The ancient wheel was holding two wooden sticks while Dongdongdongdong was banging it randomly. A group of men impatiently gathered around, rubbing their hands and rolling up their sleeves to show that they wanted to knock it.
Xu Chen did not stop them, but reminded them not to use too much force, and kept guiding and observing them while they lined up to play the drums.
Although playing the drum is simple, it is still an instrument after all. It is not difficult to play, but if you want to play well, it also requires a long time of training and learning, and it also requires a strong sense of rhythm and comprehension ability.
It takes three years to play the harp, five years to play the flute, and one erhu to break your waist.
Although Xu Chen has never learned it, he also knows that a real drummer's level of playing drums is no less than that of any other musical instrument. Without three to five years of running-in practice, he will never be able to play many tricks.
You must know that the reason why the drum is called the first of the eight tones is because it controls the rhythm, and rhythm is the soul and core of all music. There is no piece of music in the world that deviates from the normal rhythm, no matter how complicated and weird the rhythm is.
Ultimately it can also be expressed by drum music.
The low bass drum can often play the role of calming the sea in music.
Although there is currently no other instrument that allows drums to have more room for performance, drumming is an innate ability to bring rhythm.
In any scene, as long as there is a big drum, it can definitely control the scene.
Xu Chen naturally hopes that this cowhide drum will be a blockbuster at the witchcraft conference and shock the entire audience.
However, if you want to succeed, in addition to not being able to break the music, you also need to find a powerful drummer who can continue to output.
The opening scene is an ambush from all sides, which is absolutely awesome.
Unfortunately, this wish is destined to fail to come true.
Not to mention ambush from all sides, even if he could control the rhythm stably, no one could guarantee it at the moment, including himself. He was so weak that the continuous output could last less than half a minute.
But in the end, he finally found two guys with good hand speed and strong endurance from a group of men to serve as the first batch of drummers, and began to give serious guidance and training.
So after moving the drum to the yard, for most of the day, the sound of Dongdongdongdongdong's drum beating could be heard at any time, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, sometimes slow and sometimes urgent.
, there were a lot less people watching the fun, and when it was time to work, work, cook, and continue to be busy.
In the evening, a group of hunters including Feng, who had returned from hunting and fishing, were naturally very interested in this magical instrument. They gathered around and played hard until after dark. Some children were so noisy that they couldn't fall asleep.
He cried and was scolded by Muba and others before he gave up.
Early the next morning, when the sky was slightly brighter, Xu Chen was awakened by the sound of a fierce drum while he was still sleeping. He went out with a dark face and found that a large group of men had carried the drum to the middle of the yard and gathered around to fight for it.
Knock hard.
Infants and young children in many rooms were also awakened by the sound of the drums and began to cry loudly again.
A group of monkeys also jumped around on the roof of the courtyard.
Some women covered their ears and ran out of the room, pointing at a group of men and yelling at them.
For a moment, there was a chaos in the yard.
Xu Chen felt that he was wrong, completely wrong.
This is not meant to scare the tribe, it is a warning drum.
If the commotion continues like this every day, I'm afraid the people in this tribe will suffer from neurasthenia and won't live long.
So he had to ask a group of men to move the drums far away to the river beach to play, otherwise the whole yard would be unsafe.
At the same time, he was very lucky that he had the foresight and did not build the suona.
He decided to seal that instrument in his memory and would not take it out until the day he died.
After all, if you don’t listen to a soul-destroying suona before you die, you may die with your eyes closed, and the white cloth will not be able to cover you, fearing that your body will be deceived.
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In the golden autumn of September, the mountains are red.
Well, actually not. The overall climate in this era is warmer. Even in the so-called late autumn, the mountains, rivers and fields are still lush and green. However, the large broad-leaf trees and annual weeds and thorns begin to wither after their fruits mature, so they appear to be too numerous.
A bit autumnal.
Especially in the valley, the weeds on the riverbanks and the large farmland at the foot of the mountains have begun to wither and turn yellow, so the entire valley looks mottled with red and green, which is a bit drier and quieter than the rainy midsummer when everything is lush and green.
Because those migrating birds, foraging wild beasts, and snakes, rats, insects and ants crawling everywhere are almost invisible now.
This is the time of year when all primitive tribes have the most abundant food and are also the safest.
And as the moon on the autumn night becomes rounder and rounder, the Lord’s Assembly is getting closer and closer.
The entire Ba people are already very busy. All kinds of prepared materials are piled up on the river beach, especially the pottery produced by the kilns, which has been piled up like a hill.
Compared with the Mother's Day sacrificial activities in spring, which focus on marriage and marriage, the witchcraft convention in autumn is larger and more lively.
Whether it is a hunting competition or a trading event, it is the highlight.
What's more, since the witchcraft conference was hosted by the Ba people, the scale has expanded several times, and the rules are constantly changing. These new rules have made all tribes more excited and yearning.
In particular, there are three warrior quotas each year, which makes small and medium-sized tribes very competitive.
