At this time it was past noon, and the enthusiastic and honest Lisu people spontaneously took out the meal, and asked the Jinyi guards to eat it.
The Jinyi Guards did not dare to accept it without authorization and came to ask Lu Bing, only to find that Lu Bing and other chief officials had already eaten...
The Lisu people are accustomed to the cooking method of cooking food in one pot. They put the rice in the pot and boil it, changing the water twice in the middle. When the rice is almost cooked, add the vegetables and cabbage until the vegetables are rotten. Usually, I rarely cook alone. After the porridge is cooked, the whole family eats around the firepit. The grain used for cooking porridge is mostly buckwheat.
Because rice is less cultivated, rice is used for porridge only on festivals or when receiving guests.
Taro is a kind of food that the Lisu people prefer to eat, and it can also be used as food. Therefore, every household grows taro, and usually eat taro.
Lu Bing has eaten rice now, which shows that Lisu people have begun to treat him as a guest.
At this time, Mu Bi naturally hoped that Lu Bing would become a guest rather than an enemy. Take out all the good things and entertain Lu Bing and the others.
The meat sources of the Lisu people are mainly a small amount of pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens. Most of the time, they are hunted muntjac, rock sheep, mountain donkeys, bison, hares, pheasants and river fish. The meat is mostly eaten. Spread the meat with salt and roast it in the firepit before eating.
Barbecued meat is a traditional way of eating by the Lisu people. Whether it is pork, beef, chicken, or fish, it can be cooked. This way of eating is delicious and crispy. However, the Lisu people do not eat buffalo, dog, cat, or horse meat.
Common vegetables include greens, cabbage, radish, taro and various melons and potatoes, supplemented by oranges, peaches, pears, and other fruits. Because lacquer oil is abundant in the area, all dishes are cooked with lacquer oil. Such as lacquer oil fried chicken, lacquer oil stewed chicken, lacquer oil boiled sweet wine eggs, etc.
Every family of Lisu people keeps bees, ranging from four to five groups to more than a dozen groups. Lu Bing has a small bowl of honey on hand for barbecue.
At Lu Bing's hand, there is also a Lisu people who like to drink hemp seed tea.
When making hemp seed tea, first put the hemp seeds in a pot and roast them on a low heat, then mash them and put them in boiling water to boil, remove the bitumen, and then put the soup in the pot and boil with salt or sugar before drinking.
Hemp seed tea is pure and white, and drinking more can be as intoxicating as drinking alcohol.
At this time in the stockade, the competition has also entered a fever pitch.
In the last competition, the Lisu youth asked to hold a crossbow-shooting competition of "shooting eggs over the head".
This kind of competition is the highlight of the traditional "spring bath" of the Lisu people in Nujiang.
For many years, the Lisu people are used to dividing the four seasons of the year into ten months. The blooming month is March for the Han nationality, the moon is called April for the Han nationality, the month for burning a volcano is May for the Han nationality, and the month of hunger is June for the Han nationality. The gathering month is the Han nationality’s July and August, the harvest month is the Han nationality’s September and October, the cooking month is the Han nationality’s November, the hunting month is the Han nationality’s December, the New Year’s month is the Han nationality’s January, and the housing month is In February of the Han nationality, these ten seasons.
The Lisu people created a "natural calendar" based on the changing laws of natural phenomena such as mountain flowers blooming, mountain birds singing, and heavy snow flying, and used it as a phenology for judging production seasons.
Cultivation is based on flowers and birds. Plum blossoms bloom every sixty years, and bamboo flowers bloom every sixty years, so as to remember Jiazi, azaleas hire workers, and female flowers are suitable for cultivation. The first day of the winter month is New Year's Day, and chestnut leaves are used as the annual tree. "
The Lisu people call the New Year Festival as "Yishi". Most of them will make indica rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes and brewing water wine at that time, and put a little of the cakes from the first mortar on peach, plum and other fruit trees, wishing the coming year will be fruitful .
During the New Year's Day, the Lisu people in the Nujiang area of Yunnan must first feed the cattle with salt to show respect for the work of the cattle. Young men and women like to hold target competitions during the Spring Festival. The girls hung the embroidered purses on the bamboo poles, and the pouches were swayed from side to side, and the boys were invited to shoot. The girls would send the wine as a prize to whoever shoots off the purse first.
The Lisu people in the Nu River Canyon still retain the fashion of "spring bathing". Where there are hot springs along the banks of the river, they are places where people gather for bathing.
During the Spring Festival, people take the annual meal and luggage to set up bamboo sheds not far from the hot springs, or find caves to sleep in. Stay in the hot spring for three to five days and take a bath.
The hot spring is divided into upper and lower pools. Under normal circumstances, men are in the upper pool and women are in the lower pool, but the distance is far away.
Some wash them five or six times a day. They think that only by bathing repeatedly can diseases be eliminated, physical fitness can be improved, and sufficient energy can be devoted to the new year's work.
Lisu people will compete in the hot springs. At this moment, white tents are dotted near the hot springs, and cool rice wine and fragrant annual food are placed by the open fire day and night. The singers chant poems and antithetical songs while tasting them. The wine and delicacies each brought. New and old singers, learn from each other and compete with each other, adding a joyous atmosphere to the Spring Festival.
At this time, it is also the best time for young men and women to meet their sweethearts, and it is also the best time for men to show themselves.
And the Lisu people who are good at shooting, the most favorite is the crossbow at that time. This is because most of the food rations of the Lisu people still depend on hunting. Therefore, marrying a man with good arrow skills also guarantees a woman's lifelong food and drink.
During the competition, the young man carries a quiver on his back and holds a crossbow. His sweetheart buckles a bowl on top of his head, with an egg on the bottom of the bowl, or a wooden bowl on top of his head. The bowl is filled with rice and the egg is the target, standing a few meters away. .
At the beginning of the game, the young men did not rush, drew their arrows, slammed the machine, and listened to the "pop", the eggs splashed, and the sweetheart was safe and sound. Suddenly, there was a burst of warm applause on the court.
This is a thrilling and exciting competition. It is an activity that compares skills, courage, and true feelings. Of course, a young man who is not skilled would rather not hit the egg than he would hurt his sweetheart.
At this moment, the Jinyi cavalry and the young people of the Lisu ethnic group played this game.
Jinyi cavalry put their friends on top of bowls and eggs, and the young Lisu people also put their good friends or acquaintances on top of the bowl.
Jinyi cavalry uses military longbows, while Lisu people use bows and crossbows to exchange archery skills.
After all, it is the first time for the Jinyi cavalry to play archery like this. It is inevitable that they will have too much psychological pressure and shoot their arrows off the track.
This guy will cause laughter from his surrounding companions and Lisu people.
In this round, the Lisu people won in a disguised form.
In the second round of the match, a beautiful Lisu girl suddenly took the bowl that was given to her partner by the general banner called Yu Si, and took the initiative to put it on her head, willing to be Yu Si's target.
The meaning of the Lisu girl's blushing cheeks is naturally obvious.
Zong Qi Yu Si looked at the bright eyes of the beautiful girl amidst the roar of his friends and congratulations from the Lisu people, he couldn't help but smirk twice...
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