primitive survival evolution

Chapter 49 The Birth of the Ginger Tribe
After a new rain, the green mountains and green valleys look more and more quiet, the sun hangs in the sky, and the cool breeze blows.

The bright morning light shines on the woods, the spring water flows through the rocks, and there are bursts of laughter in the valley. It turns out that a group of women and children are gathering at the edge of the woods. Although the fragrance of spring has long since passed away, the crops here are full of vitality.

"This is the valley of our Taka tribe. The tribe is on the mountain. Even if a giant beast breaks into the valley, it will not run to the mountain. After harvesting the food, I will send someone to build a gate at the entrance of the valley."

"Look, that's the little corn we grow. Will your tribe grow food?"

Li Yan introduced the valley to the Yangyan clan leader. Behind them were dozens of tribesmen carrying various supplies, as well as dinosaurs from the Taka tribe and more than a dozen goats raised by the Yang tribe.

Patriarch Yangyan quickly called a few clansmen, who had several gourds hanging on their bodies.

Patriarch Yangyan introduced: "Our Yang tribe also grows crops, which are corn, cabbage, beans, and gourds that can be used for this kind of utensils."

Gourds are a very valuable crop. Before the appearance of pottery, people would use gourds to preserve seeds. When they are planted next year, the gourds can not only be used as water pots, ladles and other utensils, but can also be used for food.

Li Yan took the gourd from the Yang Tribe and carefully inspected the seeds one by one. He was very satisfied. Late Homo sapiens (same as modern humans) already knew how to plant and domesticate crops. Obtaining these domesticated seeds will undoubtedly benefit people. Shorten the long years of domestication of wild crops.

Leading the team back to the foot of the mountain mightily, the men and women working in the fields left their work and ran to greet them one by one, and some people climbed up the mountain to inform the people in the tribe.

The first thing they did when they came back was to house Parasaurolophus, Elephant, and Dilophosaurus. The sheep tribe only had sheep, and their patriarch was just a low-level warrior. They did not tame dinosaurs and other ferocious beasts.

"This is Dilophosaurus, catch two fish and feed it."

"Uh-huh."

Li Yan asked a member of the tribe to fetch fish to feed the animals. Now the tribe has a stable catch every day, and in many cases, there are fish left.

There is a piece of wild grass at the foot of the mountain. Two animal fences have been built near the foot of the mountain. Crops are planted near the river. To the pheasant crowing of "woo hoo hoo".

Yang Yan raised his head and looked around, feeling that it was not safe here, so he turned his head and said, "Clan Chief Yan, it seems that it is not safe for our tribe's sheep to be placed under the mountain."

"Yes." Li Yan nodded, "The sheep shed is built on the mountain, there is so much grass here, I put them down to graze on the mountain during the day, and go back at night."

Everyone waited for a while.

Mu, Baiwu and others from the Taka tribe came down from the mountain, and Baiwu was still holding a half-square-meter turtle shell in his hand.

Although Li Yan is the head of the clan, he still needs to obtain the consent of Damu, Wu, and others for such a major matter as taking in foreigners. These people are his elders, and he must respect their decision.

When Yang Yan saw that Mu of the Taka tribe was so old, he was immediately in awe.

In the minds of primitive people, the older the person, the more capable they are, and the richer the inheritance experience. After all, such an old person who can live in the wilderness must be very powerful. The so-called family has an old man like a treasure.

Yangyan ordered people to fetch a big brown horn, and some totems were engraved on the horn, including the totem of the tribal alliance with the surname Yu.

Give the big ram's horn to Tarkam.

Yang Yanlian said respectfully: "Great Mu, we are a branch of the surnamed tribal alliance. We use sheep as our clan and sheep's horns as our clan totem."

The sheep is the clan, and the horn is the clan totem.

Only clans with high seniority have clan totems, and ordinary tribes like the Taka tribe, which is separated from the Wenjia tribe, only use the totem of the tribe with the surname 妘.

The noble have a surname, the humble have a name but no surname. In order to distinguish their tribe members, many ordinary tribes create a surname internally and then add a name. In fact, in the eyes of other tribes, they only have a first name and a surname, and the created surname is not recognized. recognized.

Takam took the turtle shell from the White Witch.

This tortoise shell records the names and seniority of each clan within the surnamed tribe.

In the end, she determined that the Yang tribe was indeed a clan with the totem surname.

"This is Mu from our sheep tribe."

