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424: The background pictures in the Xie family's children's catalog are not common antique works of art, but various spiritual herbs, spiritual herbs in the true sense.

This means that this invitation is not an ordinary invitation, it is likely to be a hidden door auction.

Lin Li took a deep breath and asked, "Representative Xie, this invitation seems to be something extraordinary."

Representative Xie saw that Lin Li was tempted, and replied with a smile: "Yes, our leader managed to get this invitation card. It can be said that we have worked hard to satisfy Mr. Lin."

Lin Li accepted the invitation and said, "Thank you for your leadership on my behalf."

Representative Xie replied: "Yes, I hope we can cooperate happily."

Lin Li checked the invitation carefully, and asked, "The address and time are not written here, is there something missing?"

Representative Xie replied: "I swear in the name of the Xie family's children, I am definitely not fooling Mr. Lin. Because this auction is special, ordinary people cannot enter, so the secrecy mechanism is ridiculously high. Only when the auction is about the same time, people will know." You will be informed of the time and place, but as to whether you will arrive, that is all they care about."

"Sure enough."

Lin Li smiled wryly, and asked, "What's your relationship with Xie Yishan?"

Representative Xie actually used the name of the Xie family, which shows that his status is not ordinary.

Representative Xie replied with a wry smile: "Strictly speaking, I am also a member of the Xie family, Xie Yishan's cousin, but my blood is a little bit farther away, and I don't have any special talents, so I don't pay attention to it anymore. Once, if I hadn't had the cheek to ask Xie Yishan, otherwise I don't know what I can do to impress Mr. Lin."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Lin Li was very satisfied with such a gift, and naturally had a good impression of Representative Xie.

Representative Xie hurriedly said goodbye: "Then we don't dare to bother you, so let's take our leave."

Lin Li got up to bid farewell.

After seeing off Representative Xie and his party, Lin Li took out the invitation card with a bright smile on his face.As the saying goes, the long drought is in the nectar, so it is now.

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Back to camp.

But the camp has changed, because the archaeological team is getting bigger and bigger, those members who must stand on the front line will still stay in the underground palace, and people like Lin Li don't need to drill the underground palace every moment, they only need to explore once a few days and summarize once Those who have to live must be transferred to places with better conditions.

This place is a minority cottage about ten miles away from the underground palace.

A simple road has been built between the village and the underground palace. Although it is not very easy to use, it can barely drive a car, which can facilitate the work of those academic experts.With a better environment, the scale of archaeology is getting bigger and bigger, and everyone's enthusiasm is also higher.

Due to the change of living environment, Lin Li's life has also become organized.

His current job is to enter the underground palace for an assessment once every two days, and then hold a meeting with the team. The rest of the time is spent practicing and instilling vitality, which is very fulfilling.

After half a month like this, Lin Li actually accumulated 25 pearl fruits, which is enough to refine the True Essence Pill 25 times.Such an achievement is surprising.

"Xiao Li, hurry up and take a look!"

Lin Li was still intoxicated in his cultivation, Bi Han shouted outside.

"Hey, what day is it today, so lively?"

As soon as Lin Li came out, he saw the noisy and lively scene in the village. He was a little puzzled, and murmured, "Why is it a bit like the sacrificial ceremony of the ancient tribe?"

Lin Li saw a group of people who seemed to be playing the Great Dance, or playing a bonfire banquet, and couldn't turn his head for a while.

Seeing Lin Li, Team Leader Qiu hurriedly pulled him back, and reminded him in a low voice: "Today is a family festival, a very special festival. If you are not interested, just take a look and don't go over to interfere."

"No, this seems to be Wu Nuo!"

Lin Li took a closer look and saw something mysterious.

From a formal historical point of view, Nuo is a very seasonal sacrificial activity, and the object of its sacrifice is a kind of divine bird.

Nuo culture is an ancient primitive culture and an important part of Chinese traditional culture.The ancient ancestors lived and reproduced in the conquest of nature, and the desire to survive required the help of religious concepts to surpass themselves. The descendants of the dragon created a splendid Wu Nuo culture with great romanticism.

Nuo is the name for people to avoid their difficulties, which means "to frighten and drive away the ghosts of the epidemic".Nuo activities meet the psychological requirements of believers in terms of life consciousness. For a long time, the inheritance and dissemination of Wu Nuo has been integrated into customs. Even in modern times, it still exists among the people in the form of traditional culture.

As for the Wunuo activities that can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Lin Li has always only heard of the name but not the form. Now that he has a rare opportunity, he naturally has to savor it carefully.

It has to be said that Nuo culture is incompatible with modern scientific concepts, but the humanistic, historical, and artistic information it carries are precious materials that cannot be replaced.Lin Li was lucky to see it, otherwise he would not have been able to witness this folk activity that has been passed down through the ages and is almost extinct.

