Chapter 25: Customs on both sides of the Ussuri River
"Look at it...I mean... if we have a chance, we'll go see her."
"Oh, okay, everyone is following you." Lan Caidie pouted and felt a little unhappy.
Professor Bayala has no children in her life, and she only has a hobby. She likes these antiques and cultural relics. She stays with these things all day long and regards them as treasures. She wishes she can sleep with these treasures every night.
Wushuang was too familiar with him, so he drove to the antique shop and went straight down and smashed the door, not looking at it's late at night at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night.
"Who is a turtle who is not eye-catching? He is so late, isn't he?" Professor Bayala cursed angrily.
"Hehe... I'm the one who dares to come to you for this point is naturally me, a little turtle. Hurry up, old guy, get dressed quickly, I'll take you home!" Wushuang said with a smile.
Professor Bayala opened the door and saw that it was Wushuang, and he bounced his head hard on his forehead.
"Little bastard, I knew it was you. Didn't you be detained at home?"
"Oh, I don't have time to tell you, go! Go! Go! Caidie?" Wushuang waved his hand, and Lan Caidie immediately hugged the old professor in her 80s from behind, and pushed and pulled him into the car.
"You... little bastard, what are you doing? What are you doing in the middle of the night?"
"Hehe...I said, will you take you back to your hometown?"
"What? What's the hometown? Are you sleepwalking? You two are just making trouble!"
Wushuang rushed out without waiting for the old professor to refute, and rushed straight to Changji to kill at high speed.
"Little bastard, are you crazy? Are you going to Ussuri? My God! You crazy, why do you think about it? You don't let you care about this little business?"
Lan Caidie smiled and said, "Professor, if I were you, I would just fall in the back seat and continue to sleep. Maybe I will open my eyes tomorrow and you will know my young master's temper. No one can stop what he wants to do."
"Well, I'm saying this thoroughly, I like to listen!" Wushuang turned around and said to Professor Bayara, then took out a cigarette from his pocket and threw it over.
Since he was on the unparalleled pirate ship, Professor Bayala had to admit defeat. He had no choice but to know such a young ancestor. Fortunately, he has always been thinking about his hometown in his heart. For many years, the old man has never returned to his hometown. It is the hometown of the Bayala clan. When people get old, they start to reminisce. This is true.
In many dreams, the old professor dreamed of the long and rich Ussuri River. In the turbulent river water, the Hezhe people on the small fishing boat sprinkled fishing nets, and then sang the song of the Ussuri boat to salvage a net and returned with a load of big fish. If a person's life is about to reach the end, then what he most hopes is to sleep in that rich land forever, because that is home!
It was dawn, and this honest Xiali car was well-kept and had already driven to the Heilongjiang area. The professor was so excited that he could finally return to his hometown again.
When I have nothing to do, I tell my two children about my hometown stories. This place is naturally inseparable from the Hezheren, who Wushuang is most interested in. Regarding Hezheren, I should talk about their beliefs in detail here. They believe in shamanism, but the Manchu shamanism has undergone changes in Hezheren for hundreds of years. It can be said that their beliefs are very distinctive.
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Before liberation, the shamanism of "all things have spirits" dominated the thoughts and consciousness of Hezhe people. "all things have spirits" means natural worship. They not only believe that people have souls, and their souls can last forever, but also believe that all things in the world also have their own souls. When these things are closely related to their lives, they believe that there is a kind of dominance of the soul that is driving and affecting their lives. So they respect it like God with a fearful mentality.
Only by trying every means to sacrifice, pray, obey, and please them can we please them and get their gang leader to bring good luck to ourselves.
Hezheren believed that there are three kinds of souls in a healthy person: the soul of life, the soul of thought, and the soul of reincarnation. The soul of life is something that humans drink animals, and it is given by the gods who created life. After a person dies, he leaves the body and can go far away to have relationships with other souls or gods. For example, the water surface of a man is the departure of this soul; when a person dreams, he sees many people or even dead people in his dreams, he can see many things, which are artificially departed of this soul; when a person suffers from mental illness, he is artificially departed of this soul.
The soul of thought is immortal, so after a person dies, it still exists, so it is necessary to offer spirits, sacrifice to the tombs, and after the anniversary, it is sent to the underworld by the shaman. "Sending souls" to the dead is a great activity for Hezheren, which is the final farewell between the living and the souls of the dead.
The reincarnated soul has the ability to create the next life, which is given by the reincarnated God, and leaves the body after death. A strong woman who is over thirty years old and has not yet given birth, she is considered a soul without reincarnation, and needs to ask a shaman to ask a soul to ask a child; a pregnant woman is miscarred and is driven away by the soul-borne soul. After death, the reincarnated soul must retrace the path she took before her death. On the day of her soul, she will return to its origin with the "soul-grabbing ghost" and then transfer to the person or animal born.
Therefore, after the deceased was buried, Hezhe must seriously welcome the return of the soul of the deceased. Hezhe also developed the concept similar to the theory of reincarnation, believing that good people will become humans after death, bad people will become domestic animals, and evil people will become Gadas on the wormwood pole and will never be reincarnated as humans.
The Hezhe people developed from nature worship and animal and plant worship to totem worship, and were all accompanied by beautiful and moving myths and legends, as well as quite complete worship rituals and taboos. They made many worship gods into idols to worship and sacrifice, and brought them with them when hunting, hoping for peace and good luck.
The intermediary between humans and ghosts is a shaman. Only those who can possess a god can become a shaman, so the shaman is called the "semi-immortal body". He is the host of all rituals of the shamanism. Many religious activities have produced multiple shamans, and they have a clear division of labor.
The larger shaman is called "Ahemafa". He can lead many gods. He has offered the "Desku" god, which can eliminate plague. However, when the shaman treats people, women and children cannot approach them, otherwise those who are close will get sick or even die.
Chapter completed!