Chapter 467 No one can stop us from singing in this land
Chapter 467 No one can stop us from singing and dancing in this land
Everyone suppressed their laughter and followed him to the open space on the edge, looking at the magnificent Coronet Peak.
"But it is a monotheistic religion!" He Huan continued, "The missionaries will definitely not allow you to take God's medicine again..."
"Hahaha……"
"Seriously, seriously!" He Huan pressed his hand down seriously.
Everyone tried their best to hold it back.
"They went to worship other gods and sang and danced to please other gods. So what should they do? They had encountered opposition from the masses, so when they came back they did not directly deny their gods.
They put it another way, saying that gods and elves also exist in their religion, but they belong to Satan's side, and there is only one righteous god.
Do our ethnic minority compatriots accept this statement?"
Everyone looked at him.
"Accept it! Because they don't regard God as perfect. No one is perfect, and no God is perfect! The gods in our country all have their own tempers!"
"Hahaha……"
"People who worship God also have their own tempers, so they worship God and curse Him. Now, the missionaries say that your God is still there, but he is from Satan's side. They: Oh."
Everyone couldn't laugh or cry.
"Then the missionaries began to elevate the status of God. You see, your gods want you to worship them. God only needs to praise them. Then there is a distinction between good and evil, right?
To this end, they specially wrote hymns in Lisu language, recorded them, and used records to play hymns! Oh my god! Records! That era! Do you know how magical it was?
A man’s voice actually came from a magical gadget, and it was spoken in Lisu! This is the voice of God! Don’t you still admit that you are God’s people?”
Experts frowned, this was indeed equivalent to a miracle for the people at that time! It looked like a divine division of power, but behind it was the promotion of science and technology!
“At that time, no god in our country could manifest to such an extent! No god could directly talk to people! Only God could do it!
Normally, everyone can only pray to the gods through wizards. Now that God has appeared, you can pray to him directly. If the crowd can hear him, he will definitely be able to hear the crowd!
Doesn't this greatly enhance your faith? Gods are intangible, but God does exist! They took advantage of this technology and information gap!"
"That's not asking for Turin, right?" Liang Ange asked.
"Then you have to examine yourself to see if you have done anything wrong. You came into the world with original sin. You are not suffering, you are here to atone for your sins."
Liang Ange covered his face and turned away.
"So the Nu people also call Catholicism and Christianity Lisu! Because God speaks Lisu!"
Everyone was speechless. Director Lu nodded, "Yes, there are still many people saying this."
"Then the missionaries created Lisu characters and taught them to sing hymns.
The Nu people and the Lisu people are both ethnic groups that can eat salt but can't sing without singing. When the mouth is long, one must sing, and when the feet are long, one must dance. Everyone is born to be able to sing and dance, and they must sing and dance for everything.
In addition to chatting, expressing feelings, and venting emotions, their songs and dances are also carriers of primitive beliefs such as nature worship, god worship, ancestor worship, and totem worship.
Not letting them sing and dance is like gagging their mouths and binding their hands and feet.
The missionaries originally wanted to demolish the altars, sacred trees, sacred stones, etc. of their primitive religion, and forbid them from singing and dancing, which aroused their resistance. Later, they changed their approach.
Since you like singing, then go to church and sing hymns!
This satisfied their hobby of singing, allowed them to gradually get rid of the influence and dependence on traditional songs and dances and the primitive beliefs they carried, and also promoted the spread of Christianity through songs.
Although they could sing hymns in their own language, they also danced, which was inseparable.
Similarly, dance also carries their original beliefs. For example, dancing to gods and imitating animal dances, many of them are derived from animistic nature worship.
It turns out that everyone sings and dances around the fire pit, around the bonfire, in the fields, in the mountains and forests. But the church is a solemn space. When singing hymns, you can only hold the "Hymn" respectfully with both hands, and you cannot move your hands or feet.
Moreover, the content of the hymn is single, and everyone was not used to it at first.
Later, generations of missionaries collected and added the four-part chorus "Hallelujah" by German musicians, the theme song of the British movie "The Blue Bridge", Scottish folk songs, and American folk songs into the hymn collection.
They can sing more. But they are not allowed to sing the songs of their own nation."
Everyone sighed together.
"Nowadays, the Lisu people also perform a four-part chorus Lisu version of "Hallelujah."
Bureau Gu and Bureau Lu nodded.
"I once performed in big cities and abroad, and was called art by many musicians. I don't deny that it is art. But are folk songs and dances witchcraft?"
He Huan nodded, "It is true that many of them come from witchcraft, but it is also the creation and inheritance of our ancestors for thousands of years. It is our history and culture for thousands of years. There is no distinction between superior and inferior. Or its status is even more important!"
The experts sighed heavily.
Gu Ju nodded, "I started asking Xiao Bailong if he wanted to listen to the four-part chorus? He said no."
"I'm not biased about this. I originally planned to go to the church to listen to it after the trip. However, we must first explore the original music of the nation. I didn't expect that we can't sing in this age!"
Bureau Lu was a little embarrassed. It seemed that although Xiao Bailong understood, he was still a little angry.
Gu Ju said: "It is true that the Lisu people have more people, have more complex beliefs, are more widely distributed, and have more contact with the outside world. Some people who strictly abide by the precepts stop singing or dancing, but many young people are still happy to sing and dance. No.
Making them sing and dance is really more uncomfortable than cutting off their hands and feet!"
He Huan said: "Our people's worship of the many gods of nature is complicated. They accept that no one is perfect and no god is perfect.
