I created Qin Tianjian in modern times

Chapter 68: Thousands of people danced together to worship the Dragon King, Zhao Qifeng was granted the title of Immortal Class! (first update)
With the construction of the road leading to the top of the mountain completed, large equipment was able to enter the construction site one after another, and the construction of the seven-story octagonal exquisite tower finally began.

When Zhao Qi got the news, he was delighted.

Judging from this progress, it is not impossible to build a seven-story octagonal exquisite tower within two months. In this case, he should focus on other things.

After returning to the temporary office, Zhao Qi immediately made a phone call to the temporary office area of ​​Longjun Qintianjian.

"Transfer to the Folklore Department and ask Director Li to take the call..."

Soon, Zhao Qi heard the voice of Li Tai, director of the Folklore Department:
"Mr. Zhao, I was just about to call you, but I didn't expect you to call me first."

"Director Li, how are things going on here? Have you determined effective folk rituals?"

This matter has always been a heart problem for Zhao Qi, because both this matter and the construction of the pagoda will play a vital role.

During this period of time living in Wushan County, Zhao Qi had a deep understanding of the state of the people.

With high temperatures averaging over [-] degrees, more disaster-stricken people appear every day.

In addition to the city, the crops in the fields in the surrounding villages are about to die from drought. The villagers can only use manpower to transport water from the distant river to maintain the growth of the crops.

But this method can't last for too long. Once the crops in these fields are all dead, it means that there will be many villages with no harvest this year.

There has been a trend in the city where it is difficult to buy and grab groceries. Although other regions are rushing to help, this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause.

Therefore, solving the current natural disaster is also a top priority. The only hope is naturally the snake spirit who is about to be named the river god.

However, the power of this snake spirit alone cannot reverse the situation, so a two-pronged approach is necessary to achieve the best results.

What made Zhao Qi really relieved was that Li Tai quickly said that they had discussed a plan on this matter.

"Director Zhao, we have been studying the local folk customs in Wushan County in the past few days, and finally jointly selected a plan among various folk rituals.

This ceremony is called Sacrifice to the Dragon King, also known as the Dragon King Bodhisattva’s Journey.

This ritual is very special, but it was once popular in Kiriyama County. It is a collective activity to pray for rain.

If the weather is dry for a long time without rain, local people will hold altar sacrifices, ask for water dragons, shout to the emperor and other rituals.

But if these rituals are ineffective, the wooden or clay statue of the Dragon King will be removed from the temple and some action will be taken on it.

This kind of action is divided into two categories because of different regions.

One was punishment. As for being exposed to the hot sun or being whipped, everyone watched and criticized, blaming the Dragon King.

The other is to bribe the Dragon King to make a wish to reshape his golden body, and place grand and sumptuous offerings, or have everyone wear the Dragon King's robes, parade through the streets, and beat gongs and drums so that they can enjoy the incense of all people.

This can be regarded as a relatively special and unique culture among folk customs, and it is also the best solution we have decided together after many discussions so far. "

The moment he heard the words Sacrifice to the Dragon King, relevant information appeared in Zhao Qi's mind.

Indeed, as Li Tai said, this is the most appropriate plan at present.

This kind of culture is popular in Wushan County. I believe older people will be familiar with it.

Under normal circumstances, whenever there is a Dragon King Bodhisattva, the people are not so much in awe as they are extremely resentful.

Otherwise, people in some areas would not have taken extreme measures to intimidate the Dragon King Statue.

But in Zhao Qi's opinion, intimidation methods should be avoided.

However, letting everyone put on Dragon King robes, parade through the streets, and beat gongs and drums would allow the newly-confessed River God to enjoy the incense of all people, thereby using the power of incense to reverse the situation of natural disasters.

"Okay, let's follow this plan."

After getting Zhao Qi's consent, Li Tai also hurriedly informed Zhao Qi of the plan he had planned:

"Mr. Zhao, now that the plan has been determined, let's go to Wushan County immediately.

This kind of action that requires the cooperation of citizens must be coordinated with people from the local Folk Culture Administration Bureau.

It will be relatively simple for them to involve the public. "

Zhao Qi has no objection to this. Now he needs to take charge of the overall situation in two aspects, so he really has no way to turn around.

Therefore, in this matter, the importance of establishing the nine divisions of Qin Tian Jian was once again reflected.

