One person: Incredible understanding! Starting from the Gu Body Saint Child

Chapter 26 When one party starts singing, everyone comes to listen!

Nuo, interpreted in ancient books as driving away ghosts and diseases, Nuo dance is also called ghost play.

This is a kind of dance specially performed to worship gods, dance ghosts, drive away plagues and avoid epidemics, and express Anqing.

Most of them are used to entertain the so-called ghosts and gods, and are essentially a sacrificial ceremony.

Therefore, after carving the Nuo noodles, if you want to connect with the carved god or person and transfer and accept their beliefs, you need to set up a stage and put on a big show!
  Chen Dao took out Shang Wan's inheritance book.

This book records many Nuo opera pieces that have been handed down from ancient times to the present, most of which are still performed by the people today.

Nuo opera has two aspects.

One is to start from the need to invite God.

After putting on the mask of a certain god, use a method similar to the god's mask to invite the god to take over.

As long as the mask is realistic enough, the tributes are enough, and the drama is performed well, this method can even allow an ordinary person to temporarily possess the abilities of a stranger!

And it’s also the best way to sing!
  The second is to start from the need to entertain gods and people.

In this aspect, they mainly perform some plays that have nothing to do with praying to gods and rituals.

That is, it is similar to opera and sketches.

Nuo opera can be divided into two types: "zhengbachu" and "waibachu".

"Zhengbaxi" belongs to the rituals of shamanism, that is, the former's rituals for praying to gods.

"Wai Ba Chu" is an excerpt and a series of operas with plots, which are also folk songs mentioned later.

Nuo opera is generally divided into three stages: opening the altar, opening the cave, and closing the altar.

Opening and closing the altar are to invite the gods and send them off, and opening the cave door is to start the performance.

What Chen Dao wants to perform belongs to the "Zhengba Opera", which is a small piece of music that has been handed down since the ancient Shang Dynasty.

After being simplified by the survivors of the "Shang", this short piece about the wind god has become extremely simple and can be completed by only one person.

It tells the story of a village in trouble. The villagers asked the "witches" in the village to worship the wind god in order to drive away the plague in the village.

It only takes one person to perform this play.

Chen Dao took out his things and started to build his own grass platform.

He got some wooden boards here and nailed the four lower legs to form a "stage".

Place a few pieces of cloth directly in front of you to serve as "seats."

Nuo opera is also called ghost opera, so this opera is usually not sung for people to listen to. Even if there is no one, this seat is indispensable.

Finally, there is the stage setting. Chen Dao took out a small stool and placed a simple photo frame on it. There was a small straw man with "Wind God Gale" on the grass man's face.

The Yin Shang Dynasty worshiped ancestors, ancestors, kings, descendants, ancestors, and gods.

Among them, God refers to heaven and only to earth.

This is roughly how the gods and earth came about.

Wind, in the sacrifices of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, is also a separate level, lower than "Emperor", there are four: "Great Wind", "Small Wind", "Ning Feng" and "Bu Feng".

In addition, there is the "Four Gods of Wind".

The person Chen Dao worshiped was "Dale"!
  I'm afraid Dafeng's name can no longer be found, so Chen Dao refers to him as "Wind God Dafeng".

"Crack."

Chen Dao used a lighter to burn incense, placed an incense burner in front of the square altar, and inserted the lit incense.

After that, he began to change his clothes, put on a gray robe, held the props needed for the ceremony, and began to dance according to the records, while mumbling words.

He didn't mean to simply follow what was said in those books, but to follow his own technique, 'Nuo Opera·Mian Shen'.

What he wants is not the power "given" by the "big wind". Instead, it is like a godhead mask, directly intercepting the "big wind"!
  Completely bind "Great Wind" to your Nuo surface and become your own help!

"Open the altar!"

"Jingle Bell--"

As Chen Dao circulated the Qi in his body, the unknotted bell in his hand actually rang, and the stage without lights actually emitted a little red light at this moment.

The moon in the sky also shimmered down at this moment, "lighting up" Chen Dao from above.

And under the moonlight, the originally empty lawn actually made many "rustling" sounds!

The cloths spread on the lawn actually felt like they were being pressed down by heavy objects.

When one party starts singing, everyone comes to listen!

The eight directions that our ancestors spoke of are humans in one direction, ghosts in three directions, and gods in four directions.

It is precisely because of this saying that once a play starts, it must be finished even if there is no one in the audience!

This time Chen Dao started singing, and not only people came to listen, but also some "fairies" from the surrounding mountains and forests.

A green snake, a hedgehog, and two black souls.

They sit on the cloth and are the front row audience.

In the woods behind them, there were two more spectators.

……

"Lao Meng, do you think Chen Dao can succeed?"

"It should be possible. It seems that he is well prepared, but I didn't expect that he can actually sing?"

"It's Nuo magic."

"Nuo art, ancient magic, ancient things are eliminated for a reason, won't you stop him?"

Lao Meng looked at Liao Zhong.

He came back yesterday. After all, the experiment was not finished yet. North China was particularly interested in this experiment, so he asked Lao Meng to continue the exchange.

Liao Zhong curled his lips and said: "Gu poison, lowering the head, what if there is one more Nuo noodle?"

“And Nuo is an orthodox witchcraft, and it’s much better than other things he practices!
  "You also know that those sects cherish the little things they have. I thought about finding the orthodox inheritance of Miao Village for Chen Dao and Chen Duo half a year ago, but what about them?
  "Even after seeing some data about the Bailian Poison Body, I still don't want to! They even said that if it spread, they would go to the headquarters and sue me for researching evil arts. Who am I going to talk to for explanation?"

Liao Zhongda expressed his bitterness. When he went out on a mission some time ago, he always tried his best to find sects for Chen Dao and Chen Duo.

The two of them can hide their own power perfectly, so Liao Zhong wants them to learn some methods that are acceptable to the righteous way.

After all, whether it is the Gu Body Holy Child, the Gu Body Technique, or the Hundred Refined Poison Body mentioned by Chen Dao, and the yet-to-be-revealed Ten Thousand Poison Saint Body, they are no less than or even more powerful than the Eight Wonders!
  If such a thing is put to the outside world, it will cause an uproar!
  For the safety of the two of them, Liao Zhong wanted to give them a layer of skin so that they could hide better.

The quota of temporary workers has only been applied for. Liao Zhong has not yet decided to let the two of them become temporary workers. If there is a better choice, he will definitely not let them become temporary workers.

"Go out and find a sect. How about Longhu Mountain?" Lao Meng gave a suggestion, "Old Heavenly Master is a good supporter."

"Longhu Mountain, you can consider it. Chen Duo may be suitable, but Chen Dao is definitely not suitable."

"Let's watch first, Chen Dao has started singing."

The two looked towards the stage again.

After all the "guests" arrived, Chen Dao started to move.

The previous ancient dance steps and ancient rhyme words were the starting point for opening the altar, but now is the official performance of "opening the hole".

He lit a bonfire in front of the "offering platform", then took out an offering letter written on papyrus and threw it into the fire while singing the lyrics.

(End of this chapter)