Chapter 463 There is an explanation for being on the mountain of swords
Chapter 463 There is an explanation for going up the mountain of swords
Cai Yi still wanted to hear it. When he heard this, he immediately jumped up and ran to the knife pole. The other two boys also ran up.
They also had to undergo a series of singing and blessing rituals from the priest, and suddenly they started dancing. Cai Yigang, a normal young man, suddenly changed his demeanor and danced wildly like those who had just danced.
Very mysterious! Inexplicably shocking.
He Huan said: "This is called opening the incense road and dancing the knife dance. It is part of their original ritual. After this stage, Niba let various gods possess the warriors who climbed up the sword pole. Only in this way, he
Only then can you successfully climb the mountain of swords without getting hurt."
"oh!"
"Really?" The elf believed it.
"Because they didn't initially regard this as an acrobatics or competition, but as a religious ceremony, so it was all led by Niba. Only those chosen by God can go up to the Mountain of Swords. It's not just that you can go up if you want.
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"Oh!" Everyone was shocked by the deep canyon and the ancient mysterious ritual!
"Nippa is a shady legend, not taught by humans. Basically, it is said that one day he suddenly became crazy, and suddenly the gods and ghosts told him something, and he had abilities beyond ordinary people and could communicate with ghosts and gods.
Therefore, Niba came to pray to the ghosts and gods not to hurt their hands and feet with swords and not to burn their bodies with fire.
After the ghosts and gods accepted it, they would help them, and they became crazy. They were no longer mortals, but messengers sent to heaven from the world.
In this state, you can go to the Mountain of Swords!"
Even those of our own ethnic group may not have seen such a primitive Shangdaoshan for a long time. Seeing Cai Yi dancing like crazy towards Daoshan, we felt inexplicably heartbroken.
The experts even worried, "Is it really okay to go to the mountain of swords like this?"
"Look at those two who are not crazy enough and are slightly sober!"
Everyone couldn't laugh or cry, and looked worriedly at the knife shaft shining in the sun. It was sharp and sharp!
The sun also shines on the Biluo Snow Mountain, like a god watching the rituals and music offered by mortals.
"This is actually a state of selflessness, that is, within a specific period of time, you abandon all mortal fears and distractions and go to the mountain of swords wholeheartedly, only in this way can you succeed. From a scientific point of view, this also makes sense.
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Everyone nodded, looked at the crazy Cai Yi, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Before commemorating Wang Ji, who is being sacrificed?" Liang Ange asked.
"Before the introduction of Christianity, the Lisu people believed in animistic nature worship. Before getting involved with Wang Ji, they had no specific personal idol worship.
Although the Lisu people also worship ancestors, they only worship ancestors they have seen, which is called recent ancestor worship. There is no tablet or sacrifice, only a direction, representing the ancestors. No specific sacrificial activities are performed.
Nipa read a guide at the funeral: Go back to your ancestors, and don't go back to the human world. Although they believe that people have souls, they also believe that humans and ghosts have different paths, and they don't want souls to wander around the world.
This is different from when we invite our ancestors back to visit us during festivals. This is the same as their feelings towards the gods. The ancestors are the souls of the deceased who have returned to another world. They worship and fear them.
Just like they will regard bears, tigers, and other beasts that they often fight with and make them injured and scared as objects of worship and tribal names. This is a complicated emotion.
But the Knife Bar Festival in Tengchong area is very different. They have obvious worship objects, there are portraits of Wang Ji, and they are held in San Chong Temple."
Everyone nodded.
"When nature worship becomes vague, it will evolve into concrete hero worship. But look!" He Huan shouted.
Everyone saw that Cai Yi had already danced in front of the knife pole, pedaled up the knife mountain with a pair of bare feet, swiss and swish, and climbed to the top as quickly as a monkey.
The entire audience was silent, holding their breath for him.
When he reached the last three steps of the knife ladder, Cai Yi suddenly stopped.
Liang Ange pulled He Huan's sleeves worriedly, "Is he awake? Will he be scared if he is awake? Or did he hit his feet? Why did he suddenly stop moving?"
Experts, including photographers, are worried that if the knife dancing in Bijiacun and the vegetable dancing in Nanjian are acrobatics, there is still room for redemption.
If there is real danger, it is impossible to ignore life.
If something happens to Shangdaoshan, the consequences will be very serious, and it is not something that everyone wants to see or can bear.
Chen Ying also glanced at Xiao Bailong.
"Don't worry, he is a veteran of Knife Mountain. He has experience. He will find a balanced stress point on the blade and will not be injured." He Huan used words that they could understand.
He also explained: "This is called the Heavenly Gate Lock. Don't you see that there is an archway tied with an iron chain? When he arrives, he has to unlock it first before he can go to heaven."
"Go to heaven! Don't talk so scary!" Liang Ange said worriedly.
He Huan comforted: "This is a very important ceremony. The first warrior to climb Daoshan can open the Heavenly Gate. Opening the Heavenly Gate means relieving the Lisu people's illnesses and eliminating the Lisu people's disasters."
"Oh." Everyone felt relieved a little.
Sure enough, Cai Yi took out a key from the colorful satchel he was carrying across his body, opened the lock, and let go of the chain.
The Heavenly Gate has been opened. Cai Yi climbed up the last step of the knife ladder, pulled off the red cloth on the arch, and draped it around himself.
"This is called hanging red, which means we have reached heaven." He Huan said.
Looking up at the tall figure, everyone held their breath and concentrated.
I saw Cai Yi's body suddenly spinning, his feet flying into the air, straight into the blue sky, grabbing the last step of the knife ladder with both hands, and looking down at the audience below.
"Ah!" The crowd below was shocked and cheered in unison, cheering for him.
Liang Ange was worried again: "Won't this wake him up?"
