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Everyone held back their laughter and followed him to an open place on the side, looking at the majestic Coronet Peak.

"But he is a monotheist!" He Huan continued, "The missionaries will definitely not allow you to take God's medicine..."

"Hahaha……"

"Serious, serious!" He Huan pressed his hand down solemnly.

Everyone desperately held back.

"Going to sacrifice to other gods, singing and dancing to please other gods. So what to do? They have encountered opposition from the masses, so they did not directly deny their gods when they came again.

They put it another way, saying that there are gods and elves in their religion, but they belong to the side of Satan, and there is only one god of justice.

Do we compatriots of ethnic minorities accept this statement? "

Everyone looked at him.

"Accept it! Because they don't regard God as perfect. No one is perfect, and no god is perfect! The gods in our country all have their own petty tempers!"

"Hahaha……"

"People who worship gods also have their own tempers, so they worship gods and curse gods. Now, missionaries say that your gods are still there, and they are from Satan's side. They: oh."

Everyone can't laugh or cry.

"Then the missionaries began to elevate the status of God. You see, your god wants you to worship, and God only needs to praise. In one click, there is a distinction between good and evil, right?

For this reason, they specially wrote hymns in Lisu language, made records, and used the records to play hymns!God!record!that era!Do you know how amazing it is?

A man's voice actually came from a magical gadget, and it was speaking in Lisu language!This is the voice of God!Do you still not recognize that you are a child of God? "

The experts covered their foreheads, this was indeed equivalent to a miracle for the masses at that time!It seems that the power of God is divided, but behind it is the promotion of science and technology!

"At that time in our country, no god could appear to this extent! No god could directly talk to people! Only God did it!

Usually, everyone can only pray to the gods through the wizard.Now that God has appeared, you can pray to him directly, and the crowd can hear him, so he can definitely hear the crowd!

Doesn't this greatly strengthen your faith?The gods are intangible, but God really exists!They took advantage of this technology and information gap! "

"That's not asking for Turin, right?" Liang Ange asked.

"Then you have to check yourself, whether you did something wrong. You came to the world with original sin, you are not suffering, you are here to redeem."

Liang Ange covered his face and turned his head away.

"That's why the Nu people also refer to Catholicism and Christianity as Lisu religion! Because God speaks Lisu language!"

Everyone is speechless.Director Lu nodded, "Yes, there are still many people saying that."

"Then the missionaries created the Lisu script and taught them to sing hymns.

Both Nu and Lisu are ethnic groups who can live without eating salt and without singing.If you have a mouth, you can sing; if you have feet, you can dance.Everyone is born to sing and dance, to sing and dance to everything.

In addition to chatting, expressing feelings, and venting emotions, their singing and dancing are also carriers of primitive beliefs such as nature worship, god worship, ancestor worship, and totem worship. …

Preventing them from singing and dancing is tantamount to gagging their mouths and binding their hands and feet.

The missionaries originally wanted to demolish the altars, sacred trees, sacred stones, etc. of their primitive religion, which aroused their resistance.Later, they changed a method.

Since you like to sing, come to church and sing hymns!

This satisfies their hobby of singing, allows them to gradually get rid of the influence and dependence on traditional singing and dancing and their original beliefs, and promotes the spread of Christianity through songs.

Although they could sing hymns in their own language, they also danced originally, which is inseparable.

Similarly, dance also carries their primitive beliefs.For example, dancing to gods and imitating animals, many of them are derived from the worship of nature with animism.

It turned out that everyone gathered around the firepit, around the bonfire, singing and dancing in the fields and in the mountains.But the church is a solemn space. To sing hymns, one can only hold the "Hymn" respectfully with both hands, without moving hands or feet.

Moreover, the content of the hymn is single, and everyone was very uncomfortable at first.

Later, generations of missionaries collected and added the four-part chorus "Hallelujah" by German musicians, the theme song of the British movie "Blue Bridge", Scottish folk songs, and American folk songs to the hymn collection.

They can sing more.But they are not allowed to sing the songs of their own nation. "

Everyone sighed in unison.

"Now the Lisu people still have a four-part chorus singing the Lisu version of "Hallelujah"."

Gu Ju and Lu Ju nodded.

"I once performed in big cities and abroad, and was called art by many musicians. I don't deny that it is art. But is folk song and dance witchcraft?"

He Huan nodded, "It is true that many of them come from witchcraft, but they are also the creation and inheritance of our ancestors for thousands of years, and our history and culture for thousands of years. There is no distinction between superior and inferior. It may even be more important!"

The experts sighed heavily.

Gu Ju nodded, "I started to ask Xiao Bailong if he wanted to listen to the four-part chorus? He said no."

"I'm not prejudiced about this. I was planning to go to church and listen to it on the way back at the end of the trip. However, we must first dig out the original music of the nation. I didn't expect to be able to sing in this era!"

Director Lu was a little embarrassed. It seemed that although Xiao Bailong understood, he was still a little angry.

Gu Ju said: "It is true that there are more Lisu people, their beliefs are more mixed, and they are more widely distributed and have more contact with the outside world. Some people who strictly abide by the precepts no longer sing or dance, but many young people are still happy to sing and dance. No Letting them sing and dance is really worse than cutting off their hands and feet!"

He Huan said: "Our people's worship of the many gods of nature and all things is complicated. They accept that no one is perfect, and no god is perfect.

Every god has its own personality, so at the beginning they recognized God's greatness, but they didn't despise their own god.When Western religion was first introduced, the missionaries asked them to build churches, and they had to sacrifice trees when they felled trees.