After hanging up the phone, Li Tai quickly summoned fifteen folklorists and rushed to Wushan County on a special plane arranged by the State Secretariat.

After landing, Li Tai and others went straight to the county government without even taking a rest.

The government of each city often sets up a folk culture bureau.

At present, the Bureau divides the existence and manifestation of folk resources into three categories.

The first category is material folk tourism resources, which include production folk customs, gathering folk customs, hunting folk customs, animal husbandry folk customs, farming folk customs, handicraft folk customs, etc.

Most of this kind of folk customs appear within the scope of scenic spots, and they are often used to convey folk culture in the form of display, so that more people can understand the local customs and customs.

The second category is social folk tourism resources. This type of folk culture often appears in villages.

It includes title folk customs, ranking folk customs, kinship folk customs, property inheritance folk customs, etc.

The folk customs that Li Tai and others came to hold this time involved the third category, spiritual folk custom tourism resources.

This type of folk custom is quite special. Although it exists in many places, it is never held publicly.

Because the boundaries between this type of folk custom and superstition are often blurred, it can easily give people bad associations.

But fortunately, this situation will not happen in Wushan County, because Wushan County is a place that attaches great importance to spiritual folk tourism resources.

Of course, this is also due to the developed tourism industry in Wushan County, which enables this spiritual folk custom to rely on a carrier, thus creating a clear difference from superstitious rituals.

Before Li Tai and others rushed to the Folklore Administration Bureau, agents from the State Secret Service went to pave the way and slapped the relevant documents on the table, which even alerted the director of the Administration Bureau.

The current Qintian Prison has not yet been completed, so no documents and notifications have been issued to various units.

Most departments did not know the existence of Qin Tian Jian at all, but it was too troublesome to explain, so they could only temporarily use the name of the State Secret Service.

With the agents paving the way, after Li Tai and others arrived, the management executives warmly welcomed them at the door.

After the simple courtesy, in the conference room, Li Tai also stated the purpose of his visit.

"We need the help of your department to involve as many people as possible to hold the ceremony of worshiping the Dragon King." As a member of the Folk Culture Administration Bureau, everyone here is naturally familiar with the ceremony of worshiping the Dragon King.

This is a kind of local culture in Wushan County. It was common in ancient times, and this ceremony was often held because of severe drought.

It's quite appropriate to hold such a ceremony at this juncture, but what the senior officials don't understand is, what's the point of doing so?
"Professor Li, it's easy to hold this kind of ceremony, but what should we tell the people? We can't tell them that we are praying for rain, right?"

Faced with the inquiry, Li Tai had obviously already thought about it, so he said without hesitation:

“Just tell them that considering the recent natural disasters that Wushan County has suffered, the people are in a depressed mood.

Therefore, a parade with folk customs was specially organized to help everyone relieve their depression.

Don't worry about complaints from the people, as long as they can participate, I guarantee that after this ceremony, there will be a heavy rain to completely solve the drought problem. "

The leaders sitting opposite looked at Li Tai in astonishment.

Even if he is the most authoritative professor, he can't be so confident in predicting the future, right?
Today, the Meteorological Bureau also issued notices to various departments. There has been no sign of rainfall in the recent period. Why did Li Tai keep saying that heavy rain will come after the ceremony?

After participating in the entire meeting, all the leaders of the Folklore Administration Bureau were confused.

Li Tai only told them how to explain to the people, and did not even explain to them the purpose of holding this ceremony.

No one would associate it with praying for rain, because the ritual itself is just a cultural carrier. If this cultural carrier itself is associated with the matter of calling for wind and rain, then this kind of thinking will be regarded as ignorance. .

But after all, there was an approval document from the State Secretariat. Although the leaders were confused, they could only obey the instructions.

Therefore, after the meeting, the leaders of the Folklore Administration Bureau began to contact various media to prepare for the upcoming ceremony.

On the evening news that night, as well as on the official websites of various media outlets, reports on the ceremony of worshiping the Dragon King can be seen almost everywhere.

According to the time discussed by Li Tai and Zhao Qi, combined with the completion time of the seven-story octagonal exquisite tower, the ceremony was finally scheduled to be officially held on August 13th.

“Dear citizens, Wushan County has been hit by natural disasters recently, and Dayan officials are actively responding to them.

