Just returned from a trip to Xinjiang the day before yesterday, I enjoyed and feasted on the beauty of the nature of the northwest, and came into close contact with the customs and customs of the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and people. And confirmed, do not go to Xinjiang, do not know the world after the big. Suddenly, I remembered that today is the "sixth of June" in the lunar calendar.
Because in recent years, guests live in Wulingyuan, thousands of miles away from home, and their hometown can only be seen from afar. The festive feelings of previous years can only be yesterday's smoke and clouds, which have become history in the mind. And today's festival scene can only be galloping in the mind, going it alone.
"June 6th" is not only a large folk festival in our region, but also a lively and lively festival in many ethnic minority areas across the country. As such, since ancient times, the legend of the Chinese nation about the "June 6th" festival has come from a variety of theories, but there is no law.
In ancient times, "June 6, please aunt". Every time on the day of "June 6th", every family must invite back the old and young girls who have been married, big fish and big meat, and have a good treat.
According to relevant records, the legend of the "June 6th" festival is derived from the story of "foxes changed" during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. The prime minister of the Jin Dynasty, Fox Yan, was arrogant because of his high merits, and did not stop to sympathize with the sufferings of the people and act arbitrarily. His sons and daughters were relatives of the family, and zhao wan, a hero of the Jin dynasty. He bluntly said that he was arrogant and arrogant, did not investigate the people's feelings, and made the people live in the depths of the waters, and he was killed alive. The fox's son-in-law, Zhao Wanzi, was eager to avenge his father, and wanted to secretly eliminate him on June 6, the day of fox yan's birthday, and consult with his wife fox's daughter. The fox girl could not bear it, and finally returned to her mother's house to secretly inform her mother, and the assassination was not successful. Later, when the fox was releasing grain among the people, he saw the suffering of the people, had an epiphany about his own mistakes, and heard more about his son-in-law's plot, and became more and more remorseful.
However, Fan Ran repented, Fang knew the good intentions of his relatives, and on June 6, he went to the door to confess his mistake to his son-in-law, and weng and son-in-law were as good as ever, doubling their goodwill. In order to remember this lesson, fox Yan asked his daughter and son-in-law to come back every June 6 to solicit opinions and understand the people's feelings. This practice was later spread to the people, and the people imitated it one by one, and they also invited their daughters back on June 6, and they should have a custom of eliminating their hatred and resentment and avoiding disasters and difficulties.
Among the many legends, there is also a widely spread saying that in the ancient flood era, the ancestor of the Han nationality, "Pangu", gathered the experience of cultivating rice in labor, harvested abundantly every year, and later he married the daughter of the Dragon King, gave birth to a son, and named xinheng. Once the son offended his mother, the dragon girl, in a fit of rage, returned to the Dragon Palace and never returned.
"Pangu" had no choice but to remarry, and on June 6 of the same year, Pangu died, and Xinheng was abused by his stepmother and almost killed. Unable to bear it, he went to heaven to tell his stepmother, and vowed to destroy the rice seedlings she had cultivated, and when her stepmother knew it, she regretted it so much that she finally reconciled with Shin-Yoko, and on June 6 of every year, the day of Pangu's death, he slaughtered pigs and geese, made rice dumplings, and offered sacrifices to Pangu. To show the continuation of future generations, the harvest of grains, year after year, this national festival is formed.
I also vigorously celebrated the festival of "June 6th", because it was to commemorate the birthday of the old man of Qudu Temple. The old people said: "June 6th" is a big festival, the Loess Mine's Liu, Chen, Peng, Huang surnames, that is, the upper and lower courtyards have passed through many courtyards.
According to the old generations, "Before liberation, on the first or second day of June, the Qi opera team invited from Qiyang was already in place, and began to sing at the Qudu Temple to celebrate the birthday of Qudu Laoda, singing two plays a day [1]. In the morning, singing "Empty City Plan" and other sit-in plays, and singing "Dingjun Mountain" and other martial arts dramas in the afternoon. In the morning, most of the people who watch the drama are adults, and in the afternoon, the martial arts drama is more than the children after school. ”
Although the price of the singing has been decided early, the owner of the drama class will also see the stitches and needles to gather wealth. They had local spies in the crowd watching the play, and saw the gentleman and the good guy, or a figure with a head and a face coming in to see the play. As far as the cable person informed the owner of the drama class, someone carried a small banner that read "Welcome XXX"! Then, lead you somewhere to the best, sit in a special seat and watch the play. And when you receive this respect and preferential treatment under the eyes of the public, everyone will become very arrogant, take out the silver dollar and throw it on the stage, one or two more silver dollars, less as long as you lose it. At that time, this was called "hitting the family official".
