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Liangshan.
Located at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan, it is the largest gathering area of the Yi people. The capital of Liangshan is also an important town on the ancient Silk Road. However, this time, Qin Yu and his party directly abandoned the capital and headed towards the Liangshan mountainous area.
The car wound its way around several county towns, and finally stopped at the foot of a mountain.
"It's been so many years here, but nothing has changed." Xiao Yueyue got out of the car, glanced around a few times, and said.
"Why, have you been here before?" Qin Yu asked after hearing this.
"Of course, I stayed here when I was a child..." Xiao Yueyue suddenly stopped in the middle of her words, and said with a smile: "I am from Sichuan, and I played here with the adults when I was a child."
Looking at Xiao Yueyue's rolling eyes, Qin Yu knew that the other party was not telling the truth. However, this had nothing to do with him. It was just a casual question before.
"Mr. Qin, it's getting late today. The tour guide asked us to stay in this village overnight and then go up to the mountain early tomorrow morning." Cao Xuan walked over and said to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu raised his head and glanced at the sky. It was already dusk. He had spent a lot of time looking for the safe. If he were on the mountain now, he would not have enough time.
"The tour guide is familiar with the people in this village and can find us a place to live."
After hearing what Cao Xuan said, Qin Yu nodded, and immediately, several people followed the tour guide and walked towards the village.
Several Yi people found by the tour guide received Qin Yu and his party very enthusiastically, and even killed pigs and chickens for a banquet. You know, in the Yi people, whenever guests arrive, they will kill poultry to entertain them. However, according to the guests
The level of preciousness is divided into cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and being able to kill pigs to entertain them is already considered a very high treatment for guests who are not related to each other.
Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue were arranged to spend the night in a Yi family's home, while Qin Haoran was staying with Cao Xuan. In another Yi family's home, there were no programs at the foot of the mountain. Although there was a TV, watching the host's
Several children stared eagerly in front of the TV, and Qin Yu was too embarrassed to fight for the remote control with the children.
Simply, after eating, I planned to take a walk in the village.
"Qin Yu, where are you going?"
"I'm going for a walk."
"I'll go with you."
Xiao Yueyue also walked out, came to Qin Yu's side, and said with a smile: "The Yi people have many rules. I'm afraid that if you don't understand it by yourself, you will violate other people's rules."
Qin Yu glanced at Xiao Yueyue. Ethnic minorities do have many taboos. Many times if they don't understand, they will break other people's rules. Qin Yu remembered a joke he saw on the Internet before, which was about the Mongolian people.
A joke about drinking:
"Brother, we have a drinking rule in Inner Mongolia. Let me first introduce a few friends at the table today, and then let's have a drink first. If you can name them after drinking, you recognize us as friends, and we ourselves
Have a drink. If you can’t name the name, it means the friendship hasn’t arrived yet. Have a drink yourself. Start with the Karatsang Baladanza Musuridan next to you, and then go down to Uljidlegle
Ritu was stunned...
Although this joke is a bit ridiculous, there is indeed such a rule in some areas of Inner Mongolia. However, the real name is not that long, usually only five or six characters at most. Mongolian men are risking their lives when they drink, and they do not give face if they do not drink.
In Inner Mongolia, there is also a proverb: The eagle on the grassland spreads its wings and hangs two cups on one pair of wings.
This is the national culture and custom. Some ethnic minorities, including the Yi people, like to entertain guests with wine. There is a saying among the people: Han people value tea, and Yi people value wine.
While walking around the village with Xiao Yueyue, Qin Yu could feel that the village had been greatly influenced by Chinese culture. Many of the Yi people walking around the village were dressed indistinguishably from those of the Han people.
"In fact, except for a few Yi ethnic groups, they still retain their traditional culture. Some Yi ethnic groups that are closer to the city are Chineseized earlier. Even now, some Yi children are not much different from Han children." Xiao Yue.
Yue seemed to see what Qin Yu was thinking and spoke.
"This is a good thing, but it's also a bad thing."
National integration is the pace of progress in this era. This is the general trend and no one can change it. However, the traditional customs and characteristics of each ethnic group are undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt. Perhaps dozens or hundreds of years later, these ethnic minorities will have their own culture.
will disappear, just like the Han people.
"However, there are still a few groups of the Yi people who still retain their pure national culture. These groups have a very noble status among the entire Yi people, a bit similar to the royal family of our Han people."
There was a look of memory on Xiao Yueyue's face. She had lived among this traditional Yi people for nearly five years. It could be said that she spent her entire childhood there. But it was precisely because of this that she
Only the clan would arrange such a marriage for her, and they said they were childhood sweethearts, but she only regarded him as a brother and had no such thoughts at all.
