Chapter 1841 Lifting the River for Fishing
It is still the end of the rainy season, and the water in the Meigu River is extremely turbid. To people who don’t understand, they would think that the river is filled with mud and is extremely dirty.
Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Although the river water is turbid, it is not muddy, and there is only sediment in the river water. Not only is it not dirty, it is quite clean.
This river looks very desolate and does not look like there are any living things. In fact, it is very rich in fish, and many of them are types Zhou Zhi has never seen before.
The Yi people are a bit strange. Unlike the Tibetans, they do not have a custom of worshiping fish, but they do not eat fish very much. This makes the Meigu River, which mainly flows in the Yi area, become a fish. paradise.
Zhou Zhi likes fishing, but what he likes most is Taiwan fishing. Taiwan fishing requires a still water environment, and that kind of fishing method is not suitable for a fast river like the Meigu River.
However, the currents of the Yangtze River and Hongshui River are also very fast. Fishermen on the riverside are familiar with various fishing methods, and many of them are quite professional.
When Zhou Zhi returned home, he only used two cigarettes to get a string hook fishing method for fishing in flowing water from an old fisherman on the riverside, and then used the remaining parts to buy the best-made fishing gear. Store address.
It turns out we are still old acquaintances, Lao Song, the Beimenmen fishing tackle shop who made purple bamboo sticks for my uncle and bamboo fishing rods for my third uncle.
Although they had not seen each other for two years, Lao Song still had a deep impression on Zhou Zhi. Hearing that Zhou Zhi wanted to buy fishing gear to catch running water, Lao Song inquired about the situation of the waterways in Lianhe Township and made a set of plans for Zhou Zhi. He had never played with fishing tackle before and was given a detailed explanation of how to use it.
This kind of fishing gear is called line-lifting fishing. In some places, it is also called cross-river fishing and lifting fishing. It is a type of traditional fishing that was once very popular in southern Sichuan.
Compared with ordinary fishing gear, line lifting fishing is very complicated, including a back rod with a pulley, a reel rod with a line reel and a mixing wheel. Through clever threading methods, between the back rod and the reel rod time, forming a set of ingenious pulleys.
When fishing, first assemble the line group. One person is on this side of the river, holding the coiled rod to put out the line, and the other person is holding the back rod and walks to the other side of the river, fixing the back rod to On the big tree or rock across the river.
Then the person holding the reeling rod starts to take up the line. After finally adjusting the line group for river fishing to the appropriate size, the line group can be moved back and forth on the river by turning the wheel.
At the connection point of the line under the pulley block, wrap two small knots with medical tape and other sticky things at a distance of three to five meters in front of you. This knot is commonly known as a stopper, and the stopper is It is used for hanging fishing signs and hanging bait trays when feeding.
The so-called fishing plate is a reel with fishing line wound on it, which can adjust the depth of fishing.
Many fishing tags can be set on a main line, and each fishing tag is a fishhook or even a string hook. In this way, a lifting line fishing group can be distributed almost all over the entire river. This is the lifting hook. The origin of line fishing, also known as river fishing.
Erxia is Zhou Zhi’s fishing partner in lifting the line. After it is fixed, Zhou Zhi inserts the lifting pole on the ground, hangs the fishing sign, and turns the wheel to send the group of fishing lines towards the middle of the river. .
Earthworms are hung on the fishing lines. Every third set of fishing lines, Zhou Zhi will also hang a bait ball wrapped in gauze on the stall to lure fish.
The bay in front of Lianhe Township is about more than 20 meters wide, forming a backwater tuo. There is also a stream flowing down from the mountain in the backwater tuo. In the past, this stream was originally dry. Yes, now that there is more water sucked in by the mountain dragon, the children have found newts, frogs and crabs in the stream.
This bay can provide a resting place for the fish that are rushing upstream. At the same time, there are all kinds of bugs, seeds, and vegetable leaves washed down from the mountain. It is a natural fish nest in itself.
Lifting the pole also requires techniques. You need to wave the pole in your hand rhythmically in the fishing waters, and use the big line to drive the fishing line and hook bait to move up and down on the bottom of the water at a constant speed to lure fish to the bait. This method is called teasing. Tease fishing is especially suitable for fish that like to chase live bait. "Hey! You haven't caught any fish yet, so why did you put up all the fish guards?" When Er Xia ran back from the other side of the bay, Zhou Zhi was already waving the pole up and down to tease the fish.
“Don’t worry!” Erxia looked like a veteran driver, protected the fish, and threw the tail into the river: “There are as many as you can!”
< br>"How about you lift the rod and control the fish, and I'll get it later?" Zhou Zhi lured Er Xia to do physical work.
Er Xia waved her hand, saying that she was more suitable for taking command of the fish, and that thoroughness was the material for manual labor.
“Erxia, tell me about ‘Let’s Drink Opera’?”
“It’s a day every October. We pound new millet into rice, but also kill chickens and cook. , worship the ancestors, ask Da Bimo to sing "Let's drink opera, perform European opera, Chi Ni Han Mai" Wan, Nahai goes to Maidola'..."
"Wait a minute, what does your song mean?"
"It's just to eat new rice, eat and eat, this year's harvest will be good. The harvest will continue next year..."
"Is that so? So direct?"
"I think so." Erxia didn't pay much attention to these things at first. Yi language is also divided into modern and ancient prose, and Xiao Erxia didn't care about the language used in ancient songs. Familiar, he is concerned about other things during the festival: "Make bait cakes and give them to relatives, friends and elders in the village." People."
"Do you think this October is Han October or Yi October?"
"Uh..."
"Forget it, I didn't ask. It seems that it is already the tenth month of Han Dynasty. Otherwise, it would not be today." Zhou Zhi asked and thought about it.
"You know and you still ask me!" Erxia was angry instead: "Don't you know I'm not good at studying?"
"Hey, you're reasonable if you're not good at studying! Listen to me tell you about your own calendar... ...You must remember this." Zhou Zhi had a rare opportunity to show off his Yi knowledge to his fellow Yi people, so of course he couldn't miss it.
"You said you said..." Erxia put one hand on the lower line of the main line. Because she was fishing in fast water, there was no float on the fishing line, but she could observe the tightness and tension of the line. Feel the vibration of the main line to determine whether there is a fish, Erxia said this, focusing on the line.
“You Yi people have your own calendar, called the ten-month solar calendar, which divides the year into ten months, and each month is divided into thirty-six days, regardless of big or small months. After ten months The next five to six days are called 'New Year's Day'. The New Year's Day is placed at the end of the year, and the new year begins after these few days. "
The calendar of the Yi people is actually a very magical calendar. After Zhou Zhi summarized it from Lao Bimo, Also published a paper.
Ten months, thirty-six days per month, a total of 360 days, and the remaining New Year days are usually five days, and six days will be added every fourth year. This calendar is not only convenient for memory, but also It has a very high degree of coincidence with the regression value, which was completely scientific and practical in ancient times.
This calendar is also divided into ten days each month, but it uses twelve zodiac animals to cycle through reincarnation. The zodiac signs are different from those of the Han people, but they start from the tiger. One zodiac sign week is twelve days, and three zodiac animals are reincarnated into one month. Thirty times, plus "New Year's Day", this completes the year.