Amidst the sound of drums, all men, women, and children from the Ba tribe headed by the Wu tribe squatted down in groups and shouted in unison to welcome the arrival of the great witch.
"Wuga~~"
As the team moved forward, tribes of various sizes squatted down in groups along the way.
Amid the thrilling drums of Dongdongdongdong, the mighty and orderly team escorted the three carriages past all the tribes, and finally turned back and stopped in the center.
Everyone got off their horses and took three flag bearers to place the dragon flag, king flag and Ba snake flag on the pile of rocks and fixed them. The drums stopped.
The scene was completely silent at this time, with almost no sound other than the sound of the wind.
"All rise!"
"Wow!"
With the roar of the wind, all the hunters who were squatting on the ground stood up. The men, women and children behind them also stood up with a roar. As for the Yu Gong clan and the Youqing clan who were not used to this habit of ordering and prohibiting at all.
The tribe's movements were much slower, and it was also in chaos. The confused people squatted down, and naturally stood up with confused faces. It was noisy, but no one dared to make too much noise.
These etiquettes were simply arranged by Xu Chen and the leaders of various ethnic groups. Although they were not spontaneous, they also made the atmosphere of this event more serious.
The most important thing in mixed society is momentum.
As the saying goes, the loser does not lose the battle. In some situations, as long as the momentum is enough, even a game can be played extremely high, giving people the illusion of being a king.
Of course, this is not an illusion for everyone, but a real feeling.
The beating of the drum shocked the entire audience, and the entire river beach became extremely quiet, making the opening ceremony even more solemn.
"Stand at attention, take a break, each participating team will report its numbers~"
"One quack, two quack, three quack, four quack..."
"Report, the Uzbek race teams are here."
"Report, the Cang Clan participating teams are here."
"Report, the Hu tribe's participating teams are here."
Accompanied by the dense sound of counting and the tribal officers running over one after another to stand at attention and report, the scene became quieter and more serious.
A full twenty minutes passed and all participating teams lined up to report. Although the reports of the Yu Gong clan and the Youqing clan were messy and even some tribes were at a loss what to do, which caused a burst of low laughter from the crowd, it did not cause too much commotion.
Xu Chen strode to the front of the team, holding the dragon tooth scimitar in his hand and sweeping through the ten fully armed teams standing in the front of each tribe.
"Welcome to all tribes to participate in the second witchcraft conference held by the Ba people. Today is the day of the hunting competition. As you all know the venue and rules of the competition, I will not say more. Here, I wish all participants
The team can all achieve good results, and we can all present our rich harvest to the gods and thank them for the food they have given us. Before the game starts, we ask the great wizard to pray for us, give us courage and strength, and stand at attention!"
"Wow."
Thousands of people, including men, women, old and young, as well as various hunting teams, all had their legs together almost at the same time.
Under the influence of this majestic momentum, everyone was emotionally infected and felt an uncontrollable tension and excitement.
"Please pray for the great witch!"
"Please give us strength and courage, Great Witch!"
Officers from various ministries led the participating hunters to squat down and roar in unison.
"Dongdongdongdong..."
Xu Chen beat the big drum with his own hands.
A group of witches, led by a little witch holding a golden scepter, slowly walked to the open space in the middle to the sound of drums.
"￥@%#……"
As soon as the drums stopped, the little witch raised her scepter high and sang an ancient and mysterious blessing song in a clear and melodious voice.
Several witches, including the Wu tribe, the Gonghuo tribe, the Yu Gong tribe, the Five Ghost tribe, and the Youqiong tribe, all raised their staffs and surrounded the great witch, and each began to sing in a sultry voice.
This is a very strange ancient inheritance.
The inheritance of the great witches of these tribes is different, but they all have the same subtlety in the ceremony. That is, when the little witch starts to sing as the lead singer, the other people gather around and perform various dance movements.
, singing short or long strange notes in conjunction with the singing.
These notes have nothing to do with language and characters, they are unique but different from each other, but they can coincide with a very strange rhythm.
Even if it is not very harmonious at first, as the singing and dancing continue, the singing and harmony will eventually adjust to a harmonious rhythm, which sounds mysterious and wonderful.
This is the charm of music.
