March Street Prose 800 words
The Bai people who like to celebrate festivals
Sister Wang and I made an appointment with Ren Qin to go to March Street.
At ten o'clock in the evening, we boarded the "Jinhua" travel train at Kunming Station and had a good sleep. We arrived in Dali at dawn. Taking advantage of the excitement of getting on the bus, the whole carriage was talking about "March Street".
The Bai people are a nation that likes to celebrate festivals. It goes without saying that the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival are celebrated by the Han people, the Bai people, and the whole of China. The Bai people also have many festivals of their own. Oh,
Let me count: there are singing festivals and lantern festivals; there are Qingmaiden Festivals and the Three Princesses Festival; there are crop fairs where embroidery and paper-cutting are bought and sold; there is the Pear Blossom Festival where people enjoy and eat pear blossoms; There are March Street, Butterfly Festival, Raosanling Festival, Torch Festival, Mule and Horse Festival,
Sea Lantern Festival, Folk Song Festival, as well as the rice planting festival where labor is a happy game, and there are fishermen who specialize in buying and selling dowries. Tanhui, wait, wait. If you add in the main festivals of each village and village, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that the Bai people celebrate festivals every day. Of all these festivals, the grandest and busiest is of course March Street. March Street is the "Ethnic Festival" of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. Every year from the 15th to the 21st of the third lunar month, the whole state has a holiday. It's so fun to go on the streets to celebrate the festival!
Millennium Episode March Street
March Street has been running for more than a thousand years.
In ancient legends
March Street was originally a temple fair for the Bai ancestors to worship the Goddess of Mercy. However, if you gently brush away the lingering green smoke and purple air, you will see that two ancient post roads are like two dragons, meeting unexpectedly in Dali.
One is called "Shu Shen Po Road". History books say that this ancient stone-paved road was excavated on the order of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It came over mountains and ridges from Chengdu, Sichuan, and ran through Dali to Myanmar and India. , known as the "Southern Silk Road". The other one is the "Ancient Tea Horse Road" opened in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Carrying brick tea, brown sugar, salt, and folk songs, the caravan passed through the scorching winds and heavy rains of Simao and Pu'er, washed away the dust and nourished the spirit in Kunming's Dianchi Lake, and then headed west to set foot on Cangshan and Erhai Lake
!" The businessman quickly reminded: "Remember it's 'March 15th'!" In this way, "March Street" was hung on the bell of the caravan, and the message was In all directions...
I know that Ren Qin doesn't like to join in the fun.
But I say March Street is an exception. March Street has been busy for a thousand years, why not go there again? Not only business, but also antiphonal singing, horse racing, swinging, snail hunting, and many delicious things... "Don't listen to his bragging!" Sister Wang warned her, tell the truth. , "It was so crowded that it turned yellow..." Ren Qin smiled and said that she had prepared 20 film rolls for March Street anyway. She is a photographer.
She believed in her eyes.
The busiest thing is the eyes
As soon as you step into the stone-paved street, it is like falling into a kaleidoscope. The busiest thing is the eyes.
The dragon dancers danced green dragons, yellow dragons, and golden dragons, tumbling up and down, jumping left and right, grabbing the dragon balls, stirring up the sun on the ground and turning it green and yellow. One, dazzling light. The young man holding the dragon ball wears a white turban on his head, a black-collared coat with lace over a white placket, and a bright red belt around his waist. He is energetic and handsome. It's just that those baggy blue trousers, when they spin and jump, are filled with wind, making them frothy, which is a bit funny. Watch the noisy Bai girls, crowded together in groups, their clothes have a youthful beauty. Noble white is their tight-fitting shirts; velvet collared jackets, some deep red, some light blue; short aprons embroidered with flowers and birds tied around their waists; Grey-blue or aqua green or bird-white wide trousers with embroidered lace on the trouser legs, paired with a pair of white, purple-red or dark green embroidered shoes...
By the way, I haven’t said it yet. Where are their headdresses? This should be discussed separately.