Sing and dance sacrifices to the elves and tree gods, and cut down trees only after obtaining permission.When the missionary saw it, he frowned, and said that you don't need to sacrifice to gods and elves, you just need to recite the Lord and Mary, and you can be chopped off. "...

Liang Ange said unhappily, "The elf is very angry!"

Everyone laughed.

He Huan laughed and said, "There's nothing you can do to get angry. Just because our gods are too human, they have human weaknesses, and they were taken advantage of.

The worship of nature with animism is often considered to be a manifestation of the backwardness of primitive society, but it is the kind of religion that is most friendly to nature.

You have to hunt, cut trees, and reclaim the land. You don’t just do it randomly. There are rules.

When hunting, you should sing the hunting song, so that you can be in the range where you are. You can't shoot the head of the cow with horns, because the disappearance of the head of the cow will bring disaster to the herd.

Although their land is barren and they rely on slash-and-burn farming, they don't set fire everywhere, and they have a fixed range and time.

When cutting trees, there is always a piece of sacred forest that cannot be cut down or grazed.Especially those ancient trees are often worshiped by them as gods.

It is precisely because of such worship that so many resources of ancient and famous trees are preserved for us.

They deal with nature every day, and have long summed up a set of methods to live in harmony with nature.

This is very common among ethnic minorities in Yunzhou, so the natural environment in Yunzhou was well protected.Because people worship trees, worship water, worship mountains and stones, worship flowers, birds, fish and animals, and worship this nature and everything conceived by nature!
These worships have given nature time to recuperate, so that nature can continuously provide us with supplies.

It is inaccurate to call the primitive worship of animism superstition, and those with complete rituals and strict precepts called religions.

Isn't this a kind of bullying by a strong culture against a weak one?

Everything in this world does have a spirit, you believe in this and respect this, only then can you protect it and benefit ourselves.

Without mountain gods, tree gods, water gods, beast gods, etc., who are the common owners of nature, can it be that only humans become gods and can protect our homeland? "

Everyone nods.Lu Ju and Gu Ju also felt the same way.

"Our primitive religion is simple, as sincere as a child, and believes that all things have animism. But now, we have basically discarded this.

Now that the environment is getting worse and worse, and environmental protection is being talked about every day, shouldn't this kind of primitive worship of animism be promoted?We should be in awe of nature. "

Experts agree.Chen Ying's eyes were full of admiration.The camera light is on the little white dragon!

"In the end, they shouted for the Lord and the Virgin Mary, cut down the sacred tree they had worshiped for thousands of years, and built the church with the wood of the sacred tree.

Since then, the most magnificent church in the ruined village has replaced all gods and elves.The original nature worship of many gods became the worship of one god.

The worship of one god conflicts with the worship of multiple gods, so the spokespersons of those gods disappeared, and the rituals were simplified.Now, even songs and dances are no longer sung or danced.Can we only sing hymns and Western folk songs? "

The crowd was silent.

He Huan turned his head and looked at the Crown Peak of Gaoligong Mountain, "This is our land, no one can stop us from singing our own songs and dancing our own dances on our own land, remembering our ancestors, and worshiping our gods! We can choose , but no one can stop it."  …

Everyone is also looking at this great and magical mountain and river!How can you not believe in animism?How can you not sing and dance in front of this great nature?

"Of course, we can't blame them. Because the way others spread culture and beliefs is very clever, but how do we do it in Central Plains?

In the past 2000 years, although the Central Plains dynasty regarded this land as their own domain, they did not really regard the people on this land as a family.

The marginalization of culture and status will inevitably allow other forces and cultures to take advantage of it.Our Central Plains dynasty has always preached enlightenment, from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang, to the Qing Dynasty, it was all enlightenment, and then they said they would not listen to enlightenment.

So, how did the feudal dynasty educate?Zhu Yuanzhang burned down the Wuhua Building, established many schools, and there are Confucian temples everywhere in Yunzhou.Within Baoshan, Sinicization has been very successful.

But the area around the Nu River has always been a marginal area.It was not until the 30s that a Chinese language school was established here in Zhizhiluo.Then they didn't want to learn it, because it was still a pedagogical gesture at that time.

When missionaries came to preach, they did not preach in English and French, they preached in Lisu, and even created Lisu characters based on their language.See the difference? "

Everyone nodded.

"After liberation, the state also helped many ethnic minorities sort out and create characters. Excavating and protecting ethnic minority culture does not conflict with our mainstream culture, but it will make them feel respected, more proud of their own nation, and have a greater sense of respect for the entire nation. The Chinese nation has a greater sense of belonging, making the 56 flowers more colorful."

"Well." The experts burst into tears, this is the meaning of their work!

Gu Ju and Lu Ju were deeply moved. Gu Ju wiped his eyes and said, "Yes! National things cannot be discarded! We do not resist foreign cultures, but we cannot abandon our own traditional culture at the expense of it!

Fortunately, young people nowadays love traditional culture more and more!Xiaobailong's explanation of the history and culture of our Lisu people yesterday made our Lisu compatriots so happy! "

"We tolerate foreign cultures, but we must not forget our own roots!" Lu Ju also said excitedly, "No one can stop us from worshiping our own mountains and rivers and ancestors! Nothing can stop us from singing our own national songs and dancing our own national dances! "

Everyone felt relieved and hoped that the Nu people could sing their tunes and dance their dances again!