Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 1158 1165. Sea Festival (15)

Listening to Du Tanzhi's words, Ao Muyang nodded thoughtfully.

He believed Du Tanzhi's words. Besides, the village was already on the right track, so it didn't matter whether there was support from the higher-ups.

Du Tanzhi was afraid that he didn't believe him, so he continued to add: "The city and county will not intervene in the development of Longtou Village, but they will provide help from the side. In short, you play the top, middle and bottom lanes by yourself, and the county and city will help you play jungle and support. It is estimated that in the next two or three years, the city will link the village with the international community, and foreign tour groups will arrive soon."

There are foreign tourists in the village, but they are all individual tourists. Hongyang is a port city and an international city. There are many foreign companies and foreign staff in the city. They are very interested in Chinese traditional culture. There are often people with blond hair, blue eyes and big noses entering the village.

The two chatted for a while, and the sea festival began.

People from Wangjia Village and Houloumen came to help. Yang Shuyong came in person. Ao Muyang waved and said, "Old Yang, isn't your village offering sacrifices to the sea today?" Yang Shuyong said, "Our village will wait until the Lantern Festival is over before offering sacrifices. We won't compete with your village today. Anyway, we can't compete with you." Nowadays, fishing villages hold activities to create gimmicks to attract tourists. There are very few reasons related to tradition. Therefore, almost all tourists who stayed in the village for the New Year today came to Longtou Village, and tourists who did not spend the New Year in the village would not come to travel so early, or they would not travel in the first month of the year. In this way, other villages do not need to spend manpower and financial resources to hold useless sea sacrifice activities. Yang Shuyong came here for another purpose. He said he came to help, but in fact he came to learn. In the past, the main body of the sea sacrifice activities was the families in the fishing village. Everyone sent boats to the sea for collective sacrifices as a family or boat group. Later, as the output of offshore fisheries dropped sharply in recent years, the number of ships going out to sea also dropped sharply, while the number of coastal aquaculture farmers increased greatly. As a result, the participants of the sea sacrifice activities changed from the original ship captains to today's professional households of raising ginseng, fish, crabs and seedlings.

Most fishing villages like Qiantan Town have stopped holding sea sacrifice activities since the early 1990s. After more than 20 years, the rules and items of the activities have been almost forgotten, and now they have to learn from each other.

Yang Shuyong came with a gift, which was some dough sculptures. The so-called dough sculptures can be understood as models of different shapes made of white flour, such as dragon and phoenix, eight immortals crossing the sea, a hundred flowers blooming, and an underwater world.

Longtou Village also made dough sculptures by itself. Among them, Jiang Xiaoyu led several women to make a coiled dragon dough sculpture. This is the Dragon King to be worshipped. It has a head, eyes, body and tail, dragon whiskers and dragon scales, painted with paint, golden scales shining, five claws vigorous, lifelike and energetic!

The Hongyang fishermen's sea sacrifice is to worship the Dragon King. The sea dragon dough sculpture was sent to the high platform on the dock. There was an offering table in front. Ao Mubing directed a group of women to send the tribute.

The tribute is mainly three animals, pigs, chickens, and fish. Compared with the ancestor sacrifice, the tribute for the sea sacrifice is less, but more particular. For example, pigs are used for ancestor sacrifice, but the whole pig is used for the sea sacrifice, and the black-haired boar is the best.

Longtou Village selected a boar, which is very big, like a small tricycle.

This was slaughtered by Ao Muyang at Lazhong, because the pigs used for the sea sacrifice need to be shaved off the hair ring, leaving only a circle of black hair on the pig's neck to prove its identity, and also blow air under the skin to make it look bigger and more majestic.

Lazhong is also like this when making stinky pork, he is the most professional in this.

Prepare for the sea sacrifice, the big pig was carried up.

Ao Muyang took a quick look and saw a large circle of black hair on the pig's neck. He was anxious when he saw this: "Who ordered the shaving? Isn't it enough to leave a small circle? What's the point? Tie a scarf around the pig?"

Ao Mudong took out a razor and hurried over to clean up the mess. Ao Muyang shook his head after seeing it: "It still doesn't work. Cut it a little less. Shave off all the black hair on the back of the pig's head. It looks like a beard. Can it be done like this?"

It was not far from the auspicious time for the sea sacrifice. Ao Fugui took a red silk cloth and tied it to the pig's neck in the shape of a big red flower. Then someone killed the boar on its back, inflated the skin, and tied it to a fishing net. This was meaningful, symbolizing that a fish as big as a boar could be caught in one net.

Chickens and fish were easy to deal with. The chicken was a big rooster and the fish was a big garfish.

The offerings were sent up, and Ao Mubing and Ao Mupeng, several strong young men, carried them up to a Dragon King Temple.

This Dragon King Temple is not made of stone, but made of wood chips and paper. It is used to burn gifts offered to the Dragon King. In the past, there were boys and girls, but Ao Muyang removed them. It looked like burial sacrifices, which was not conducive to the image promotion of Longtou Village.

The paper-made Dragon King Temple was made by Ao Zhiman. The things made by the old craftsman are exquisite. The whole Dragon King Temple is two meters long, wide and high. It is square and big, just like a house.

The temple door is a wooden board with pine and cypress carved on it. This is the pine and cypress door. There is a plaque hanging on it with the four words "Dragon King is mighty". There are big red lanterns on both sides. Under the lanterns are red couplets. The upper couplet is "Dragon mouth spits spring water" and the lower couplet is "Fishermen gather good news".

After the Dragon King Temple was carried to the dock, Ao Fugui stood on the dock in high spirits and shouted, "The technicians are here!"

When Du Tanzhi heard this, he couldn't help laughing. He whispered to Ao Muyang, "If the Dragon King Temple wasn't in front of me, I would have thought I was in the club."

Ao Muyang said awkwardly, "Next year, let's get someone who speaks Mandarin well to shout."

Ao Fugui didn't speak Mandarin very well, but he had a loud voice, so he was chosen to tell the time. As a result, he called the auspicious time "technician", and Ao Muyang also heard something wrong.

Fortunately, the firecrackers started to go off immediately. Dozens of strings of firecrackers hung around the dock were banging and banging, with a terrifying power.

Four strong men carried the Dragon King Temple to the platform behind the altar. Jiang Xiaoyu and Lu Zhizi put the sea dragon dough sculpture on it, and someone else sent the three animals like water. This was the official sea sacrifice.

As the village chief and the leader, Ao Muyang had to go up and perform the kneeling ceremony.

Ao Xiaojun crossed his arms and said, "Uncle Xiaoyang, don't be nervous. There are not many people down there, only about a thousand or so. Most of them are villagers. It's okay. But I saw a lot of cameras, and everyone is holding their phones. Don't mess up up there, or Quan Hongyang will know."

Originally, there was nothing wrong. Ao Muyang had seen big scenes before, but after Ao Xiaojun said that, he looked back and saw that all he saw were cameras, which made him a little uneasy.

Ao Xiaojun continued, "Uncle Xiaoyang, have you prepared a draft? Alas, this is the same as when we start school. Every year when school starts, we have to hold a meeting, and then student representatives have to speak. This year, I guess I will speak."

Ao Muyang was quite surprised and asked, "You're speaking? Are you a student representative?"

Ao Xiaojun said, "Yes, I almost was the representative last year. Oh, we are representing the naughty students to give assurances to the teachers."