Volume of Changning Kingdom: Section 34: Mountain Sacrifice Ceremony
"Didn't you say you get along well with the locals?"
"In addition to Dayak Society, there are other Dayak local societies in the local area, as well as natives from other tribes. Some are headhunters, and some are not. But regardless of whether they are headhunters or not, they will suddenly come here to kill people from time to time. If it is not frequent,
Attack them and drive them far away. The people in the surrounding villages will not be able to live in peace."
Cui Yunhong frowned: What a mess! No wonder the Huang family is so heavily guarded.
In another small courtyard of the Zongbing Palace, as the protagonist of the mountain worship ritual, Huang Qiyan got up early at three in the morning to burn incense and take a bath. Because she was not the land-based incarnation of the real goddess of this generation, she still had to perform rituals to respectfully invite the ancestors.
Only when the ancestor's spirit descends and incarnates can it use her body to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases.
Huang Qiyan has her grandmother’s facial pattern painted on her face. Every year during the mountain ritual ceremony, Huang Qiyan misses her sister especially:
"It would be much easier if Yingmei was here. After all, she is the real reincarnation of Grandma. She can do it directly without opening a altar to invite Grandma's spirit."
Huang Qiyan stopped the painting brush in her hand: "In total, this is the fifteenth year that I have hosted the Dharma assembly for my sister. After so many years, my Changning Mountain eyebrows are still not as good as my sister's. Is it because I am not good at it?
Doing this kind of detailed work. Since my sister is the reincarnation of my grandma, she must be able to turn everything into good luck. The several big performances she performed were all expected to be uneventful. But since she was fine, why?
I haven’t sent a letter to my family for so many years, alas..." Huang Qiyan sighed a few times, then hurriedly raised her hand to continue drawing facial makeup - the Dharma conference will begin soon.
Huang Qiyan, who successfully invited the ancestor's spirit, sat on the shrine and was carried out of the palace by the believers. The believers who had been waiting outside the door for a long time knelt down to worship the incarnation of their ancestor, put on rhubarb robes and painted their faces.
The tattooed Huang Qiyan sits on the shrine with a serious expression. As the Chinese leader in North Borneo, Huang Qilin also has to follow the sedan head of the shrine to support his sister's sedan chair. The status of the goddess's grandmother is also evident.
A spot.
"Shidong has to accompany all the leaders to watch the ceremony, otherwise I would have to carry the shrine to my aunt." Huang Shidong said. Only the most respectable people in Shanbakang can be involved in carrying the shrine to my grandma.
"After grandma comes out of the mountain gate, she will be carried to the Goddess Palace on another hilltop, where she will chant sutras and pray for blessings to bless the place with good weather and good weather throughout the year and for the people to be free from illness and disaster. Do you want to go with Chief Cui and Chief Wu?"
"Is the Goddess Palace far from here?"
"It's not that far, less than two miles from here, but the mountain road is bumpy and the jungle is dense. I will arrange a few sliding poles to serve the two elders..."
"We are veterans, but we are not pampered people. We just follow the team. Please -"
A group of people set out from the Palace of the General Soldier of the Huang Family in a lively manner. In front of them, there was a big driver with gongs and drums to clear the way. Behind them, there were people holding colorful flags and "Grandma Goddess" street signs who followed the guardian shrine. Those heading to the Godmother Palace.
The mountain roads along the way were filled with people from Shanba Port and several nearby Chinese villages who spontaneously came to welcome Grandma Luanjia. Every time they went to a place, more people joined. The rugged mountain roads and the gathering of worshipers made the procession even more complicated.
Slowly, they walked forward for about 300 meters, and a bare-chested man wearing a blue mask jumped out from the crowd beside the road and blocked the team's path. The man held two blue cloth strips and wore a
Masks painted with waves and dragon heads jumped up and down in front of the procession.
"Chief, this is the incarnation of flood, an evil dragon that lives in Wanli Seawall (South China Sea)."
Borneo has a tropical rainforest climate. It rains all year round and does not encounter drought. However, there are often heavy rains caused by strong convective weather, which will cause the river water to surge and flood the farmland. This is one of the disasters that the people here have to face. Precipitation here in Shanpak Port
They all come from the South China Sea in the south. The abundant water vapor hits the 4,000-meter-high Changning Mountain here to form violent terrain rain. The local people believe that there is a South China Sea dragon doing evil, and the ancestor of Changning Mountain naturally wants to cast a spell to suppress it.
The evil dragon appeared, and the onlookers picked up the soil around them and threw it at the evil dragon, which means "Tuke water". The body of the man playing the evil dragon was covered with mud, and the sky above the crowd was also covered with thrown mud.
There was dust, but the evil dragon remained unmoved and still waved the blue ribbon in front of the team, dancing the evil water towards the crowd.
"Respectfully ask Grandma to drive away the disaster!" The eighteen heroes carrying the shrine shouted in unison. Huang Qiyan slowly stood up and recited the water-repelling spell to the incarnation of the evil dragon. The evil dragon that was still alive and kicking just now shrank to the ground.
Rolling to beg for mercy, Huang Qiyan took an earthen jar, took out the soil from the top of Changning Mountain, and sprinkled it on the evil dragon. When the evil dragon touched the sacred soil, it turned around and ran away, and the people on the side burst into warm cheers.
"This Changning Mountain sacred soil is also hard to come by. It is said that when people go to the top of the mountain, their heartbeat will speed up and they will feel dizzy. Some people will lose their mind when they come down. Therefore, the top of Changning Mountain was later designated as a forbidden area, and grandma's cultivation cannot be disturbed." Huang Shidong said.
