The sudden visit of the Uzbek people did not cause much disturbance to the Ba people.
The Witch Lords Conference is held every year on the full moon of the last month of autumn.
As the host tribe, the Uzbek tribe arranges for people to come and notify them around this time every year.
The time is around September 15th on the lunar calendar, and it should be late October or early November on the solar calendar.
And the weather is the coolest autumn time of the year.
Although the temperature is getting colder and colder after autumn, and the leaves on the mountains and rivers begin to fall and turn yellow, the overall climate is still warmer than the earth environment that Xu Chen is familiar with. Similar to the Jiangnan area, the rolling mountains still look lush and green, sometimes with these colorful colors.
The color is more soothing than the ubiquitous rich emerald green in midsummer.
The Witch Lord Conference is a place to showcase the strength of the tribe.
A hunting competition will be held at that time, and the bravest hunter will receive the blessing of the great witch, become a warrior respected by all tribes, and win the favor of the most tribes. Each tribe is willing to pay a lot of money to get them, and they can also enjoy
Mating rights for the youngest and most beautiful woman of the tribe.
The men of all tribes do not stay in the tribe forever after marrying into a certain tribe. Instead, they are in a semi-walking marriage system. If there is a better place to go, they will also switch to other tribes. However, with the development of the tribe, this
The situation of joining other tribes midway is also slowly dying out, and the marriage life of a fixed tribe is the main theme now.
The so-called walking marriage means that men and women do not live together. Although they are said to be husband and wife, it is actually similar to a one-night stand. However, the tribe recognizes this kind of relationship between the sexes. The offspring will be raised by the woman, and the man is only responsible for driving and having sex.
This system was popular during the matriarchal clan period, and it still exists even in the 21st century. The Mosuo people in Yunnan inherit this ancient walking marriage system, and the tribe still has the characteristics of a matriarchal clan.
In addition to competitions between men, each tribe will also display their wealth at the Witch Lord Conference, such as the horns, teeth and claws of wild beasts they have hunted, as well as some beautiful brocade feathers, animal skins, and even polished products.
Stone knives, stone axes, spears, or some rare jewelry ores, etc.
Although these primitive tribes who were still in a savage state were always busy with food, they also began to pursue the pursuit of beauty.
The most common thing is to apply paint on the face. Some of these paints are plant juices, some are soil, and even some mineral powders.
The other thing is decoration. The patriarch will wear feathers, and some older women can also insert a few feathers. Men mainly wear beasts' claws, beaks or tattoos, etc.
Some rare ores that exist in nature are also items that primitive people like to collect.
However, due to the difficulty of processing, most of these gemstones are in their natural state, and there are very few traces of processing. Even if some are simply polished, they have no obvious meaning.
As for drilling and processing into utensils, it is even more impossible. Chinese jade culture has a long history, but it was not until the Xia Dynasty, when class and royal power emerged in the slave society that it slowly developed and matured. Only then did jewelry and jade gradually become something that could only be enjoyed by the ruling class.
Luxury items.
Therefore, Laozi said: If you don’t respect the virtuous, the people will not fight; if you don’t value the hard-to-find goods, the people will not steal; if you don’t see the desirable, the people will not be confused. This is the rule of the sage, empty his heart, strengthen his belly, and weaken his ambition.
, strengthen their bones. Often make the people ignorant and desireless.
Lao Tzu's words do not mean that the ruling class should deceive the ignorant people, but that the ruling class should not use wisdom and wisdom to design systems to rule the people, should not use luxurious and luxurious things, and should stay away from the hedonistic life that makes people greedy, so that the people can return to simplicity.
Natural primitive living conditions, so that the world can be well governed.
The current primitive tribe is the state of nature that I pursue.
Communism and sharing of wives, no desires and no demands.
But even so, it is impossible for people to be selfish and snobbish. At least competing for mating rights and reproduction and development of tribes are selfishness and core interests that humans cannot get rid of.
And as long as there are interests, there will inevitably be comparisons and fights.
Therefore, the Witch Lord Conference is actually an opportunity for tribes to compete with each other and show their strength.
Of course, in addition to display comparisons, there are also relatively primitive trading activities.
Each tribe showed off its wealth, and if there was something that other tribes liked, they would offer it in exchange.
In fact, this can also be regarded as the oldest and most primitive commodity trade fair.
Therefore, the Witch Lord Conference is not only a rare communication opportunity for all tribes, but also the most lively festival of the year.
In order to prepare for this Witch Lord Conference, Feng led a group of hunters down the mountain every day to practice archery diligently.
A group of women were spinning and weaving without food or sleep.
The four workers in the kiln lived directly at the foot of the mountain, getting up early and staying late to bake pottery and bricks.
Xu Chen didn't have much idea, he just wanted to follow and broaden his horizons.
The most important task at the moment is to build the large courtyard at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible so that it can be moved down the mountain to farm in the spring.
Therefore, since the Wu tribe came to visit, he and most of the men from the tribe left early in the morning and came back late every day to start building houses.
First, clean up the vacant land after burning, then use ropes to measure it, lay a lime line, and excavate the foundation trench.
The scale of this building is at least five times that of the row of small houses in the kiln factory. With the addition of the central courtyard, the entire courtyard covers an area of several thousand square meters.
The overall design is a rectangular layout. In addition to the central living courtyard, there are extended spaces on both sides for storing food, farm tools, and raising livestock such as chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, cattle, and horses.
Although I have only got one pony at the moment, I will definitely have one soon.
Although the dog training plan has not yet seen results, the two little wolves have now softened after being force-fed several times by him, and began to slowly eat some cooked food and leftover meat bones, but they are still very wild.
, he would grin and utter threats in a low voice when he saw anyone approaching, and he would also scream at the moon in the middle of the night every day.
However, there are no traces of wild wolves in this valley for more than ten miles. This kind of call cannot summon any wolves to rescue them.
Xu Chen believes that as long as the two little wolves get used to eating cooked food, they will not be able to survive well in the wild even if they are separated from humans in the future, and will gradually become somewhat dependent on humans, thus laying the foundation for domestication.
The courtyard was large in scale and lacked manpower. It took seven or eight days just to dig the trenches for the foundation. Several wooden hoes were damaged, and a large number of simply made wooden shovels were damaged.
Digging the trench is only the most basic project. The subsequent construction of the footing is more extensive and requires a large amount of stone and lime clay. In addition, to build so many houses, more wood is required.
The amount of work this time was too large. Chen Xu no longer planned to build all stone walls. He wanted to use mud bricks.
However, to make mud bricks, you need brick molds of suitable size.
There are no wooden boards at the moment, so we can only use ceramic boards instead.
Therefore, he could only ask the kiln factory to make and fire a batch of suitable pottery boards.
Making mud bricks requires a lot of clay and wild grass, and you also need to find a river beach close to the water source to dig pits to collect soil and roll the bricks with mud.
Mud bricks are actually very simple. In the past, many rural houses had mud brick structures.
Use soil with very little sand content, add some straw, add water and trample it repeatedly to become mud, then pour it into a rectangular brick mold and shape it into a square shape, and place it on the grass to dry.
In order to prevent damage from rain, mud bricks are generally made in autumn and winter.
If the weather is fine, the rolled mud bricks will dry out in about half a month. In order to speed up the drying, they need to be turned over and stood on their sides.
In addition, mud bricks alone are not enough, because mud bricks are afraid of water and moisture, so the foundation of the house must be built with stones at least half a meter high, and the mud bricks can be built layer by layer.
However, after the foundation trench excavation was completed, all projects were temporarily stopped.
Because I am leaving to attend the Witch Lords Conference.