silent farm

Chapter 283 Be a cultural messenger (plus one)

The following two chapters are to add updates to the first [-]-story building in the book review area. ┭┮﹏┭┮
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On New Year's Eve, Li Sheng has no plans to hold group activities.After all, this will still be the rainy season. If it rains heavily during group activities, the atmosphere may be even worse.

However, in the afternoon, Li Sheng gave most of the workers a holiday, leaving only the necessary personnel on duty.Many departments do not need to be on duty, but almost everyone in the security team cannot take vacations, and they need to work in shifts.

Li Sheng also returned to the villa in the afternoon, but did not go south.He needs to prepare for the New Year.

Tia took Dalallo, who was almost three years old, and stood under the door and directed Li Sheng to post the couplet: "A little bit on the left corner."

Li Sheng stood on a wooden chair, comparing positions.Moved the position a little according to Tia's intention, then turned around and asked, "What about now?"

"It seems to be fine."

Li Sheng pasted the couplet with both hands, and flattened the couplet with his palms all the way to press the couplet on the wall.Then he stood a little farther away and looked at it, and it was indeed quite accurate.

"Li, this is so beautiful, where do you hang it?" Chaxi held out a Chinese knot with the golden word "倪福" in the middle.

Li Sheng thought for a while, and said, "This one hangs on the wall above the TV."

Chashi was a little reluctant: "Can I hang my room? I like it."

Dalallo broke away from Tia's hand, ran up to Chahi with little feet, stretched out his hands and raised: "I want it!" The little guy's Portuguese is pretty good.

Tia hurriedly followed, took away the Chinese knot in Chaxi's hand, and said, "This big one is for hanging in the hall. I also bought some smaller ones. I'll find them for you."

Dalallo is still very obedient to this elder sister who is much older than him, because he will bring him delicious food every time.

Chahi pouted and said, "But I like this one. The others are too small." She said with a smile. "Sister Tia, can you give this to me? Hang two of those small ones in the hall."

Tia glanced at Li Sheng, who was watching the show, and then turned around and said, "That's not okay. If I give this to you, Dallalo will also want it. But there is only one big one like this."

"Then give it to me quietly." Chashi blinked and whispered.

Dallaro is small, but not stupid. He raised his two little hands high and said loudly, "I want it."

Tia smiled and gave the Chinese knot to Li Sheng, winking at him.

Li Sheng had no choice but to say to Chaxi, "I'll hang two small ones in your room later." Then he took the things and hung them on the wall.

Chashi pouted and said, "Stingy!"

Tia pinched her face and said with a smile: "Chaxi is the most aggressive, don't argue with us."

"Hmph, I won't argue with you guys. When I go to Huaxia, I'll buy four big ones and hang them on the four walls." As she spoke, she ran to find two half-sized ones in the bag of things. ,Say. "These two are mine."

Tia saw that Dallaro also ran over, and found two for him to hold.

While watching them making trouble, Li Sheng posted the door god as well.

After finishing it, Tia thought it was pretty good. The big gate was all red, which was very festive.She saw that the sun was still high, and said to Li Sheng: "I heard from my mother that the farm also sent these things to the family. I don't think they will use them. May I go back and help them?"

Before returning to China, Zhang Feng asked the Chinese in Brazil to help write the couplets, and then let the printing factory print them out.Thomas sent a copy to each family.But asking foreigners to post couplets is indeed a bit embarrassing.Even Tia, who has learned Chinese, may not know that it is the Shanglian.

However, Zhang Feng had already made preparations. Each pair of couplets was accompanied by a piece of paper, which reminded the upper and lower couplets.

Li Sheng saw that everything was done at home.He thought about it, and felt that there was really nothing to do.In fact, the biggest etiquette in Chinese New Year is not posting couplets or inviting door gods, but worshiping gods.He doesn't know which god to worship here, so there is no need to do these things.But it was still early, so he said, "Let me go and have a look with you."

Flying to the Ji Luoluo tribe, Li Sheng found that they were going to have a bonfire party again.

Tia went to talk to her mother, while Li Sheng talked to the men.However, Li Sheng and the others didn't have much to say, they could only talk about homework.Their Portuguese is still not fluent.Li Sheng listened a little hard.Rather, the children are more accurate.It's just that Li Sheng and those little kids have nothing to say.

Tia took a few half-grown children from the helicopter and moved the things she brought down. They were all things for the Spring Festival.

Li Sheng was talking with Taklolo, while watching her busy with a smile.

Tuclolo was very satisfied with this son-in-law—he didn't care whether Li Sheng married Tia, anyway, he had already married his daughter—he patted Li Sheng on the shoulder, which was relatively lame, but Can also understand the Portuguese saying: "Tia, more and more beautiful! You are very good."

Li Sheng smiled and said, "I will take good care of her."

"Okay." Taklolo's dark face turned into a chrysanthemum with a smile.

At this time, Tia came over with some couplets and asked Li Sheng, "Li, how do you divide the upper and lower couplets?"

Li Sheng opened the package, took a piece of paper on it and said, "Look at this."

