Prose of buckwheat festival in ancient times

"Hollow tree, hollow tree, hollow tree bears eight cases." The answer is buckwheat. In Yi Nationality Village, Wenshan, the hometown of Sanqi, there is a buckwheat-related festival "Buckwheat Vegetable Festival", also called "Buckwheat Year". It is intended to thank Joe for saving his life, and at the same time pray for good weather and good harvests.

"Looking at Noda before going out alone, the moon is in the sky and buckwheat is like snow." April of the lunar calendar is the time when spring buckwheat blooms in Ye Xiang. White flowers bloom from bottom to top, small and shallow, faint. A gust of wind blows, and the branches are a little white, just like falling snowflakes. They are not arrogant, weak, impetuous or beautiful. They just laughed and drank the east wind. This festival is the first dragon day in April on earth. The gongs and drums are loud, the masks are swaying, and the lion dance is hilarious, which adds to the mysterious ceremony. The most tense atmosphere is the broken city village in Mali.

Through a mysterious ancient stockade gate, along a mossy slate road and a shady slate path, I walked into the Bai Luo family of Yi people surrounded by mountains and canyons and hidden in dense primitive dense forests, and walked into the antique and castle-like dry fence buildings. Except for the tiles on the roof, the houses are all made of wood, even the windows are carved with wood, and there is no modern glass. The durability of the house makes people stunned.

I can't understand the totem and brisk dance steps in the square. If I like it, I will quietly listen to the long-distance story of the old village with white hair, look back at the bowl of buckwheat seeds and continue the hard and unforgettable years of a nation, and experience the unremitting efforts of our ancestors to fight against nature in the years. ...

Under the dragon tree, visit the mysterious ancient tree belief of Bailuo people: there is a tree of life in life and a tree of spirit in death. Savor the story between an ancient tree and a life, and sing the impermanence of life. But the tree is evergreen, and the soul is always there. Wash away the world of mortals and find the soul to convert. ...

Holding hands in bronze drum dance, buckwheat disc dance and bamboo pole dance, Bailuo people lived in simple dance thousands of years ago; In the cheerful vocal music, I can realize the beautiful vision of Bailuo youth in the new era, that is, to preserve tradition, integrate into development and create a well-off society together. Forget the world of mortals in the enthusiastic dance steps, talk to the ancients, enjoy silence and innocence.

Listening to the night songs of Yi boys, the beautiful girl's throbbing heart is tired of singing. She makes a vow of love at the corner of the girl's eaves, feels the anecdote of intermarriage within the family, and wishes the Bailuo couple a happy life hand in hand. ...

Dressed up to attend the sacred sacrifice ceremony, reverently worship the ancestors of Bailuo, explore the mystery of the ancestors killing chickens to see the fortune of the coming year, feel the piety brought by Joe's soul sutra, and feel the sincere gratitude of the people to Joe. ...

It's dragon head day in April again, listening to the sound of gongs and drums. Let's take a look at the most primitive folk customs; Let's taste the most simple folk customs together; Let's appreciate the culture of white naked men together.

The car moved slowly on the road paved with square cement bricks. The cool wind is blowing slowly, and the sound of bronze drums is coming faintly, filling my ears intermittently. I suspect that I have misheard my ears. It's really beating gongs and drums. Looking forward to approaching Chengzhai Village, which is located at the junction of Malipo, Funing and Guangnan counties, where drums are loud, dances are everywhere and wine songs are intoxicating.

Seeing is believing, bronze drums, masks and lion dances. They are holding a sacrificial ceremony. Singing loud folk songs, playing lusheng, playing black boy and dancing, they are grateful and celebrating the "Qiao Cai Festival".

Bailuo people in Chengzhai have their own festivals in different seasons, but the most grand one is Qiao Cai Festival, which is regarded as the Chinese New Year of other nationalities.

