"This is exactly the same as Zhu Yingtai's father insisting on marrying her to Ma Wencai! And he said it was for your own good!"
The tourists smiled and shook their heads.
"When some Naxi girls are ready to die for love, they will tell their sisters or mothers. Mothers usually help their daughters keep the secret.
Because the mother is also a victim of this marriage system. The mother is under the shackles of marriage. She can understand her daughter's choice and does not want her daughter to live a life like hers.
Moreover, the Naxi people were originally a matriarchal clan, and the current Naxi people are one of the tribes. The Mosuo people are still a matriarchal clan society. Compared with the power and profit of the paternal clan, the maternal clan is more gentle and tolerant.
Therefore, Naxi women can sympathize with and tolerate women, but under the feudal ethics, they cannot resist. Some mothers will silently prepare beautiful clothes and food for their daughters and send her to die."
"Ah!" Everyone covered their hearts.
"The Naxi people yearn for love very much. Women tend to yearn for love more than men. Because social status and property rights are controlled by men, women can only rely on love.
In behaviors such as committing suicide for love, it is often the man who retreats. Because he can inherit the benefits, social status and inheritance rights of his parents and family, men have a way out. He does not put his whole heart on feelings.
In order to prevent them from retreating, Naxi girls often let their lovers die first and then themselves. Because it is said that if they are not a couple, they will not be accepted by Wulu Youcui Pavilion, and she will not be able to enter, and can only wander around in the world."
Everyone looked at the lawn in front of them, feeling infinitely sad. The girls all had tears in their eyelashes.
"The feudal ethics enforced by the reformers were the direct cause of the Naxi youth's death for love. Another hidden reason is the beautification of love by religion.
Because religion describes a beautiful world to them and a way to escape reality. Religion often makes death seem less scary and even desirable.
Therefore, unlike the tragic sacrifices of love in the general sense, the sacrifices of the Naxi people are poignant and romantic. They often bring food, put on beautiful clothes, and find a place close to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Build a small wooden house and decorate it with colorful silks and mountain flowers. They live together for a few days and do what lovers should do. Until the food is gone, the two of them dress up seriously and go to death."
"Ah!" Everyone covered their hearts.
"The whole process is peaceful. The family will not feel any signs. Because they go out hunting and grazing, often for several days, the family will not notice. And it is difficult for an idle father to notice the movements of his children.
If the girl informs her sisters and mother, they will help her prepare and ask her to bring her usual favorite things and wear new clothes, just like sending her to get married. If she cannot marry her beloved, send her to a beautiful girl.
Our country will always stay together.
Therefore, this is a kind of religious ceremony-like sacrifice of love. Sometimes, multiple couples sacrifice their love collectively. At the highest point, it reached 60 couples who sacrificed their love collectively."
"Ah!" Everyone rubbed their hearts, and the girls were all lying on their boyfriends' shoulders.
"It has evolved into a custom and ritual. Religion is a complete set of rituals from the beginning to the end for lovers.
Before the trend of sacrificing love became popular, the Dongba Sutra had records of sacrificing love. It created a pair of mythical protagonists, namely the traveler A Zhu and Gotu Xi Gong who traveled to Cuige on the Wulu Road. They were a couple.
Then folklore created another pair of lovers, the first couple to die in love, Kaimei and Yupan. They both hung from a tree because they couldn't be together in reality, and entered the Wulu Youcui Pavilion.
Under the guidance of a pair of gods and a pair of love-dead ghost leaders, Wulu Tour Cui Pavilion also attracted the yearning for the crazy men and resentful women who could not get married in reality, and became their final destination."
"Judging from the records of Lijiang's love and death customs by Han literati in the Qing Dynasty, the prejudice is very large. This is because the Han people have accepted feudal ethics for a long time and regard themselves as moral guardians of upright men.
I think it is shameless and obscene for men and women to interact privately. What kind of adultery or fornication? To describe it in this way and use so little words and ink on it is extremely ridiculing.
At the same time, the Naxi Dongba is holding a grand ceremony to worship love ghosts, ushering these lovers who cannot be together into the free and beautiful country of Youcuige on the Wulu Road.
This is a fierce collision between two cultures! It is innocent young men and women who suffer."
