Seeing that the ones carrying the luggage and the ones carrying the gifts were not in the same place, Liang Ange asked: "We bought them together, how will the gifts be divided? For example, at the house where we eat or where we stay at night, wouldn't it be bad if there are no gifts?"
"Don't worry, they used to be a primitive commune society, where they worked together and shared the food equally. Now the whole village celebrates the New Year together, preparing the food together, sharing the gifts equally, and entertaining the guests together."
"Oh." Everyone felt relieved.
The village chief led them into the village committee compound, where tables, stools, bowls and chopsticks had been set up. The township chief and village chief invited the guests to sit down, and the villagers quickly served various dishes.
Liang Ange was moved and said: "Wow... I thought there was no food for lunch! I even had snacks in the car! If I had known better, I wouldn't have eaten!"
Everyone laughed.
He Huan said: "Originally they only had breakfast and dinner!"
"ah!"
Martin walked in, sat next to Xiao Bailong, and said with a smile: "How can I not give you food? You come so far!"
The meals are very rich, with a variety of meats, fresh vegetables, and fruits.
Liang Ange said: "It's so narrow. I thought you were closed in and there were no fresh vegetables."
The township head said: "In the past, we couldn't eat anything from outside for half a year, and we couldn't go out when we were sick. We had to wait for death. Now that the tunnel has been opened, our things can be transported out, and things from outside can also be transported in."
Seeing that the villagers were all standing aside, the experts said: "Do you really not eat lunch?"
"We've all eaten." The village chief said, "It's not as good as in previous years, but we still have three meals!"
Everyone felt relieved and picked up their chopsticks. Martin ate with them. The township head and village head sat next to them, chatting and drinking with them.
The villagers stood in the yard and looked at them curiously and shyly.
Liang Ange said: "Even if there is no signal or network, I feel like I can live here. It is very suitable for when I want to leave the city and live in seclusion for a while!"
"There is a signal," the mayor said, "but the snow damaged the line, and we have to call people from the communications company to repair it. We will improve the network in the next two years, and it will get better and better in the future."
Everyone also felt very happy. They really didn’t expect Dulong Township to be such a beautiful and modern village!
After dinner, under the leadership of the village chief, we walked into a lawn in the village. There were already a sea of people around, and there were people on the trees. It seemed that people from the nearby villages were here. First, they came to see the cattle fraud, and secondly, they came to see these celebrities.
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As the villagers watched, the little white dragon group was brought to the front by the village chief.
As they arrived, a cow was led to the field by an old man and tied to a wooden stake. It looked strange, with a dark body and white limbs, as if it was wearing four white boots. Its head was also white, with a pair of horns and a pair of ears. Look.
It looks docile and huge, cute and weird.
A group of girls came forward and sang and danced around the cow.
"What kind of mythical beast is this!"
"Is this a cow? It looks like a panda, black and white."
Experts were amazed.
"It is indeed a panda cow, and it is as precious as a panda! It is called Dulong cow! It was originally a bison and lived in the deep valleys of the snowy mountains. Later, the Dulong people used salt to lure it down, and it became half wild and half domestic.
He usually eats grass on the mountain by himself. After a few months, a bird appears in his mouth. When he wants to eat salt, he runs down and asks his owner to eat salt. He is very docile and can lick people." He Huan said.
"It's so cute!" Liang Ange said, "So in order to welcome us, are you going to kill it later?"
He Huan looked at her and said, "Dulong cattle are the best-quality cattle in the world."
Liang Ange suppressed laughter and frowned slightly, "Don't seduce me."
He Huan said with a smile: "It's not for us, the cattle are sacrificed to the sky, but to sacrifice the cattle specially selected by the sky. The sky is the god of heaven. It is the biggest god they respect the most. In Dulong language, it is called Gemeng. So the one who worships Gemeng is
The best cow.”
"oh."
"We are just gods. Let's eat something while we're done enjoying it."
When experts looked at the cow, they still felt like a mythical beast!
Gu Bureau said: "Dulong cattle are hard to see outside, and even here there are not many. They usually use scalpers instead. Now some people are breeding Dulong cattle again.
For example, the Dulong tribe of Bingzhongluo does not have the option of killing cattle to offer sacrifices to heaven. First of all, there is no such cattle.
Secondly, Kaquewa, especially the slaughtering of cattle to offer sacrifices to the sky, the sacrificial ceremony is not allowed to be watched by outsiders. Various ethnic groups in Bingzhongluo live together and have strong Christian beliefs. Without this closed environment to offer sacrifices to the sky, it would have been canceled long ago.
Thirdly, we are developing tourism, and outsiders think we are cruel and barbaric."
