Chapter 1853: Work for work and meat for meat
"Hey, hey, don't look at the lighter, just look at whether the fire is good or not." Zhou Zhi waved his hand to remind the two of them to pay attention here.
“What Grandpa Chiri is holding is not a lighter?” Liang Guangping was still in a daze.
“Don’t look at things like this. You should regard today’s use of a fire sickle to make fire as a salute ceremony to our ancestors. Will it make you solemn at once?”
“I Su Mu, you ghost!" Liu Hongtao laughed and said, "Come on, let me play with you, how do you get this hot trick!"
"There's nothing we can do about it. Once the fire is ignited, it will take time to extinguish it."
"Didn't you say that reeds and moss can be used to ignite the fire?" Liang Guangping felt that this was the case. It doesn't look that complicated either.
Of course he would not stop such a thing, which made him see himself two months ago. He quickly reached out and handed over the fire sickle and flint stone: "Then you guys take it and try it!"
With fire, the next step is to prepare food. The staple food is yesterday's bait block, which has been processed into thin slices by Gillette Abbey. Put the thin slices on the pan and fry them. The outside of the small slices It will become crispy and brown on one side, while the inside will become loose and soft.
After that, you can take it into your hands, sprinkle it with bean flour and sugar and roll it up, which is the traditional way of eating glutinous rice cake.
You can also brush it with a layer of spicy sauce, put the fried loach that you didn't finish yesterday, diced tomatoes, onion strips, green pepper shreds, roll it up and eat it salty, it tastes good too.
Zhou Zhi also brought cold-cut lamb, this one rolled with coriander, garlic slices, and green pepper, is also a must-have.
Lao Chiri boiled black tea, then poured out the tea soup, added milk powder, butter, and a special kind of "pockmarked" powder from the Liangshan area to make a pot of fragrant milk tea.
You can add salt or sugar to milk tea. Traditionally, the Yi people prefer to add salt, but they are not used to it, so they still prefer to add sugar.
In short, everyone got what they needed, and both Li Lu and Zhou Zhi ate happily.
Because there was only one small pot, everyone had to take turns eating the cakes. When Zhou Zhi and the other three were full, they invited Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao, who were still working hard to light the fire, to come over and eat.
Liang Guangping's fingers were red and swollen, and he threw the thing back to Zhou Zhi: "If I hadn't seen you operate it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that this thing could really start a fire! I was so angry! "
"Hahahaha..." The result was exactly as Zhou Zhi expected, and he couldn't help but be happy: "So. For the Qiong people, the invention of Huozhezi may be an epoch-making invention. With it carrying fire, they can spread civilization throughout the Anning Valley."
"It's a pity. The ancient nation has not been able to pass it down," Liang Guangping said as he took the bait cake handed to him by Zhou Zhi.
“This is not certain, they are more likely to be integrated.” Zhou Zhi said: “For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu, Yue, Sui, Yong, Shu, Ba, etc. , In fact, integration is greater than conquest.”
"Wu, Yue, and Sui were the members of the Zhou royal family who sent clan members to these areas to serve as feudal leaders, thereby bringing with them the culture and etiquette of the Central Plains, as well as farming, military and other technologies, leading the indigenous people to undergo long-term evolution and finally complete the 'Chineseization' Process. ”
“When entering Yong, Shu and other countries, they responded to the call of King Wu of Zhou and sent out The eight kingdoms that allied forces participated in the extermination of the Shang Dynasty were called the "Eight Kingdoms of Mu Shi" or the "Eight Pus". At that time, they had already had very close ties with the Zhou royal family. Later, they were enfeoffed by King Wu, and their exchanges became even closer. They also gradually accepted the Zhou Dynasty. The etiquette system achieved "Chineseization" and was eventually annexed by powerful neighbors during the turmoil of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period." "But we. You must realize that when they were annexed, they were already one of the vassal states of the Zhou royal family, and they were already a member of the Chinese family."
"The Qiong people seemed to choose the cemetery. There are also some ways." Liu Hongtao looked at this beautiful valley: "The vegetation here seems a little different from what we saw along the way. "It's the same."
"Maybe." Zhou Zhi said: "But the environment here was not like this when the Qiong people lived. The vegetation must have been much richer, and the entire Anning River area was full of vegetation. So, it's just that the forest is gradually disappearing, and finally shrunk to this little bit."
"But just because it can be preserved until the end, it also shows that the place is extraordinary, right Grandpa Chiri? Do you Yi people also want to talk about Feng Shui?"
"We don't call it Feng Shui, we call it Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Eight stems four Wei, there are "The Sutra of Sacrifice to the Earth", "The Sutra of Sacrifice to the Mountain", "The Sutra of Sacrifice to the Dragon", "The Sutra of Expelling the White Tiger", and "The Sutra of Asking for the Name of the Spring", all of which are related to the establishment of a stronghold."
"There must be rules when setting up a village, such as 'Po "Grazing sheep on the slope, going to the fields at the end of the bay" is the most common saying in Erbirji, which is similar to your Han people's Feng Shui. In Anzhaizi, you must choose a middle location that is convenient for both herding and going to the fields."
"We decide not only on the location, but also on the season. We usually build the house in the cold season."
"Grandpa Chiri, what does the cold season mean?" Zhou Zhi had already turned on the camera and switched to into interview mode.
"In addition to the traditional New Year celebrations of several months, we Yi people also have a tradition of dividing the year into three seasons according to the busy farming season." Lao Chiri said: "From March, we enter the 'big season', which is the 'hot season'. We call it 'Eiru', which means 'spring food'. Rice, corn, tartary buckwheat and other grains began to be planted. "
"July is called the 'mid-season', also called the 'small season'. We call it 'Wule', and 'Wule' means sweet buckwheat. , 'Le' is the short period of time for planting crops in a year, so '嘘' means sow, sow, and plant. It means 'short solar term for planting sweet buckwheat'."
"The autumn harvest is in September, and it enters the cold season after harvesting. We call it 'chu tuoguo', which means 'cold weather'."
“Among them, during the hot season and mid-season, relatives and village neighbors often They help each other in the form of au pairing, and everyone does farm work together, so it is also called 'worker au pairing'."
"In the cold season, relatives and friends visit each other, and everyone eats and drinks around the firepit, so this season is also known as "worker au pairing." It’s called ‘meat for meat’”
"Hahaha, this method of division is more interesting. Work is for work, meat is for meat. We are now in the season of meat for meat!"
Li Lu felt a little worried while holding the cold-cut mutton cake with bait: "I'm just afraid that the meat will be transferred to me..."
Everyone laughed when they heard this. Lao Chiri lit up the orchid cigarette again, took a puff and said: "There are so many things here that we can't finish talking about them. We won't go into details today, but we Every household of the Yi people has a talking point, and you often come to our When visiting Yi people's homes, some people said that I would like to tell you something today. "
"Our Yi people's houses are generally divided into two floors. The ground floor is called "mudou", which usually contains six rooms. ”
“The center of the first floor is the most The big room is equivalent to the main room for you Han people. We call it 'Aduo'. The gods of every family are placed here, and the souls of ancestors and deceased people are also kept here. Therefore, we eat during festivals, offer sacrifices, and conduct life rituals here. Held here.”
Pulling out a branch, Lao Chiri began to draw the structural diagram of the house on the ground while explaining it to several children.