(III) Manchu people worship heaven and earth

When I woke up the next morning, I set up a solon pole and ate "little man's rice" {10}. There were leftover meat and rice the day before. I cooked two pots of porridge inside and outside the house, called "little man's rice". I ate it in two groups. The porridge can be eaten in exchange. The porridge can be eaten in exchange. The ones in the house are placed outside the house, and the ones outside the house are also placed in the house. People who eat are not allowed to run around.

After breakfast, it's time to kill the third pig. The pig is chosen to worship the heaven and earth and the gods, and it is a castrated boar. Killing this pig is different from before ordering. It is used to kill a knife in the yard. After peeling the skin, it is like slaughtering pig skin. The scene of pig skin is very lively. Everyone hooks the light with hooks, and scrapes the pig skin clean and cooks it with pork. When killing pigs, the elderly can drink, smoke, and eat white meat and blood sausages, but young people

It is not allowed to drink. Put a floor table behind the Soren pole, and put five plates on top of it to serve the grains. Sacrifice the crows and chant the sacrifice songs, remove the grains and kowtow three times. When the sacrifice songs are recited to "Wu Erjian Pao" {11}, it starts to kill pigs, cook meat and eat meat. It is all for the chants to enjoy the pork liver in the dish. After eating the pork, I give pig bones. First cut some paper money, then bury the pig bones in the southwest, burn the paper money, and then the sacrifice to heaven and earth is completed.

Manchus believed in Buddhism and usually offered Bodhisattvas {12}. In the past year, the nine gold Buddhas were offered to the Buddha. In front of the Buddha, pig heads, chickens, fish, pig heads, noses, and eyes, and jujubes were inserted into the chicken's mouth. In front of the Buddha, "Shu"{13}, (which was given by the Great Temple), three stacks of large steamed buns, each stack of five. When steaming steamed buns, you had to steam sixteen, leaving a pressure cooker. The Kitchen Gods offered to Zaoshan, and each god offered two square cakes in front of each god. The door gods were pasted with door gods, Shentu, and Yulei{14}. The Bodhisattvas offered to the South China Sea masters, and yellow paper pairs were pasted with yellow paper. The first couplet was "The Master of Xiaoyao on the White Lotus Platform", the second couplet was "The Immortal in the Purple Bamboo Forest", and the horizontal copy was "Cihang Shandu".

(IV) Stories about worshiping the Buddha's head mother

It was said that there was a General Li {15} in the interim. One night, General Li washed his feet. A tea boy named Hantou gave him foot washing water and looked at him washing his feet. Hantou found that there were three red wicks in the soles of the General's soles, and said, "There are red wicks in the soles of the adults!"

The general said: "I rely on these three red wicks. They are the most precious ones, or they will become generals."

Hantou said: "There are seven red whets on the sole of my left foot."

The general asked anxiously as soon as he heard this, "Is this true? Take off your socks and I'll take a look!"

Hantou took off his socks, and there were indeed seven red wrinkles on the sole of his left foot. When the general saw the thief, he was surprised and happy, thinking: "Imperial Heavenly Monitoring the Astrological Constellation and said that the True Dragon Emperor was the Emperor. I didn't expect that this True Dragon Emperor would land in my house. I will come to the court tomorrow and hand over Hantou. This is a great achievement!"

Thinking of this, he went back to the room and said to his little wife happily: "Catch the real dragon emperor everywhere, but I didn't expect it to fall into my house!"

The little wife asked, "Who is it?"

The general said: "It's a rare head."

The little wife asked again: "How do you know it's him?"

The general said: "There are seven red gangsters in the soles of his feet as evidence. It is Ziweixing and he will definitely become the emperor in the future."

"What should I do?" The little wife pretended to think of a solution for the general.

"I went to court tomorrow morning and grabbed him and chopped his head. My great achievements were accomplished!" After that, I went to bed.

The next day, the general got up and left. His little wife hurried to the study to wake Hantou, told him what happened, and asked him to run quickly. Hantou was timid and did not dare to run. The little wife found Wang Hao, a tea boy two years older than Hantou, and asked them to run together. He ordered people to prepare for Daqing and Erqing and urge them to run quickly. The two tea boys looked almost the same and were usually very good, so they ran away together.

