Longue Hotel Telephone

Put a piece of red cloth on your shoulders.

My hometown, Yongdeng County, is located in the southern edge of Huarui Tibetan area, which is the center of the integration of Chinese and Tibetan cultures in history. It is said that our family is a soldier who has been placed here in history. I know little about the military household system, but what is certain is that our customs are deeply influenced by Tibetan culture in the north and the west.

For example, I went to Guide County, Qinghai Province to attend my brother's wedding, and found that a link in the wedding was very similar to the ceremony of "wearing red" in our hometown. I suspect Pihong has been influenced by Tibetan culture.

At Wan Marco's wedding, He stood in the middle of the venue with his new wife and a pair of groomsmen and bridesmaids. People flocked in and piled gifts on them. There are only three kinds of gifts: cash, hada and cloth. The guests either send some money, put it in the hands of the four of them and put Hada on them; Or put some money on it and cover it with a cloth. In a short time, the bride and groom, the groomsman and the bridesmaid were wrapped in four sweaty red-faced cloth balls by Hada and cloth strips.

This scene is very similar to Yongdeng's Pihong. There will be gifts from relatives and friends at the wedding and the "Xie Shi Banquet" where children are admitted to the university, except that no one sends Hada, the others are exactly the same. Cloth is mostly the whole quilt cover, and red quilt cover is mostly, so it is called "red horse". At that time, when my cousin was admitted to college, he wrapped it in cloth and made zongzi.

Follow a bad example

Guide Tibetan wedding moves towards modernization. Brother and his new wife held a ceremony at home in the morning. 1 1 pm, all the guests and friends poured into a hotel in the county, and twenty people had a big meal. It was not until four or five in the afternoon that the guests slowly dispersed. The activities at home are completely traditional, but the ceremony in the hotel is the same as ours.

Tibetans in Guide have not been badly taught by our Han people. A wedding banquet is a wedding banquet. We don't drink, torture our in-laws, flirt with the bride or propose a toast. The table is full of meat and vegetables, and all the people are trying to eat.

Cui mingge patted the table and said, mom, we are too cheap for you. No, no, go back to Lanzhou and do it again according to our rules. How can I not toss this couple? !

After the horse, he smiled and his cheeks swelled. There is a pile of tall chicken bones in front of Brother Huang: "This is a real native chicken. Very delicious. "

Later, when I returned to Lanzhou, my brothers were busy with their papers, and no one mentioned the wedding again.

Buy some sauce

In the morning of Wanma's family, her family sat solemnly in the living room, dressed in gorgeous Tibetan robes, and the coffee table was full of food. Throughout the ceremony, the bride was the central figure, and her sister-in-law wore a big-brimmed felt hat, bowed her head, and her hands were supported by bridesmaids. The bride kept her head down like a queen. She didn't show her face, didn't talk, didn't move, and walked slowly, very dignified.

Elder Wanma went into the living room in turn and made a speech. This speech has a routine, rhyme and rhythm. The groom's uncles and uncles crowded at the door of the living room with brick tea, hada, grain and silks and satins, all respectfully.

The living room faces the window of the yard, full of relatives and neighbors who make soy sauce, holding all kinds of mobile phones and cameras.

What surprised us most was that there was Brother Wan Ma among the people who climbed the window to watch the fun. Hey! Please. This is your own wedding! He climbed up the window with his hands in his pockets.

The center of this ceremony is his wife and her family, and the living room is not allowed to enter casually.

signal

Once I attended a high-end conference and went to a beautiful mountain, but there was no cell phone signal, which was a very annoying thing. I've always wanted to send news to my parents that I'm safe, and Dan has always wanted to call a friend and entrust his brother to transfer. We have been thinking about how to make a phone call since we entered the camp.

Rich bosses, big officials and big living buddhas drive cars or let drivers drive cars to make phone calls at Longue Temple outside the valley. We don't have a car, so we can't go in and out of the valley casually, so we have to think of other ways.

People who attend this meeting must pay a high membership fee. We are poor students and don't pay fees. In order to change dishes, the tutor asked us to help in the kitchen. The second day after I arrived at the camp, when I was washing vegetables, I heard from other kitchen staff that there was a signal at the top of the mountain. Dan and I immediately threw away the kitchen knife, cheered and took out our mobile phones, and ran towards the snow-capped mountains.

The snow-capped mountains look short, which is a big joke between vision and me. Two hours later, I realized that the white stone I saw at the foot of the mountain was actually a glacier moraine more than two meters wide. Those furry mosses are actually willow bushes half a person's height. According to Gps, I finally reached an altitude of about 4250. The big tent used as a meeting place became a toothpick umbrella on the cake. I can't see any figure except the red robes of monks crawling like brown-red ants. The air is so thin that my lungs and the back of my head are about to explode. There was still no signal on the mobile phone, so we had to give up and go down the mountain angrily.