Everyone nodded. If you want to be open to the outside world, you will naturally be affected by various ideas from the outside. It is rare that they can still see this ancient ritual.
"When you go to Kaquewa in the National Park, people will act as cows. In the future, when there are more tourists here, it will definitely be the same. People will act as cows," Martin said.
He Huan said: "Many people eat meat, but they cannot see the killing of animals with their own eyes. Once it is cut or cooked, it is meat, and there is no psychological pressure when eating it. But when you see live animals being killed, you will feel cruel.
Or it’s because urbanization is progressing too fast! Everyone has eaten pork, but has never seen pigs running away. In the past, I didn’t know how to kill huge animals like pigs and cows, but I would also ask people to kill them. I killed chickens and ducks myself.
Nowadays, everything is killed for you, even sliced. In fact, this kind of mentality... Well... In short, you can choose to be vegetarian, but don't judge the people who kill them as cruel. Because without a butcher, you can't eat meat at all."
Everyone nodded. Seeing that such a magical cow was about to be killed, they also experienced intense turmoil in their hearts.
It is one thing to understand the truth, but it is another thing to actually face it. This group of city people are not as happy as the villagers, but are trembling with fear.
All this time, people who eat meat every day have been accusing those who kill animals of being barbaric!
For the Dulong people in the past, they probably only ate meat once a year!
So He Huan can completely understand the excitement of the villagers. After all, they have just escaped poverty and are not so sanctimonious.
He Huan walked up to Chen Ying and said, "Don't air this episode by then. You will definitely be criticized."
Chen Ying nodded and just sang and danced.
The villagers sang and danced around the cows. The songs were old-fashioned and the dances were rough. It was obvious that many young people were just joining in the fun. And the middle-aged and elderly people who had experienced poverty and hunger were excited from the bottom of their hearts.
Sing and dance.
This is a shocking and mysterious ritual from ancient times!
Everyone couldn't understand it, and it was very simple to watch the dance, but it just felt like a primitive tribe, the joy that a group of people felt when they hunted prey!
The women closest to the cow danced for a while, then took off their necklaces and hung them on the cow's horns and necks.
The Dulong cow continued to eat grass and was not afraid of the Dulong people. Ordinary cows were not so docile. I wonder if they were used to seeing them singing and dancing like this.
Then, the women put a new and beautiful Dulong blanket on a young girl and pushed her out with a smile.
The girl danced and walked to the Dulong Cow, took off her Dulong blanket and put it on the cow's back, took off her necklace and hung it on the cow's horns.
He Huan said: "This step is to choose the young girl they think is the most beautiful, which is to appease the cow and respect the gods. It is the same as the Lisu people arranging flowers on the knife ladder, which is to dress up and please the gods."
The old man who was leading the cows came into the field again.
He Huan said: "This is Nanmusa, a wizard of the Dulong tribe. Because they have few festivals and activities, they just steal cattle to sacrifice to heaven. Therefore, the wizards do not have strict inheritance.
Nanmusa does not regard wizards as its main occupation, and usually participates in labor. Therefore, the family head is often in charge of it. Now the village head is also a national cadre, and generally does not engage in such activities.
Wizards are basically extinct, so as long as they can pray for the gods and have high moral standards, they can take on this responsibility."
Everyone nodded and saw Nanmusa lighting up the pine trees and green pine feathers in the center of the lawn, facing the east.
All the Dulong people turned to face the east, and the guests also faced the east.
Nanmusa sang a tune to invite the gods.
"Toward the east because they call themselves the Sun Tribe and believe that their ancestors migrated from the east."
"Oh!" Everyone nodded, feeling more and more that the Dulong people were really the ancestors of China.
"So they worship the sun very much and respect the east."
After Nanmusa finished singing the tune to invite the gods, a hunter came out holding a gleaming straw.
"In the past, they used bamboo thatch, and their production tools were backward. But using bamboo to kill a cow can be said to be very powerful! Now it is easier to switch to iron thatch. But this hunter is also getting old!
Originally, we wanted a young man to steal the cattle. But now we probably can’t find such a young man. After all, the younger generation no longer relies on hunting for a living, so they don’t have such technology.”
The cow seemed to be really comforted by the Dulong blanket on its body and the necklaces on its head. It kept its head down and grazed, without any precautions against the approach of the hunter.
The villagers became excited and the guests became nervous.
Nanmusa held a bamboo tube of wine, drank the same wine with the hunter, and threw the remaining wine towards the cattle.
The hunter danced and walked up to the cow, suddenly raised his long straw and stabbed the cow in the heart with lightning speed.
The Dulong cow that was still grazing suddenly fell to the ground!
The guests' eyes widened and they were shocked.