He Huan laughed, the elf is so cute!
"Don't worry, this noise won't wake him up. He has gone to heaven and is performing for God! God will bless him!"
The experts were amazed, "Isn't this amazing?"
He Huan said: "This is an acrobatic action, but it is not called an eagle spreading its wings or a kite flipping over, but called a jump to the gods in heaven. This difficult action shows the bravery of the Lisu people and is also to please the gods.
This is probably what it means: Hey! Gods and gods from all walks of life, you are watching, I climbed up to heaven to perform for you, don’t our brave Lisu people deserve to live a good life?”
The experts laughed and said, "Yes, yes!"
He Huan rolled his eyes at them and said, "Do you think it's true? You're so weird!"
Only then did everyone realize that they were like bah bah bah, and started laughing again, "It doesn't matter, we are not gods. Gods will definitely think they are brave!"
Everyone raised their heads, it was really amazing!
He Huan also feels that this is more thrilling than the National Park! It is also more mysterious!
Cai Yi turned over again, stood up straight at Tianmen, took out corn, buckwheat and other grains from the colorful satchel he was carrying and scattered them down.
The villagers cheered and scrambled to pick it up on the ground, and the experts followed suit.
"This is called a bumper harvest, which means that rice will fall from the sky and there will be no shortage of food in the coming year. It is a reflection of their good wishes."
After the rice fell from heaven, Cai Yi turned to the other side and came down from the other side.
The other two warriors danced for a long time and reached a state of madness. They swung strings of colored balls around their waists and ran up the knife mountain one after another.
The crowd below applauded.
Two warriors descend from one side, Cai Yi descends from the other side, and three colorful figures hang on the colorful ladder. In this Nujiang Grand Canyon, under the blue sky and white clouds, heaven and man are united, which is extremely magnificent!
Cai Yi finally reached the last step of the knife ladder. Everyone cheered for him, the strings of the piano played in unison, and everyone held hands and formed a circle to sing and dance.
Two young men, one wearing a red cloth and the other wearing a white cloth, rushed forward, carried Cai Yi on their backs, and ran around the inner circumference of the circle formed by everyone.
"What does this mean?" The experts also joined hands with them to cheer and dance for him, but after listening to the previous explanation, everyone already knew that this was not a simple celebration, like being picked up by teammates after winning a game.
"This is called riding a divine horse! The feet that have gone up to the Mountain of Swords and pleased the gods cannot come down to the ground! And he is not awake yet! So these two eldest brothers play the role of the red horse and the white horse, which are the divine horses in the heaven and are subject to the will of the gods.
, and return the warriors who entered heaven through the sword ladder to pray for everyone back to the earth."
"oh!"
"So these ancient traditional activities are not just for entertainment. In addition to making everyone feel peaceful and happy, and have good expectations for life, they can also inspire the tribesmen to be brave and tenacious and have strong cohesion. Because this is for everyone
, everyone will be involved.”
The experts nodded. Outsiders like them could dance vigorously. Looking at their happy and proud faces as they sang and danced, I felt the same way!
When Cai Yi came to his senses and got off the horse, He Huan held his hand and said, "Awesome! Brother Yi, you are so awesome!"
Cai Yi was all smiles, not tired at all, and danced with everyone excitedly.
The other two warriors also came down, and were carried around the field by a red horse and a white horse respectively before they were put down.
Everyone sang and danced happily around the knife pole.
He Huan said: "Climbing Daoshan and descending into the sea of fire, is it very similar to the migration experience of the Lisu people who went over mountains and ridges for slash-and-burn cultivation, with their arrows flying over rocks and walls, and their courageous spirit of not being afraid of hardships?"
The experts suddenly understood and nodded quickly. Qin Huai was filled with emotion. He hadn't studied Xiao Bailong so deeply yet! This student really knows how to think!
Several leaders were also fascinated by it!
They held countless activities on Daoshan, but they didn't listen to Xiao Bailong's explanation. They really didn't understand their own national culture and their ancestors that well.
"Cai Yi went to Daoshan every day in the National Garden, just for performance, but the difference from today is that he was a veteran at that time, leisurely entertaining people instead of entertaining gods.
So he still had the time to listen to my explanation. What I explained to him at the time was the migration history of their ancestors, not Wang Ji's three expeditions to Luchuan."
The experts laughed.
"Yeah." Cai Yi nodded, "That's why I was very excited when I came down, because when I listened to you, I could feel the blood of my ancestors rushing through my body and feel their spirits.
I really didn’t hear your explanation on Knife Mountain just now, but when I was at Nipa’s place before, I was thinking about your explanation and my ancestors to get myself into that state."
The experts looked at Xiao Bailong and said, "It seems that Xiao Bailong can also become a priest! And it has this effect!"
He Huan said with a smile: "In addition to the blessing of the gods, the spirit of the ancestors, and the most important thing is yourself, you have overcome fear and distracting thoughts, regard the knife ladder as a real colorful ladder, a bright road, and bravely climb up for the sake of the people!
You are really like your ancestors, running like cunning rabbits and climbing like apes on the cliffs!"
Cai Yi and the other two warriors were so excited that tears filled their eyes and they were very proud. The villagers were very proud. The priest was also full of joy. Unfortunately, Nipa was passed down by ghosts and gods, not the master, otherwise why would Xiao Bailong be allowed to come?
Pass it on.
"What our ancestors first learned was not writing, but singing and dancing. In addition to writing, singing, dancing and rituals are all the ancient history left to us by our ancestors, as well as their spirit."
Those who went up to Daoshan and those who watched them had a deeper understanding of their folk culture after listening to Xiao Bailong’s explanation!
Shangdaoshan has a long history among the Lisu people and is widely spread, but it has never given the villagers a deep sense of cohesion and pride like it does today!