In the old days, when a Tujia girl got married, she had to hang a red turban on her head. The corners of the scarf were tied with copper coins, and the bride had to hold the four coins in her mouth for fear that the scarf would be lifted by the wind. People called the red head scarf "happy cover Pa".
Legend has it that a long time ago, the Tujia had a child, named pig baby, parents died early, he grew up in the mountains firewood pig herding. The pig was especially fond of playing the dongdong quin (a kind of folk musical instrument). His dongtong quin was loved by everyone. Flowers blossomed and birds flew, and the Tujia boys in the five surrounding villages all envied him. The dolls like to go up to the mountains with him to fetch firewood and let the pigs go.
Often with the pig with the pig, there is a girl called Xibi, she grew up with a headscarf wrapped around her head. Xibi's song is also good, she sings when the water will not flow, the bird does not call, five cottage of the Tujia boys are fascinated by her singing.
When Pigwa and Xibi were herding pigs together, one blew the dongdong quin and the other sang mountain songs. With the two of them, the cottage was full of joy and people were not tired of working.
Both Piggy and Xibi grew up day by day. Five cottage girls came to find piggy back to say marriage, piggy back a do not agree; five cottage boy to find Xibi to seek marriage, Xibi also a do not agree.
The pig like Xibi, but see strings of matchmakers are Xibi blocked back, and do not know Xibi like their own? One day, he sang to Xibi:
The long Pengjiang River is deep and deep,
Pick a rock and have half a catty,
Throw down the rock to test the depth,
see how deep the river is.
Xibi heard this and sang:
A sister was born to sing,
The song of the mountains is sung by hundreds of birds,
If a man dares to sing,
It is better than the thousands of people who ask the matchmaker to tell them.
The piggy boy heard, Xibi has the intention, but he thought of his own family is very poor, and then sang:
brother want sister, now,
June fire pot is difficult to close the body,
Blunt knife break the bamboo is difficult to open,
month planting the bottom of the root of the plant is the deepest.
Xibi knew the heart of the piglet, so he climbed up the hill and sang as he climbed:
The leeks bloomed in fine velvet,
The heart is not afraid of being poor,
As long as the two of them are good,
Cold water makes tea slowly thick.
Pig Wa understood the meaning of the Xibi, very happy, blowing dongdong quin, to the Xibi to come, just out of the mountains, saw the Xibi sitting on the mountain pass of the rock head wipe tears. He went up to Xibi and grasped his hand and said:
"Xibi, what is the matter with you?"
"I...I don't deserve ......"
"You, why do you say that?"
"Because I have a turban on my head."
"That turban dresses you up to be good!
"I've had a disease on my head ......"
"What's wrong with your head?"
"No hair."
This time, the piglet understood. I'll buy you a piece of red scarf ......" The two of them sang "Baxin Song":
The two of us flowed a ditch,
The two of us grew a rattan,
The two of us blossomed a tree,
The two of us did not lose their lives, but they did not lose their deaths.
On the day of the wedding, the people bought the red scarf on the head of the girl Xibi piggyback, afraid of the red bandana was blown off by the wind, and in the four corners of the scarf tied on the copper, Xibi will be the four copper dead in the mouth. Into the bridal chamber, the pig child will be Xibi head of the red headscarf a lift, Xibi's head but grew a head of black oil hair. People will give that red bandana named "happy mask Pa", said it can bring happiness to the girl.
Later, the Tujia girls on the day of the wedding will have to take the "happy hooded", is to figure a good luck!
Firecrackers on New Year's Day
Legend has it that the Fuxi sisters made the human smoke, people have been living forever. That's why the king of Pangu lived for more than 800 years and still found a girl of 18 years old. At that time, people will not die, just like a snake like molt, a year off a back. Every time to molt, people let their loved ones with a barrel closed up, and so on seven days and seven nights, the shell on the natural molting, the old man and became a young man.