Tia took a look at it, and said with a smile, "So it's on it. It's easy to divide." She turned around and took two steps, then turned back and asked. "Where is the upper line posted?"

"The right side when you go out! The person is facing the left side of the door." He didn't know where it was posted elsewhere, but he was on the right side in his hometown.

An old man with half-white hair came out of a tree house, followed by two young men: "Li, you are here."

Li Sheng stood up and said with a smile, "Hello, Professor Nunes, are you interrupting your research?"

Antonio Dirouan Nunes was the professor who came to Silent Farm to study Indian languages ​​in the Amazon region.He was supposed to go back to Peru during this time.But when he heard that the Ji Luoluo tribe was going to celebrate the Chinese New Year, he was also a little curious, so he stayed.However, most of the students he brought have left, and only two graduate students stayed behind.

The two graduate students, a man and a woman, both sound young, and both are Indians with black hair and black eyes.

Antonio said with a smile: "No interruption, we have actually collected most of the morphemes of the Ji Luoluo language, and originally planned to leave. But I heard that the Chinese New Year is going to be here, so I plan to stay and experience it."

"You are welcome to stay!" Li Sheng respected professors and experts who sincerely wanted to do research.As for those who only know how to open blog BB, it's cool to stay there. "Why don't you come to my house tonight and have a New Year's dinner together."

"Thank you for the invitation. But I want to experience Ji Luoluo's Chinese New Year." Antonio said with a laugh. "I wanted to see a foreign festival, how the Jilolo absorbed it into their own culture."

Hearing his words, Li Sheng's affection for the old professor couldn't help but rise a bit.

The two sat down, and Antonio saw that Tia was directing people to paste red paper with square characters on both sides of the door, and also pasted engraved figures on the door, and asked curiously: "Although I have been to China, I have never been in China. China celebrates the Spring Festival. The red paper they are pasting now is the custom of the Spring Festival festival?"

Li Sheng nodded with a smile and said: "On both sides of the door are couplets. That is a very ancient custom. It should be traced back to the Han Dynasty 2000 years ago." What do you say to foreigners about the Eastern Han Dynasty? Western Han Dynasty, a bit useless.So he called it collectively. "Evolving to the Song Dynasty, it is similar to the current couplets. People express their good wishes for the coming year through the words on the couplets."

"What is the portrait on the door?" Antonio nodded and asked again.

Li Sheng smiled and said, "That's the door god. Huaxia people believe that the door god can keep demons and ghosts out of the door and protect the safety and health of the family."

Antonio seems to be interested in this goalkeeper.He walked over to look at it for a while, and said to Li Sheng who followed him, "It feels like two generals!"

"Yes. These two door gods are two famous generals during the Three Kingdoms War of the Han Dynasty. They can be said to be generals at the marshal level."

"Then how are they enshrined as gods?"

This Li Sheng didn't know what to say.But he saw that Tia was cutting a pair of Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong, so he went there to find the same pair and said to Antonio: "Actually, these two are the real goalkeepers."

"Oh, what kind of story is there?"

Li Sheng nodded and said with a smile: "There is indeed an allusion. These two are the two generals of the early Tang Dynasty, one of the most powerful dynasties in Chinese history."

"The Great Tang Dynasty? I know. That is the pride of you Chinese people."

"Hehe, proud?"

Li Sheng has a different view on this pride.It's not that I don't agree with the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, but I want to be proud of a dynasty that was more than 1000 years ago. For modern people, it is not a shame.That reminds me all the time that in the past 1000 years, the Chinese nation has actually been going downhill.Especially in the past 300 years, most of the time, the Chinese nation was completely in the dark.

For hundreds of years, Chinese people went abroad to settle abroad, and perhaps in the early days, they said that they were Song and Ming people.But more than 100 years ago, Chinese people could only say that they were Tang people.Because if you say you are from the Qing Dynasty, you are actually saying that you are a pig.In fact, at that time, many Chinese people went abroad by being sold as piglets.Therefore, Li Sheng felt that Tangren was not a proud title at the beginning, but a self-proclaimed name full of humiliation.

Li Sheng shook off his overthinking, and continued with a smile: "The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty came to power through a palace coup. He killed two brothers and almost all their children. Legend has it that the emperor dreamed of Haunted by his brother's ghost, he couldn't sleep peacefully. These two generals were his confidantes, with high military strength and invincible bravery on the battlefield. Let these two generals guard outside his bedroom. Later, he painted the portraits of these two generals on the door, and sure enough, he never dreamed of ghosts again. This matter spread among the people and gradually evolved into the saying of the door god. And these two are of course door gods, and people hope that these two general door gods' bravery and evil spirit will keep demons and ghosts from approaching them."

Antonio smiled and said: "This is a very good story. I have to say that you have a lot of gods in China."

Li Sheng was taken aback by what he said, and said with a smile: "That's true. In ancient China, people also believed in animism. Any kind of thing can be cultivated into a god or monster. Every river, even Every well may have a dragon king. Every mountain has a mountain god, and every village has a land god. The myths of China are far more diverse and systematic than the myths of all ethnic groups outside of China combined."

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