South China Sea Myth

Brother Huang likes to watch the life customs and dances of the Li people. The Li people believe that everything in the world has a soul, so the Li people pay great attention to the seasonal hours

Every time before the action, a certain prayer ceremony is held to wish that everything is safe and smooth, and there are no accidents. Life customs dance, which is closely related to daily life, is the transition from religious sacrificial dance to entertainment and festive dance, and develops in the direction of entertaining people more than entertaining gods. The representative life customs dances include "Blessing Dance", "New Year Dance" and "Bowl Dance".

Brother Huang said: In the area of the Li nationality mu-system, it is popular to make the "Ox Day" in March, July and October of the lunar calendar. The Li people have their own ethnic calendar, with a cycle of 12 days, named after an animal every day, similar to the twelve earthly branches of the Han people. "Ox Day" is considered to be "Lucky Day", "Good Day", and "Auspicious Day", so every "Ox Day", the "Blessing Dance" must be danced.

Tour guide Li Ping is quite interested in "Blessing Dance". She said that on the first "Cow Day" in March, she would dance the "Blessing Dance" for the cows to bless the cattle with fat, strong and many cubs; On the first "Ox Day" of late rice transplanting in July, we should dance the "Blessing Dance" for the "rice" and pray for the seedlings to grow strong and the grains to be abundant: on the first Ox Day in October of the harvest season, we should dance the "Blessing Dance" for the "people", hoping for the safety of the village and the prosperity of the people. Whenever this kind of ceremony is held, the whole village people gather together to kill pigs and set up a banquet and dance the "Blessing Dance". First of all, the crowd takes turns beating gongs and drums, and then the mutou couple in costumes drink the "blessing wine" that has been washed with "precious stones" (a stone tool handed down from the ancestors, which is a symbol of the good spirit), and then dance.

Li Daping has been the general manager of Nanhai Travel Agency for several years, and he is certainly no stranger to "Blessing Dance". He said that during the dance, Mu Tou held two red vine leaves dipped in "blessing wine" in his hand, walked back and forth from the door to the house, and kept shaking the red vine leaves. His wife followed closely with wine to show the "blessing" of the house, and then sprinkled the "blessing wine" to the crowd to show the "blessing" on the body. After the mutou couple danced, the people of the village went into battle. Men dressed in blue, blue, and green robes, waving back and forth from the house to the door, waving their sleeves back and forth, swinging from side to side; The women hold wine bowls in their hands and follow the men, dancing and saluting "blessing wine". Regardless of men and women, the dancers are stable and straight, stepping on the sonorous sound of gongs and drums, advancing and retreating, stepping on small steps, shouting in unison, earth-shattering.

Li Ping said that in the area of the acre system, the "New Year Dance", also known as the "Peace Dance", must be danced every New Year. On the second day of the first lunar month, all men and women in the village wear national costumes and hold a ceremony to celebrate the New Year under the leadership of the elders of the highest rank. Kill pigs and chickens, and set sacrifices; A single wooden drum, a gong is beaten; The sound of gongs and drums, the dance is cheerful; Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, pray for peace; People and animals are prosperous, and grains are abundant. The dancer must keep his body balanced and straight, follow the rhythm of the gongs and drums, and swing his hands back and forth at the sides of his waist. On the third step, stand with your feet together and bend your knees to the left and right, repeating the cycle over and over again.

Doctor Mythology says that the creation of dance is related to people's quest for gods. The blessing dance "Bowl Dance" is a female dance. Whenever the child is sick or the parents are going out, the mother invites the "mothers" to dance. The dancers are generally more than 2 people, and there are two kinds of dance movements: one is to hold flowers and plants; The other is to hold a bowl on the top of the head, hold a bamboo chopstick in the right hand, and hit the bowl on the head. When dancing, they are arranged in columns, singing and dancing at the same time, and the dance steps are slower. The Li people believe that dancing this dance can pray for the children's peace and blessings, and enable the children to be protected by the ancestral gods, eliminate disasters and difficulties, and grow up healthily.

Brother Huang watched the show and knew that Dr. Myth was holding a love myth experience tour, and said, "I want to participate in the love myth experience tour organized by you, okay?" "You tell us your emotional story and put your emotions to the test through the Magic Vest to decide if you can participate in our event," said Dr. Myth. "

Brother Huang said: "I saw the advertisement. Okay, let me tell you about my experience. "It was an autumn in 1970, and I took the train from Beijing back to Wuhan. I was seconded from the Provincial Department of Water Resources to work in the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, and the organization considered that my wife was working in a theater troupe in Hubei, so they approved me to go home and rest for half a month. I wanted to surprise my wife and didn't call her unit. At that time, there were no mobile phones in society.

In the evening, when I returned home, my wife was not at home, but I saw an ashtray full of cigarette butts on the coffee table in the room. I was shocked in my heart, my wife Xiaoxia doesn't smoke, so many cigarette butts are clearly smoked by a man. Looking at it again, some cigarette butts were clearly extinguished after a few puffs. I went to college to study psychology, which means that a smoker has a moment of excitement when he is excited, otherwise he would not have extinguished a Yongguang cigarette that had only smoked a few puffs and the end of the cigarette was bent. What makes this man so excited? I think of a man secretly having a tryst with my beautiful wife in this room. I don't dare to think any further. My head was groggy.

The door creaked open, and his wife Xia Qiao returned. She was surprised when she saw me: "Didn't you say you'd come back next month?" I was unhappy and said, "So, you don't want me to come back." She slapped me coquettishly: "Of course I want you to come back." At this moment, there was a knock on the door, I opened the door, and a man stood in front of me, he was first startled, and then asked, "Is Comrade Xia Qiao at home?"

Xia Qiao came forward and said to me: "He is Manager Zhang of our troupe. Then he said to the man, "This is my husband, the painter Brother Huang." The man immediately said, "Is it Mr. Huang, Jiuyang." My face was cold, and the manager was quite sensible: "Forget it, I'll talk about it tomorrow." You husband and wife are reunited, goodbye. I began to look at Xia Qiao, her face was unnatural, but her body seemed to be fuller than before. She was wearing a blue suit, which I had never seen before. I found the topic: "You are wearing a nice outfit, how much did you buy it?".