The monkey climbed from the horse mulberry tree to heaven, the Jade Emperor asked the monkey what the earth's most bitter, the monkey thought it had long been in the king of Hades to steal their own book of life and death, can be immortal, the world of people also immortal, it can not fight the people, so it will give the Jade Emperor, said: "The Jade Emperor, ah, the earth's most painful is the people molt, than the death - back to the bitter ah. It's even more painful than dying-back."
The Jade Emperor was afraid that the monkey was telling lies, and told the clairvoyant to go to the South Heavenly Gate to see if it was true. Thousands of eyes to the South Heavenly Gate - to see, also think that people molt shell really the most bitter: to be closed with a barrel seven days and seven nights it. So he also went back to report: "Jade Emperor, ah, people really molt the most bitter."
The Jade Emperor then made the god of life and death swap the man and the snake. From then on, the snakes would rise to molt their shells, and the people would die at a certain time.
It turned out that monkeys and people are very good neighbors, every New Year, people have to invite monkeys over as guests. Monkey went to the sky to the human and snake's life and death transfer (swap) after the people resent the monkey, New Year's Eve, the "thunderbolt" firecrackers, the monkey scared away to a very far away place to go, and then quiet New Year's. All the Tujia people have always been in the New Year's Eve, the monkey is a good neighbor. All the Tujia people have always been to firecrackers on New Year's Day.
Sweeping the sun dust hanging
Legend has it that the god of the stove is a fool, and his memory is particularly bad. He did whatever the Jade Emperor told him to do. His mission on earth was to collect the words of the master of each house, and then go up to the sky to report to the Jade Emperor on the twenty-third day of the lunar month every year. He is stupid, poor memory, 365 days a year, so many things how to remember it? So he remembered the good things in his mind, and remembered the bad things in the house to cover the building of the bamboo and beams of the Yang dust hanging.
The twenty-third of Lunar New Year is the birthday of the God of the Stove Bodhisattva, and he is all going back to heaven. The owner of the house is afraid that he will go to heaven in front of the Jade Emperor to say bad words, it is necessary to use the bitter bamboo leaves bundled into the broom before the 23rd of Lunar New Year to sweep the dust hanging down, sweep out and pour it on the crossroads, and at the same time, also burn some paper money. So that the God of the kitchen, the bodhisattva from that crossing the road just pick up the money, recognize the road, and forget to pick up those things back.
So, every year on the twenty-third of Lunar New Year, the Tujia people have to sweep the house of Yang dust hanging.
Vesta God Bodhisattva Festival
Legend has it that once upon a time, the Jade Emperor was living up in Qianjiang's Gray Thousand Liangzi, and he had a tugging mountain mirror and a drilling mountain mirror. This side of the mountain, with the mountain mirror, no matter how far, can see clearly clear, in the back of the mountain, with the mountain mirror, no matter how big the mountain, can see clearly.
One year, after he went to heaven, he met the rising water of the heavenly river. He knew nothing of what was happening on earth. Monkey from the horse mulberry tree climbed up to the sky to report that the ground is a great drought, so the Jade Emperor sprinkled water, and when he finished sprinkling the water, but the ground drowned in floods all over the sky. The flood water flooded to the gray thousand beams to make him unable to come down to land, he went back to live in the sky.
Later, because of the violation of the rules of the sky, the monkey can not go up to the sky, the Jade Emperor does not know the things on the earth, he sent his side of the kitchen Marshal down to the earth, to each household to stay down to understand the situation. Wait until the twenty-third of the waxing moon before going back to report on the situation of each family on earth.
Because he was the chef, he came to earth and attached his body to the stove in every household. If any thing offends the heaven, he will turn into a white-bearded old man to dream to you, so people worship him as the God of the Stove Bodhisattva. Because he reflects the situation honestly in front of the Jade Emperor, the people love him. If it rained for a long time and people wanted the sky to clear up, they would burn a broom, and the God of the Stove would go up to the sky and tell the Jade Emperor, "It's raining so much on earth that there's no more wood to burn, so if you're burning a broom, it's time for the sun to come out". The sun will come out on that day.
