Ruixue slapped her face and it hurt. But in the eyes of Jilin people, this snow is a new year gift from God.
That fire on the snow is scorching your heart
At minus 30 degrees, a group of people were rolling on the frozen Songhua River.
That is not madness, but the "rolling ice" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The old people say that you have to roll on the ice a few times to transfer all the sickness and bad luck you have to the already frozen river and exchange it for a whole year of happiness.
Uleben, those names not written in the history books
Manchu elders call storytelling "Ule Ben", which in Chinese means "Shuo Bu".
I listened to a section of "Red Luo Girl". It was about a girl, dressed in red, standing on the city wall, who used her strategy to block the enemy from the pass. The speaker didn't have a book in his hand, so he just relied on his mouth, and his voice was high and low. Hearing something fierce, he suddenly slapped his thigh, and the slap hit his thick cotton pants, making a loud and muffled sound, which was quite like the war drums of ancient times.
The children crowded around his knees, their eyes wide and wide. This scene is basically no different from a cold winter night hundreds of years ago.
Fluttering white clothes, that is the background color of the Korean people
Hongqi Village in Yanbian is the kind of village you can only see in paintings.
Koreans like to wear white clothes. The old people say that this color is the cleanest, just like what people think of as clean and innocent. The village is in silence, not the kind of lifeless silence, but the calm atmosphere contained in life itself. Occasionally, an old man wearing boat-shaped rubber shoes would walk by slowly, his footsteps extremely gentle, as if he was afraid of disturbing anything.
This Year of the Horse, come to Jilin to listen to a reunion symphony
I went to Changchun a few years ago and caught up with a Korean wedding.
The groom who does not accept the bride is waiting quietly in his home. The bride did not sit in the red sedan chair, but boarded a brand-new oxcart for a slow ride. That brand-new ox cart has a bright red mattress spread out in a conspicuous manner. The old man who was driving the car had "different ideas" in mind and was heading towards bumpy areas. Every time he encountered bumps, the people in the car burst into laughter.
During the Naadam Conference, I witnessed a Mongolian wrestler wearing a "Zhao Dege" waistcoat with rows of silver nails embedded in it. Just before he was about to go on stage, he stood for a while with his eyes closed and kept mumbling words.
I asked him what he was talking about, and he opened his eyes with a smile on his face and said, "Say hello to the ancestors and tell him that I am going to play now."
Memories that live on your fingertips
Paper-cutting artist Wang Ji cut out a lot of ponies this year.
In the past, most of the traditional window decorations were made with images of flowers, birds, fish and insects, but the horse she cut out is cartoon-like, with a round shape and big eyes. Young people fell in love with it and posted it on the window, and then posted it on their WeChat Moments with the text "Good luck in the Year of the Horse."
Someone asked her if this was still an intangible cultural heritage?
She replied: "If our ancestors were alive today, they might be better at playing than me."
The paper-cuttings performed by the Manchu people at the foot of Changbai Mountain use birch bark as a material, and their themes are mostly related to hunting and sacrifice in the mountains and forests. However, after entering the city, the paper-cutting changed, becoming a decorative item on the window and a souvenir in a cultural and creative store.
The craft has not died, it has just changed its way of life.
The bumps in the fields are the days
At dinner in the evening, the host serves cakes.
The glutinous rice is steamed and then placed in a stone trough. Two men swing their wooden mallets. One man hammers the rice and the other hammers it, making a "bang, bang, bang" sound, which is both dull and powerful. When the hammering is tired, the personnel will be replaced. The people watching were not idle. They were counting and shouting slogans. When the cake is finished, cut it into small pieces, dip it in soybean noodles, and stuff it into your mouth. Although it is hot, it is delicious.
This is a food only eaten during the Korean New Year.
Before I left, the old man driving the bullock cart insisted on seeing me off.
He said: "Do you know why you have to drive the car into the cross-ridge field?"
I shook my head.
He laughed and said, "When the girl went out, she felt bitter in her heart. She was shaken until tears came out of her eyes. After arriving at her husband's house, she was not allowed to cry."
I didn't say anything, just looking at the ruts, which stretched crookedly on the snow, just like a person's life path.
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