As night fell, a blazing bonfire was lit in the cottage of the Lisu people.
Lisu people sing and dance to welcome new friends.
The Lisu people are good at singing and dancing. They celebrate the festival with dances and folk songs during their main holiday bathhouse party, tasting festival, wide season, Lisu year and so on.
They used the clarinet, flute, pipa, second string, northwest instrument and the self-made plucked string instrument "Dabia" to accompany the dance. The name of the dance is generally based on the dance moves, and more depends on the name of the music. Every festival, after sowing and harvesting, people dance the production dance called "Miyikukoh".
The Lisu people are still in the era of hunting and gathering wild fruits. The dance mainly simulates various animals and integrates some agricultural production dances.
In the circle dance, people use various simulated postures to meticulously show people digging, weeding, harvesting and returning to warehouses.
And one of the "monkey dance" simulations of animals is very interesting.
This dance does not have any accompaniment or accompaniment, and the dance is completely beaten by the sound of the dancer stomping the soles of the feet, forming a unique style.
Jinyiwei people think it is rare, and they look at it with gusto.
Like many ethnic groups, the Lisu people also like to drink. They have two types of wine, water wine and shochu, and they are mostly self-brewed.
Water wine is made by mashing and steaming raw materials such as sorghum, buckwheat noodles or tares, and then mixing them with alcohol medicine, then putting them in a large tank and allowing them to naturally ferment for seven or eight days. Just add water and filter when drinking.
The wine juice is slightly turbid, milky white, mellow and slightly sweet, has the effect of invigorating the spleen and appetizing, refreshing and relieving fatigue, and has been deeply loved by the Lisu people.
Shochu, called "liji" in Lisu language, is a distilled liquor obtained by putting fermented lees in a pot for distillation. This wine is clear and transparent, has a higher degree, and is more spicy and refreshing than water wine.
Lisu people believe that "no wine is not a courtesy", and wine is an essential drink for their banquets and guests.
At the beginning of the banquet, according to the traditional custom, the wood must first fill up its own bamboo cup and sprinkle a little on the ground, which means to worship the ancestors. Then I toasted and drank a little to show that the wine was good, and then filled up the wine glasses of Lu Bing and other senior officials of Jin Yiwei, holding them in both hands and offering them to Lu Bing and others for drinking.
After Lu Bing and the others drank one by one, Mu must look at Lu Bing, hesitated, then turned to Zhang Ju, who was injured in his right hand, and said, "Master Zhang, your archery skills are admirable. Cao Min really admires... Cao Min admires you even more. A broad mind... If adults don’t dislike them, Cao Min wants to be brothers with adults... I don’t know..."
Mu Bi naturally didn't dare to climb Lu Bing high, but he really wanted to become brothers with Zhang Ju. Not only because Mu must want to build a deeper relationship with Jin Yiwei, but also because of his archery skills and willingness to be a kid.
Zhang Ju glanced at Lu Bing, and when he saw Lu Bing nodded slightly, he laughed and said, "The village master is serious, I can't ask for it!"
The two asked each other about their age, and Zhang Ju was slightly older and became the elder brother.
Mu Bi was overjoyed, poured a bowl of wine, and drank the "concentric wine" with Zhang Ju!
Among the banqueting customs of the Lisu people, the most interesting thing is to drink "tongxin wine".
"Tongxin wine", also known as "hebei wine", "bilateral wine" and so on. It refers to the drinking custom in which two people hold a barrel or bowl of wine together, put their arms around each other's neck and shoulders, open their mouths together, drink with their backs upside down, and make the wine flow into the mouths of both the host and the guest at the same time.
Drinking Tongxin wine, generally regardless of men and women, can be done between relatives, friends, or lovers. It is often used in occasions such as entertaining guests, signing an oath or worshiping a brother.
Tongxin wine symbolizes unity and friendship. It is seen that the patriarch and the Grand Master Archery, who defeated the patriarch today, become brothers. Many Lisu people also got up and invited the Jinyiwei to drink together and become brothers.
The Lisu people took out the wine they brewed and collected them, poured it into a bamboo tube, and drank it with the fateful Jinyiwei face-to-face.
Drinking this wine must not spill over, or you will start all over again. Jinyiwei made a lot of jokes and drank drunk.
Drinking "close-faced wine" is absolutely unavoidable for men and women. Jinyiwei people are filled with heat and abdominal distension by Lisu men and women, but Lisu people do nothing.
It turns out that when the two parties drank the "veneer wine", the Lisu people were afraid of the wine overflowing, and the mouth of the tube was slightly slanted toward the guests. Jin Yiwei was afraid of the wine overflow, and naturally opened his mouth to welcome the wine, but Lisu people drank less. In the stockade, the Lisu people are slaughtering cattle and sheep, killing pigs and feasting guests. Pork, mutton or beef are boiled in a large pot one by one.
In front of Lu Bing, there was also a boiled suckling pig. The boiled suckling pig, the best piglet weaned just two months old.
Both men and women of the Lisu nationality have the custom of chewing tobacco and drinking alcohol. The stockade that can be seen at this moment is full of scenes of giving away shredded tobacco.
When chewing tobacco, first put the shredded tobacco in your mouth, and then put some black gelatinous substance boiled together from betel nut root, plum bark, chestnut leaves and slaked lime to chew slowly. Soon, the lips became flushed.
This night, Jin Yiwei and Li Su people, who were hostile to each other, turned their fighting into jade silk, and they were in harmony with Lu Bing's original intentions.
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In the early morning of the second day, Lu Bing used the breakfast Mu Bi personally delivered, and asked Mu Bi about the White Lotus Sect.
Mu Bi hesitated for a moment, and finally said frankly: "Don’t hide it from your lord, I do know that the White Lotus Sect has a gathering place on the Nu River bank, called Xiaoxitian. I heard that there are many institutions in it, including the upper nine layers and the lower nine layers. There are often various masters in the Eight Passes. It is also like a maze. It is heard that they are connected by secret roads and communicate with the outside world. It is difficult to block. Some local people join the White Lotus Sect, but they can only do their own activities. Even within the White Lotus Sect. The congregation is also worthy of the whole picture. Although the adults are strong and strong, but in that situation, the number of people is not necessarily an advantage."
As Lu Bing listened, he nodded and said, "The chief said that there are too many people, but they can't be used." Lu Bing asked Mu Bi, "Do you know where Xiao Xitian is?"
Mu Bi shook his head and said: "It's just that my clan has some abilities here, so I've heard some... dissatisfied with adults, and have done business with them. But I have never been in the house, and I don't know the specific location... However, I can Tell the adults a rough range."
Lu Bing smiled and nodded, "That's enough."
Lu Bing knew that Mu must still have some reservations. However, the White Lotus Sect has been rooted here for many years, and when others come to annihilate it, it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net. The head of the Lisu clan lives here. If you offend the White Lotus Sect, you will inevitably cause some trouble. Therefore, Mu must conceal something, and Lu Bing is also understandable. As long as you know the approximate location, you have already saved a lot of effort in finding Xiaoxitian.