The head of the Yangyan tribe called a 30-year-old animal skin woman to him, and said, "This is my brother, the Mu of our Yang tribe. Our original Mu was killed by the Wudang people a few days ago."

Li Yan also said: "Yes, Mu. I was at Huoyan Mountain and saw the Yang tribe being attacked by Wudang people. I saw that they belonged to a tribe with the same surname, so I rescued them. We were afraid that the Wudang people would come again, so we took them away." Come back, so that our Taka tribe and the sheep tribe can intermarry with each other."

Mu was silent for a while, and said in embarrassment: "Our Taka tribe does not have clan totems, but the sheep tribe has clan totems. If we sacrifice the clan totems of the sheep tribe in the future, we Taka people will feel uncomfortable. If we don't sacrifice the clan totems of the sheep tribe The clan totem, the goats will also feel uncomfortable."

clear!

Li Yan instantly understood what Mu meant. The Taka tribe was an ordinary tribe without a clan totem. The Taka tribe would definitely not want to see a tribe that merged into their own, offering sacrifices to the clan totem they did not have every day.

The primitive people respected the totem very much, and the sheep tribe people would definitely not want to sacrifice their clan totem, which is a representative of identity.

Mu is very thoughtful, and she feels things from the standpoint of both clans.

As expected of a person who has ruled the Taka tribe for decades, Li Yan deeply admires him.

But Li Yan quickly thought of a solution.

"We can combine the totem of the sheep tribe with the totem of our Taka tribe, so that during the sacrifice, people of both tribes can feel that it is the totem we created together, which will make us more united."

"Create a totem?" Mu frowned, "Our Taka tribe doesn't have a clan totem, how can we combine it?"

"This." Li Yan turned his head to observe everyone in the Taka tribe and everything here, trying to find something that could represent the Taka tribe.

The only thing that can be respected by the Taka people is Mu. Mu is the elder with the highest seniority in the tribe, and everyone respects her.

Li Yan suddenly thought of a way, and immediately picked up a branch.

On the ground, he first drew a horn representing the sheep tribe, and the totem of the sheep tribe was similar to this.

Then, he drew a simple picture of a woman under the horns. The woman stretched her hands to the sky, and her hands seemed to hold the horns on her head. In order to show that this was a woman, Li Yan drew two It is round, with a little bit added in the middle, because Mu often kneels in front of the totem tree, so her legs are also kneeling.

This new totem is: a kneeling woman with horns on her head, her hands spread out to the sky.

"On the top is the sheep's horn totem of the sheep tribe, and on the bottom is the great Mu of our Taka tribe."

"What do you think of this new totem?"

Li Yan is very satisfied with his work, and he is asking everyone for their opinions.

"Okay!" Patriarch Yangyan saw a horn and agreed without saying a word.

It was Mu's turn, and Mu was still staring at the new combined totem.

Everyone is holding their breath, waiting for Mu's opinion, especially the sheep tribe. Whether they can be merged into the Taka tribe and live in this valley depends entirely on Mu's opinion.

After a long time.

Mu nodded slightly: "Okay!"

Her face was as stiff as ever, but she couldn't hide her joy. Using herself as a totem, she felt that she was great.

However, she was puzzled. Every totem has a name. What should this totem, which is a combination of horns and a woman, be called?It's a tribal name, don't be careless
Mu asked again: "Yan, how do you pronounce this totem?"

"this."

Li Yan looked at the new totem on the ground and fell into deep thought.

"sheep"

"Female"

So, he combined again with simplified Chinese characters.

With this combination, he suddenly realized!

ginger!
I accidentally created the oracle bone inscriptions with Jiang characters.

"correct!"

He hurriedly ordered someone to hand over the wild ginger he dug in Huoyan Mountain to Mu, and asked Mu if he knew this crop.

Mu took one and put it under his nose and smelled it. He immediately cheered up and said excitedly, "Ginger, this is a kind of herbal medicine that can be given to pregnant women."

The pronunciation of the ginger character that Mu said is a bit like Chinese.

"Mm!" Li Yan said, "Our new totem is called 'Jiang'. Our Taka tribe will be renamed Jiang tribe. How about we use Jiang as our clan?"

"Yeah." Mu nodded, "It's called Jiang!"

It is a very honorable thing to have your own clan totem, which means that the tribe is no longer a "untouchable" tribe.

Dan Mu frowned again: "If we want to set up a clan totem, we have to go to the great chief surnamed 妘 and get his consent before we can use the clan totem, so that other clans with the same surname will recognize our new totem."

(End of this chapter)