Really, the headdress of a Bai girl is so beautiful! Moreover, the costumes vary from region to region. Near the ancient city of Dali, for example, the Bai girls in Zhoucheng and Xizhou wear white embroidered cloth or white towels on their heads. The tassels at one end of the headscarf are floating on the side of the face and by the ears, and the thick black hair is wrapped with red velvet thread. The braid is magically placed on the forehead, which is called "wind, flower, snow and moon". It wears the "Xiaguan wind, Shangguan flower, Cangshan snow and Erhai moon", which are called the four wonders of Dali.
. As for the Bai girls in Jianchuan and Heqing, what they wear on their heads is "blue sky and white clouds": bright blue buns wrapped in layers, and white silk scarves dotted with red lace are wrapped diagonally, as if they are floating in the blue sky. With a white cloud. Girls
Girls are crowded together, each competing for the beauty of the other, so that you have no time to distinguish which one is "fenghuaxueyue" and which one is "blue sky and white clouds"!
Whether they are girls from Dali, or Bai girls from Jianchuan and Heqing,
they all have a nice name called "Golden Flower". This comes from the movie "Five Golden Flowers". The movie takes Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake as the background and presents a love story full of comedy. Apeng is a good boy from the Bai tribe in Jianchuan. He is kind-hearted and willing to help others. At the horse racing meet on March Street, he won first place. Just when people were dressing him and his horse in red and flowers, he met the beautiful vice president Jin Hua. At the Butterfly Spring, they gave each other tokens and expressed their love through singing. Apeng sang when he presented the steel knife: "Three generations of our ancestors have been blacksmiths. Steel that is well tempered will never rust. Brother's heart is like steel and the steadfastest. Sister, don't mistake the wrong person." Of course Jinhua would not be wrong about this, but she To test
To test A Peng, he deliberately sang: "The olives are delicious and the aftertaste is sweet. Open the moss and drink from the mountain spring. We vow not to talk about our alliance for now. We will meet again next year. Next year the flowers will bloom and the butterflies will fly. My brother will come again if he wants to. Looking for Jinhua at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, Jinhua is Amei."
Jinhua gave Apeng a gold purse, "It's easy to recognize each other when we meet." The next year, Apeng came to find Jinhua. Unexpectedly, he traveled all over Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake and found several "golden flowers", but they were not the "one" he was looking for, and caused many misunderstandings and jokes. In this way, the film takes the audience to have a good tour of Dali, and finally ends with joy and a full moon. There is such a reason that "Five Golden Flowers" is extremely popular in Dali, especially this March
On the streets, the singing of "Five Golden Flowers" is flying, and "Dali is beautiful in March" "Butterfly Spring is good for dressing up", just like calling Apeng to find Golden Flower, and Golden Flower to find Apeng. Those who do business are busy looking for Jinhua and Apeng, or they open their throats, or turn on the speakers at full volume, shouting: "Leather shoes are 28 yuan a pair!" "Pants are 30 yuan a pair!" ...It was so lively.
Ren Qin must have captured many good shots, but my eyes were deceived.
Sister Wang looked excited, as if she was saying: "How is it? It's 'crowding'!"
Stupid horse on the field
Horse racing is an indispensable part of March Street. Originally, March Street was related to horses. It is precisely because of the caravan post road that March Street exists. For the older generation, horse racing is a classic memory. The wind of galloping horses' hooves blew through their hearts, turning pages of stories about distant caravans. Young people, on the other hand, have passion and romance injected into their veins because of horse racing. Horse racing is a show that everyone gets excited about.
The ancient oval
On the racecourse, people shouted and horses shouted, and flags were flying. Do the referees, race organizers, men and women watching the excitement, and a few red horses and black horses want to warm up before the game, or do they deliberately show off to the public, run over and over
and exaggerate? The atmosphere of the stadium. Along the track, several red and green flags have been planted. In addition to the speed of the horse, the winner also has to compete with how many flags the rider pulls out. Look, the cavalry is coming! 12 horses lined up in a horizontal row
Walking in front, the colorful flags held high by the 12 riders clattered, seeming to report to people that they respectively represent the 11 cities and counties within the jurisdiction of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. The cavalry circled the field, accepting the cheers of the people and the flowers and shouts thrown by the girls. The excitement of wanting to try was stirred up. These horses from mountainous areas or flat dams may have been pulling carts, driving plows, and carrying items yesterday, but now they are competing for glory for their masters. They snort and dig at the ground with their front hooves, impatient to make achievements.