"In the Naxi family, there are very few people who die for their love. Because there are so many people who die for their love, there are even many people who die for their love in one day. Some villages hold large wind sacrifice ceremonies every day.
Wind ghosts are love ghosts. Because their souls can come and go freely like the wind, and they do not abide by social systems and are restless and have the same erratic nature as the wind, so ghosts who die in love are called wind ghosts.
These wind ghosts died abnormally and had no heirs, so they could not enter the land of their ancestors. They could not be allowed to wander in the human world. In addition, these wind ghosts were unable to be together because of their family members' obstruction, so they also had grievances.
As accomplices, if family members feel guilty and fearful, they will ask Dongba to save them and send them to Yucui Pavilion on the Fog Road.
In fact, before they were alive, they themselves had completed part of this ritual.
After couples decide to commit suicide for love, they will go to Sanduo Temple to worship Sanduo God, who is the incarnation of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Couples shed blood and burn their hair, pray to Sanduo, and ask for God's understanding and protection, so that the sacrifice of love becomes legal.
Please also ask Sanduo to be your witness and declare your farewell to secular society!
Entering Wulu Youcui Pavilion became their goal, and they chose to use the death of the body to obtain the eternal life of the soul!
After worshiping the three gods, they brought their favorite things at home and went shopping together to buy some ribbons, combs and other things. It was like preparing for a wedding. They went to the mountains to enjoy the last beauty in this world, and then
Sacrifice for love. This is the process.
After they completed their rituals, they entered the rebirth stage, which is the ritual of salvation.
"Lubanlurao" is a classic that must be recited in the grand ceremony of worshiping the wind. This mythological poem tells the story of the first Naxi man and woman who died in love, Kaimei and Yupan.
And the love gods Ah Zhu and Gou Tu Xigong who wandered the Cuige Pavilion on the foggy road led all the ghosts who died in love and called the men and women who had suffered misfortune in love and marriage to go to their paradise with their singing and oral music.
There is a passage in "Lu Ban Lu Rao" that is the call of the God of Love to Kaimei: Your eyes are red from crying, come here to see the flowers on the grass! Your tired feet, come here to step on the green grass! You
Painful hands, come here to squeeze the yak's milk!
Come, come to these cloud-shrouded snowy peaks! Come here to eat wild honey from the trees, come here to drink the clear spring water from the mountains, come here to fill your head with beautiful wild flowers.
Use the red tiger as your mount and the white deer to plow the land in the mountains. Come, you come here to milk the broad-eared doe, you come here to weave the fluttering white clouds and wind."
Everyone looked at the white clouds floating in the wind surrounding the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and couldn't help but feel that there was a Jade Dragon Third Kingdom inside.
"After the call, he continued to describe their sacrifice process——
Poor Kaimei, she took a thin hemp rope and walked to the tree to hang herself. Birds jumped in pairs on the pine branches, and colorful butterflies flew beside the stone. They met again under the green pine tree, and reunited next to the white rock. Kaimei and Yupan
, arm in arm, step by step, straight towards paradise."
"This transcendent poem is very beautiful and complete. It tells the story of their love and death, and once again describes their beautiful life after entering Wulu Youcui Pavilion:
Kaimei and Yupan, side by side, heart to heart, walked to the country of freedom. Come and come to the paradise of happiness. Seeing the crystal silver dragon with clear eyes, stepping quickly on the soft green carpet, picking with skillful hands
Go up to the beautiful flowers and step into a paradise shrouded in white clouds.”
Everyone looked at the silver dragon surrounded by white clouds and couldn't help but sigh.
"There are endless silks and satins to wear here, there are endless fresh fruits from the mountains to eat, there are endless fine wines and sweet milk to drink, and there are endless gold and silver balls here."
"Ah! It makes me yearn for it!" said a girl. Her boyfriend quickly hugged her.
Everyone laughed.
He Huan said: "Yes! The oppression of reality and the call of Yu Cui Pavilion on the Fog Road have given great psychological hints to young men and women who cannot get what they want in reality. Death has become less scary and even covered with beautiful colors.
From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, corpses of young men and women were often seen in Jade Dragon Mountain.
