The new witchcraft conference opened as scheduled.
Although some poor ethnic groups still did not come to participate, the lively scene of more than 3,000 people from more than 30 tribes from the five major ethnic groups had made this conference exciting and anticipated from the beginning.
Before the witchcraft meeting, Xu Chen had recruited witches and tribal chiefs and military officers to prepare the arrangements and agenda for the meeting.
Therefore, on the first day of the conference, after breakfast and waiting until the sun rose, Xu Chen gathered all the tribes in the Gonghuo Mountain Col and held a witch blessing ceremony for the great witch of the Gonghuo tribe who had died a year ago, and arranged for people to build the
The stone tablet was carried up the mountain and planted in front of the tomb near the cave.
It has been one year since the old witch passed away, and a new witch from the Gonghuo tribe took over.
Although many people still remember the old witch, this memory is quickly fading.
It’s not that I don’t want to remember, it’s just that this year has developed so fast that my memory can’t keep up with the changes.
Since the burial of the old witch, from last autumn to now, the entire Gonghuo Basin has been developing in full swing. Various workshops and kilns have been opened, pontoon bridges have been built, settlements have been built, royal cities have been built, and farmland has been cultivated and harvested. One thing followed another.
one thing.
Building roads, digging canals, logging, moving rocks, burning charcoal, casting, burning lime, burning bricks and tiles, building cars, making stone mills, fishing, hunting, animal husbandry, breeding...
All tribes, men, women, old and young, have their own labor tasks. Even in the summer when there are heavy rains, all kinds of construction and development have not stopped.
Because His Majesty the Witch King led them to create such a good life, all the tribes did not want to fall behind, and devoted themselves passionately to the production and construction of Gonghuo Basin, and were full of energy every day.
Because they never thought that one day so many tribes would gather together and live such a lively life.
Although the old witch is worthy of respect, and she has devoted all her energy to the development of the Gonghuo Clan and the Alliance, after all, her time has passed.
The guidance of His Majesty the Witch King represents the future.
No single ethnic group or tribe can stay aloof from the situation. Instead, it will be driven by this enthusiastic atmosphere of development and chase each other. If someone is lazy, they will soon be left behind and eventually abandoned by all tribes.
Therefore, the memory of the old witch also disappeared quickly during this year.
Except for the Gonghuo tribe, almost all tribes have almost forgotten her.
But His Majesty the Witch King still remembered her contribution and felt very sad and sad about her passing.
Not only did we hold an unprecedented grand funeral for her last year, but we also remembered to erect a monument in her honor this year.
In front of the cave where the Gonghuo tribe lived in the past.
A group of witches in witch skirts, holding inheritance scepters of various shapes and lengths, with colorful brocade feathers on their heads, were watching Xu Chen directing a group of young and strong hunters to carry a stone tablet weighing a thousand kilograms up the mountain and plant it.
Bricks and stones were laid on the soil and compacted tightly, and then the edge of the platform and slope protection were built. Several pine and cypress plants were dug out from the nearby hillside and planted in a circle around the tomb.
The scene was so quiet that except for Xu Chen’s conductor’s voice, almost no other sound could be heard.
After nearly two hours of busy work, all the work was completed.
The black basalt stone tablet, which is two meters high, is square and square, standing in front of the tomb. It has fine marks struck with a copper chisel. Although it looks very rough, the whole thing exudes solemnity and grandeur.
It seems that after the tombstone was erected, the tomb, which seemed to be overgrown with grass, suddenly became extremely solemn, with a sacred and solemn aura.
In the middle of the front of the tombstone, there are several hieroglyphics about the size of the Tomb of the Great Shaman in Blue Clothes Gonghuo engraved on it.
On the left side are engraved some of the old witch's achievements. I didn't know about them before, but Xu Chen still tried his best to sort out a few more memorable things through the stories of the Gonghuo tribe and engraved them on it. He also recorded some details about the construction of Gonghuo Avenue and the leadership of the tribe.
Things like building houses and farming.
Because no one knew how old the old witch was, her birthday and age could not be written, so Xu Chen recorded the time when she became the great witch in blue and the time when she died on the right.
And this time is calculated based on the timetable of the xx year of the Morning King recorded after he traveled through time.
Although this time is set very arbitrarily, Xu Chen believes that when a mature epochal table is compiled in the future, this time will also be traceable, and it will no longer be like before when there was no chronology, and everyone will have the same age.
Collapse of the lake.
With time records, mankind can actually be considered to have entered a civilized era that can be verified.
After the tombstone was erected, the heads of tribes, men, women, and children who went up the mountain all squatted densely on half of the mountainside. A group of witches sang and danced around the old witch's grave and held a witch blessing ceremony, and then the event came to an end.
In the past, various witchcraft rituals were very serious, but they had no rules.
Moreover, due to the different inheritance of great witchcraft among various ethnic groups, various sacrificial times and ritual activities are also very different.
However, since the rise of Xu Chen, the Mother's Day and the Witch Lords' Conference left over from the Uzbek people have been regarded as two legal gathering festivals. They have also used the opportunity of creating gods to standardize these witchcraft activities and make them more unique.
