In Miao Zhuang, in this village of more than 300 families, there is wine almost every day. Needless to say, holidays, from weddings and funerals, getting up early and being greedy for the black, to three dynasties and one year old, to building warehouses at the entrance of the gate, building roads in Xie Qiao, and returning from a long trip, we should invite friends and have a few bowls. Even which man bought a thrush, which cow sold for a good price, which couple quarreled ... As long as neighbors, relatives and friends know, everyone should find an opportunity, so to speak, to find an excuse to drink. At this time, guests don't need to prepare any big gifts, just buy some firecrackers and set them off in front of the host's house. The host is not prepared, and the dishes are homemade bacon and dried meat; Fish is a field fish raised in our own rice fields. As early as every year, when the millet is yellow-pointed, it is caught to wash salted fish and dried fish. What about wine? Naturally, it is also a mellow rice wine carefully baked with rice grown by itself. These dining tables are all 100% pure natural pollution-free food.
The host burns the edge of the kang in the warm fire room, arranges the dishes and wine bowls one by one, and then puts an iron pot, stir-fry or stew pig's feet on the hot charcoal fire, and can also cook according to the taste of the guests. Sour soup and clear soup are all spicy. At this time, the host can invite the guests to sit down.
Sitting at the dinner table is also very particular in the local area. It's called sitting opposite the fire door, which is reserved for the most distinguished guests. The seat near the door or stove is the host's seat, which is convenient for the host to open the door, serve rice or drink for the guests behind him.
In Miao Zhuang, an example of drinking utensils is rice bowls. After the banquet, regardless of the host and guest, pour more than half a bowl first. Guests who really don't drink or are in poor health can avoid drinking after explaining the reasons to their hosts. However, for guests from afar, it is enough not to touch a drop of wine after the whole meal. If you can't resist the temptation of mellow rice wine or the host's kind invitation, once you stop drinking, the host won't easily let the guests resign. If the guest is not drunk, the host will not let the guest go. During the dinner, in order to persuade the guests to drink more and eat more vegetables, the host's persuasion methods are endless, but guessing with his fist is the most commonly used way.
In Miao Zhuang, there are many people, both men and women, old and young, who are good at boxing. If the guest has a female guest and can't draw a fist, you can also use the way of modern young people drawing a fist to replace it with the guessing rule of "hammer, scissors and cloth". After three rounds of drinking, punching in and drinking officially began. The specific way of boxing is often decided by the master: there is a kind of "side boxing", which divides the subject and object into two groups according to the equal number of people; There is a "free fist", where one person punches everyone and goes back and forth; There is a kind of "horse racing boxing" (called "walking the basket" locally), in which one person starts to punch, the winner rests, and the loser keeps going until he wins. At the beginning of the sword fight between the two sides, each side should say some auspicious words, such as "treasure the treasury (zero), respect the old with one heart, be blessed with two plums, be rich in three seasons, get rich in Five Blessingg, be promoted six times, be lucky in seven games, benefit all parties and be happy with the whole family (10)", which is called gloves locally.
In the process of "side boxing" drinking, if the total number of people is not even, then the extra people will be arranged to watch boxing. What is watching boxing? That is, before each punch, the extra staff will guess first to see which side will win this round. If both sides guess wrong after the boxing result comes out, drink with the loser.
In Miao Zhuang, punch, wine to the heights, the host and guest sing wine songs. The guest thanked and sang:
Wine glasses, wine glasses, flowers,
I went to master's house to draw my fist.
Good wine is also good for the host family (na)!
People will become rich in the coming year.
When the host heard this, he naturally understood that the guest was slightly drunk. Will also song a:
The wine glass should be green,
You come to my house as a guest.
Cold water drinks you as wine (ah)!
Don't laugh at my poor family
…… ……
The guest sings the lead song, or the lead singer returns. This kind of wine table often lasts until late at night.
Because of drinking, the cold and lonely nights in winter mountain villages add a lot of life flavor. Because of drunkenness, many absurd things happened in the winter night in the mountain village.
One night, all the guests who were drinking at Wang Ge's house next door dispersed, and the two fathers and sons continued to fight after seeing them off. Late at night, I woke up from my dreams several times and still heard their fists: "Come on! Two brothers.-Good! Sister Lin! Ladder ha! " I'm confused. I met Brother Wang early the next morning and asked him if anyone else was boxing at home last night. He replied that it was just him and his son. I played the recording of my mobile phone to him, which made him laugh and cry. It turned out that after their father and son were drunk, they actually called each other brothers when they were fighting. I asked him again who were "Sister Lin" and "Ladder"? He replied that Sister Lin's punching means "zero"! "Ladder" means stepping on a ladder step by step in Six High Boxing, which is called "ladder" for short! After listening to the explanation, I almost burst into laughter on the spot. Drinking in Miao Zhuang can actually create many special boxing words.
Another drunken anecdote, which has been circulating in Miao Zhuang for a long time, is still fresh in the villagers' memory. It is said that in the early days of reform and opening up, after two old people got drunk at night, the two residences were two miles apart. The two old people were afraid that the other party would fall down on the way home or could not find the way home, so they helped each other and sang as they walked. Send the other party to the door, I am afraid that the other party will not go back safely. So, I turned around and accompanied the other party to send it back. This cycle, along the way a Lu Ge. After dawn the next day, the children of both sides discovered that the two old people gave gifts to each other, sang songs all night and went to the door countless times, but neither of them really set foot in the house.
Miao Zhuang, who loves calligraphy and likes good wine, wrote a big picture of "wine" in his study, and the font is bold. The villagers asked him how he appreciated the word "wine", and he explained: "A good drinker is just a little water next to the word" wine. " . First, a little water represents the state of people who have just finished drinking-speaking out of turn; Second, two drops of water indicate that the wine has been drunk by seven people-rhetoric; The third pen is both hard and soft, and then it is drunk-nonsense. "At present, only Miao Zhuang people have made such an incisive explanation of' wine'.
Miao people love wine, but rarely indulge in it and make trouble by drinking. In the eyes of Miao people, wine is a condiment of simple rural life, and it is the original vitality of spring ploughing, summer sowing, autumn harvest and winter storage. In the eyes of Miao people, wine is a long-term expectation for a beautiful day, a bridge hub where wine is used as a medium to entertain guests and the friendship between host and guest lasts forever, and an innate way for Miao people to entertain guests.
Many years later, I will still remember the night when the spring breeze was intoxicated, the song that that person sang, and the feeling that it was not only people who were drunk, but also simple villages.