If there is a drought on earth, people use the water from the salt shaker to cook vegetables, and the god of the stove will report back to heaven when he sees it: "There is a serious drought on earth, and there is no water to eat, so the water from the shaker is all used for food". On that day, a heavy rain would immediately fall.
The people were so grateful to him that every year on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, when the Bodhisattva Zao Shen went up to heaven, the people would send him off with firecrackers. When he comes back on the night of Lunar New Year's Eve, people have to make rice and veggies and light incense to welcome him.
Therefore, the Tujia people never bake shoes and children's diapers in front of the stove hole, because there is the mouth of the God of Stove Bodhisattva, for fear of getting dirty and making the God of Stove Bodhisattva unhappy.
Bull King Bodhisattva Festival
In ancient times, when floods occurred, the mountains were filled with water, and all the lower areas were flooded. In order to escape, people drove their animals and families to the mountains. As the people went up the mountain, the water also gushed up the mountain. There were only two hills left in the sky. The Han Chinese fled to the big hill, and the Miao people fled to the small hill. The Tujia people had a small river across the hill from the Han people, and a small river across the hill from the Miao people. There was no place to run, but the Han people had a bigger hill, so the Tujia people climbed up that hill. The Han people were afraid that the Tujia people would go up and crush the hill, so the Han leader did not allow the Tujia people to climb up the hill. The Tujia people had no choice, the water under their feet was still rising, and there was no place to stand. Tujia people with the big buffalo to the Miao people that hill swim, Tujia people then dragged the tail of the cow swim across the river, climbed the hill. After the flood receded, the Han people retreated down that big hill and lived together. The Miao and the Tujia then retreated down that small hill to live together.
The day of the flood flush was the eighth day of the fourth month. The cow's divinity saved the Tujia people, and in order to thank the cow for saving their lives, so from that day on, every April 8, the Tujia people would worship the "King of the Cow Bodhisattva", let the cow stop plowing and rest, and feed it good fodder to eat.
The objects of Lu Ban
In the past, the carpenter finished a project. The master's family had to give him an umbrella and a set of clothes ......
Legend has it that this "rule" was handed down by Lu Ban, the grandfather of the carpenters. At that time, Lu Ban in the carpentry field work, no matter how far the road, he is night and day home to live. After a long time, Lu Ban's wife asked him: "You yo, all the way, just live there, run back every day you do not mind running ah?"
Lu Ban said, "I'm not afraid of the distance, and I'm not tired. Because I have a horse."
One night, Lu Ban went home and went to bed. Lu Ban's wife, wearing only a small pants, quietly got up and wanted to see what his horse was. She came to the courtyard to look around and didn't see any horses tied up there, but only saw a wooden horse at the gate. So she rode on it naked. As soon as she mounted it, the wooden horse ran, and in a short time it ran to the carpenter's yard. The next day is not yet bright, Lu Ban woke up and found his wife is not there. He thought to himself that they hadn't quarreled, so where would she have gone? Suddenly Lu Ban realized, rushed to the carpentry field. He saw his wife naked and rolled up in a ball at the carpentry yard, without any cover. Lu Ban rushed to use a bed mat around, above with an umbrella cover, before the mother back home.
So, now the carpenter in the new house before the sacrifice of Lu Ban have to prepare a new mat, a new umbrella, a new set of clothes, hats, bandanas, socks and so on. In fact, it is for Lu Ban Niangzi prepared.
Repair room "seal gift"
Once upon a time, there was a family, a large family. Some of them were civil officials and some were military officials. Seven sons named Maoniu: big Maoniu, two Maoniu, three Maoniu, four Maoniu, five Maoniu ......