The two continued walking, and suddenly they found that an open space in front of them was crowded with people, with a few torches in the middle, and even a few faint cries.
"What's wrong?" Qin Yu's eyes narrowed and he walked over there.
"Someone must have died. It's very unlucky to die. It's better not to go and see it." Xiao Yueyue stopped in front of Qin Yu, trying to prevent Qin Yu from coming forward to watch.
"It's more than that." Qin Yu could tell that those people were performing some kind of ritual. At that moment, he bypassed Xiao Yueyue and walked towards the crowd.
"Why are you so unlucky? We met at this time. I hope it's not Bimo from the Ake clan, otherwise it will be troublesome if he is recognized." Xiao Yueyue muttered a few words in a low voice, but finally followed her.
followed Qin Yu's steps.
Arriving in front of the crowd, Qin Yu pushed through the crowd and walked to the front. He looked at a six-foot-long clay pot in the open space in front of him and a wax-white corpse lying on a wooden board on the ground.
, the whole person was stunned for a moment.
"This is a burial method of the Yi people, called pottery pot burial, also known as "direct burial" and "sky burial." When you see that there is no pottery pot, you will put the deceased's body upright into the pottery pot.
and then buried in the soil, because these people believe that people walk standing up, and they must die standing up, with the sky above their heads and the earth under their feet. This is true when you are alive, and it is also true when you die."
Xiao Yueyue's expression was a little complicated. This kind of burial method is not used by all Yi people. The reason why Xiao Yueyue knew it was because she had seen such a scene before. It was a unique burial method of the Ake clan.
Law.
The person standing in front of her in the open space was constantly reciting the unique syllables of the Yi people. Xiao Yueyue was already sure that she was definitely Bimo from the Ake clan, because, except for Bimo from the Ake clan, other Yi people
Bimo within the branch will not be "directly buried".
I forgot to mention that Bimo is the phonetic translation of the Yi people. If it is translated into Chinese, it means sacrifice.
Xiao Yueyue's expression was complicated, but Qin Yu stared intently. He had heard about this clay pot burial method, but this was the first time he saw it with his own eyes.
After the priest finished reciting the incantation, he picked up a few black objects and threw them into the pottery pot. Then he took out a few talismans. When he saw these talismans, Qin Yu's eyes
He narrowed his eyes slightly, because the runes on these talismans were obviously different from those in the Central Plains area.
After half an hour of preparation, the priest walked up to the deceased on the ground, raised the two fingers of his right hand together, pointed at the deceased on the ground and drew a rune, and then, with a low drink, the corpse of the deceased on the ground began to float up automatically.
He stood up and finally floated slowly two meters high in the air.
"Go." The priest waved his fingers towards the pottery pot not far away. Immediately, the corpse floated to the top of the pottery pot, stood up, and then slowly fell down.
As soon as the body fell into the pottery pot, the priests walked quickly to the pottery pot, slapped the lid on their hands, and then took out several seal-like seals, which were engraved with various symbols.
The yellow paper with lines was pasted on the lid of the pot, sealing the lid and the pot together.
Qin Yu could see all these actions clearly. It is said that laymen watch the fun and insiders watch the door. Even if he did not understand the clay pot burial method, Qin Yu also inferred the clay pot burial method from most of the movements of the sacrifice.
The meaning of each step.
The black objects placed in the pottery jar at the beginning should have the same meaning as the grains, rice and copper coins inside the coffin, and the later talismans are similar to the burial talismans, used to worship the Sifang mountain gods. When the body is put in
After the clay pot, the seals are to prevent the corpse from mutating and the corpse's aura being exposed.
The forms are different, but the ultimate goal is the same.
After understanding this, Qin Yu no longer had much interest in the pottery pot burial. Moreover, burying the dead was indeed not a good thing. He was ready to leave immediately. However, just when Qin Yu was about to leave, the expression of the priest was
He became panicked, kept chanting incantations, and faced the clay pot with his hands.
In the end, he even knelt down towards the clay pot, mumbling some ancient syllables of the Yi people. When the villagers onlookers saw this scene, they all knelt down and chanted
There were some words that Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue couldn't understand.
As soon as everyone knelt down, Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue were standing very conspicuously. When the priest saw Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue still standing, he roared a few words, but Qin Yu couldn't understand.
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"He asked us to kneel down too, saying that the souls of the deceased in the clay pots were disturbed." Xiao Yueyue translated from the side.
"Are you disturbing?" Qin Yu squinted his eyes and looked at the clay pot. After a while, he walked towards the clay pot. When the priest saw this scene, he even murmured a lot.
, wanted to rush over to stop Qin Yu, but did not dare to stand up. (To be continued)