Han Cheng knew nothing about the changes that quietly occurred under his gaze under the sun. If he knew, I don't know if he would have the courage and interest to look at these women in the tribe, and his thoughts would wander.
Fly, miss the past.
Fortunately, Xing, Xiaomei, and Xiaoli were a little moved by what the primitive woman said, but they didn't dare to actually put this matter into action for a while.
Therefore, Han Da Shenzi, who had never known about this, was able to arrange for everyone to organize this New Year that they had never had in a relatively relaxed, happy and nostalgic mood.
When there is something to look forward to, the days are always slow and long, which makes people anxious. With everyone in the Qingque tribe looking forward to it, the pace of the new year is finally getting closer and closer.
Twenty-four, clean the house.
Twenty-five, grind tofu.
Twenty-six, cut a piece of meat.
Twenty-seven, kill a chicken.
Twenty-eight, stickers.
Twenty-nine……
In the cold season, because the new year is approaching, the Qingque tribe is becoming more and more lively and looking forward to it. Although the days seem to be the same as usual, everyone can feel the difference.
On the night of the 23rd, after a much richer meal than in the past, things related to the New Year were pushed towards the climax step by step, like a picture that had been slowly opened and was ready to go.
Bow is average.
On the twenty-fourth, everyone in the Qingque tribe began to take action under the order of the Son of God.
Clean and wipe room utensils and clean the courtyard.
Several large soup-making vats in the Qingque tribe have been boiling hot water for everyone so that they can wash their things.
After the room, courtyard, and utensils are cleaned, what needs to be cleaned is the person himself.
There were no bathhouses at this time, so when the weather got colder, everyone, including Han Cheng, took less baths.
But this time is different from the past. In the past, even people who didn't want to take a shower must take a shower today. This is what the Son of God has told him to do, and he has a very tough attitude.
The reason is that it’s a new year and a new beginning, so you can’t bring this year’s ashes into the new year.
The cave is separated by wooden rafts and animal skins, and is a relatively small place filled with water vapor.
In the large vat, Han Cheng buried his head in the hot water and puffed out a bunch of bubbles happily, then began to rub the ash off his body and wash his already long hair with his hands.
After exposing his head to the hot water, he soon felt the chill again. Even though there was a small flame burning constantly under the large vat, which looked like he was stewing the Son of God and drinking it, it could not isolate him from the cold air.
We have to find a way to build a special bath room. Taking a bath in such a place is really too uncomfortable. It's no wonder that the tribesmen don't like bathing very much when the weather gets cold.
Han Cheng thought this while rubbing his body and hair.
There was no soap and no bath towel, so I could only dry it with my hands.
Han Cheng could endure these things, but what he couldn't endure the most was that when washing his hair, he also washed it directly with clean water.
Wash your hair with water. After washing, you always feel that your hair and scalp are still greasy. This feeling is enough to make you want to go crazy.
Han Cheng didn't expect to have things like shampoo and soap. Even if there was a bag of washing powder in front of him, he would rub it onto his head with tears in his eyes. Even if his hair was so dry afterwards that he could hardly comb it, he
It's also as sweet as sugar.
However, even washing powder is still a luxury, and only plant ash can be used.
After his body was almost washed, Han Cheng grabbed a handful of plant ash from the jar next to him and rubbed it into his hair.
Use plant ash to clean your hair. Although it is not easy to clean, it can reduce the greasy feeling to a certain extent.
Soap!
This is something that Han Cheng has been reciting several times every time he takes a shower or washes his hair for a long time.
The most important thing about traveling far after the beginning of spring is to confirm the thoughts in my heart. The other thing is to try my best to find some useful things that the Qingque tribe does not have, and saponaria is one of them.
After the twenty-fourth day, the entire Qingque tribe became completely new.
The Qingque tribe did not grow soybeans, so they could not grind them into tofu.
Han Cheng regretted that this precious food, which was eaten as meat in poor times, could not appear.
Needless to say, Mapo Tofu, just the stinky tofu, and the dried tofu that is fried and cut into shreds, and is delicious when used for soup or stir-fry, are enough to make Han Cheng remember it endlessly.
There is no tofu mill, and the people of the Qingque tribe are not idle either. The women are seizing the time to make new clothes, trying to make one for everyone before the New Year.
The men prepared firewood and drums to drive away the Nian beast.
The atmosphere is getting thicker and thicker day by day, time is running slowly and stubbornly, and the time has reached twenty-eight.
The sky, which had been sunny for several days, became gloomy again.
Han Cheng was breathing out white air, and he found Lame, who had already worked with Mumu and others to make two drums. He had some free time and asked him to cut a few pieces of wood one meter long and about five or six centimeters in diameter.
Then use stone knives and wooden sticks to split the wood in half from the middle.
After Lai did as he was told, he stood aside and refused to leave, wanting to see what the Son of God was going to do.
Han Cheng held a piece of tile, counted the number of words, and drew inconspicuous intervals on the yellow-brown wooden board.
Then I found a charcoal pen and started writing stroke by stroke on this space.
He stood lamely and watched, wondering what the Son of God meant by this move.
The stone that came close to him stretched out his little head, and after looking at it for a while, he slowly read along with Han Cheng's writing: "As time goes by, people live longer, and spring fills the universe with blessings."