Later, this family was ready to repair the new house, because of the design of the house to repair the big, so the construction period will be a few months. This family, despite the number of brothers, the family and solid, but to the people but very kind, neighborly relations are also very cordial. Carpenter master is particularly respected, hospitality craftsmen not away from the chicken, but also to do three meals a day on the dishes are not heavy. Although the craftsmen have chicken on the table every meal, but never ate chicken legs.
In this way, palm ink (supervisor) masters have goose bumps in the heart. I've been waiting until the evening of the day when I started the house to sacrifice Lu Ban. Other offerings that should be prepared by the master of the home are well prepared, is still not see the chicken legs out, the palm of the ink master heart is more not a taste. So he made up his mind, in the row of wooden columns on purpose to the two columns (top pillar) upside down, the intention is to let you live in this new room is not comfortable.
Everything according to the program: the house up, tile cover, carpenter masters should be settled wages home. At this time, the owner of the family only to put all the chicken legs to give the palm ink master and other craftsmen as a gift to thank them.
The master carpenter then realized that he had wronged the master of the house. He had to find a way to make up for his mistake. So he discussed with the second ink master, a person to take a chisel nailed to the two center columns, said: "reverse hair a thousand years!
Later, the family really wealth and prosperity! Therefore, later carpenters in the new house after the repair, have to say some auspicious words, which is "sealing gift", to make up for the usual inadvertent mistakes.
The Chinese catch chicken
Legend has it that in Qianjiang Wuling Xianshan area, there is a doctor, medical luck is good, medical a good one. But then the medical luck is poor, it can not be, so that the medical one on the death of one. No one dared to ask him to cure him anymore. So he only went out as a beggar to beg for rice to live. There is no way, he turned the torn medicine book all memorized. Sometimes he ate one meal in three days, sometimes two meals in four days.
That day, the doctor went to the house of a foreigner to ask for rice. The doctor's book is a very important part of his work, and it is a very important part of his work. He said, "I've come to get a meal." His wife said, "I have a sick man in my house, so I don't have time to cook for you." He said, "I have a few pills, take them and try them in boiling water." The woman sent two bowls of rice to him, he took it on his back and ran away, fearing that he would be chased by the woman's family. Because the medicine he gave to Mrs. Wengwai was not medicine at all. He rubbed some sweat strips on his body and pinched them into particles, then wrapped them in mud and made them into pills. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
The postman returned home and found that the jack's illness is better, so he asked what happened? The post outside the mother said: "a beggar, handed a few pills, eaten to see the improvement of the. After asking for clarification of the situation, immediately chased along the direction of this beggar to go.
Just chased to the river ditch, saw a beggar picked up three dun rock, burning fire ready to cook. Then walked over and said: "Mr., please go back with me to my child that disease cure thoroughly it!" The beggar heard the outside so, how do not admit to go back. Outside the good and bad talk to the beggar please go back. Walked back to see, really the girl's disease is much better. This time the beggar only flip book under the medicine. Three days later, the girl's disease is completely well. To be a beggar to heal the girl, the staff know his life after seeing this young man is not bad. Said: "I only have this daughter, why don't I just recruit you as a son-in-law, the house is also divided in half to you". This way, he opened a medicine store.
One day, just opened the door, saw a tiger sitting up outside the door. The lad then said, "Beast, if you are here to invite me, nod your head three times; if you are here to bite me, swing your head three times." Then the tiger nodded his head three times, and at once carried him up and away.
It turned out that when this mother tiger bit a woman, her mouth was held up by a hairpin, so he used the tip of the pin to hold it up and remove the hairpin. In return for saving his life, the tiger volunteered to be his mount from then on.
Once he went out, he went out to the patient's house and sat there for a while longer, and the tiger was hungry outside, so he caught the chicken of the patient's house. When the owner saw it, he said, "Sir, that animal of yours is biting my chicken outside."
So he came out and told the tiger: "Next time, don't bite the chicken, and every time I heal a person, I will give you a chicken."
This is the reason why the folk doctor has to carry a chicken after he healed the patient.