As long as you focus on the rhythm and rhythm, they can play beautiful music together even if it is unfamiliar music.
All the ancient witchcraft songs should actually be the oldest musical expression form that conforms to the rhythm of music that the shamans have continuously explored in their inheritance.
It's just that they didn't regularize and abstract it, and then complete the tuning and rhythm.
The music scores of any nation in later generations are actually special symbols independent of language and characters. These symbols are not characters, but they can be used to record and sing.
Although Xu Chen didn't understand these witchcraft words, he still deduced some possible information through constant observation.
That means witchcraft may be the oldest musical notation.
Witches do not record songs through symbols, but carry a kind of inherited information through rhymes and songs.
When these shamans of different heritages hold collective sacrificial activities, they constantly adjust their rhythms to achieve harmony.
In the eyes of ordinary primitive humans, this harmonious rhythm is a mysterious thing whose meaning is completely incomprehensible. It is a unique skill of witches and can communicate with gods.
More than ten minutes later, a group of witches finished their singing and dancing performance and went to bless all the hunters who participated in the competition.
Seeing the groups of hunters squatting on the ground with excitement on their faces as they were being slaughtered by the group of witches, Xu Chen beat the drum again.
Bidige
The sounds of Dongdongdongdong vibrated and echoed in the valley. All the hunters who had been blessed by touching their heads felt their blood rushing all over their bodies while their hearts trembled with the beating of the drums. They seemed to feel the power blessings from different gods, not only their whole bodies but also their whole bodies.
Full of power, even his eyes are much clearer.
Well, actually the sky is getting brighter and the sun is out.
The sun dispersed the gentle mist, and amidst the loud drums of winter, a group of witches touched the heads of all participating hunters and blessed them before returning to the king's flag.
"The time has come, sound the horn and set off!"
"Wuga!"
Along with the roar of the wind, more than 2,000 people on the river beach shouted in unison, and the sound of joy and noise instantly echoed through the sky.
"Woo~wu~wu~~~"
Gu raised his golden horn and blew it. Trumpeters from all tribes followed suit and blew their bark horns. Amidst the sound of horns, starting from the Ba tribe alliance, groups of hunters lined up neatly and raised their flags.
No., kicking and tapping along the straight carriage road toward the valley entrance.
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The first day is the hunting competition, and the arrangements have already been made.
On both sides of the estuary pier, there are more than 40 bamboo rafts of various sizes lined up.
After the vast team arrived, each participating team boarded the raft according to the instructions and arrangements, and hundreds of people began to cross the river.
The water level of the Wulong River in late autumn is already very low, and the river width is only about fifty meters. Compared with the daunting Taotao River hundreds of miles downstream, the current Wulong River is between the Ba and Gonghuo ethnic groups.
In the eyes of some hunters, it is nothing more than a small river.
After all, after seeing the world, my perspective is completely different.
As the horns sounded one after another, the rafts began to race towards the other shore one after another to the sound of the hunter's oars.
Compared with last year's first crossing of the river, which was cautious and full of cries and howls, this year's crossing seemed to be a passionate scene of hundreds of people fighting to cross the river. Amidst the cheers and cheers of thousands of people on the river bank, dozens of people crossed the river.
It took less than half an hour to cross the river before setting up the raft.
Although several of the rafts collided with each other one after another due to operational errors, causing some people to fall into the water and causing a violent exclamation and commotion, in the end the rafts successfully reached the other side, and all the people were safe. It seemed that only a few tools were lost.
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After all participating teams came ashore to regroup, and the flags on the opposite side waved to indicate that they were ready, Xu Chen ordered the horn to blow for the official competition. More than thirty teams shouted and rushed into the dense grass and thorns to start the competition.
A huge hunting competition.
The rest of the race was not that interesting because it was too far across the river and blocked by dense grass as tall as a person, so basically nothing could be seen.
So Xu Chen rode a horse and led a group of hunters including Long downstream to watch and inquire about the movements of the wild horses.
However, the hunting competition that Xu Chen was not interested in was still full of emotions for all the men, women, and children who came to watch the excitement. People from all the tribes were paying attention to their participating teams, listening to the various movements coming from the opposite side.
During the discussion, bursts of cheers and sighs broke out from time to time.