Colorful silk wrapped around the five evil spirits,
Pray for a prosperous year.
——Tianzhong Festival
As one of the two southern states, Jingzhou has many connections with Yangzhou.
The Yunhua Forest in Yulin County that Milo is going to this time is an area very close to Yangzhou.
Yulin County is named after the dense mountains and forests in the county. It is known as the Nine Forests and Eighteen Peaks, five rivers and one river.
Yunhualin is one of the Nine Forests. It has the reputation of having the best spiritual intelligence and the most vigorous vitality in Yulin County. It is also the largest place for spiritual practice in the southeast of Jingzhou and the southwest of Yangzhou.
Milo looked at the information Xuanhe showed him, and suddenly his eyes changed slightly. He looked down, and saw the power of will steaming on the river below, and a ray of divine power entangled on it. He stopped Xuanhe and looked at the river.
We continued to explore and finally saw several beautifully decorated boats moving forward quickly.
Xuanhe sensed the change in Milo's gaze and turned his gaze. On the screen in front of him, dragon boats with pointed bows and high tails, and thick and low middles appeared.
The head of the dragon boat is a beautifully crafted and lifelike dragon head. The convex part of the tail of the boat is shaped like a dragon's tail extending upward. There is a big drum in the middle, and there are two gongs at the top. As the dragon boat moves forward, the sound of drums and gongs is mixed with the sounds of young and powerful people.
The shouts resounded over the river, arousing the gathered will power to resist the river water and shock both sides of the river.
‘Is this the Tianzhong Festival?’
Milo, who was sitting on Xuanhe's back, his eyes lit up.
Tianzhong Festival, like the Spring Bathing Festival, is an important festival in Hanxia.
This festival was originally due to the fact that Canglong Qisu flew to the center of the south, which is the most "centered" position throughout the year.
On this day, it can be said that in the entire land of Hanxia, the time of the year when Yang Qi is at its peak, all kinds of poisonous snakes, insects and ants emerge. They are either suppressed by Yang Qi, or they want to use Yang Qi to refine themselves.
Bad breath.
Therefore, around the Tianzhong Festival, malaria epidemics often spread.
Various regions in Hanxia also carry out various forms of activities according to their own customs, the most representative of which are dragon boat racing and five-color rope racing.
The origin of the dragon boat race is slightly different from the memory of Milo's previous life.
The prototype is based on the legend that the emperor's true form is a dragon, and the shape of the dragon boat is made, and races are held in major water systems. In this way, the desire of a place is stimulated, the emperor's divine power is borrowed, and the evil spirits of a place are washed away.
Therefore, this day is also regarded by many water gods and river gods as a day for the emperor to inspect.
All the major water gods use their divine power to block a party's aura and prevent the flow of bad energy.
Local monks will also help weave five-color ropes. On the one hand, they protect children and prevent them from being invaded by evil spirits. On the other hand, they cooperate with local water gods to build a legal net to prevent outsiders from entering and leaving.
The shadow of a treasure mirror appeared in Milo's eyes, and he looked at the slender five-color threads hidden in the wish below.
The other ends of these five-colored lines are associated with residents, monks, and even statues of gods in the county. Once they cross, it will inevitably cause an alarm.
Milo thought for a moment about the process required to move forward, and looked at the worldly atmosphere in the nearby town.
'That's all, it's only half a day, let's wait for now.'
Milo retrieved the records on Xuanhe and asked him to take him to the nearest nearby Wanshou County.
Xuanhe stopped not far from the county seat. After putting Milo down, he couldn't help but call out twice.
"You want to watch the dragon boat race and help clear away some turbid air and accumulate blessings and will power."
Milo touched Xuanhe's neck and repeated what he had just said softly. Seeing Xuanhe nod, he naturally would not refuse. He stretched out his hand to touch Xuanhe's eyebrows and taught it some techniques to gather the power of wishes and blessings. Then he turned towards
Walk around the county town.
After simple registration, Milo entered Wanshou County.
Like Lu'an County, this place is a relatively remote lower county.
Most of the residents here have lived here for generations. Except for some younger generations who want to go to the county or develop in some counties, most people follow the customs of their ancestors and pass them down from generation to generation.
Therefore, the children here are very curious about outsiders, and one or two of them are surrounding Milo.
One by one, they hid behind pillars and behind the crowd, sticking their heads out, their big dark eyes flashing with curiosity.
Some of the brave ones even ran to Milo and asked about his origins.
Milo was always relatively easy-going towards the children. He took out some preserved fruits from his sleeve and handed them to the children.
This move immediately won the support of the children, who surrounded Milo one by one.
Some adults seemed a little worried. A young man with an inhuman temperament was handing out candies to children. It seemed strange.
When Milo saw this, he asked them where the practitioners were.
The older people immediately understood that these were foreign monks. They were relieved but also a little worried. After pulling the children down with a little fear, they pointed the direction to Milo.
Milo walked straight down and saw an old woman with gray hair and a kind face, sitting behind a table, weaving five-color ropes.
She weaved very slowly, and almost every time she weaved, she had to say one or two words of blessing. Her pure power of thought fell on the five-color rope, and as the weaving progressed, blessings were formed one after another.
Next to the old woman, there were seven or eight children wearing five-colored strings on their hands. They helped to find strings of various colors to facilitate the old woman's weaving.
Outside them, there were more than a dozen parents waiting for the newly braided five-color ropes.
When Milo stepped forward, he heard a child curiously ask: "Grandma Hu, why do you always talk about saving people from suffering? Shouldn't we talk about the emperor's blessing during the Tianzhong Festival?"
When Grandma Hu heard the words, she stopped what she was doing and was about to explain when she saw a child beside her interjecting: "Xiaodouzi, this is because you are ignorant. Although the Tianzhong Festival is mainly about worshiping the emperor, it is not about saving lives.
True Monarch Kudu'e also did many good things on this day. The most famous thing is that she searched for the five-color glow from the five directions, weaved five-color ropes, and bound the five poisonous evil obstacles transformed by the evil spirits in the world..."
Seeing this, Grandma Hu continued to make the work happily. She listened to the child's explanation and occasionally interjected a word or two to correct mistakes.
After the five-color rope was woven, she put it on Xiaodouzi's hand and chanted: "Ci Hang overcomes disasters, Great Mercy rescues the suffering, the five colors bundle blessings, disasters are hard to come..."
Milo could see that along with Grandma Hu's words, a faint aspiration blessed Xiaodouzi's child, dispelling the bad energy on his body and forming a thin layer of spiritual light.
And at the moment when the aura condensed, a faint purple energy of merit emerged from Grandma Hu's body.
But Milo didn't know why, he always felt that Grandma Hu's appearance was a bit strange and fake.
ps: Tianzhong Festival is the Dragon Boat Festival. The poem at the beginning of the article can be expanded a bit. I put it in the text. Interested book friends can read it. Then, because the timeline in the previous article is not obvious, Chapter 12
I slightly changed the content of Chapter 13: Ten Thousand Fu Yi to make it clear that Deming Peak came to Milo after the New Year.