Rules and rituals.
The funeral of the old witch and the erection of the monument are Xu Chen's standards for funeral rituals.
As there are more and more various norms in life, human beings will slowly abandon their primitive and barbaric habits, get used to these norms, and then evolve a kind of moral restraint.
However, the formation of morality does not happen overnight, but needs to be discovered and cultivated slowly from every moment of life.
There are two eternal topics in human reproduction and inheritance.
That is life and death.
Life is a continuation, an inheritance, full of joy and hope.
Death is the end, disappearance, full of unknown and fear.
Beasts love life but hate death, so humans are full of unknowns and fears about death. Death has gradually evolved into a theory similar to ghosts and gods.
The current barbaric era is the time when these most primitive theories of gods and ghosts began to form.
Although Xu Chen does not believe in this, just as he built the temple of his late mother to form a ritualized worship of gods, he hopes that through this more serious ritualized funeral, human beings' fear of death will be weakened, and even
Form a kind of worship of the dead.
At the same time, this kind of sacrificial activity is used to strengthen the memory of the deceased and strengthen the sense of identity with the ancestors. In this way, even if the ethnic groups are scattered, there will be a strong cohesion and blood bond between them.
Just like the Chinese society in the past, family ancestral halls have been continued for hundreds of thousands of years. No matter where the descendants are, they only need to rely on their surname and ancestral hall to find a subconscious destination. When they meet the same surname, they will involuntarily
A little more intimacy.
Five hundred years ago, the concept of being part of the same family profoundly affected the Chinese people's outlook on life.
In the future, as more and more groups join, tribal exchanges become more and more complex, and mixed living forms a new trend, the current blood-tribal inheritance relationship in which only one's mother is known but one's father is not known will be broken.
Ethnic groups need to have a broader sense of blood identity, that is, surnames and ancestors.
China's ancient matrilineal society inherited nine surnames, which are the nine oldest tribes. Later, in the patrilineal clan period, thousands of clans evolved.
In the process of development, in order not to forget their roots, these clans and tribes have always used their surnames to record their blood heritage and their family origins. It was not until the Qin and Han Dynasties that the surnames merged, and this continued for thousands of years.
Only then did the ancient tradition come to an end.
The surname has not been formed yet.
But it has also begun to take shape. Each tribe has a witch tribe as its core, forming a huge ethnic group. Within the ethnic group, it survives and develops independently in various tribal states.
Tribes are distinguished by their respective tribal names, and even down to the point where each clan member has a simple name. However, there is currently no awareness to link the name of the clan, the name of the tribe, and the name of the person to form a
It's just a name that makes it easy to distinguish.
If Xu Chen didn't push it, then this process might take thousands or even tens of thousands of years to slowly take shape.
But Xu Chen definitely couldn't wait that long.
As he vigorously promoted the settlement and integration of various tribes, the distance between tribes suddenly shortened from tens or even hundreds of miles to hundreds of meters or several miles, and the time for mutual exchanges also increased from half a year to a year in the past.
Several years suddenly turned into every day.
This sudden breaking of time and space barriers will cause a certain degree of management chaos. Therefore, Xu Chen hopes to use grand funerals and sacrificial activities to let each tribe remember their ancestors and strengthen the cohesion within the ethnic group. At the same time, he also wants to use this kind of
This method promotes surnames and makes it easier to distinguish the identities of various tribal groups.
The ultimate purpose of this is to make the distinction between blood relationships clearer and to try to prevent various genetic diseases and social problems caused by inbreeding.
In ancient China, there was a tradition that people with the same surname were not allowed to marry. Later, it evolved into people of the same race not being allowed to get married, and then it evolved into people who were directly three generations of blood relatives were not allowed to get married.
Although this range is constantly shrinking, it is all to prevent inbreeding.
The more people there are in this kind of thing, the greater the margin for error. Right now, there are only a few thousand people in total, who come and go, marry and communicate with each other. Ten or twenty years later, each tribe will have children who don’t know their father and grow up, and then they start to marry and communicate with each other.
The probability that they are cousins or even half-mothers is very high. If it is not eliminated as soon as possible, it may cause great social risks in the future.
Just like the two guys Gu Heju, every time they went out with Xu Chen, almost every tribe would drive piles and save seeds. When these children were born and grew up, and then the tribes would intermarry with each other, the situation would fall into chaos.
Therefore, Xu Chen needs to take precautions before they happen and start planning in advance to promote the surname.
With a surname, you can trace your family heritage and ancestors.
For example, the Gonghuo tribe, whose surname is Gonghuo, will come every year to worship the old witch of the Gonghuo tribe. Even those men and women who get married can find this kind of blood relationship and strengthen their connection and identification with each other.
Feelings, and then slowly sorting out the kinship map, making marriage safer and more reasonable.
This is also a form of moral restraint.
Therefore, the dead are used as ties, sacrifices are used as rituals, and surnames are used as distinctions to clearly distinguish groups and tribes that have been mixed in succession, thereby enhancing cohesion while minimizing the possibility of inbreeding. This chapter has been completed!