I won't have to eat anything else this year..." Zhou Zhi was shocked.

"Amo said you definitely can't eat it, but you can stay at school and cook for us. He said it's not good to not help with school affairs."

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh. The villagers just hadn't been out and seen the world, or were simply simple in nature, but they were not stupid. Sometimes they even understood the ways of the world better than the people in the city.

However, Erjia must have overheard the couple's discussion, so he laughed and scolded: "You'd better be careful to get spanked if you eavesdrop on adults talking!"

"Erjia! Elbow! What are you doing?"

“Is this fishing?”

“This equipment is so weird!”

Zhou Zhi turned around and saw Li Lu, Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao coming over. Li Lu was holding the two little girls, Ziqi Aguo and Qiumo Lili, and behind them were Muxia Laha, the Amurano brothers, as well as several other kids including Chier, Rimu, Sezi, Lazi and others.

"I'm fishing. Today is the New Rice Festival, so I'll add more food!" Zhou Zhi looked a little proud. (End of this chapter)