From Chief to Ball

Now everything has to be groped from the beginning. Since the tribe can learn it, it is always difficult to integrate with what you know.

The younger siblings didn't know his good intentions, but Chen Jian drilled one or two bones every day and blew a few times for himself to play with. He was so happy that he could only hope that everyone could get one in the end.

The children's dreams were finally shattered after more than ten days. On that day, Yuqian took the moon painted on the bark and wanted to tell his brother that the moon was round, which means that the moon would change back to how many days ago every so many days. look.After Chen Jian asked this question, how long had it been since she finally answered it.

Excitedly ran over, but saw my brother dancing with the amputated bird leg bone, blowing a few strange-sounding short scales from time to time.

The clansmen have all gone to bed, and they have heard too much noise from the children whistling in the past few nights, and their expectations for the bone flute are not so high.

Yu Qian'er walked up to her brother and shouted, "Brother, brother, look, I know how often the moon is full!"

Chen Jian hastily put the flute away from his waist, thinking that this is a big deal.Yu Qian'er held the bark, pointed to the curved moon and the round moon painted on it and said: "Look, the moon is round. Every moon on the bark is a day, and the inside of this circle is not black, which means that the day You can’t see the moon at night. Let’s count them, there are 29 in total, that means the moon will become round in 29 days.”

Chen Jian nodded when he heard it, and after a few words of praise, he pointed to the hollow circle and asked, "Is that circle meaningless? Did you think of it yourself?"

"Yes, you asked me to record how many fish and deer I catch every day on the slate. Sometimes there are no deer, so I can't write one, two, three, four, so I just draw a circle on it, which means there are no deer."

Chen Jian was very happy, and wondered: "Why don't you just go there?"

"Then it will be out of alignment. If it is out of order, I will feel very uncomfortable. It's like a wolf is scratching my heart. It's itchy."

Chen Jian looked at his sister dumbfounded and asked, "When did you have this problem?"

"After seeing the houses lined up on the cliff and seeing you standing in a line by the river, I really like neat things. Last time I burned a pottery bowl, and there was a piece of gravel protruding from it. How could I lie there? Can't sleep, got up and smoothed it to fall asleep..."

Chen Jian hugged his sister with a smile, and walked around twice with a smile, looking at the concept of zero caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder, full of emotion.

Yu Qian'er didn't know why her brother was so happy. Chen Jian turned around twice and let her down and said, "Go and tell your aunts that you don't need to get up early for a day off tomorrow. The house is enough first, and there will be big things the day after tomorrow."

"What is it?"

"Worship the ancestors. Thank the ancestors for guiding us to survive."

"Eh!"

Yu Qian'er hugged the baby-like bark and ran back to the woman's house.

Chapter 35 The first day of the peach month

The basis of civilization is human survival, and civilization itself is the history accumulated after survival.

Now it is still in the era of just beginning to accumulate, Chen Jian is just starting, and the rest still needs to be perfected by future generations.

Worshiping ancestors, how to sacrifice?This is a problem.

Not to mention him, even those scholars in previous lives have made too many jokes.Confucius criticized Jisun's arrogance, saying that it is tolerable to dance in court, which one cannot be tolerated.As a result, there was a TV live broadcast of the Confucian Memorial Ceremony in later generations, and there was a dance of Baqi, which was simply the highest level of high-level black.

Sacrifice is a kind of ritual, and ritual is the rule, and it is also the most suitable method to maintain the rule of slavery and aristocracy.Theoretically, you have to abide by the etiquette of what songs to dance, what to dance, what to eat, and naturally there will be no disputes in the family.

Anything is right only if it adapts to the times, and you have to figure out who the ruling class of the times is, so that what adapts to them can be passed down.Some people, even if they look excellent in later generations, are not adapted to the times, and they can only be lonely in that era after all.

Yang Zhu’s idea that everyone’s private property should be inviolable can lead to great order in the world; Mo Di’s respect for the virtuous and his love for non-aggression can bring about peace in the world; these are all excellent in the eyes of later generations, so that at that time the world’s words were not Yang Jimo’s, but in the end they fell Some of them didn't even leave a complete book, and if they were born a thousand years later, the result would be different.

So Chen Jian can't transcend the times when he does these things. He doesn't know the ancient rituals, so he can only start by groping and listing all the things he can think of, which is far more steps than building a house with money.

Besides, one person cannot complete a system. Now the political status of the tribe is only divided according to the elderly, young and strong, and children. The only one who is a bit special is him.

His current identity is more similar to that of a primitive priest, because he is the only one who has dreamed of the guidance of the ancestors, and now it seems that the guidance of the ancestors has indeed made the life of the tribe better.Every time the days get better, the weight of the ancestors' guidance in the hearts of the clansmen becomes heavier.

So he doesn’t need to discuss this matter with his clansmen, but how to do it needs to be discussed with his clansmen: if he says what his ancestors asked him to do in his dream, it is tantamount to making this matter real, and if future generations want to change it, they will have to shake too many things .

