Chapter 442 The incense in the White Dragon Temple is booming again
Chapter 442 The popularity of Bailong Temple is booming again
Everyone looked out the window, stretched their necks, and their hearts flew out.
After parking the car at the entrance of the village, He Huan said: "Master Li will take the luggage to the inn. Let's get off the bus here first."
A group of people quickly got out of the car. The cameraman also got out of the car carrying a camera and chased them hard.
Chen Ying directed the aerial photography team to fly the drone to take a picture of the entire village first.
He Huan took down the white dragon flag from the front of the car.
A man ran over, grinning with white teeth on his dark face, and spoke in Mandarin with a strong local flavor: "Welcome to the Little White Dragon Group! Welcome all experts to Shilong Village!"
Director Duan introduced: "This is Director Dong of the Shilong Village Committee."
After shaking hands with them, Director Dong led the experts into the village. "Our village now has a total of 265 households. Among them, there are 1,000 Bai people and four Han people." Seeing that they didn't understand, Director Dong held out four fingers.
head.
The experts smiled and nodded, this was a real ethnic minority village.
Director Dong also smiled and said, "This piece of land is about three square kilometers. Our Dong family was the first to come to this place. Our ancestors were busy occupying the land as soon as they arrived and used branches to form boundaries.
Later, people with other surnames also moved in one after another. The Jiang family surrounded the land with straw ropes, and the Zhang family and Li family used stones. After the land was surrounded, the Zhang family and Li family secretly set a fire.
The straw ropes and branches were burned away, and the land boundary between our Dong family and Jiang family was gone. The Zhang family and Li family occupied large fields, and their number of people increased."
The experts laughed because there was still such a twist.
"But, because our place is not connected to the outside world, all the marriages and daughters-in-law are in this village. People with the same surname cannot be together, so when we get married, we need people with other surnames.
Because if we say we are going to find someone to marry outside, it means no one in our village wants us."
A group of people raised their heads and laughed, listening to his thick Mandarin speaking, it was really cute and funny.
Director Dong also laughed, and after a while he continued: "And in the same village, people who know each other well will marry each other like this. If this continues, our families will also be relatives, and we will become one family."
Everyone nodded.
He Huan said with a smile: "So branches, straw ropes, stones, and fire can't stop marriage!"
"Hahaha……"
"It is precisely because of such a small inner circle that the ancient Bai villages were formed and the Bai customs were preserved," He Huan said.
Director Dong nodded and led everyone forward. There was a temple at the entrance of the village, which attracted the attention of experts.
Director Dong stopped and said, "This is our main temple. The Bai people believe in the main temple. Every Bai village has a main temple."
Duan Ju nodded.
He Huan said: "After Buddhism was introduced to Yunzhou, in the process of localization, it was combined with the witchcraft believed in by ethnic minorities. What they believe in here is witchcraft Buddhism. The Bai people call it Azali Sect, which worships Dahei.
God.
There are different opinions about the origin of this sect and the gods. The villagers don’t care about the origins. They don’t care whether the gods come from India or are passed down from their ancestors. They just want to be efficacious.”
The experts laughed.
He Huan also smiled and said: "We told you in the Three Pagodas that our nation's beliefs are very practical. It doesn't matter where you come from, the key is whether you can do things for everyone."
Duan Ju patted him on the shoulder, "Yes, yes! That's why Xiao Bailong can do things, and now Dali people trust him the most! The Bailong General Temple was almost abandoned, but now it is becoming more popular again!"
He Huan was speechless, while Liang Ange laughed.
The experts looked at them curiously, but it was a pity that they didn't hear it!
He Huan suppressed a laugh, "Actually, not everyone wants to be a clergy. Because clergy have to abide by many precepts and bear a lot of responsibilities.
I hope God will bless me, but I don’t want to break my life. Because as God’s spokesperson, everyone will look for you for everything, and you belong to everyone, and your personal life will be destroyed.
So if you are chosen by a wizard or witch and asked to be your successor, if you don’t want to, you can only offer some food and money, which is equivalent to a polite refusal or a letter of resignation.”
Director Dong nodded, "Yes, there is a woman in our village who was spotted by a witch and asked her to go. She didn't want to go, so she did this."
"So, although the spokespersons of gods and ghosts are respected, not everyone is willing to do it. It is still a hard job." He Huan said.
Everyone nodded.
"In the past, the wizards of Yunzhou's ethnic minorities were often highly respected, even hereditary, aristocratic class. A lot of history and culture were passed down orally through their mouths. Therefore, they were very respected and were the intellectuals of the nation.
But modern young people are exposed to more and more information and pay more attention to themselves. Wizards are no longer nobles, and they are not willing to inherit hereditary status.
It is getting harder and harder to find successors for the spokespersons of gods and ghosts, and the witchcraft and rituals popular in the Yunzhou area have gradually disappeared. In Shilong Village, they are better inherited."
"Yes." Director Dong said, "We usually come to worship the Lord. The biggest ceremony is that every year in the first month of the year, we perform a group performance to honor the gods. We thank the Lord for his blessings throughout the year and pray that he will continue to bless us in the coming year.
In the twelfth lunar month, there will be a meeting organizer. Everyone will rehearse and prepare the logistics.
There is a stage in our village. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, we welcome the gods, and on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, we send off the gods. We perform great performances for several days.
Many young people no longer know how to sing, so they ask old people to teach them. In the past, these leading things were organized by some respected old people.
When you get older and don't have that much energy, the old people will find some young people to organize it. For example, our leader this year is a post-90s generation."
"Wow!"
"Then he will find some young people to learn singing together. In the evening, they will rehearse on the stage, and you can watch them."
"Wow!" The experts were very excited. This kind of ritual to reward gods cannot be changed for them, but they can see the rehearsal and experience it in advance.
After leaving the main temple, we walked along the bumpy stone road to a house on the side of the road.
"This is my home." Director Dong said.
He Huan looked at the inscription on the wall: Nanzhao Zaifu.
Director Dong said: "Our ancestor Dong Cheng was the prime minister of Nanzhao."
Everyone looked at Director Dong, waiting for the next step.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, He Huan continued: "Dong Cheng was the prime minister of Nanzhao. He once represented Nanzhao as an envoy to Chengdu. The descendants of the Dong surname used the name 'Nanzhao Prime Minister' to honor their family status."
Director Dong nodded.
"The surname culture of the Bai people is well integrated with the folk houses. So you can basically know the host's surname through the inscriptions on the wall. Of course, you need some cultural foundation."
Director Dong nodded, "That's right."
"Because the Bai people had early contact with the Han people, the Bai aristocracy had Han surnames very early.
Originally, the Bai people, like other ethnic minorities in Yunzhou, did not have surnames. They were jointly named by father and son and used their own language.
It may be difficult to pronounce and understand when we call it. Then during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, wanted to include Yunzhou in the scope of Shu, so he gave many surnames to Yunzhou.
For example, Zhang is derived from Long Youna, the king of Baizi Kingdom. His own surname was Zhuge, and he gave Long Youna such a domineering and cool name as Zhang, which is a common surname among the Han people."
"Hahaha……"
"This is also to facilitate communication. More importantly, as a conqueror, giving a surname is a manifestation of power. Your parents give you a name, and your parents give you a surname. The recipient also feels honored. Accepting it means surrender, and the whole family
There are people."
Everyone looked at him with interest. The photographer came back to his senses and quickly looked at the camera.