The villagers cheered loudly, and the people in the trees jumped down.
The women beat the gongs, the men waved their bows and knives, and danced.
The dance formed a big circle, and the guests were inexplicably wrapped in the circle. They danced with them and gradually felt their joy.
In fact, if humans can't live without meat, then a brave and agile hunter or butcher will be the best result for the animals.
After all, it is possible to surround an animal with a bunch of people grabbing and stabbing it, making the animal howl and jump around, and scare it crazy before killing it.
Now the huge body of the strange Dulong Cow is lying quietly on the lawn, and people are singing and dancing around it. The guests can't sing, but they are also led by them, and they follow them and roar toward the sky "ho ho ho"
With.
On this sunny afternoon, I looked at the high snow-capped mountains and smelled the blood of our distant ancestors.
Our ancestors were hunters, but many of them died from the mouths of wild beasts.
The guests couldn't help but cast respectful glances at the old hunter.
This Dulong tribe, which has been lifted out of poverty, may be the last time to perform such a primitive ceremony to worship the heaven!
Let Gemeng enjoy this last meal!
While singing and dancing, Nanmusa put banana leaves around the cow, and the cow's head was cut off. The experts turned around and said that it was indeed only meat that could be eaten, and no killing or blood was allowed.
They had to divide and cook the meat in the afternoon, and the guests had nothing to do.
He Huan said: "Now that we are here in Dulongjiang, let's take a good look at such a beautiful scenery."
"Okay!" The little white dragon group followed the tour guide again. Martin acted as their guide.
Leaving the lawn, He Huan said: "They used to divide the meat into portions according to how many people there were, including children and old people. Everyone had a portion. If there were guests, the guests would also be like them, one portion per person."
"Ah! Then we are so embarrassed that there are so many of us, right?"
"There is no shortage of food now. They will definitely share the leftovers after we have finished eating.
This is the primitive commune system. After hunting an animal, the meat is distributed to everyone.
In the past, when they went to Kaquewa, they would go hunting, and the animals they hunted would be shared equally by each household. When the housewives cooked, each household would also share it equally. This is the commune system."
Martin nodded, "I experienced something like this when I was a kid. We kids are the happiest! We can eat meat! It's the happiest time during the New Year, and every household is cooking meat! The smell of meat fills the village! It's only smelled during the New Year.
get!"
Experts looked at him. After all, he had just escaped from poverty. He was born in the 1990s and suffered from hunger when he was a child. If you think they are cruel, it is really a kind of cruelty of civilized people!
He Huan said: "We have also experienced such a stage in modern times. Big pot rice is a beautiful ideal. This proves that it is impossible to have big pot rice in a place with too many people!
As early as four to five thousand years ago, there were nobility in the land of China. Before liberation, the Dulong people did not have private ownership. They were indeed an ancient people!
When other ethnic groups entered slave society and feudal society, they persisted in the commune system for thousands of years, which is really amazing!"
Experts also think it’s amazing!
"Their character is indeed very simple! They are a poor nation with no written language and are deeply oppressed, but they have the tradition of not picking up lost things on the road and not closing their homes at night.
Here, if you pick something up, put it on the roadside, and put a stone on it, it means that it belongs to the owner and no one will take it away.
They hunted, cultivated wasteland, and had to walk long distances. Sometimes it was inconvenient to carry too many things, so they hung their clothes on trees so that no one would take them away.
Leave the dry food you brought with you on the roadside. People passing by will be hungry and won't eat other people's food.
If you are really hungry and can't bear it, you can dig potatoes and break corn into the ground to eat, but after eating it, he will insert a piece of wood in the ground and make a notch to indicate that he has eaten some of your food.
The owner will know: Oh, someone is hungry, and there is nothing he can do. It is not stealing. If he doesn't insert the wood, the owner will not find out. If he takes the initiative to inform, the owner will not pursue it.
When they travel far away, they don’t lock the door and no one comes in.”
“Wow!” Everyone sighed, “It’s so simple!”
"This is the commune system. Everyone has a share of what is distributed to you. It is not yours and you will never take it for yourself. This also stems from their childhood education. They have a lot of parenting styles."
Martin smiled sheepishly. He Huan also laughed. Everyone looked at them and didn't understand why they were laughing.
He Huan put his arms around his shoulders and said, "With such education and environment since childhood, they have naturally abided by such rules."
The experts nodded and looked at this simple and beautiful village. If outsiders come, it must not be like this. With more people, it will be complicated.
There is nothing we can do about it. If we want to develop, we must abandon some things.
Looking at the crystal-clear snow-capped mountains and walking along the pure emerald-like Dulong River, every step is a cleansing of the eyes and soul. You can also understand why such a simple nation lives here.