The play should be sung for half a month at the latest, such as those rich people who come to be interested, or birthdays, or do birthdays, they will also order two plays to sing for a day. This kind of comparison with each other often has to be sung until the end of June, when the people watching the play are not only limited to the loess pit Tai Tai Li and TaoPing, the surrounding neighbors will come to see, so in the woods around the Qudu Temple, playing cards, piling three hemp seeds, playing poker and selling all kinds of snacks, the crowds are very lively.
However, in our memory of "June 6th", although it is liberated, whether it is primary school or high school, we all feel that June 6 is very lively. Because from 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning to 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the path in front of the house will be walked with countless guests who come to celebrate the festival or go back.
Every time we have to celebrate the "Sixth of June" festival, we must pick the tung seeds and leaves to wrap the tung seeds and leaves. When making tung seed leaves, the tung seed leaves are first washed and dried, and in the process of making, the tung seeds are held in the palm of the hand and kneaded into a circle. In order to make the rice sticky leaves, it is also necessary to apply some sesame oil in the palm of the hand, and then wrap it in the leaves and put it into a steamed stove pot or steamer. The clear fragrance of the leaves of the tung seeds, after steaming, penetrates into the glutinous rice flour, and when it is eaten, the leaves of the tung seeds of the sticky sticks are particularly fragrant, smell, and eat very comfortable. In addition, after the surface of the rice is wrapped in tung seed leaves, leaving the beauty of the delicate surface and clear leaf texture, you can't bear to bite down to destroy the natural beauty. It would be even better if you put a little more effort into the rice dumplings and order beans in the rice dumplings.[2] On the day of "June 6th", most families like to make two kinds of rice dumplings, in addition to the tung seed leaf rice dumplings, there is also a kind of bean flour [3] rice dumplings, which is also called horse rolling. At that time, the economic and material conditions were limited, and if there was a condition, put some brown sugar in the bean flour, and simply put some salt in the bean flour if there was no condition. In any case, in the lost taste buds, there is a good impression of various flavors of bean flour rice dumplings. Bean flour rice dumplings are used to bring out a few bowls when guests come, and give them to guests to eat at that time, and tung seed leaf rice dumplings are taken for guests when they go home. So as not to meet acquaintances who have no place to celebrate the festival on the road, or neighbors, sprinkle one or two sticks to send some joy to others, and invisibly show off their arrival at the festival.
During the festival, there are three sisters and four wives (na), cousins and cousins gathered at home, lively. Although the drink is ox tail wine, the table is also a meat and two vegetarian, not to mention not many fine wine and delicacies, but the cheerful scene in the nursery rhyme "line a pull, sit on a stool, the aunt stir-fry to a pot, the grandmother to cook rice to a pot" is very nostalgic. At that time, although life was light and even simple, there were few scheming between relatives, and everything was expressed in simplicity, happiness and pleasure, which was even more unforgettable. After every meal, people come and go on the road in front of the door, send them away, cherish each other, and unabashedly and indulge in the joy of family affection.
With the passage of time, through reform and opening up, materials have become increasingly abundant, and the table is as good as a festival every day for the New Year, and a few dishes and soups have long been accustomed to it, and it is commonplace. In the past, it took a few dimes to get a few dimes to get a hand of holiday gifts, and now it takes dozens or even hundreds of dollars to solve the problem. Unfortunately, in the past, it was a light friendship, but now it is a light friendship. Everyone is afraid to move around, and they don't want to move around, so they don't move until they have to. In this way, the loss of the relationship between the chinese nation's family will affect the loss of national cohesion, and the cohesion will gradually drift away, and it will be just around the corner. However, if this national cohesion really disappears, it will certainly be a national sorrow. It is hoped that the people will start from small customs, reunite national cohesion, and then welcome the arrival of China's prosperous world.
2021.Gu.6.6.Written in Wulingyuan
exegesis
[1] Two plays: In the old days, one story was referred to as one play, and two plays referred to the plays of two stories. [2] Bean Heart: Dialect. It refers to the bread in the rice dumplings to be cooked and mashed red beans for filling. [3] Bean flour: dialect, a flour made from stir-fried soybeans).