Lin Li watched the cumbersome rituals such as burning incense, singing and dancing, flames, lanterns, arrays, routes, etc. with gusto, as if everything was the best historical relic, and he refused to miss even the slightest movement.Perhaps because of Lin Li's concentration, he was invited by the girls in the village to dance and pray together.

At the end of the ceremony, the enthusiastic villagers gave Lin Li and them gifts.

A beautiful girl delivered a box to Lin Li.

"This is?"

When Lin Li saw this antique exquisite box, he was a little puzzled, but he accepted it respectfully.

The girl said: "Our patriarch said that you are the most honored guest and are entitled to this."

Lin Li nodded his thanks.

Team Leader Qiu reminded with a smile: "This is a gift from someone. Don't refuse it. You can't even throw it away and pass it on. Otherwise, it will be rude to them."

"mask!"

Lin Li opened it and found that it was a mask made of a very special material, and judging from its characteristics, it seemed to be a rare singing and dancing mask.

The ancient Nuo culture has derived a unique mask art. Various masks show a rich cultural background, and there are considerable records in various places. Among them, Tibetan masks are the most special, vividly interpreting the essence of Tibetan culture. It can be described as a world of its own.

Masks, called "Ba" in Tibetan, are mainly used in various folk performances. They are directly related to people's daily life, work, and entertainment, and they spread all over Tibet.By the Qing Dynasty, Tibetan opera was widely popular among the people, and its repertoire and genre became more colorful.

Lin Li's expression was a little strange.It's not that he has an opinion on the other person, or that he is different from others' hospitality, it's just that he feels a little awkward.

Team Leader Qiu said: "This face doesn't seem to be a simple thing, it's your face."

Lin Li accepted with a wry smile.

Lin Li then picked up the mask and played with it, while Xu Nanxia explained, "This is the king's mask among Tibetan masks."

"King, no wonder he always calls you the most honored guest!"

Group leader Qiu suddenly came over, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Xu, what is my mask? Xiaoli's is red, and mine is light red. Why does it feel a level inferior to his?"

Xu Nanxia wryly smiled and said, "You are a minister's mask."

Team leader Qiu muttered: "March and minister, the level is indeed quite different."

Compared with religious masks, Tibetan opera masks have a strong secular tendency and folk color in shape.The themes of the performance mainly include historical stories and mythological characters, gods and animals.The masks of kings, ministers, lamas, old women, and old men in Tibetan opera masks have unique personality characteristics; the creation of gods, ghosts, and animal masks in the plot, although there are obvious traces of religious masks, are mostly personified and endowed with human emotion.The truth, goodness, beauty and falsehood, ugliness and evil of human beings are all embodied in the mask.The masks are multi-colored, and different colors symbolize different character traits, such as dark red for the king, light red for ministers, yellow for living Buddhas, blue for villains, and half black and half white for double-dealers, etc.At the beginning of Tibetan opera, the characters wearing hunter masks were the first to appear.Hunter masks are mostly blue or cyan.

Everyone laughed.

At this time, the patriarch that the girl mentioned produced a few more distinctive masks, and after distributing them, they began to pray to the sky.The solemn and solemn demeanor, as well as the weird dance with a wonderful rhythm, not only made everyone nervous.

Team leader Qiu asked: "That mask is so weird, what exactly is it?"

Xu Nanxia replied: "That's the Tiaoshen mask! It's specially made for the Nuo dance."

Lin Li didn't know much about masks, he just happened to see them before, and he knew a little bit about them. Compared with Xu Nanxia, ​​he was nothing compared to Xu Nanxia.If it wasn't for this coincidence, and Xu Nanxia mentioned it, otherwise he would have forgotten this knowledge.

Tibetan Tiaoshen masks and drama masks tend to express and symbolize the artistic style, with rough and exaggerated shapes, accompanied by the sound of sonorous drums and powerful dancing postures, and their majestic deterrent force is aggressive.The artistic styles of masks in different regions are obviously different, and the masks in U-Tsang are more refined and strictly abide by the law.The masks in the Kham area of ​​eastern Tibet are fierce, weird and shocking.A large number of masks belonging to soft sculptures are all folk images. The artist absorbs the mortal moods in a concise way and creates vivid faces.

Bi Han quietly took out a weird face and asked: "Group Leader Qiu got a ministerial mask, I guess I gave it to him because of his leadership. But what do I represent? See It looks a bit like a showman, neither fish nor fowl, and it doesn't look like a serious thing by any means."

Xu Nanxia replied with a smile: "Your one is a singing and dancing mask! It is probably because you were more active before, so I gave you such a gift."

"Uh!"

Bi Han was speechless for a moment.