Considering that citizens stay at home for a long time, the Folk Culture Administration specially decided to hold a ceremony to worship the Dragon King.

Sacrifice to the Dragon King is a folk culture that has existed in Wushan County since ancient times. Participants in the ceremony need to wear Dragon King robes and Rakshasa masks and parade through the streets beating gongs and drums. It is very lively.

Although there are natural disasters, there is still friendship in the world.

The director of the B&B Cultural Administration said that this event is held for the physical and mental health of the people, and it can also be used to let everyone go out and relieve the depression in their hearts in recent days. "

Seeing relevant reports, citizens were surprised. This was also a new thing for them.

Some young people called their elders at home and asked what the Dragon King ritual was.

From the descriptions of the elders, they seemed to have seen that lively scene.

The short video platform also received instructions from the local department and began to promote the culture of the Dragon King Ceremony and pushed traffic like crazy!
This has indeed attracted the attention of more and more citizens.

"It feels very interesting, and it would be nice to participate."

"I'm almost going crazy at home. I lie in bed and stare at the air conditioner in a daze every day. Since there is such an event, I will definitely be the first to sign up."

"It feels like the Songkran Festival, and it also looks like the English dance in Chao County? I didn't expect this kind of event to be held in Wushan County, so I signed up too!"

More and more people participated in it and filled out the information on the official website to sign up.

Judging from the background data, within three hours after the relevant notification was sent out, the number of applicants exceeded 6.

And this value is still rising, which shows the enthusiasm of the people for this cultural activity.

After learning about this, Li Tai immediately reported the news to Zhao Qi.

"Director Li, you did a good job.

With the participation of the people, it is basically half the success.

They built a god-consecrating platform at the foot of Namsan Mountain in Kirisan County, but claimed that it was part of a ceremony to worship the Dragon King.

I think there will be many people participating in the more than a dozen main urban areas in Wushan County. Depending on the situation, if there are a lot of people, the Dragon King altar can be built in the relevant urban area.

Cooperate with the folk culture bureaus of each major urban area to conduct ceremonies in multiple urban areas at the same time.

Such a powerful incense power is enough for the River God to take advantage of it to quell natural disasters, complete this deification, and ascend to the throne of the Immortal Class! "

"understand!"

Li Tai agreed excitedly. He felt honored to be able to participate in such a huge plan.

Of course, he is also looking forward to seeing the scene of apotheosis!
The people only knew that this was a folk activity, but they did not realize that it was actually a plan behind the Qintian Prison to pray for rain and confer gods.

Local folk culture bureaus have begun to contact factories that often cooperate with the government and allocate large amounts of funds to manufacture Dragon King robes.

The so-called Dragon King robe is actually the special clothing worn during the Dragon King sacrifice ceremony in ancient times.

This costume comes in various colors, with wide robes and long sleeves, and embroidered flying patterns instead of dragon bodies.

After all, this ceremony was popular in ancient times. Who dares to wear a real dragon robe?

In addition to costumes, participants in the ceremony also wear Rakshasa masks while performing ritual dances.

However, people now know nothing about these, so local short videos have begun to frequently show videos related to teaching sacrificial dances. Driven by traffic tilt, the popularity is getting higher and higher, and it has even gradually become a trend on short video platforms.

It is said to be a dance, but it is actually just a few repetitive movements, so it is not difficult to learn.

As news of the local Dragon King Festival ceremony being held in Kirisan County spread online, netizens from other cities also participated in the discussion.

"I feel that this kind of folk cultural activity is very unique. When can our city hold one?"

"Isn't the Dragon King Ceremony a prayer for rain? There is a severe drought in Wushan County right now. It might rain right after the ceremony."

"Upstairs, you Qing Dynasty people are really hard to kill. This is a cultural event, okay? You can really ask for rain!"

Netizens from all over the country are paying close attention to this ceremony. After all, the local momentum has spread the culture of the Dragon King Festival to the sky.

During this period, the Conferred God Platform at the foot of Nanshan Mountain was completed according to the Bagua directions, and everything seemed to be ready.

The same is true in various major urban areas. The entire ceremony will be like a trickle of water in the mountains that eventually returns to the sea.

Although the ceremony is held in various urban areas of Wushan County, the final incense will be gathered on the Nanshan God Conferment Platform, where Zhao Qi will personally lead the ceremony and confer the title of God!
(End of this chapter)