General Li came back from the court and found that Hantou was gone. He knew that it was his wife who had let him go, so he could not say anything about it and stripped his wife off her clothes, hung it on a hundred-foot pole, and shot him to death with arrows. Then, he led his men to chase Hantou. Wang Hao and Hantou heard a voice behind him and knew that the pursuers had come. Wang Hao saw that it was not good, and thought that no one could run away if this continued, so he might as well think that he would save Hantou. So he hurriedly changed his clothes and horses with Hantou, and asked Hantou to run quickly. He walked on another fork behind and jogged slowly. General Li chased him up and found out that it was Wang Hao, and Hantou was gone at this time.

General Li led his men to chase him, but it was already sunset. Hantou looked at him and the pursuers from behind came again, and he was already running away. At this moment, a group of crows flew up and surrounded him. When the general saw that it was a group of crows, and it was already dark, he led his men back.

The danger passed and the crow dispersed. At this moment, a whirlwind suddenly blew in front of Hantou, and he heard Ru Ru's crying and complaining: "I'm dying so miserable! After letting you go, the general came back without saying anything, so he stripped me off his clothes, hung a high pole, and shot me to death with a burst of arrows. I'm so miserable death!"

Hantou said, "I understand. If I get a seat in the future, I will appoint you as the mother on the Buddha's head."

This is the origin of the Manchus' sacrifice to the gods and eating the meat of the back lamp. Therefore, when the Manchus worship their ancestors, they often say that they sacrifice to the king and pickaxe first, and then the undead. Moreover, the Manchus are not allowed to beat crows, and when worshiping ancestors, they worship crows because the crows have made great contributions to the rescue of the horse.

The following are the corresponding notes marked with bracketed numbers:

{1} What does the difference in the number of incense discs of Manchus show? It is still a mystery. The Chakramurcha family in the East China Sea also sets seventy incense discs, the Yiche Manchu Lang family in the East China Sea, and the five incense discs. They have nothing to do with the one ditch of Changbai Mountain to seven ditch.

{2} The Manchu people are called An Chunxiang, and Dazixiang is called Han people, which is a derogatory term. Here it explains the fusion of Manchu and Han customs. It is called Qilixiang in Chinese.

{3}Putting red paper is a custom of the Han people, and the Manchus are still white in color, which is the result of being influenced by the customs of the Han people.

{4} The Manchu word is called Solo, and the earth word is called Solo Pole, which is the sacrificial throne of the gods of heaven and earth.

{5}The meaning of rules.

{6} The shamans in charge of ancestor worship are responsible for the shamans, and the shamans sing the spells of carriages (the song of ancestor worship), and then the whole family kowtows.

{7} Manchu language is a lucky grandmother, and she is the god who blesses the whole family with happiness.

{8} means holding the car and singing in a tight song.

{9} is the secret song of Athabu.

{10} is also known as small meat porridge.

{11} "Wu Erchen" means pig. "Ba" is a auxiliary word, and the meaning is "Zhe". That is, "Zhe..."

{12} During the period of Sumo and Marine, Buddhism was already popular. During the Liao Dynasty, the ancestors of the Manchus worshipped Guanyin Bodhisattva as a family god.

{13} is a kind of talisman sent by monks when they go to various families to beg for alms. It is a square capped yellow paper with six-character mantras from Ommani Bamimoo and other six-character mantras printed on it.

{14} In the early days, the Manchu tribe did not offer the Kitchen God, but the Fire God God, and the Manchu tribe was the Grandma of the Fire God. In the early days, the Manchu tribe had only one door god, and the Grandpa of the Hunting God. The Kitchen God, Shentu, and Yulei were all the influence of Han customs on the Manchu tribe.

{15} That is, Li Chengliang, the chief general of the Liaodong army in the Ming Dynasty, was from Goryeo, with his ancestral name Ruqi, and Gaozu Ying. He was appointed as the commander of the Tieling Guard from the Korean Prefecture and was appointed as the assistant commander of the Tieling Guard. He then went home. (See Ming History Volume 238)

This is the end of the records of the Manchu ancestor worship, ancestor worship and god worship. Generally, the ancient ancestor worship ceremony was held after the harvest in October or during the Chinese New Year. Because Shangguan’s master paid more attention to this festival, it was held on the same day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancestor worship ceremony in Shangguan’s mansion was not as complicated as mentioned above, but it was roughly similar. The ancestor worship ceremony on the Mid-Autumn Festival is small, and the process is a bit simplified. The New Year is more grand. As mentioned above, it must be carried out for four or five days in a row.
Chapter completed!