Some died by eating poisonous weeds and poisonous bacteria, some died by hanging from spruce trees, some died by jumping into rivers, and some died by rolling on rocks. After singing and exchanging heartfelt messages, they rolled down the cliff hand in hand, even if they were broken into pieces.
Without freedom, my mother would rather die!"
Everyone's eyes filled with tears, the girls all cried, and the team leader also wiped away tears.
"The young men and women of the Naxi people who longed for freedom sang a collective tragedy against the feudal ethics! The feudal ethics not only harmed the people of the Central Plains, but also harmed the ethnic minorities.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Just like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, our people have been fighting and singing praises, which makes more people who can't be together in love want to be together even if they die."
The girls couldn't help but burst into tears, and the boys' eyes were also red.
"Rulers of all generations have contributed to the unification of the nation, but they have also caused profound harm and oppression to ethnic minorities.
Fortunately, the new era has abolished those feudal ethics, and now marriage and love are free. Everywhere we go, we are warned to respect the local customs.
Death in love has ended among the Naxi people. This place has become a holy place in people's hearts. Especially young men and women in Lijiang like to take wedding photos here. This is also a comfort to those ghosts who have died in love.
Look! We can live together freely in this world!"
"Ah!" The lovers hugged each other happily.
The team leader looked at him with tears in his eyes and smiled.
After changing everyone's mood, He Huan smiled and picked up the camera, "Come on, let those couples who have opened up this paradise with their lives and love see your happiness!"
Everyone walked into the lawn. There was not much wind here. The girls all took off their coats and ran on the lawn with their boyfriends in their skirts. He Huan took pictures of them.
Standing next to the team leader and watching him, he is really a master of telling stories!
Generally speaking, if a tour guide can write a 500-word tour guide about Yunshanping, thank God! He can’t say anything else about the Valley of Love.
However, He Huan gave a profound explanation from the historical and religious reasons, allowing everyone to better understand the significance of Yunshanping.
After taking pictures of them, He Huan returned to team leader He and said, "Team leader He, you can also take a photo."
He Huan and the team leader ran into the lawn with a smile, opened their arms and smiled in a welcoming gesture, and He Huan took a picture of her.
He looked at Master Wang and said, "Forget it, you should bring your wife to take pictures from now on."
Master Wang is speechless, isn't he worthy?
He Huan looked at Long Teng standing by the fence again, "You go in and I'll take pictures for you."
"Can I take a photo?" Long Teng looked at him in surprise.
He Huanxiao looked at her, "Why not?"
Long Teng looked at the lawn, and He Huan understood. She felt that this place was full of couples.
The light bulb appeared next to them at the right time, "You go in, and I will take pictures for you."
"Ah?" He Huan looked at him.
There is nothing wrong with taking photos with tourists elsewhere.
But in this place, really...
The meaning is different.
He Huan looked at Long Teng, who didn't express his position either.
At this time, the literary sister who had asked He Huan to take many solo photos of her ran over and said to the light bulb: "You take photos for us!"
Pulling He Huan and running into the lawn, holding his arm, rubbing her chest against his arm, tilting her head and leaning on his shoulder, with a smile on her face.
He Huan stood stiffly. He had never faced such a situation before. Is it too much to nudge him like this? He was afraid that she was unintentional and that he was overthinking.
While he was thinking wildly, Bulb picked up the camera and pointed it at them.
"Is the battery out?" Long Teng whispered from the side, coughed slightly, and turned his head.
"Ah!" The light bulb was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, he took off the camera and looked at He Huan, "The power is out!"
"Ah!" the literary sister shouted, "Why is there no power?"
He Huan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly took his arm out of her hand, ran over to take the camera, and saw that it still had half of the battery. He silently put it back in the bag, "Ah! The battery is out, I took too many pictures."
Bulb suppressed his laughter and walked away, while Long Teng had already walked to the other side, looking like he had nothing to do with him.
He Huan looked at her and wanted to take a picture of her. She was looking at the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with her arms folded in an off-white trench coat, leaning against the fence. She was lazy and beautiful, which suited the atmosphere here very well.
But in order to relieve his embarrassment, the light bulb said it was out of power, and he couldn't take it out for her to take pictures of.
I could only quietly appreciate the grace of this scene. This chapter has been completed!