From Chief to Ball

With the widespread application of cooking on pottery, this taboo has been broken, and many offal, which were originally inedible, came to the dining table before religious taboos appeared.

The brewing of corn wine has also formed a large scale, using the method of turning koji into sugar instead of sprouting sugar. In this era, wine is still an important sacrifice and luxury.

Vegetables are mostly gourds, mustard greens, radishes, and cabbage. There is no cooking method of frying, and most of them are boiled with meat or fat.

Artificially pressed vegetable oil has not appeared, but some people have begun to use the layer of oil skin on the boiled corn porridge to cook vegetables. Some oil crops are also used to satisfy hunger when they are hungry, and some people even eat poisonous castor beans.

The abundance of food proves the inevitable emergence of things such as dressing and etiquette.

The clothes and clothing of each clan are basically uniform, with special meanings of god worship and philosophical concepts. The wealthy families and bloodline nobles use silk as their clothes, and the level of silk weaving is not low.

Ordinary people weave cloth with a kind of fiber bark, and basically mastered the method of retting to remove gum and clean up hemp fiber, but cotton did not appear.

The domestication of tussah and mulberry silkworms was basically completed, and the relationship between moths and silkworms was recognized. Many cities had officials who specially taught women to raise silkworms.

Due to the emergence of private ownership, most cities have hereditary embryonic forms in the transfer of power: nominally they are still elected by everyone, but the heirs of the leader have a higher chance of being selected because of the inheritance of land, slaves, connections, etc. leader.

In a small number of cities, there are still remnants of the clan village community. The land is cultivated by everyone or redistributed according to the population every three to five years.

Bronze has not been widely used, but some powerful clans have mastered the method of bronze casting, and even some metal utensils have appeared, but the use efficiency is not high.

Slavery has not yet become the most important mode of production, but slaves have guaranteed the labor of most of the public land in the cities.

The clansmen in the city are natural soldiers with high political power, and the leader cannot arbitrarily decide major matters and needs to seek the opinions of the clansmen, which is a manifestation of the unity of rights and obligations.

The use of stone tools has reached its peak, and all clans have mastered drilling, grinding and other techniques, and can even process extremely hard jade.

In the firing process of pottery, both the fast wheel and the slow wheel are common, the kiln temperature is basically up to standard, and the defective rate of the fired pottery is reduced, especially the black pottery of Echeng and the glazed pottery of Yueyi are the most famous.

Household slaves coexist with public slaves, and private ownership of land has emerged, but women have not completely lost their status. With the remnants of old-age thinking, women's status is basically similar to that of men, and they have the right to choose a spouse independently, because thinking is always behind the corresponding number of times. century.

Because of the factor of female fertility, the custom of worshiping the goddess of fertility still exists and is integrated with other myths, but most of the chief priests have changed from women to men, and a strong atmosphere of theocracy exists in many cities.

Clans in various cities also mastered the clepsydra timing and other means, mastered the division of the four seasons of the year, the solar calendar and the lunar calendar coexisted, and began to name the stars in the sky.

A large number of original poems appeared, from heroic epics to productive labor, different poems were circulated among the people in the form of singing, and the most primitive rhythmic beauty began to appear, which is the natural direction of development.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation are closely related to culture. Only when you are full can you have time to think about other issues. Wars also start to profit because of surplus products and slaves.

Seven or eight cities to the east of Sucheng formed an alliance with Sucheng. A few years ago, Sucheng defeated the invasion of the Dongyi people and became the overlord of the surrounding area, with prosperous military force.

Because of the remnants and heritage of 20 years ago, coupled with the mastery of bronze casting, salt ponds, etc., Sucheng is unrivaled in this generation, and it is also a huge city in the entire cultural circle.

The Dongyi people in the east of Sucheng occupy the coastal generation, and there are clan exchanges outside of wars. Seashells and other things can be seen in Sucheng, which is less than a thousand miles away from the sea.

In addition to the powerful Sucheng, there are three or five cities that are very powerful, and have a population and force second only to Sucheng. The number of soldiers mobilized by the young and strong population is more than [-]. A population of nearly [-].

Because there are many powerful clans and cities, which have weakened the power of the entire cultural circle, Dongyi tribes have begun to unite, constantly fighting, negotiating peace, and plundering slaves within a wide range of thousands of miles.

The non-cultural clans on the south bank of the river are not very strong, but further ahead there is a rice-growing cultural circle, which is not small, but because there is a large buffer zone, the two ethnic groups have not yet reached the point of fighting each other.

To the west, there are Xirong people. After learning to grow corn, they gradually become stronger and more resilient. They are no longer a primitive tribe that cannot last long. The hundreds of miles south of the Acropolis are controlled by the Xirong people.

Not counting the alien races that appeared near Xiacheng for some reason, Dahe Xiangbei did not have too powerful enemies. The so-called Beidi and the grassland tribes seen in Xiacheng were not the same.

Because of the cold climate, the extremely fragile productivity and the lack of large-scale use of metals, the Beidi tribe is aggressive and brave, but its productivity is relatively backward, it is difficult to unify and it is unlikely to unite together, the threat is not great, but it has become an excellent hunting field and slave capture.

The most threatening ones are the Dongyi people. The products near the sea, the salt, the climate suitable for farming at the same latitude, the similarity in culture and technology, the appearance of heroes... All these determine that they are different from the Xirong people. , the Xirong people can only form a loose alliance for the time being, and it is difficult to condense a cultural group.