The brass gong blasted, and the game of courage and bravery began! The sound of horse hooves roared past like a storm
People were shouting and jumping wildly; and the golden flowers' cheering and waving straw hats and handkerchiefs undoubtedly gave magical encouragement to the charging riders. Which of these Apengs doesn't want to try their best to show off their skills in front of the golden girls? Look at them, they actually showed off their magic skills on horseback! Some got under the horse's belly, some stood upside down on the horse's back, and some stretched out their hands like an eagle spreading its wings... They simply threw aside their courage to win the championship.
Suddenly, absolutely suddenly, a horse, a bay-red horse, slipped out of the team and stopped running! Is it because I can’t run anymore or I don’t want to run anymore? I wonder what this guy is thinking? The rider yelled and scolded, while whipping the horse's butt. The bay-red horse just spun in circles and refused to obey no matter how loudly the "flattering" slaps were made. Finally, it simply turned the horse's head and started flying around the field in the opposite direction of the horse team.
This sudden move caused a commotion and boos in the audience. The bay-red horse was encouraged as never before, and it must have felt more fun and more beautiful than being in a cavalry team. It became energetic and ran faster, and passed head-on with the cavalry team several times.
The rider seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and he was unambiguous, holding out flags all the way. In the end, he actually held a large armful of flags to invite credit and reward. The organizer couldn't laugh or cry, and announced on the radio: Due to the "foolish horse" causing trouble, this game does not count... before the words stopped, people were already laughing, and the golden flowers were bending over and holding their stomachs. Yu yelled, "I'm laughing to death, I'm laughing to death..."
Singing under the big green tree
A burst of crisp light The song comes from under the big green tree.
The big green tree is the sacred tree of the Bai people and the "feng shui tree". Standing at the entrance of Bai village, it is a symbol of prosperity and prosperity, a kind of eternal and unshakable sacredness. It is radiant with green light and is an auspicious cloud in the eyes of the Bai family
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Today, many colorful flags are hung on the big green trees on March Street, among the branches and leaves, strings of butterflies cut from waxed paper and red lanterns are hung, making them look cheerful and "blooming". The ancient green trees are full of youthful vitality. It must have listened to many Bai tunes and breathed in the beautiful Bai songs to grow so majestic and beautiful, right? You see it is so affectionate, covering the singing stage with a huge thick shadow. Every leaf is listening to the singing in surprise, and they are all ready to fly in the sunshine of the singing.
The singers, whether they are old singers or young singers who are just showing off their singing voices, all sing according to the traditional Bai tune.
The Bai tune, called "Baiqu" by the Bai people, is actually a Bai folk song. It is said that the Bai tune has thirty-six rhymes, which are divided into female rhymes and male rhymes. According to different times, places, and situations, the rhyme can also be changed or changed. In this way, the thirty-six rhymes almost include all the phonology of the Bai language. Singers, or antiphons, must follow these rhymes. This was told to me by an elder sister-in-law standing next to me. The sister-in-law, who was dressed as a Bai ethnic group, said that she was not a Bai ethnic group. Her hometown was in Shandong. When she was a child, she came to Dali with her parents. "After drinking Erhai Lake, she became a Bai ethnic group." She said that she likes the Bai people, likes to speak Bai people’s dialect, and loves to sing Bai people’s tunes. “You don’t know,” she looked at me and said with bright eyes, “My father is I got it right at the Shibaoshan Song Concert!" He laughed. I asked if "the baby's father" was here? The sister-in-law said, "Come on, come on," "As soon as you enter the street,
this damn ghost will disappear!"
As he spoke, a burst of laughter sounded like the waves, and the game song The duet between a man and a woman on the stage caused a sensation. I couldn't understand, so my sister-in-law enthusiastically acted as a translator. The man humorously wore black glasses, played the three-stringed string instrument and sang: "Bees want flowers and flowers want honey/You also miss me and I miss you/Think of one day (oh eh yo)/Tiger just wants to Dian Cangshan (ah eh yo)/The goldfish only wants to Erhai Lake/The swallow wants the green tile house
/I miss the little sister (ah eh yo)..." As soon as the translation came to this point, the sister-in-law shouted: "Oh, that 'black glasses' is the baby's father!" My sister-in-law said to me with a smile on her face: "Just wait, I will play a song with him!" Squeeze in front.
