Zhuang folk legend story: the Zhuang embroidery ball legend
About the embroidery ball, there is a beautiful legend circulating in the Zhuang village. It is said that in a small village under the old town of Laozhou in Jingxi County more than 800 years ago, there lived a poor family. The son of the poor family, Ah Di, fell in love with a girl from a neighboring village, Ah Xiu. Ah Xiu was beautiful, kind and y in love with Ah Di, who was honest, hardworking and brave. One spring, Axiu in a pike, was a rich and powerful town villain, to marry Axiu, Axiu threatened to die, resolutely refused to go.
When the villainous young man learns that Ah Xiu is y in love with Ah Di from the neighboring village, in order to make Ah Xiu die, the villainous young man's eyes turn, and the plan comes to him. He bribes the officials to ? He bribes the government and puts Ah-Di in jail on a trumped-up charge. He puts Ah-Di in the dungeon on a trumped-up charge and sentences him to death, awaiting his execution in the fall. When Ah Xiu heard the news, it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and she spent the whole day in tears and cried her eyes out. After Ah Xiu cried her eyes out, Ah Xiu began to sew the embroidery ball for Ah Di, who was to be executed in the fall, stitch by stitch. The needle pierced her hand, and blood flowed on the embroidered ball. After being dyed with blood, the flowers on the embroidered ball were more colorful, the leaves were more green, and the birds were more vivid. After nine hundred and eighty-one days, filled with Ah Xiu's deep love for Ah Di, soaked in Ah Xiu's blood, the embroidered ball is ready.
After Xiu sold her jewelry, bribed the jailer, and accompanied by her family, she touched the dark and humid dungeon to find Ah-Di, who she had longed for day and night but had been tortured to the point of being as thin as a bone, and then, in despair, Xiu groped and took out the ball from her body and wore it on Ah-Di's neck. At that moment, a flash of spiritual light was seen, and Ah Xiu, Ah Di and their family members drifted and landed at the foot of a beautiful and rich mountain far away from the devil.
Later, Ah Xiu and Ah Di got married, had a son and a daughter, and lived a happy life by their own hard-working hands. After a pass ten, ten pass a hundred, slowly the embroidered ball has become the Zhuangxiang people's mascot, Zhuangxiang young men and women love tokens, and later there are also thrown the embroidered ball, the lion rolling embroidered ball and other folk activities.
Now, embroidered ball throwing is still a traditional sport popular among the Zhuang people. Its history can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, when it was used to throw the bronze casting of the ancient musical instrument flying weight? and was mostly used in combat and hunting. Later, it gradually developed into the present embroidered cloth bag, i.e. the embroidered ball. People often throw each other after tea and dinner to entertain, play the role of communication.
Now it has evolved into a way for Zhuang young men and women to express their love. Song Zhu Fu "Xiluan Congxiao" contains:? The festival a few days, the field men and women divided into two pairs of friends, each with five-color capsule beans and corn, to and from the throw catch.
Zhuang folklore stories: dare Zhuang Mountain and the legend of the Five Fingers Mountain
Legend has it that Bluto and Milo armor is the emperor sent to the mortal world to make people and things, creating the originator of the mortal world. Located in Tianyang County, Baiyu Town, six Lian Village, Nakan Tun dare strong mountain, is also his creation. It used to be a sacred place for him to live and reproduce his descendants. The following story is about the legend of Bluto and Dare Strong Mountain.
Bluto and Milo were dispatched by the Heavenly Emperor and set off on the first day of February. On that day, Bluto picked a pair of large baskets, one end of the baskets containing five children, the other end of the bedding and clothing; Milo A shoulder a hoe, hand a mountain sickle, riding on the two leaves picked in front of the palace of the emperor, slowly drifting down the river.? One day, two days. By the nineteenth day, Bluto and Milojia floated over Tianyang. At that moment the clouds changed suddenly, and lightning and thunder, which had never been seen on the earth before, accompanied by heavy winds and rain, exploded deafeningly over the earth. In the sound of thunder, the stretcher on Bluto's shoulder broke. All of a sudden, two baskets flew down to the earth. Bluto and Milojia panicked at the sight, they immediately threw away the broken stretcher, hoe and sickle in their hands, and desperately pounced on the child. But they were too late. In just a blink of an eye, the two baskets landed in Nakan and Sanjin, which are 10 miles apart from each other. The basket containing the bedding fell on the east side of Nakan, where the bedding landed, a pile of soil suddenly rose up, and soon formed a mountain, which is the first mountain of the Zhuang family? This is the first mountain of the Zhuang family. That hole after hole in the bedding gap, later became the mountain caverns.
Mr. and Mrs. Bluto landed on ? Dare Strong Mountain? On, both searched for half a day and no sign of the child, they immediately ran to the top of Dare Strong Hill, stood at the highest point of the west end of the look around, and still do not see that the falling baskets and five children. So they moved to the stone base into a platform, this platform later called? Wang Zi Terrace? Bluto husband and wife mounted the lookout to the south, only to see the hoe and sickle fall place dug open a big curved seam ditch, the sky of the rainfall fall into the ditch, the formation of the right river. Bluto and Mi Luo Jia do not care to stay to see the river and mountains, raise their eyes and look toward the west. Only to see ten miles away on the flat river, there are five children wriggling. Milo armor at the sight of excitedly shouted ? Children? Shouting just fell five children immediately sat motionless on the ground, a bag of cigarettes of work has become five small mountains, people called? Five children mountain? Because? The five children were called the "five children mountain". and? Fingers? are the same sound, the descendants called it? Five Fingers Mountain?