It was also this threat that led to the emergence of Sucheng hegemony. Several cities at the forefront had only two choices: either move away from the Dongyi tribe, or unite around the big cities to keep warm.These clans are the ones most eager for clan alliances to emerge.

Floods and other factors have also caused many tribes along the river to desire the emergence of clan alliances. They need to work together to deal with floods, rather than disconnecting between upstream and downstream.

In this way, the two greatest threats affect a small number of clans and cities, and the great force of common needs is difficult to stop.

The strong yearn for power, the weak yearn for safety, and those who are neither weak nor strong and have no safety from barbarian floods worry about the emergence of clan alliances and do not become sacrifices themselves.

Taking advantage of Sucheng's defeat of the Dongyi people, a clan gathering resumed after 20 years.

Chapter 15 Interpreting the World and Changing the World ([-])

In the hilarity of the clan gathering, Xiacheng people also blended in in their own way, and used the fastest method to impress the people of each clan.

After the second ship docked on the north bank of the great river, some strange people and strange things that seemed strange to the other clans came into the eyes of the clans.

Many years later, when these people have gotten used to the carriages or sailboats engraved with the Xiacheng Black and White Bear logo to shuttle between cities, they will definitely remember that early winter afternoon in Sucheng many years ago.

The sun shines on the earth through the blue sky, and they treat each other equally. Several people from the other clans took advantage of the difficult warm weather and squatted in the corner to help each other catch lice.

A carriage with a strange black and white bear head engraved creaked into Sucheng, and then a small platform was built in an open space.

At that time, the people of the other clans only had the impression of Xiacheng with horses, carts, boats, and a tribe near the Caohe River in the far northwest, and they didn't know what the purpose of this platform was.

Until some people from Echeng or Weicheng, or maybe those who followed Suhe to Xiacheng shouted joyfully: "It's a new play... I saw Shiqi, and this set of clothes was not in the previous play. "

So the rest of the clan stopped catching lice, thinking that tomorrow will be a good day, and these blood-sucking bugs will still crawl out of their fur to bask in the sun, and then they will bite and rattle, but it is this so-called "play" It's the first time I've heard of it, but I'm going to check it out.

There are not only dramas, but also a lot of fun and weird things.At that time, people from other clans didn't know about gunpowder, windmills, swings, etc. Many years later, when they recalled what they saw that afternoon, there was always a sense of beauty like a fantasy.

The sorrows and joys in that scene are always more moving than when the caravan with the black and white bear logo engraved on it paraded to their city in the future. Of course, more people remember that song with a clear voice like a yellow warbler, because there were so many people that everyone Some can only use their ears, and the back of their head is full of black eyes.

That play showed a love story that took place in the moon. The woman played by Shi Qi betrayed her husband and flew to the moon alone.

When this scene was performed again many years later, people in other cities would always complain about the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke. Recalling the first shock that afternoon, they always felt that those fireworks really came from the moon, and there was no such thing at all. A pungent, ominous smell often smelt on the battlefield.

There will always be deviations in memory, but no matter who it is, the memory of that afternoon is only shocking and beautiful.

After the dreamlike drama and singing were over, several people in Xiacheng took a large bag of herbs and strange medicinal powders and distributed them to those in need.

The pungent smoke from dry grass leaves and yellow powder, with a faint smell like rotten eggs, put the clothes on it, and soon those blood-satisfied lice crawled out from the neckline fall to the ground.

At the end of autumn, many people with scabies who were itchy and unable to sleep got a piece of soap with a light smell, and the itching was relieved a lot after washing; the oil with the peculiar smell of groundhog spread to those hands and feet, and pus arose People with sores got scabs after rubbing it on their hands; people with severe tooth pain got a piece of black ointment-like thing, Xiacheng people told them not to eat more, but their teeth didn't hurt after eating a little.

An old relative with a broken leg got a set of wooden prosthetic legs instead of a crutch. In Sucheng, this incident was just "changing a wooden leg similar to a crutch", but it spread hundreds of miles away. In the city, someone has sworn that it was Jixia who fitted a blind man with eyes that could see the sun, the moon, and the stars...

Men mostly remember this, but women remember it differently. A kind of pliers made of copper is secretly spread among women. Those women who have given birth to children soon understand where this thing goes and where it should be clamped. Especially after a woman from Xiacheng gave birth to a woman with dystocia in Sucheng a few days later, some clans were willing to exchange a boatload of corn for this small forceps.

All these things link Xia Cheng with words that are important to ordinary people, such as mystery and relief from illness.

Three days ago, Xiacheng was still very unfamiliar, but after three days, many people were able to call out the names of many people in Xiacheng, such as Ji Song who distributed the herbal medicine, Shi Chin who sang love songs, and so on.

As if overnight, the former barrier disappeared, and there was a long line of Xiacheng people where they lived, and there were many places to use them. The sailboat will soon leave for another city, and who knows when they will be able to return to treat their ailments?

Su Yue passed down the order almost immediately: these people from Xiacheng can come to Sucheng at any time, food and accommodation will be managed by Sucheng, and after they leave, they will patrol dozens of cities alone for them The people build their abode and stage.

The rest of the leaders also learned and learned. Originally, such matters did not need the leaders to take care of themselves, but the leaders found that the priests and divination masters who followed them had no thoughts at all, and they seemed to have lost their souls every day.

After asking for a long time, I realized that Ji Xia, the leader of Xia City, had visited them and asked them a few questions.