Seeing the big boss, Gu Yu and others started to move, and everyone also enjoyed the plenty of millet cakes.
Gu Yu praised again: "This millet cake is really warm, not dry, and has the taste of banana leaves." Zhang Ying translated Gu Yu's words again. The big boss was very happy after hearing this, and the big boss immediately
He picked up the pottery cup and drank with everyone,
After the lunch, everyone bid farewell to the big boss and headed to their next destination, the Paiwan Tribe. Even if the big boss tried to persuade them to stay, they would not be happy to stay in this tribe where snakes and humans coexist.
If you are accidentally bitten by the Baibu snake, you will probably die. It is better to leave here immediately after finishing the business. However, according to Zhang Ying, the next Paiwan tribe they are going to is also Baibu.
The snake is a totem,
The scientific name of the centipede snake in later generations is the adder, which is a venomous monotypic snake genus under the suborder Viperidae and the subfamily Viperidae. There is only one species in the genus, the adder, which is easy to identify.
The sharp-nosed adder has many common names, also known as white-flowered snake, hundred-flowered snake, hundred-stepped snake, five-stepped snake, seven-stepped snake, adder snake, valley pit viper, Chinese pit viper, etc. It is a quite famous snake species in Asia and Southeast Asia.
, especially in Yizhou (Taiwan) and Jiaozhou (where Lu Dai once ruled, and later became South China), snakes have been valued since ancient times.
The tips of their heads are protruding and are described as short scale horns. The length of this scale horn varies according to the physique of each snake.
In terms of texture structure, the body of the adder is mostly gray or brown, with lighter triangular brown-gray patterns. Triangular patterns of different shades are scattered one after another to form a well-jointed body.
The sharp-nosed adder has large, long, barb-shaped tubular fangs. Its bite is extremely venomous and can kill a person within a hundred steps.
But fortunately, the miracle doctor Hua Tuo's prescription contains a medicine for treating bites by poisonous snakes. The method is to take the wormwood and pound it and apply it, that is, if the grass is like a swallow's tail, it is very effective. Or pound it and apply it on the swelling, and the blood will
When it comes out, it's a disease.
Qu Yuan once said in "Wuzhao" that the soul has no south! To the south there is a fire thousands of miles away, and there are only vipers and snakes.
There are also famous writers in later generations who wrote "Snake Catcher's Theory": "There are strange wild snakes in Yongzhou, with black body and white stripes. They will die when they touch the grass and trees. They bite people and there is no way to control them."
However, in the era of Cao Shuang's later generations, some Taiwanese restaurants sold food using the snake as the main cooking ingredient. They made the adder meat into various foods, and used a small amount of snake venom to make drinks.
It is quite brave to put anti-venom pills in snake meat and snake juice for guests to eat!
The big boss saw that everyone still had important matters, so it was hard to persuade them to stay. However, the big boss also sent more than ten nobles, scholars, and civilians from the tribe to follow the crowd like the Ami, Bunun, and Nanwang Puyuma tribes.
Paiwan tribe,
In the words of the big boss, it means that they are related to the Paiwan people. The totems of both of them are the hundred-step snake. They are both rare classed patriarchal societies in Yizhou (Taiwan) today, with the Rukai people.
It would be easier to persuade people to join him by spreading his message to others,
Gu Yu thought that the big boss was probably asking for credit from them, but even without the big boss's message, they and his party would definitely be able to get the Paiwan tribe to join them!
Fortunately, the Paiwan tribe is not far from the Rukai tribe. It only takes half a day to get there. Their tribe is on the southernmost coast of the Central Mountains that divides Yizhou (Taiwan) into two plains.
In the narrow plain nearby,
After everyone trekked through the rainforest for two hours in the afternoon, they finally arrived at the foot of Beidawu Mountain, the sacred mountain of the Paiwan people and the birthplace of the Paiwan people. According to Zhang Ying, the Rukai people said they had passed this foot of Beidawu Mountain.
This creek is only an hour away from the Paiwan tribe.
This mountain is the highest peak in the southern section of the Central Mountains. Among the famous 100 mountains in Yizhou (Taiwan), Beidawu Mountain, Yushan Mountain, Snow Mountain, Nanhu Mountain, and Xiuguluan Mountain are collectively called the "Five Mountains" and are the highest mountains in Yizhou (Taiwan).
The five representative mountains are majestic and dominating.
After listening to Zhang Ying's introduction, Gu Yu smiled and said: "Miss Zhang Ying, if I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely take you to the Central Plains to see the real Five Sacred Mountains."
Gu Yu looked from a distance and saw that the Beidawu Mountain was majestic and towering, but the ridge was thin and the cliffs on the east and west sides were erratic, like a cut cliff. Looking from north to south, it looked like a sharp cone-shaped mountain. He thought that this mountain
It seems that the name is Zhuishan is more appropriate.
The Paiwan people have a rare aristocratic system among the Shanyi tribes in Yizhou (Taiwan). The hierarchy in the tribe is similar to that of the Rukai people, which are divided into four levels. The lowest level is commoners, and the third level is warriors.
There is only one word difference from the third-class warrior of the Rukai tribe, but most of them are similar.
The Paiwan people are divided into two major systems: the Laval Group (Northern Paiwan) and the Fuzhule Group. The Fuzhule Group includes the Nanpaiwan south of Ma's hometown in Pingtung, and the east coast of Yizhou (Taiwan).
Paiwan. North Paiwan is the tribe that lives next to the Rukai tribe, and it is the tribe that Gu Yu and his party are going to today.
In addition to producing for their own use, the people of the Paiwan tribe also give a large part of their production and hunting to the leaders and nobles of the tribe as taxes. This is also rare among the Shanyi tribes.
However, it is very common in the Central Plains across the sea. However, in today's Yizhou (Taiwan), they still cannot fully roll out the Central Plains taxation methods. They still need to wait until they completely control Yizhou (Taiwan).
Okay!
Hunting can be divided into two types: group hunting and individual hunting, but in concept, the prey belongs to a certain noble family, so the hunting rent must be paid to the owner of the hunting ground.
Tribal leaders among the nobility own farmland and homesteads and enjoy privileges; there are taxes, such as land tax, hunting tax, forest tax, water source tax, etc. Gu Yu listened to Zhang Ying and thought that they also had this land tax in Jiangdong.
, but this hunting tax, forest tax, and water source tax are something they don’t have in Jiangdong.
The leader of the Paiwan tribe is much more ruthless than their majesty. He collects all taxes. I am afraid he is the "tax king" among the tribes in Yizhou (Taiwan)!
The Soochow taxation system generally inherited the Han system, but also made some innovations to the Han system. According to the different collection standards and objects to be collected, it can be divided into four categories: rent, tax, calculation, and tax.
"Rent" is mainly land rent, which is levied at different levels according to the number of acres of land and the level of output, and is mainly paid in kind;
"Fu" mainly includes calculating the tax, updating the tax, and collecting the tax by mouth, and most of the money collected is coins;
"Suan" mainly includes calculation, calculation, and household tax, which are mainly property taxes levied on merchants, handicraftsmen, residents, etc., which are mostly levied in equal parts according to the amount of property and paid with coins;
"Taxes" mainly include duties, salt and iron taxes or monopoly, liquor tax or monopoly, city tax and other miscellaneous taxes. They are generally levied according to the quantity of goods, mainly in coins.
The Soochow court exempted and exempted taxes on the elderly family members, the disabled, when natural disasters occurred, when the emperor ascended the throne, etc. These reductions and exemptions more or less reduced the burden on the people and promoted the development of agriculture and the economy...