Close to Chinese New Year, Lugu Lake River's Mosuo people at home starts to get busy preparing for the New Year.
Come on the third day I get up from his bed early yesterday, said to have considered a good day to listen to Doje butcher house today, the village will have a lot of relatives and friends to help. Mosuo people after the original harvest homes slaughtered pigs are an important matter, one should first do the math a good sign of the Zodiac incompatible with their families grams of days, then invited the relatives and partners in the village to come to help, each at least 10 slaughtered more than half of the will be made of Moso famous "pig fat", store in 2035 after the eat; the other half of the year were made of dried smoked bacon to eat. As the Lugu Lake in high altitude areas, so meat is still the main source of food, but also with the words of Doje arrived in a large number of meat can be cold. Which I have strong feelings about the past few days although the weather is very cold, but I am a big meat quick duo and a strong offensive manner, the clear sense that although they are not afraid of Southerners such weather, it seems really to eat Meat causes. In the Mosuo people have cows and sheep to eat the meat of pig and chicken fish and so on, but certainly not eat dog meat. They think the dog is a human good partners, and in the ancient legends of Moso have a dog and people to exchange life stories of people are living longer, and more so that they think the dog is the most trusted and loyal friend. Therefore, never brought in front of the Mosuo eaten dog meat, otherwise you will cause a strong antipathy.
Sure enough, early in the morning in the courtyard on the poly-jammed with people, there are partners in the village are also curious tourists. While trying to Tantoutannao occasion Bima pulled me into the kitchen, but also, and, like the last zaiyang woman can not see, what rules? Heart itch, and while they are busy preparing Bima appliances too busy to think me, secretly Pa looked out at the door, poor pig did not run long after being released a few people were knocked to the ground. Moso men's heads are relatively tall, though mostly women, work at home, but they either do not shot when the shot is nothing ambiguous, even more crisp. Butcher the whole process was rather discredited by a few, this is not allowed to see the main reason for a woman, because women are revered and protected, so never saw such a bloody scene. Dorji, after they cut open the pig cut out the most tender of an office burned in the fireplace, and presented their ancestors, and then remove the pig offal to pay the woman cleaning, Bima they are made of sausage meat filling into the small intestine and tofu sausage, tofu intestine is the so-called to the small intestine and dipping tofu and pig's blood will be a mixture of salt; pig heart while filling lean meat, liver and lung saline irrigation to save more time will be a long time, all hanging to dry in a dry place to be to Japan to eat; pig bladder blown balloon-like hanging in the ancestral house, is said to be a symbol of wealth, old people die as a buried use. Half of the total number of pigs would be made "fat pig" Zhu Biaorou is the Moso of traditional food, manufacturing method unique: a whole pig, inter alia the rest of the skull bones all removed by putting up a lot of salt and spices, and then sewn into the Piper like, storage for several years does not rot, fragrant meat, fat but not greasy, color, crystal clear, is the hospitality of the high quality goods. I thought it was a fat is more resistant to the beginning, but after a long time to eat more and more like it, to reach non-fat-free pigs Huan realm.
Everyone busy as a one-day, and all end up somehow killing pigs to eat until after the meal is very rich so-called "lunch", and opened a new altar of Sullivan Ma Doje brewed liquor. According to the original ancient custom butcher did all the things right is not to eat before the host family, and if it is too hungry, then burned piece of meat filling can only fill their stomachs. Then Mosuo men are crowded into Yuanba years with pride and eat and drink, of which there are many old people and tourists, the scene was quite a crowd as festive-like. The Bima shuttle in which they are constantly Duancai tim rice, and so all of them gone to sit down and eat at one. Indeed, the Moso woman is definitely the most hard working group of the world outside, and men to participate in a unified Qianma rowing at home then do a lot of housework and field live, child care for the elderly. Although men are also at home, housing help, but I always feel that they have some of the more chic, so in the evening are usually men, drink and chat, while the outer and partners, rare trace of Moso girls, because they simply do not this time. I would like to Moso woman was referred to as "root" part of the reason is also the bar ... .... (To be continued)
Author: bmlc721