Maybe it was too crowded, or maybe we changed our minds temporarily. After waiting for a while, we didn’t see this sister-in-law on the singing stage, so we had to go elsewhere to watch the fun.
The little brother cried
Blocks of yellow ash rose up, covering Cangshan and changing Cangshan color. This is a mule and horse market where people shout and horses shout.
On a large deserted dam, there are horses and cattle, at least hundreds of them! Buffalo, cattle, black, flowery, golden, purple, big cows, calves... some are on the top shelf, some are shitting, some are ruminating, and the corners of their mouths are white
Mo, the strands of saliva were blown up by the wind, making them sparkling. Look how strong this black cow is! The whole body is like black satin, smooth and shiny. Those lofty shoulders are so plump and powerful! Hanging on the stubby neck is a large copper bell
and a pair of amber horns, exuding majesty like sharp knives. Several people gathered around to discuss the price, and the voices of the discussion were sometimes loud and sometimes quiet. Far and near there are cows braying: moo-moo-empty, vast.
Compared with the relatively calm and disciplined cattle, horses are much more active and jumpy. Some horses may have just come off the racecourse, and the riders haven't had enough fun yet. They leap up and whip, roar and scream, and run around, throwing up bursts of yellow dust
. Ren Qin hunched over to protect the camera, shouting, "It's over, it's over, my camera is over," while taking wild photos of the rolling, biting, and kicking horses.
"Look at that string of horse bells! Look at the hydrangea on the horse's head! Look at the mirror under the hydrangea..." She held up the camera and shouted, taking pictures, as excited as a horse!
Experience tells me that the more lively places and occasions you are in, the less likely you are to see any faces that leave an impression. Fortunately we met a little brother.
Hey, why is this little brother sitting on the ridge alone? He was probably only about ten years old, looking at a bunch of wilting grass with such sadness. His short hair was gray, and his tear-stained face was gray. We squatted down to talk to him and asked his name. He turned his face away, and for a while he whispered softly that his name was "Yang Yucai", then buried his head and started crying with his shoulders shaking. We became nervous all of a sudden. We pulled his shoulders and asked him what was wrong and whether he was sick. He raised his head, his face full of tears, and said with a sigh that his pony was sold. Sister Wang took out her handkerchief to wipe his tears and wiped his dirty face, saying don't cry, don't cry. Her own eye circles were also red.
Xiaoyu just told us how good and well-behaved his pony is! "We were playing on the river beach. I closed my eyes and pretended to ignore it. It would nuzzle me with its head and nudge my face with its mouth..." Xiao Yucai said that he always cuts the tenderest He feeds the pony grass, always takes it to drink the cleanest water, trims its mane, and scratches it. "But, the lime kiln that my father burned collapsed and was sold. This little idiot followed others around. I carried grass on my back to chase after him, but he didn't even bother to head. Hui, you thought you were playing hide and seek with me..." Xiaoyu started crying again. We had no idea, so we sat down to persuade him, coax him, and comfort him.
Ren Qin had a way, and said, "Pay attention, photographer, I'll take a picture of you crying..." "No," Xiaoyu raised her head and quickly pulled her sleeves to wipe her eyes and face. They were all wiped off, and I looked at the camera sheepishly. Click
Crack, the shy and simple smile of Brother Yucai was left in Ren Qin’s lens.
Delicious food
We walked around on Sanyue Street and shopped everywhere . Accidentally, I walked into the medicinal materials market. All medicinal materials: Cordyceps from Qinghai, Fritillaria from Sichuan, Lycium barbarum from Ningxia, Ginseng from Northeast China, Saffron from Tibet, Eucommia ulmoides, Poria cocos, Ganoderma lucidum, Astragalus membranaceus, Xue Shang Yizhi Peng, Coptis chinensis, Yiren, etc. Wait, wait, all letting out their own scent in the sun. These smells mix together to form a strong smell of Chinese medicine that permeates the sky. Sister Wang said: "Hurry up and take a few more puffs. There are so many Chinese herbal medicines that will definitely cure all diseases. You won't have to go to the hospital this year!" As she said that, she stretched her neck as if doing deep breathing exercises and started inhaling. , Ren Qin gave her a "click".