After reading it, he tilted his head and scratched his head, feeling very confused.
His confusion was based on three points. Among the Qingque tribe, apart from Shenzi, he was the best at divine writing. However, at this time, he could not understand the words written by Shenzi.
He knew all these words, but the troublesome thing was that when they were put together, he had no idea what they said.
The second point is the writing rules, which are completely different from the horizontal writing that the Son of God taught him every day and that he is completely familiar with.
Shouldn't the wooden sign be placed horizontally and written from left to right? Why did Shenzi write from top to bottom this time?
The third thing is that he doesn't know what the Son of God is doing with this thing.
"The New Year is full of Yuqing, and the festival is called Changchun."
"Bearing down the old year with the sound of leather drums, always replacing old charms with new ones."
With doubts in his heart, Shitou slowly and quietly read out what Han Cheng had written.
Han Cheng recalled the few Spring Festival couplets in his memory and wrote them one stroke at a time.
It is said that the earliest Spring Festival couplets are the sentence "New Year's greetings, and the festival's name is Changchun."
It is said to be the work of Meng Chang, the empress of Shu during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period after the end of the Tang Dynasty.
Not many people know about Meng Chang, but one of his concubines is more famous, Mrs. Hua Rui, for whom Meng Chang planted hibiscus all over the city.
After the collapse of the country, when she was questioned by Boss Zhao in Bianliang about causing harm to the country and the people, she wrote a poem at that time, "
The flag was lowered on the king's city, but I didn't know about it deep in the palace. One hundred and forty thousand people were all disarmed, but not one of them was a man."
Meng Chang has many similarities in experience and character with Li Yu, the later master of the Southern Tang Dynasty who wrote "When Will Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon" at the same time?
However, his poems are not as good as those written by Li Yu, and this couplet is the most widely circulated.
It is said that when he wrote this couplet, Boss Zhao had already divided his troops into two groups to let Wang Quan'an and Cao Bin lead the attack on Hou Shu.
That is to say, in the year when he wrote this couplet, Hou Shu was destroyed, and he and Mrs. Huarui became prisoners.
This is not the most dramatic, but the most intriguing thing is that in that year, the highest official sent by the Song Dynasty to handle Hou Shu affairs was named Lu Yuqing. Not long ago, Song Taizu Zhao Boss set his birthday as the Changchun Festival...
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"You'll find out later."
Han Cheng smiled and said to Shi Shi, who couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart and asked.
Then he asked Lai to find a rope and a stone knife, and carve some grooves near both ends of the wooden couplets so that they could be used to tie the rope.
After doing this, he asked Shitou, Lame and the approaching Heiwa and Tietou to follow him out with the wooden couplet, telling everyone to be careful not to touch the words on it.
After all, it was only written with charcoal, not ink, so it is easy to get scratched if you are not careful.
Several small wooden pegs were smashed into the pillars on both sides of the gate. The couplets, which were much larger than the other three pairs, were hung on both sides of the gate in sequence by Han Cheng.
It was the pair where he suddenly changed the firecrackers into leather drums.
This unexpected move of the Son of God soon attracted many people from the Qingque tribe to look at him.
Everyone pointed at the couplet and said a few words from time to time, and they all speculated on the intention of the Son of God's move.
Some say it is used to scare the Nian beast, some say it is a talisman, some say it is used to communicate with the gods...
Han Cheng listened to everyone's discussion without saying a word. He just stepped back four or five meters and carefully looked at this unique and simple pair with a smile. He thought it was pretty good.
What's a pity is that the characters are a bit ugly and the wood board is not dyed red.
Another regrettable thing is that there is no way to get a door god.
Otherwise, whether it is Guan Yu with a red face, Zhang Fei with a black face, Qin Shubao holding a golden mace, or Yu Chigong holding a whip, drawing them and pasting them on the door will all add a lot to the first New Year of the Qingque tribe.
Less brilliance.
Han Cheng wanted to paint a few paintings by himself, but after thinking about his unflattering abstract painting skills, he gave up the idea.
Otherwise, the door gods who appeared in the Qingque tribe would not only be able to avoid ghosts, but would also avoid people... It's scary to think about it.
The other three doors were also hung with couplets in turn.
Seeing that it was not enough, Han Cheng wrote two more paintings and hung them at the entrance of the cave and the door of the deer pen.
He also made a short wooden sign with the words "The trough head is prosperous" and hung it on the long deer trough where the deer often grazes.
Looking at the many deer cubs that Uncle Deer and his harem had produced in this year, Han Cheng felt that this wooden sign was the most suitable place to hang.
The rabbit pen, the chicken pen, the place where the Qingque tribe often cooks, and the kang where the shamans sleep were not spared by the Han Da Shenzi who made Spring Festival couplets and couldn't stop the car. They hung up "Six Livestock Prosperity" and "Beware of Lights" respectively.
's brand.
Even the newly manufactured canoes of the Qingque Tribe, which have not yet been tested, were branded by Han Da Shenzi with the words "travel a thousand miles in a day, travel eight hundred in a night", which can be said to be very crazy.
Although such a canoe cannot travel hundreds of miles in a day...
