South China Sea Myth

The peaks of Wuzhi Mountain are so high that it feels like a giant finger pointing straight into the sky. The magical Wuzhi Mountain not only makes people feel imposing, but also has beautiful scenery. At the foot of the mountain, there is a small village called Coconut Tree Village. The reason why it is called Coconut Tree Village is that this village is surrounded by coconut trees, and there are coconut trees everywhere. These bamboo forests are delicate, quiet and upright. Although the houses in the village are simple wooden houses, they are particularly elegant with the coconut trees against the background. There are more than 20 families and more than 100 people in the village, who farm, hunt, and live the most primitive life, with little contact with the outside world. Among them, there is a family, unlike the other mountain people in the village, whose house is leaning against an old coconut tree, and the coconut on the tree is a yellow shell, which is called the golden coconut. It's strange to say, a village is a golden coconut in front of his house.

The male owner of this family is called Hu Bao, and it is said that he is the grandson of Dafeng, who is not tall, looks stocky, hunts, but has a good kung fu. He threw a stone, and was able to hit a galloping hare; He shoots arrows and is able to shoot crocodiles in the eye; He wields a knife and can make the ferocious boar knife rise and fall at once. At that time, there were many beasts in the mountains. One day, a leopard broke into the village like a typhoon, bit a child named Shanzi, and ran out of the village. The people of the village raised their sticks and hoes, chased after them desperately, shouted frantically, and frightened the leopard to throw off the child. But this leopard is stubborn and never lets go of the child. Hu Bao only picked up a bow and arrow, and people did not let him shoot for fear of accidentally injuring the child.

Hu Bao ran to catch up, while seeing the opportunity to release arrows. Hu Bao couldn't help but worry, if the leopard shot by the arrow and flew away, it would become a tragedy if it hurt the child's life. Finally, he got close to the leopard and released an arrow, and after the leopard was hit by an arrow in the back, he threw off the child in pain and turned around and pounced on Hu Bao. Hu Bao didn't have time to continue to release the arrows, and was thrown to the ground by the money leopard, so he had to use his fists to deal with the money leopard, which made the money leopard dizzy, and the money leopard also bit him to the ground. By the time the villagers chased after him with sticks, the leopard had been killed, and the villagers helped Hu Bao up. Shanzi's mother knelt in front of Hu Bao and thanked her benefactor.

Hu Bao's wife, Cheng Ying, is tall and slender, ingenious, good at embroidery and weaving, and is known as a skillful girl. She can weave brocade, and the flowers she weaves look very fresh and realistic. When she hung the brocade on the tree in front of her door to bask in the sun, the villagers were amazed that the mountains of butterflies gathered in front of his house. The tiger she weaved was so realistic that several hunters came to the door, and they were so frightened that they panicked and shouted for help. Even the shrewd hound was frightened and frightened. The songs about weaving and embroidery mainly reflect the weaving tools, raw materials and techniques of the Li people at that time. For example, Cheng Ying likes to sing "Ten Embroidered Songs". This is a ballad about weaving and embroidery, mainly reflecting the textile tools, raw materials and techniques of the time

One embroidered wind to two embroidered Luan, three embroidered dragon king living in the flower village, four embroidered fish and shrimp to make the stream, five embroidered flower god play garden, six embroidered cattle standing on the top of the slope, seven embroidered birds and eagles, eight embroidered stars nine embroidered moon, ten embroidered sun shines on the mountains and forests. The song also sings the scene of Huang Daopo learning textile technology from the Li people, such as "Daopo Learns Art in My Family": the girl in the tube skirt holds the needle and embroiders the golden flower of the Wang family; Li skirt Han robe is brilliant, and the Taoist woman is in my house.

The primitive spinning method of the Li nationality is: first twist the cotton or kapok into a thread, and then use a small bamboo strip to bundle the rolling yarn, put it on the leg and rub it, and the rolling bamboo branches rotate in the air, and gradually roll the yarn into bloom. There are three main types of textile tools of the Li nationality: hand bundle machine, waist loom, and pedal loom. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Huang Daopo learned the cotton textile technology of the Li nationality, and improved it on the basis of the Li textile I, and improved the original hand-cranked treadmill that could only spin one yarn into a bicycle that could spin three yarns in one hand. Li Jinzhong's dragon quilt has the highest textile technology.

The dragon quilt, also known as the big quilt, the history book called the Yazhou quilt, is the treasure of the Li nationality in the past dynasties 21. There are five forms of dragon quilts, namely single dragon quilts, double dragon quilts, triple dragon quilts, quadruple dragon quilts, and five-panel dragon quilts. Triptych is the most common, and quinteplet and single are the least common. There are two main ways to weave dragon quilts, one is to use a waist loom and the other is a pedal loom. The dragon quilt pattern woven by the waist loom is more traditional, with a single color and a small number. The dragon quilt woven by the foot loom has a thick texture and good quality. How to make the quilt: weave the fabric first, and then embroider the pattern on the fabric. The weaving of the row is complicated. From picking cotton, removing cottonseeds, spinning, dyeing yarn to weaving and embroidering dragon quilts, it takes about 5~6 months, and even takes a year, only skilled and healthy people can be competent for the work of weaving and embroidering dragon quilts.

Before weaving and embroidering, please ask the "Daogong" to "cut red", please bless the weaver with a quick eye and hands, complete the weaving task as soon as possible, and start weaving the dragon quilt after the law. After the dragon is completed, a ceremony is held to thank the gods for their blessing and to make the dragon successfully completed. From the beginning to the completion of the embroidery work, no matter how long it takes, every day can not be interrupted. No matter how tired the work is, insist on weaving and embroidering the dragon quilt, if you are really busy, you must also move the fabric, or embroider it, otherwise the dragon quilt will not work, and the ancestor will not recognize it.

Now, the pedal loom for weaving and embroidering dragon quilts has long been lost, and the technology of embroidering dragon quilts has disappeared, but the weaving method of waist looms still exists in individual areas, but there are not many of them. Before 1949, the Li people had to hang the dragon quilt when doing the rituals, and the coffin should be covered with the dragon quilt during the funeral, and in the poor family, if the parents died, there was no dragon quilt to cover the coffin, and they also had to sell their sons and daughters to buy the dragon quilt to use, otherwise the whole village would look down on the funeral and it would not go well. The triptych is made up of three colored brocades, 2-3 meters long, with black, brown and brown red python patterns as the main pattern, also known as "ghost patterns".

The color of the dragon quilt pattern is different, and the use is not the same, red is mostly used for red things such as weddings, birthdays, building houses, and festivals: black is mostly used in white things, such as "making ghosts" (a kind of ritual) in funerals, covering coffins, etc. The dragon quilt is richly patterned and colorful. The content of the patterns is mostly related to myths and legends, including animal motifs, such as dragons, phoenixes, deer, roosters, carp, frogs, magpies, etc.; There are plant patterns, such as kapok, keel flowers, mud flowers, plum blossoms, bamboo, grass, etc.; Natural patterns, such as male, lightning, sun, moon, stars, flowing water, fields, sea, blue sky, etc.; Production tool patterns, such as bamboo baskets, rice sieves, hook knives, sickles