As the earliest residents of Hainan Island, the Li compatriots also have a completely different way of celebrating and festive atmosphere from other ethnic groups every New Year festival, today, let us follow the camera to The Li Village to feel the unique charm of the Li New Year.
Wang Jinming, provincial representative inheritor of "Li Marriage Customs": Just sang those are our original ecological folk songs, saying that your New Year goods are done well? Did you get your fish tea right?
As soon as the New Year began, the New Year's flavor of the Li people overflowed from the village, and the New Year song in the mouth of The Li villager Wang Jinming paid attention to one song and one harmony, and the people who asked questions sang a bright voice, and the responders also had to answer with singing, and the sound was joyful in the ears.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: Still have to sing?
Wang Jinming, the provincial representative inheritor of "Li Marriage Customs": If I go to your house, I sing a song and say wow, your family has such a rich and good dish, they will sing back to us and say, yo ~ this is still rich, my family is nothing, this is still a dish.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: So this New Year's Eve just listen to songs?
Wang Jinming, the representative inheritor of the provincial level of "Li Marriage Customs": Well, these tunes are all ancient and have not been processed, they have been handed down from generation to generation, and everyone has been singing this method for hundreds of years. Bao Jiang New Year is the New Year, and when the year comes, it is Dan Jiang o
Reporter Jia Yuntian: I'm okay with my studies, right?
Wang Jinming, provincial representative inheritor of "Li Marriage Customs": It's okay.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: I feel that although the Li People's New Year song just sang this one is not high, but... There may also be a high place I have not yet sung, but the tune is melodious, you let Xiao Jia learn this time and a half, I may not really learn, but I feel that this song as soon as it is sung, it is a bit festive, I feel that the new year taste has come up with this feeling. If a song is called "The aftersound goes around the beam for three days", then the home of the Li people is often "the aftersound goes around the beam for a whole year". When guests come to the house, parents will sing to the wine in front of the guests; when they encounter happy events such as marriage, entering the house, wishing for a birthday or Tim Ding, people will sing and dance to celebrate.
Wang Jinming, the representative inheritor of the provincial level of "Li Marriage Customs": Wang Feida, she is my master, when I went to participate in the National Day (activities) held in the township, I saw that the elderly Wang Fei was also singing folk songs on stage, I said that I felt that folk songs could also be sung on stage, and I began to excavate folk songs from that year on.
From the age of 7, Wang Jinming learned to sing folk songs, to later participate in various performances in towns and villages, and then to the county's "March 3" festival stage, and finally represented Hainan Province to the whole country, Wang Jinming won many awards along the way, and spared no effort to inherit Li Miao song and dance.
Wang Jinming, provincial representative inheritor of "Li Marriage Customs": Every generation must be passed on, each family has a sample, and when you are in the New Year, each family's children must have a school.
A few days before the arrival of the New Year's Pass every year, the songs of the village rise and fall, and the lyrics are sung: Let's cook sweet and fragrant glutinous rice wine together to welcome the arrival of guests. This sweet and fragrant glutinous rice wine is the most well-known Lijia festival wine - Shanlan wine.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: It is biang wine, that is, mountain lan wine, which I am familiar with. Let me tell you, realistically speaking, the last time Xiao Jia drank wine, he felt that in terms of taste, it felt sweeter and more delicious. However, it is this wine that has more staying power and is easier to get on. In Li Village, many of the Li compatriots have begun to make shanlan wine, one of the new year's goods, about a month in advance of the New Year.
Speaking of which, singing also seems to have become a step in the production of Shanlan wine, and unlike shouting trumpets, the complicated but not laborious production process of Shanlan liquor, with the song is more like a song and dance drama, singing, the wine tastes like more sweet. An important ingredient in the production of yamaran sake, the cake is mixed with rice, sugar cane, grapefruit leaves and ginger, and after 4 days of fermentation and long hair drying, it is used. In an era when every family was still farming, people were self-sufficient to make mountain orchid wine. Nowadays, many Li villagers have learned to grow mulberry silkworms and raise silkworms for a higher income, but as long as the New Year festival comes, even if they buy rice from outside, they have to make their own wine to drink. Wang Yuzhu, the representative inheritor of the county-level wine brewing technique of the Li ethnic group, said: Shanlan is harvested only once a year, usually in October, and wine is started.
Steps to make mountain orchid
Step 1: Bubble rice! At first, it was to soak the rice, three or four hours, and once you made it, it would break so that time was enough.
Step 2: Steam the rice! Usually steamed for 40 minutes, it should be steamed. Use that chopstick to make it feel like it's cooked, and take it out to dry.
Step 3: Dry the rice! Because it's going to be sticky, it's cold before it can be mixed with wine cakes, and it's fermented evenly, so it's put in that basket and it's fermented.
Step 4: Fermentation! Generally four days can be, the longer it is pure, the longer it is put, the better, that is, to put more, and then cover it. After fermentation, it drops the wine itself, puts a small pot on the (bottom) noodles and connects. We have a song that is made of wine (singing).
The head of a Li song, the friends who make wine together will unconsciously make a sound, and this song is like calling out to the Li wanderers who go out to work and return to their hometown to celebrate the New Year. The elders of the village sat and listened silently, feeling the Li tradition slowly flowing between the two generations.