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"Brother, you are suffering from altitude sickness..." Cui Yunhong secretly laughed. He climbed from 0 meters in the tropical seaside area to 4,000 meters on the top of Changning Mountain in such a short distance. Moreover, the sacred mountain is very steep, and the journey ahead will take too much time.
It’s normal to have high body fluids due to excessive physical strength.
After driving away the evil dragon, the team continued to move forward. At this time, because more people were watching and worshiping, the team's speed slowed down a lot. Suddenly, the screams of women and children came from the front, and the crowd gave way.
As I drove, I saw a man holding a python and wearing a python mask on the road. The man's mask had blood-red snake eyes and snakes, and the big snake in his hand was also opening its bloody mouth and spitting out snakes.
, the appearance was very scary, and everyone was trying to get out of the way for fear of being accidentally bitten by the python.
Snakes, insects, rats, and ants are very prosperous in Borneo, and there are many poisonous snakes. They are difficult to find in dense forests and often pose a great threat to the local Chinese people who work and live. There are also legends that can grow up to
A three-foot-long giant python exists that only eats children.
This image is the "snake disaster".
The onlookers did not dare to get close to the snake disaster, so they naturally asked their grandmother to take action to eliminate the disaster. Huang Qiyan pulled out the Mountain God Sword from under the seat, turned over quickly, jumped off the shrine and stepped on the back of the squatting bearer in front.
Several plum blossoms stepped steadily down to the ground, holding swords and confronting the snake god.
"Good Kungfu!" Cui Yunhong saw Huang Qiyan's body skills and knew that she had very good footwork skills, and couldn't help but admire her.
The crowd formed a circle around Snake Ban and Huang Qiyan. The two circled around the circle to test each other to find the opportunity to attack. After about two circles, the incarnation of Snake Ban suddenly threw the big snake at Huang Qiyan. Huang Qiyan ducked and let the big snake hit him.
The attack was missed, and at the same time, Huang Qiyan seized the opportunity and swung the Mountain God Sword to slash at the snake's body. "Pfft" could only be heard as the sound of flesh and blood being cut through by the sword. The big snake's body had been cut to almost pieces by Huang Qiyan, and it lay dying on the ground.
Rolling and struggling.
Cui Yunhong was also secretly sweating. Although this is essentially a Nuo opera similar to dance, with standardized movements and procedures, this python is real, and you will still get hurt if you don't handle it well.
The crowd burst into even more enthusiastic cheers. Huang Qiyan, who had driven away snakes and rats for the people, put away the mountain sword and returned to the shrine. Cui Yunhong noticed that after this action scene, Huang Qiyan, wearing a thick robe, had appeared.
She sweated a lot, but she didn't wipe it off, and returned to the solemn posture of sitting upright with her eyes closed on the shrine.
The team continued to move forward, and after walking for another twenty minutes or so, they could vaguely see the Palace of the Goddess in front of them. At this time, the noisy crowd suddenly became quiet, so quiet that they could only hear the sound of the wind passing through the woods.
People nervously turned their backs to the road, which looked extremely strange.
"Chief, the God of Plague is here... Please turn around to avoid being hit by the God of Plague..." Huang Shidong whispered to Cui Yunhong and Wu Tingwei.
"This is probably the same as exorcising ghosts in Yonghe Temple." Cui Yunhong thought to herself. When Yonghe Temple held ghost exorcism ceremonies in the past, they were most afraid of being hit by "ghosts".
Several people turned their backs together, but Cui Yunhong was really curious about what the god of plague looked like, so he turned back a little to observe secretly.
There were three plague gods who came. They were all wearing long black cloth clothes and masks on their faces. The one with the red mask on the left represented the fever plague, while the one with the dark blue mask on the right represented the cold plague. The one in the middle represented the cold plague.
Wearing a black and red mask is the most frightening and elusive one - the miasma god.
Sanwen walked towards Huang Qiyan's shrine. At this time, all the eighteen people carrying the shrine turned their backs. Only Huang Qiyan was left to get off the sedan and face Sanwen. The battle between grandma and Sanwen was not as great as expected.
The hundred rounds were so intense that Huang Qiyan recited sutras to Sanwen for several minutes, and then put talismans on their masks to send Sanwen away. After they walked away, Huang Qiyan rang the soul-awakening bell,
The crowd turned back to Huang Qiyan and burst into cheers, "Grandma, bless you! Get rid of evil spirits!"
Amid the roaring praises of the crowd, Huang Qiyan's shrine was finally welcomed into the Palace of the Goddess. Once inside, there was naturally a process of chanting sutras, praying, and exorcising diseases and evil spirits. Cui Yunhong and Wu Tingwei felt that it was too noisy inside.
It was crowded, so I decided not to go in. Fortunately, there were more beautiful scenery to see outside.
From the Goddess Palace, you can just overlook the entire Changning Mountain. This is a beautiful perspective that Cui Yunhong has never seen before. The steaming water vapor from the tropical rain forest climbs up to the towering Changning Mountain, and forms misty clouds on the mountainside when it encounters the cold.
The equatorial sunshine shines on the cliffs at the top of Changning Mountain. The rugged rocks are in sharp contrast with the rainforest landscape of the mountain. It is as if the mountain is another world. No wonder the locals think this is a fairy mountain...
"Mount Kinabanu, we meet again. This time, I will call you by your real name."