Suddenly, the living five sons turned into five mountains, no longer hear the call of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blodgett lost their voices and cried out, and their hands madly grubbed up the dirt under their feet, ? Clatter, clatter, clatter, clatter. and threw them all around Dangzhuang Mountain. The know where these pieces of soil, and soon grew one after another peaks, and Wuzi Mountain together, around the dare to Zhuang Mountain. From then on, the Zhuangxiang land will have? Dare Strong Mountain The Dare Strong Mountain range is the main mountain.
Zhuang folklore stories: Zhuang Bluto fire legend
Legend has it that in ancient times, due to the lack of fire, people hunted to get animals like crows to eat raw meat, like otters to eat raw fish. Every winter months, people wearing straw raincoat or leafy turf shivering, many people were frozen to death in the wilderness, miserable. Suddenly one day, the clouds were thick, the wind was fierce, the sky was dark, the lightning and thunder roared, and the ground shook. In a hill not far from the Dare Strong Mountain, a large tree in the deafening sound of thunder by the flash of lightning down, that a blinding white light, after the tree fell down suddenly lit up the sky fire. Legend has it that this is the Jade Emperor Zao Huangjun sent Lei Gong to send fireworks to the earth. However, at that time the people did not know how the fire is, by this sudden fire scared the soul of fear, are like to avoid the evil like panic to run back to the cave to hide, to the fire to avoid, not even dare to look at. However, there is only one person calm and collected, he is neither afraid, nor to escape, he bravely toward the burning tree, carefully watching this strange thing, this person is omnipotent God of Creation Bluto. The fire was crackling and burning, Brodha curiously stood by the fire, he felt that this strange thing was hotter than the sun, Brodha had a bright idea, if people have this thing, the winter comes will no longer be afraid of the cold, people will never be frozen to death.
So, he folded a branch of the kindling clamped back to the cave, a pile of dry wood collected into a pile of light, and then carelessly sitting next to the fire baked hands, feel very warm, people have followed the example of Bluto surrounded by fire baking fire, and gradually not afraid of the fire. The news spread quickly. Later, the descendants of the Zhuang people in a hundred-mile radius gathered on Dare Strong Mountain to ask Buluo for fire seeds and burned up the fire. Since there was fire, people sat around the fire in winter and roasted it to keep warm. People also tried to hit the mountain beasts, dug to the potatoes, picked to the wild fruit and the river caught fish and crabs are to get on the fire roasted to eat, although at that time there is no oil and salt sauce, etc., did not expect to eat this baked not only than the raw food is much more tasty, but also sweet and savory.
So, they have since changed the habit of eating raw meat. As people hunt during the day, the night burned the fire side of the grill side to eat, eat and sleep around the fire, those tigers and leopards and other ferocious beasts see the fire, afraid to come back to attack, people also began to realize the importance of fire for their living environment, and even began to think that human beings can not do without fire.
One night, a sudden downpour of rain, rain all the fire drenched out, woke up one night they did not have a fire, people realize that fire and water are incompatible, they are insecure to spend a period of time without fire can no longer sit down. People went down the mountain in the rain to look for fire everywhere. They searched all the caves around Dare to Strong Mountain, and couldn't find a single fire anywhere.
At this point, someone thought of the omnipotent God of Creation, Brodha, and told the god of the Zhuang nation about the search for fire. Brotu decided to personally go out to look for fire, he was hanging on the waist of the big board God axe, standing like a pine, walking like the wind, searched through the backcountry and caves of the 99 high mountains, walked through the 99 river to look for all the villages after all the villages, or disappointment and return.
On the way back to dare to Zhuangshan, Bluto came to a tree under the tree to take a nap, he suddenly remembered the last time Leigong split the tree to give the fire, he thought, since Leigong can split the tree out of the fire, I am not Bluto can not? Besides, I have a divine axe in my hand! Thinking of this, he chose a dry cracked old tree, the energy, lifting up the axe, two people can not close to cut an axe on the disk, there are many like fireflies like sparks continue to flash. Bluto cut another axe, and this time the sparks that came out were as big as sparking snakes, and danced up and down and all around. Immediately, Bluto scraped hay and leaves and disturbed them into a pile, which was soon set on fire by the sparks. Bluto added a large handful of hay and dry wood to the fire, and the fire burned more and more vigorously, the bigger it burned, and it soon attracted people looking for fire from all directions. From then on, people had the fire again. With the last lesson, this time people no longer dare to burn fire in the wild, they took the kindling to the cavern to raise up, from now on, no matter how big the wind and rain, the kindling is still not extinguished. Until the later development to use wood to build a house rubbed mud cover tile, people and the fire to the house to boil water cooking and heating.
From then on, the fire is able to save the continuation, but there are many problems. Because people did not manage the fire, let the butterflies and moths fly into the house to take the wings as a fan fan, even chickens, ducks, geese have followed suit, making the sparks scattered around, those groups of fireflies also take fire to play around. Some also let the children take the fire to the eaves of the house to burn to play, the results of a fire, the whole village and cottage are burned, and even burned some of the old people and children too late to escape. People did not think that fire could cause such a great disaster. The survivors had to go and ask Bluto how to use fire safely.
Without saying a word, Brody asked people to cut wood, in the middle of the house set up a four-square stove, inside the sand, the provisions of the fire must be burned in the fire stove, do not play with the fire, so that the fire will gradually reduce the number of things. The original those naughty fireflies were also driven to the wild, fleeing also in the ass secretly dipped a little fire, so until now we can still see the fireflies on the butt of the sparks in the summer night.
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