Wang Yuzhu, the representative inheritor of the county level of "Li ethnic unitary and (Biang, Li) wine brewing skills": when he goes home (New Year), he will take (Shanlan wine) out, he will drink a mouthful of glutinous rice wine when he is homesick, and after drinking glutinous rice wine, he will think of the taste of his hometown, which is the meaning of his mother's taste, his stomach is also warm, and his heart is warm.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: After this series of processes just now, after about 15 days of final placement, the cup of mountain orchid wine that Xiao Jia is now holding will be filtered out. The process is this process, but now the cup in Xiao Jia's hand has been put away for at least two months, so it can be seen that the Li compatriots attach importance to the Spring Festival, so I will try this wine for everyone. The taste of the wine is very mellow, but Xiao Jia you see to yourself poured such a little, because I really dare not drink more. For Xiao Jia to drink this wine, he feels that what he tastes is a mellow sweet wine, but for the Li compatriots, every time this glass of wine is drunk, there will be a full festive atmosphere. at the dinner table Chinese New Year's Eve, the adults are most looking forward to drinking, while the children are eagerly awaiting the first new clothes of the new year. People rely on clothes to wear horses and saddles, and wearing new clothes for the New Year is the most ritualistic thing in every household, even now, the production process of clothes has always maintained the original skills and taste.
Wang Jinmei, the provincial representative inheritor of "Li Traditional Spinning, Dyeing and Embroidery Skills": When the thread comes out, we will do a small one and then pinch it, pinch it into a thread bundle like this, and then start dyeing, I know how to dye 5 colors. That's chestnut, here's turmeric, the white (thread) put in for two hours, it used to be done in April and May, we did it very early and put it in a place that didn't move. Earlier, it took the mother more than half a year to make a new dress for each child in the family, looking for plant dyes, twisting threads, dyeing threads, sewing clothes, weaving embroidery patterns from the upper mountain, and the cycle continued. Although Wang Jinmei's spinning, dyeing and embroidery has now changed to a sitting posture, if it involves some specific patterns, it still needs to be knitted with the most primitive foot pedals, and each new year's new clothes, from the pattern to the weaving method, are poured with family affection and inheritance.
Wang Jinmei, provincial representative inheritor of "Traditional Textile, Dyeing, Weaving and Embroidery Skills of the Li Nationality": My family now has four generations, my mother-in-law is also the inheritor, to me is also the inheritor, to the son and daughter-in-law are both inheritors. This New Year's dress that I knitted to prepare for my children, from the thirtieth to the first day of the first year, I wore new clothes, my mother made us new clothes, and it was a pleasure to see that people were wearing more beautiful clothes than our family's clothes.
A song singing about buying New Year goods, fine wine, and new clothes ended, and Wang Jinming was a little lost again. Many years ago, Wang Jinming's trip from the village to the county seat was measured in hours, but now, his lover takes his grandchildren to school in Wuzhishan, and his children work abroad. The next generation in the village has more frequent contact with the outside world, allowing him to feel that his living conditions have improved, and he is also worried about whether he can still hear the village tone of the New Year's Festival. What makes him feel a little at ease is that the smooth traffic with the outside world is also broadening the inheritance of The Li skills. Wang Jinming, who used to be able to sing to the children in the village, can now often go to the schools where Li students in Wanling Town, Limushan Town and other places are concentrated, and pass on the Li Miao song and dance through music lessons, so that children can hear the ancient notes from their hometown in their daily learning.
Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County Shiyun Central Primary School Student: I learned when I saw my grandmother and they could sing, it should have been on the third of March.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: Do you think this song is good?
Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County Shiyun Central Primary School Student: Good to listen to, because I like to listen to this kind of song.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: Do you often sing the songs of the Li people at home?
Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County Shiyun Central Primary School Student: Yes, Grandma.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: Will Grandma teach you?
Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County Shiyun Central Primary School Student: Occasionally Taught some, "Picking Snails", we are Li people, so we must understand these.
Wang Jinming sang the "Cow Herding Ballad", the students almost listened to it, this is a folk song that many Li people will sing, although the fathers almost never sing because of their busy work, but these children still inherit this national memory from the old people at home. In addition to the children of the next generation of the Li people, Wang Jinming is still trying to spread the taste of the Li people to more people.
Wang Jinming's apprentice: In the past, old people jumped during the New Year, and when the old people jumped, we couldn't see it when we grew up.
Reporter Jia Yuntian: Did your parents teach you at that time?
Wang Jinming's apprentice: No, I didn't before, it was all taught by Teacher Wang. Dancing gong dance, spoon dance, I have been studying for a long time, I often go to perform, and I did not expect to be able to go out to perform before. Tourists come and we often dance, children like to dance with us, four or five years old, six or seven years old, we dance on the stage, they are all learning on the pitch.
A loud exhortation song once again sounded over Li Zhai. The Li people who sang and danced sang and danced Wang Jinming's self-created songs and dances, happiness flowed in everyone's hearts, and the unique New Year flavor spread in the air, which was their New Year.
Reporter: Jia Yuntian, Wang Hao
(Live Hainan)