Dr. Li, a German zoologist, told me that you have to climb to at least 4500 meters to make a phone call. Every time she calls home, she will set aside a day to climb the mountain, taking only a few things and strolling up slowly. There is a saddle formed by debris flow on the top of the mountain, and there are probably two mobile signals, so there is no chance for telecommunications and China Unicom. Dr. Li will call his mother, then update Weibo, and finally turn off his mobile phone quickly, leaving precious power for the next climb.

Gu, a doctor of botany in Peking University, told me that it is extremely dangerous for a novice like us who has never climbed a mountain to try to call the top of the mountain. Indeed, with little experience and no mountaineering equipment, we stumbled on the meadow, just like the national army that just finished the Liaoshen campaign. We met Dr. Gu and his teammates on the way. They go to the top of the mountain to collect plant specimens. They walk as fast as flies. It is simply the * * * army that has just finished the Liaoshen campaign.

contributor

The meeting was attended by local monks, local herdsmen's representatives, big professors of ecology and anthropology, and big bosses in the eastern region. There are two powerful NGOs among the conference organizers, both of which are very, very rich foundations. There are several stupid money owners-that is, sponsors-who are unprofessional in what they say and do.

Donors with Lingnan accents, bright jackets and all-powered off-road vehicles are not used to eating ghee and drinking tea in the holy lake. Donors only eat their own vacuum-packed beef and only drink Nongfu Spring.

One activity is to visit the families of herders. Accompanied by two donors, they are out of tune with the culture in the snowy area. The question asked to herders is full of the thinking mode of urban people: "How many cows are there in your family?"

The herder replied, "50 heads."

Donor: "How many do you sell each year?"

Herdsmen: "Never sell."

The benefactor glared at us angrily and shouted, "Impossible! How can you not sell a yak? You must have translated it wrong! "

I think if they continue to eat compressed biscuits and drink Nongfu Spring, they will still be a group of tourists even if they spend more money to travel to Tibetan areas.

draw pictures

I can sketch, and my research topic is residential buildings, so my job is mainly to get into tents and then draw pictures.

Sketch is a good chat-up prop.

Interviews are always difficult, and the opening remarks of team members visiting herders are always: "How many yaks are there in your family?" Herdsmen always treat us as government people, and then they are very cold.

However, when I paint, I will be surrounded by a group of onlookers, including old people, children, men and women. They were busy telling me what to do, and they also commented that I drew Ah-oh's nose askew, made Amy's robe smaller and drew two butter lamps less.

Onlookers will also enthusiastically tell me the name of the thing I am drawing and teach me how to write in Tibetan. The friendliness of the villagers makes me like painting better. The main job of field work is to make friends. It is easier to make friends with a pen than with your mouth.

As it happens, I am a clumsy person.

marmot

As I said before, I help in the kitchen. The most interesting job I did in the kitchen was burying leftovers. I couldn't eat the leftovers from the last meal, and there was no garbage dump by the holy lake. Chef Zhou gave me a shovel to bury the leftovers.

The kitchen has to prepare meals for about 300 people, so the amount of leftovers is very, very amazing. The first time I buried leftovers, I was scared by leftovers. Wow, there is probably a big basin of white rice, as white as snow. It's a shame to throw it away. If it is in some school canteens, it will definitely continue to be sold to students.

It's too easy to bury things on the grassland, because the ground is full of pits-marmots' nests. Marmots are big, so they dig big holes. We buried all the leftovers in the groundhog hole. Shovel a groundhog hole, enlarge it with a shovel, pour leftovers, and finally fill it up.

Marmot is a simple and honest animal. Unlike groundhogs, pikas' nests have many exits. Pikas nest like subway stations, entering from A and exiting from B, while the simple and honest groundhog has only one exit. Moreover, if the woodchuck comes home and finds that his hole has been filled up, he will sincerely dig in the same place and live only in the original hole. About all groundhogs are cancer. Some people say that this is because the woodchuck can store food, so the woodchuck must dig its nest and protect its hard-earned savings.

As Dan said, once he dug a groundhog hole and found a large handful of sweet tuber fern stored in it. He ate happily for a long time. So when we are burying leftovers, we like to laugh and imagine how happy the woodchuck brother will be when he digs a hole: "Wow, a lot of white rice, rich!" " "

There is a particularly large groundhog hole next to the kitchen tent. The boys in the kitchen poured all the washing water in the kitchen into the hole. Marmots have deep holes, so they can hold a lot of sewage like sewers. Cizhu Kampo passed by the kitchen and criticized that every time we pour slop, we have to change to a different marmot hole. Because we only pour swill into the same woodchuck hole, when we leave, the woodchuck brother in this hole will find himself a super monopoly when he comes back. This is unfair to other woodchucks, which will create social contradictions in the woodchuck society and encourage the greed and ignorance of those rich woodchucks.

-The above words are taken from the diary of field investigation many years ago.

The picture was also many years ago.