(3) The Manchus sacrifice heaven and earth

The next morning, I got up, set up a Sauron pole, and ate the "villain's meal" {10}. For the latest free chapters of this book, please visit wèn. There was meat and rice left over from the previous day, and two pots of porridge were boiled inside and outside the house, which was called villain rice. Divided into two groups to eat, porridge can be exchanged to eat, one pot in the house is placed outside the house, and one pot outside the house is also put in the house, and those who eat are not allowed to run around.

After breakfast, it's time to kill the third pig. The pig is sacrificed to the heavens and the earth and the gods, and is a castrated boar. Killing this pig is different from before the order, it is to use a knife to kill in the courtyard, and after peeling the skin, burn the pig's skin with fire, just like killing the pig usually. The scene of burning the pigskin is very lively, everyone hooks the fire with a hook, and after the fire, the pigskin is scraped clean and boiled with pork. When killing pigs, the elderly are allowed to drink, smoke, and eat white meat and blood sausages, but young people are not allowed to drink alcohol. Set up a table behind the Sauron pole, put five plates of grain on it, sacrifice to the crow and recite the sacrificial song, withdraw the grain and kowtow three heads. When the sacrificial song recites the {11} of "Wu Erjian Pluck", he begins to kill pigs, cook meat and eat meat. The pork liver in the dish is used by the singer. After eating pork, send pork bones. Cut some paper money first, then bury the pig bones in the southwest, burn the paper money, and the sacrifice to heaven and earth is over.

Manchu people believe in Buddhism, usually for the Bodhisattva {12}, over the old calendar year for the nine Buddhas, for the Buddha before the pig's head, chicken, fish, pig head nose eye plug onion, chicken mouth jujube, Buddha also for "sparse" {13}, (is the temple sent), three stacks of big steamed buns, each stack of five. When steaming steamed buns, you have to steam sixteen, leaving a pressure cooker. The king of the stove offered Zao Mountain, and each god offered two square sticky cakes. The gate sticks to the door god, the god, and the {14}. The Bodhisattva for the offering is the South China Sea Master, pasting yellow paper pairs, the upper link is "the master of free pleasure on the white lotus platform", the lower link is "the free fairy in the purple bamboo forest", and the horizontal batch is "Cihang Shandu".

(4) The story of the mother who sacrificed the head of the Buddha

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a {15} of Mr. Li, and one night Mr. Li washed his feet, and a tea boy named Hantou gave him water to wash his feet and watched him wash his feet. Hantou found that the chief soldier had three red moles on the soles of his feet, so he said, "My lord's feet have red moles!" ”

The chief soldier said: "I rely on these three red moles, it is the lord's noble, or I will be the chief soldier." ”

Hantou said, "I have seven red moles in the heart of my left foot. ”

When the chief soldier heard this, he anxiously asked, "Is this true?" Take off your socks and I'll see! ”

Hantou took off his socks, and sure enough, there were seven red moles on the center of his left foot. The chief soldier couldn't help but be surprised and happy when he saw the thief's heart, and thought: "Qin Tianjian watched the stars and said the true dragon emperor, I didn't expect this true dragon emperor to fall into my house." Tomorrow when you enter the court to see the driver, hand over the Hantou, this is not a small achievement! ”

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

The little wife asked, "Who is it?"

The chief soldier said, "It's a rare head." ”

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

The chief soldier said: "He has seven red ruffians in the center of his feet as proof, he is Zi Weixing, and he will definitely be the emperor in the future." ”

"So what can I do?" The little wife pretended to find a way for the general soldier.

"Tomorrow morning, I will go to the court to see the driver, arrest him and behead him, and I will be done!" After saying that, he went to bed.

The next day, the general soldier got up early and left. His little wife hurriedly went to the study to wake up Hantou, told him what had happened, and told him to run away. Hantou was timid and didn't dare to run, so the little wife found Wang Hao, a tea boy who was two years older than Hantou, and asked them to run together, and ordered people to quickly prepare two horses, Daqing and Erqing, and urged them to run quickly. The two tea boys looked about the same, and they were plain and good, so they ran away together.

When General Li came back from the court, he found that the head was gone, and knew that the little wife must have let him go, so he couldn't say that he stripped the little wife of his clothes, hung it on a hundred-foot-high pole, and shot him to death with random arrows. Then, lead the men and horses to chase Hantou. Wang Ho and Han Tou heard a voice behind them and knew that the pursuers were catching up. Wang Hao didn't look good, and thought that no one could run away if it went on like this, so it was better to think of a way to save Hantou. So, he hurriedly changed clothes and horses with Hantou, and told Hantou to run quickly. He walked slowly on another fork in the road behind, and Li Zongbing took a look and realized that it was Wang Hao, and at this time Hantou was gone.