There is an old legend about "Qiao Cai Festival": It is said that in ancient times, there was a drought in the spring and a fire broke out in the village where Bailuo people lived. The fire destroyed the dense houses built with wood and food, and their survival was in trouble. Just as they were desperately looking for food, the sweeper suddenly found an upside-down bowl on the ground. He opened it and found a small pile of buckwheat seeds intact and scattered in the field. The whole village is happy to see the villagers' lives settled down. Men, women and children put on new clothes, carry ancient bronze drums, ring cheerful drums, and sing and dance heartily to express their joy and yearning for a better life in the future. In April of the following year, a new round of buckwheat seeds blossomed after planting. When they saw the splendid buckwheat cauliflower in the field, the old people said that buckwheat had saved the Bailuo people's hard years. We should remember the salvation of buckwheat from generation to generation, and choose the first Dragon Day in April of the lunar calendar to celebrate the "Buckwheat Food Festival". The Dragon Boat Festival is to pray for good weather in the future.

Be fully prepared before the festival, because buckwheat seeds are sacred. First of all, the organizer's choice is naturally cautious. Bimo, who is well-read and respected in the village, takes this opportunity to choose the organizer of the Buckwheat Festival in the first month of each year. The candidates must be middle-aged men with both parents, harmonious husband and wife and healthy children. The chosen person will have a very high status among Bailuo people before his death and will be blessed by his ancestors after his death. Secondly, every year at Qiao Cai Festival, four or five girls dress up as Jackie Chan's female image, and the "antique hoodies" to be worn should be carefully sewn several months in advance. Bailuo people are industrious and intelligent, and the garment technology is trivial and complicated, including twelve manual processes, such as planting hemp, soaking hemp, peeling hemp, rinsing, grinding hemp, forming yarn, twisting hemp, combing hemp, paddling, weaving, cutting and sewing clothes. Embroidery is the most time-consuming and laborious. Bailuo people love beauty and are good at embroidery. They always embroider their own patterns on their clothes.

In the early morning of the festival, the whole village changed into special dresses for the festival, and the children were fully armed, wearing silver square collars and long life locks. After breakfast, under the call of the organizer, the children of the whole village gathered in the largest yard in the village, beating gongs and drums, singing and dancing. In Bailuo people's consciousness, children are pure and kind, and they can communicate with their ancestors. Taking their songs and dances as the beginning of the festival not only expresses the reverence for their ancestors, but also adds to the festive season. At noon, a group of young men gathered at Bimo's house under the leadership of the organizer. After Bimo's family finished reading the bronze drum sutra, everyone solemnly invited the bronze drum out. The bronze drum is also a sacred object with soul in the consciousness of Bailuo people, and the bronze drum god is extremely powerful. It can help people to eliminate disasters and take refuge, and bless people to achieve great things. After the bronze drum sounded, the children danced more happily. Some adults can't help but join them. The dance lasted until late at night, and people's excitement gradually faded after midnight. Tired of dancing, they sat down and drank and ate meat to their heart's content.

Following Bimo, the village leaders and prestigious elders with implements in hand, they came to the buckwheat fields outside the village to kill chickens and see if they could predict the good or bad luck in the coming year. After that, Bimo recited the Soul Sutra of Joe, and everyone shouted in unison, calling for Joe's soul. The recalled "Qiao Soul" returned to the village with everyone and was invited to the throne by all the residents in the village with the most solemn etiquette. At this time, I only heard chickens crowing and pigs crowing in the village, and every household began to worship their ancestors and worship the spirit of buckwheat. This day's dishes are the most abundant in a year, including buckwheat and fresh fish. It is said that the dragon's staple food is fish and buckwheat, which can also add luster to Long Lin and make the Yi family more brave.

The next day, after each family prepared the dishes, they sent a person to send the sacrifices to the dragon tree at the head of the village to worship it.

Qiao Cai dance also reached its climax in the evening. Under the leadership of the organizer, the dance team danced out of the village from the west, south and north. With a big dance, I shouted "Lili" in my mouth. When dancing to the village, each person breaks two branches and returns. Starting from the village head, he threw a branch into each granary, which means "I wish the granary a bumper harvest in the coming year". The silent hut used to be noisy all night until dawn.

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"When you come to seek happiness, buckwheat can still save a poor year." Joe, who enjoys the reputation of "the king of grains" and "the food of the gods", has saved Bailuo people from dire straits, and Bailuo people are awe and sincere to Joe.