In front of a Tibetan medicine stall
we chatted with an old Tibetan man selling medicine. The old man was already sixty-two years old, with a red and black complexion. His eyes under his felt hat were deep and powerful. When he spoke, his golden teeth flashed brightly. He said that he came to March Street when he was 18 years old. Every year, "it has been forty-five years!" He stretched out his hands, gestured, and laughed heartily. We didn’t know what to buy, so the old man twisted his beads and said with a smile, “Just take a look, just take a look
Just take a look...”
Just looking and chatting, After walking out of the medicinal materials market, we stopped and wandered in front of the gold and silver jewelry stalls, wood carvings, paper-cuts, copperware, pottery pots, and embroidery stalls.
In the tent with a cloth label hanging "Heqing Silverware", we admired the handicrafts of a Bai farmer. This craftsman named Cun Fabiao is in his 40s and can be called a master of folk crafts.
He showed us the "Nine-Dragon Silver Pot"
and saw the nine gleaming silver dragons, tumbling and leaping, the dragon whiskers, the scales, and the "finishing finishing touch" dragon eyes, It's really a dragon alive, and it's about to take off from the silver pot! We made an appointment with Cun Fabiao and we will definitely go to his home
to watch him carve dragons and paint phoenixes. Cun Fabiao said with a smile: "Welcome, there are good-looking things, and there are delicious things..."
Speaking of delicious things, March Street has a lot of them! Candies include walnut candy, peanut candy, sesame candy, diced sugar, rice krispy candy, silk candy, bean flour candy, marshmallow, hawthorn candy, as well as various sandwich candies and fruit candies. , milk candy, caramel, there are countless. There are many types of cakes, including Songhua cake, hibiscus cake, Taiping cake, chicken cake, cup cake, hair cake, Weishan green bean rice cake, Heqing rice cake, etc. Yunnan people call various cakes with different cooking methods Baba, including bean paste cake, Xizhou cake, washed rice cake, buckwheat cake and wheat cake. Buckwheat cake
Dipped in honey and wheat cake with pickled cucumbers, this is the most common way to eat it. Following the word "pickled", there are pickled lotus white, pickled radish, pickled snails, pickled kohlrabi, pickled olives, pickled pears, and pickled papaya. At present, greenhouse cultivation and off-season cultivation are available, and everything is fresh. Not to mention tamarind, bayberry, strawberry, apple, crisp peach, etc., even the green baguettes are roasted or boiled, and the beans include stir-fried broad beans, green beans, crispy soybeans, and snap peas. In addition to salt-fried sunflower seeds, there are also salt-boiled pine nuts, watermelon seeds, pumpkin seeds, and hemp seeds. This hasn’t even mentioned the sour and spicy cold dishes that make people salivate. The streets are filled with the aroma of roasted stinky tofu, roasted potatoes, roasted bait cubes, as well as cold rice noodles, cold roll noodles, pea powder, rice cold shrimps, as well as carved plums, carved pears, and winter melon preserves. , and...there are so many! I heard that some people even carry snow from the top of Cangshan Mountain to sell it
! There is a particular way to eat this Cangshan snow. The "cup" is made of leaves. Scoop a spoonful of snow, top it with thick "sugar", and eat it with bamboo slices. It is sizzling and sweet! I just can't find where it is sold.
However, the wind was too strong and there were so many people. At first we just enjoyed the sights, not our mouths. Wandering around, I couldn't resist the temptation of the cold rice noodles and pea powder. Let's eat. If you don't eat it now, how else will you wait
! Unexpectedly, at the critical moment when he made up his mind, Ren Cui shouted "Ah" and said, "My wallet is gone!" The mood of eating cold rice noodles was severely hit. Ren Qin said that it was better to let the camera eat it, click click click, the camera did not Containing
paste, eat it as much as you can.