In the past, the alliance tribes held similar hunting competitions independently. Basically, the core tribe controlled by the great witch won each competition and produced the most warriors. The other medium-sized tribes were just foils, and the small tribes were even more soy sauce.
party.
But now it's completely different.
After the hunting rules were redefined by Xu Chen, each tribe, regardless of size, could only send a hunting team of ten people to participate in the competition, which gave small and medium-sized tribes a chance to win.
Hunting is a team operation. The more families there are in a large tribe, the more differences and conflicts there will be between hunters. However, small tribes do not have these conflicts and will be more united. Therefore, even if a large tribe has more people, the hunters will be more powerful.
But it doesn't necessarily mean you will win.
"The First Clan"
Just like the Chinese men's football team.
Last year, the Witch Lords Conference adopted this relatively fair competition for the first time, and the results were good. However, many tribes were caught off guard. Most of the soy sauce tribes who were planning to continue coming to watch the excitement and eat meat all regretted it.
Therefore, this year these tribes will definitely select the best hunters and make the best preparations to seriously participate in this game.
The most important thing is that the hunting competitions held by the Ba people are rich in prizes, not only team prizes, but also individual prizes. In addition to hunting competitions, some entertainment competitions also have pottery and other prizes, which also makes hunters who have no chance to participate in hunting competitions
, and also have a place to compete. Although they cannot obtain the title of warrior, they will eventually show up at this witchcraft conference and receive countless cheers and applause.
Of course, although these rules will provide a fairer playing field for small and medium-sized tribes, the gap in strength between tribes is still very obvious, especially the tribes that have begun to possess bronze weapons.
Tribes such as the Ba Tribe, Wu Tribe, Lei Tribe, Cang Tribe, Mongolian Tribe, Gonghuo Tribe, and Five Ghost Tribes that have close ties with the Ba Tribe or have mines will also increase their strength out of thin air.
But these have nothing to do with fairness. Hunting does not rely on sophisticated weapons to ensure absolute victory. Strength only accounts for part of it. Unity, luck, and experience are the keys to victory.
In addition to hunting competitions, trading activities are now becoming larger and larger, and more and more commodities are being traded, from hemp ropes and fishing nets to bow and arrow weapons, to leather goods and horse gear, linen pottery, bronzes and carriages, etc. Although the Ba people
It has always firmly controlled the most high-end and cutting-edge luxury and valuable items, but other tribes are slowly catching up.
And with the spread of a large amount of advanced technology and knowledge, this gap will continue to spread farther and farther like ripples. The more you come into contact with the earlier Ba tribe, the more you will be in a leading position in the future. And this large-scale transaction
As the influence area and scale of activities expand, more decentralized transactions will gradually occur, forming a second-tier trading circle centered on some tribes with faster development and higher levels.
For example, the Gonghuo Clan, the Yugong Clan, and even the Youqian Clan who have not joined the Ba Clan Alliance, these large tribes with witches in charge will gradually form new trading nodes in the future.
This is also a scene Xu Chen really wants to see.
It's just that it may take many years for this to happen.
While the men, women, and children of the Ba ethnic group are excitedly preparing to welcome this large-scale gathering that is getting closer and closer, the various tribes are even more impatient.
Especially those tribes that are far apart and have difficult transportation, such as the Mongols, Youqing tribes, Qia tribes, etc., have already set off more than ten days in advance. They need to first gather at the tribe where the big witch is in charge, and then join other alliance tribes to set off together.
Therefore, within the past few days, with the Gonghuo Plain as the core and across the mountains and rivers within a few hundred miles, you can see people carrying baskets and carrying burdens and even riding horses, raising flags and blaring trumpets.
Row of primitive tribes.
Some of these tribes wore linen and leather armor, and some wore leather grass skirts, but without exception they were all in high spirits, shouting and gathering in different directions.
At the mouth of the Yugong River Valley, there are dozens of crude rafts loaded with various animal skins and rattan baskets, sailing and paddling upstream along the river.
At the same time, on the south bank of the Wulong River leading to the Ba people, there was another team holding the flag of the Yu Gong people. Hundreds of people carried baskets and carried burdens and trudged forward through the wild mountains, valleys and virgin forests.
From the Yu Gong Tribe to the Ba Tribe, it would be too time-consuming to go around the Gonghuo Basin and then take the overland route. Taking a raft is undoubtedly the most convenient and fastest way, but taking a raft is more dangerous after all, so most of them go up the river and follow a river.
The newly explored road leads directly to the other side of the Bazu River and crosses the river near Yelangtan.
Along the Jicang River near the Gonghuo Tribe, there are also groups of primitive people gathering for action. There are hunters in neat formations wearing leather and rattan armor, there are also officers on horseback with bronze medals hanging on their waists, and a large number of
Ordinary men and women carrying baskets and burdens.
These tribes also divided into two groups. Some held flags and blew trumpets and went northwest along the Jicang River, bypassing the Qia, Cang, and Ji land routes to reach the Ba. Others took rafts and blew whistles.
The horn goes down the Jicang River and goes to the Ba tribe through the waterway.