Each god has his own character, so at first they recognized the greatness of God, but they did not despise their own gods. When Western religion was first introduced, missionaries asked them to build churches, and they cut down trees to offer sacrifices.
You have to sing, dance, and offer sacrifices to the spirits and tree gods, and only chop down the tree after getting permission. The missionary looked at it, frowned, and said, you don’t need to sacrifice to the gods and spirits, you just need to say the Lord and Mary, and then you can chop down the tree.”
Liang Ange said unhappily: "The elf is very angry!"
Everyone laughed.
He Huan said with a smile: "There is nothing we can do if we are angry. Just because our God is too human, he has human weaknesses and is taken advantage of.
Animistic nature worship is often considered a manifestation of the backwardness of primitive society, but it is the most friendly religion to nature.
If you want to hunt, cut down trees, or cultivate land, you don't just do it randomly, there are regulations.
When hunting, you need to sing the hunting song, which will let you stay in any range. You cannot shoot the head cow with horns, because the disappearance of the head cow will bring disaster to the cattle herd.
Although their land is barren and they rely on slash-and-burn farming, they do not set fires everywhere and have a fixed scope and time.
When cutting down trees, there is always a sacred forest where trees cannot be cut down or grazed. Especially those ancient trees are often worshiped as gods by them.
It is precisely because of this kind of worship that so many ancient and valuable tree resources have been preserved for us.
They deal with nature every day and have long summarized a method of living in harmony with nature.
This is very common among the ethnic minorities in Yunzhou, so the natural environment of Yunzhou was well protected in the past. Because people worshiped trees, water, mountains and stones, flowers, birds, fish and beasts, and everything that nature has given birth to!
These worships give nature time to recuperate, so that nature can continuously provide us with supplies.
It is inaccurate to call the primitive worship of animism superstition, and to call those with complete rituals, strict disciplines and numerous beliefs a religion.
Isn’t this the bullying of a weak culture by a strong culture?
All things in this world do have spirits. Only if you believe this and respect this can you protect it and benefit ourselves.
Without mountain gods, tree gods, water gods, beast gods, etc., who are the common owners of all nature, how can gods transformed from humans be able to protect our homeland?"
Everyone nodded. Bureau Lu and Bureau Gu also felt the same way.
“Our primitive religion was as simple and as sincere as a child’s, believing that all things had animism. But now, we have basically abandoned this.
Nowadays, we are shouting that the environment is getting worse and worse, and we are talking about environmental protection every day. Shouldn’t we continue to promote this kind of primitive worship of animism? We should be in awe of nature.”
The experts felt the same way. Chen Ying was full of admiration. The camera light was pointed at Xiao Bailong!
“Finally, they shouted to the Lord and the Virgin Mary, cut down the sacred tree they had worshiped for thousands of years, and built a church with its wood.
From then on, the most gorgeous church in the dilapidated village replaced all gods and elves. The primitive nature worship of multiple gods became the worship of one god.
The worship of one god is in conflict with the worship of multiple gods, so the spokesmen of those gods have disappeared, and those rituals have been simplified. Now, even songs and dances are no longer sung and danced. Can only hymns and Western folk songs be sung?
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Everyone was silent.
He Huan turned to look at the Crown Peak of Gaoligong Mountain, "This is our land. No one can stop us from singing our own songs and dancing our own dances on our own land, remembering our ancestors and worshiping our gods! We can choose
, but no one can stop it.”
Everyone is also looking at these great and magical mountains and rivers! How can we not believe that everything has animism? How can we not sing and dance in front of this great nature?
"Of course, we can't blame them. Because the way others spread their culture and beliefs is very clever, but what do we in the Central Plains do?
For two thousand years, the Central Plains dynasties regarded this land as their own sphere of control, but they did not truly regard the people on this land as one family.
The marginalization of culture and status will inevitably allow other forces and cultures to take advantage of it. Our Central Plains dynasty has always preached and preached. From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang to the Qing Dynasty, they all preached and then said that they did not listen to the preaching.
So, how did the feudal dynasty educate? Zhu Yuanzhang burned the Wuhua Building, opened many schools, and there are Confucian temples everywhere in Yunzhou. Within Baoshan, Chineseization has been very successful.
But the Nujiang area has always been a marginal area. In the 1930s, a Chinese school was built here in Zhiziluo. They were unwilling to learn, because at that time it was still a teaching attitude.
When missionaries came to preach, they did not preach in English or French, they preached in Lisu language, and even created Lisu characters based on their language. Do you see the difference?"
Everyone nodded.
"After liberation, the country also helped many ethnic minorities organize and create writing. Excavation and protection of ethnic minority culture does not conflict with our mainstream culture, but will make them feel respected, have a greater sense of pride in their own nation, and contribute to the entire
The Chinese nation has a greater sense of belonging, making the fifty-six flowers more colorful."
"Yeah." The experts burst into tears. This is the meaning of their work!
Gu Bureau and Lu Bureau were deeply moved. Gu Bureau wiped his eyes and said, "Yes! National things cannot be abandoned! We do not resist foreign culture, but we cannot abandon our own traditional culture at the expense!"
Fortunately, today's young people are becoming more and more passionate about traditional culture! Yesterday, Xiao Bailong's explanation of the history and culture of our Lisu people made our Lisu compatriots so happy!"
"We tolerate foreign cultures, but we must not forget our own roots!" Director Lu also said excitedly, "No one can stop us from worshiping our own mountains, rivers and ancestors! No one can stop us from singing our own national songs and dancing our own national dances.
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Everyone was also happy and hoped that the Nu people could sing their tunes and dance their dances again!