There is no objection to offering sacrifices to the ancestors, because now we have the basic conditions, there is enough food left, and there is enough time, so we don't have to run around every day just to fill our stomachs.

The discussions started early in the morning, and after breakfast, they were still in a mess. As a result, not much was discussed about ancestor worship, but a bunch of other things were discussed instead.

The clansmen are also exhausted these days, and want to take today's rest as a routine. After some discussion, they decided to take a day off every ten days.Chen Jian said that since this is the case, then there will be a ten-day ten-day period, and one day off in each ten-day period is called a ten-day rest, which is used for washing hair, playing and playing.

Another two races get together all day long, there is no sexual taboo between different races, it seems that many people are excited, and they can do something they like to do in a day.

In addition, Yu Qian'er also took her own bark and told everyone that the moon will become round every 29 days, saying that we can treat 29 days as a month, and the tribesmen also think it is good.

However, the clansmen insisted on taking the full moon as the first day, and Chen Jian had no choice but to agree temporarily.The lunar calendar is not so simple, because the cycle of the moon is not exactly 29 days, so it is fixed for the time being, anyway, it will be changed in the future.

Now not only is the first day of the [-]th full moon, but even the month has changed.Some people say that it should be regarded as the first month from now, but Chen Jian firmly opposes this.In the end, the old grandmother came up with this compromise method, and set the months according to things closely related to life.

Last month, when the apricots were ripe, it was called Xingyue; a few days later, when the peaches were ripe, it was called Taoyue.Although it was still weird, Chen Jian still accepted it.

Xingyue Taoyue should have referred to flowers.It's just that in the eyes of the tribe, flowers can't be eaten, and apricots and peaches can be eaten. Of course, they must be distinguished by fruits.

The aesthetic point of view has just separated the four concepts of edible, beautiful, useful, and strong, and now we can't demand that they do it in one step, and directly learn to regard the scene of red apricot cheating as a synonym for the month.

Beauty, the concept at this time is probably a huge, fat, and delicious sheep. There is nothing more attractive to the tribe before, and the extended meaning is a kind of praise.

Over time, it has gradually evolved into a metaphorical compliment. Praising you is beautiful, which means seeing you is like seeing a big fat sheep when you are hungry. Stress has the meaning of looking good and beautiful.

This is the biggest difference in the way of thinking between Chen Jian and his tribe. Aesthetics change with the times, and eventually merge into the civilization system of an ethnic group. It is impossible to do it in one step. We can only follow the meaning of the tribe. Come.

These two weird proposals were finally painted on the bark by Yu Qianer. Today is the last day of Xingyue, and tomorrow is the first day of Taoyue.

It is reasonable to worship ancestors on the first day of the new year. At the beginning of January, the house happens to be enough for the clansmen. From the day after tomorrow, it is necessary to prepare for the issue of land.

Chen Jian is going to regard this ancestor worship as an exercise. This seemingly formal thing can reunite people's hearts, and at the same time let the clansmen intuitively feel the changes in life.

There will be another big sacrifice when the land is dug up in autumn. At that time, he plans to use clay pots of dried fish as temptations to attract people from other tribes to watch.

Since it is determined that the ethnic group is to become a farming civilization, then the major issues of the country are in agriculture and in military affairs.When sacrificing, it is necessary to add some military color, and wait until the rest of the tribes come to watch them to shock them.

With this thought in mind, Chen Jian first brought a few men who hadn't played and sang with the stone women by the river to a field at the foot of the mountain.

The grass was mowed down with a stone hoe, and a place where hundreds of people could stand was cleared out. A plinth hole was dug in the front, and a thick and long log was planted, with a horizontal branch left on it.

A few more logs were cut to build a simple place for offering sacrifices, and stones were brought to form two large circles for fire.

I tied up the cut grass with ropes and carried them back. After the clansmen came back in the afternoon, I prepared sacrifices with the clansmen.

Because of the house building last time, the clansmen thought that thirteen was a very lucky number. Thirteen rooms were built in thirteen days, and they were no longer afraid of wind and rain. This was a hint from the ancestors in the dark, so the sacrifice was Prepare thirteen samples.

A few months ago, the thirteen sacrifices would have made the clansmen think about it, but now it is much simpler.

Sheep, deer, pigs, teals, geese, and duo-duo birds, this is the original simplified version of the three animals and three birds.A clay pot of honey, a clay pot of tubers, a clay pot of seeds of various plants, a fish, a bow, a piece of fiber cloth, and a small house made out of clay.

There are exactly thirteen items, mainly food, and the rest are life-changing items obtained after being guided by the ancestors.

After the agreement was made, the clansmen immediately got busy. The piglets must not be killed, they can only go out to hunt, and if they cannot be caught, they will use smoked bacon.

The fish is simple, sink the wicker basket into the lotus pond, fill it with food, and quickly catch a big one, put it in the wicker basket and tie it by the river.

The bow people bent an extra-large one, wrapped the two ends with ocher-dyed cloth strips, held it with two people, and put it away very respectfully.