Mr. Li led his men and horses to continue to chase after him, but by this time it was already sunset. When Han looked at it, the pursuers behind him came up again, and he had already run into sleepiness. Just then, a flock of crows flew up and surrounded him. When the general soldier saw that it was a flock of crows, and that it was already dark, he led his men and horses back.

The danger passed, and the crows dispersed. At this time, a whirlwind suddenly blew in front of Hantou, and he heard a voice like a cry: "What a miserable death I had! After letting you go, the general soldier came back and said no different, so he stripped me of my clothes, hung up a high pole, and shot me to death with a flurry of arrows, and I died so bitterly!"

Hantou said: "I understand, if I get a seat in the future, I will make you the mother of the Buddha's head." ”

This is enough for the Manchu people to worship the gods and eat the origin of the back lamp meat. Therefore, the Manchu people often say that they sacrifice the king pickaxe first, and then sacrifice the dead. Moreover, the Manchus are not allowed to fight crows, and when worshipping ancestors, they sacrifice crows because of their meritorious rescue.

The following are the corresponding notes for the parenthetical numerals:

{1} what the difference in the number of Manchu incense discs illustrates, it is still a mystery, the East China Sea Chakhala Murcha clan also put 70 incense plates, the East China Sea Yiche Manchu Lang clan, Tai clan put five incense plates, they have nothing to do with Changbai Mountain from a ditch to seven ditches.

{2} Manchu is called An Chunxiang, and Da Zixiang is the name of the Han people, which is a derogatory term, which illustrates the integration of Manchu and Han customs. In Chinese, it is called Qilixiang.

{3} pasting red paper is a Han custom, and the Manchu color is still white, which is the result of the influence of Han customs.

{4} Manchu language is Suomu, and the local language is called Solo pole, which is the sacrifice seat of the gods of heaven and earth.

{5} the righteousness of the rules.

{6} the shaman of the family is in charge of worshipping the ancestors, and the shaman sings the mantra of holding the chabumi (ancestor worship song), and then the whole family prostrates.

{7} Manchu is auspicious grandmother, and it is the god who blesses the happiness of the whole family.

{8} is to hold the car cloth dense song.

{9} is the Achab Secret Song.

{10} is also known as small meat porridge.

{11} "Wu Erchen", righteousness is a pig. "Pull" is a case particle, meaning "put". That is, to put the .......

Buddhism was already prevalent in the late Su Dynasty of the {12} Dynasty, and during the reign of the Liao Dynasty, the Manchu ancestors worshipped Guanyin Bodhisattva as a family god.

{13} is a kind of charm sent by monks when they go to each family, which is a square capped yellow paper slip, which is printed with the six-character mantra of Om Mani Horn Mi Mo Buddhism and so on.

In the early {14}, the Manchus did not offer to the king of the stove, but to the god of fire, and the Manchu language was the grandmother of the god of fire. In the early days, the Manchus had only one door god, the grandfather of the hunting god. The king of the stove, the gods, and the Yu Lei are all the influences of the Han customs on the Manchus.

{15} is Li Chengliang, the commander of the Liaodong soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, whose ancestral home is Goryeo, the word Ruqi, Gao Zuying, from the Korean Mansion, awarded the command of Tielingwei, and then his family. (See History of the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 238)

The records of the Manchu people to worship ancestors, ancestors and gods are introduced here, and the ancient ancestor worship ceremony is generally done after the harvest in October or during the New Year. Because the Shangguan master of the Shangguan Mansion paid more attention to this festival, he took it on the same day as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancestor worship ceremony in Shangguanfu is not as cumbersome as the one introduced above, but it is generally the same. The ancestor worship on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival is small, and the process is a bit complicated. The Chinese New Year is more grand, as mentioned above, it will be carried out for four or five consecutive days.

Why does Shangguan Mansion also worship ancestors on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival? This is left from the generation of ancestors, the purpose is to thank the ancestors of the Shangguan Mansion, so that they can also celebrate the festival under the Yellow Spring, and taste the food, wine and exquisite osmanthus cakes homemade in the Shangguan Mansion prepared for them.