Chapter 5 Five "Spiritual Banquet" and "Happy Song Hall"

Comrades, do you ever know what a "spiritual dinner" is? It was a local product when we ate in public canteens in the countryside in 1960 and 1961.In that year, the members of the Wuling Mountain District did not see any oily smell for several months, and it was difficult to have a tooth festival once a year. There was an excess of plant fiber in the food, and there was a shortage of fat and protein.His belly was so flat that it stuck to his spine, and his throat was about to stick out.Of course, the blame must be settled on Di Xiufan and God.God is a member of the five categories, who specializes in making troubles with the public canteens of the people's communes.Later, it was said that the account should be settled on the line of Peng Dehuai, Liu Shaoqi, and Deng Xiaoping, and they opposed the three red flags eating together.What's wrong with eating a big pot of rice? The vegetables and radishes are boiled together, even the oil is not used up, recalling and comparing every day, remembering the bitterness and thinking about the sweetness. "Whether it's bitter or not, think about the 25,000 Red Army!" Those martyrs who died on the snow-capped mountains and grasslands for the liberation, happiness and happiness of the Chinese people were like spirits in the nine springs, and they learned that the bark and grass roots they had eaten were actually I really don't know what to sigh when I'm sloppy about the "melon and vegetable substitute" in the public canteen.

How did the members of the commune in the mountainous area figure out and understand the metaphysical theory hidden in the vast mansions and deep palaces with towering pavilions? Sometimes the metaphysical theory is like a diagram of eight trigrams and an array of ecstasies.Food is the most important thing for the people, and the members only know that their stomachs hurt from hunger and their mouths are drooling.After eating the fern root chaff, the feces condense in the anus, which is as hard as iron and produces blood.You have to pick it with your fingers, pick it with a thin stick, and do evil.They are fine during the day, but can't sleep at night.Therefore, people's wisdom comes to fill the material gap.People come to recall and tell each other what year and month they had, where and what family had the most sumptuous banquet, whole chicken and fish, fat dumpling meat, wrinkled elbows, and chopsticks. Four or two pieces of braised pork, steamed pork, twice-cooked pork, etc. that need to be bent.Of course, people in the mountains like to eat fat dog meat on snowy days.It is a stewed dog meat, and the neighbors smell the aroma.His mouth was full of greasy food, his belly was swollen, his whole body was dry and hot, and even when he burped, he was greasy.Dog meat is delicious and has an ugly reputation, so it can’t be served on big banquets, but it nourishes yin and strengthens yang. The man’s family is running a business outside, so it’s better to eat less, and eat more to cause trouble... So, what I talked and listened to seemed to be seen by my eyes The delicious food, the nose smells of meat, and the mouth is full of saliva.The days are still long, and there are still many opportunities... to enjoy the food and drink, and to look forward to the future.In the mountain town that has been liberated for more than ten years, there are always a few people who are literate and proficient in writing, so they draw up the next literary word: spiritual dinner.The term is not used for a long time, half a year in some villages, and a year in some towns.Over five thousand years, tens of thousands of miles across, have there been fewer great famines that have occurred in the land of China? At that time, people were hungry and dead, with dead bones everywhere.In the long river of history, what are tributaries such as "spiritual dinners" worthless? First, we must distinguish between Yan'an and Xi'an, and second, we must distinguish between nine fingers and one finger.What's more, New China has only been established for eleven or two years.From scratch, everything is explored.In modern society, both the country and the people have to pay tuition.It's all over, and the merits and demerits are left to future generations to comment.

On the spring night of 1963, in the Old Huji Inn, Furong’s sister Hu Yuyin and her husband Li Guigui were having another “spiritual dinner”.They have been married for six or seven years. They are loving couples, but they have no information about their children.Li Guigui was four years older than Hu Yuyin. Although he worked as a butcher with white knives in and red knives out, he was notoriously timid.Sometimes when he met a red-eyed buffalo with crooked horns or a loose-haired dog on the street or on the road, he would shiver and hide aside.Some people laughed at him: "Gui Cui, why aren't you afraid of pigs?" "Pigs? Pigs are stupid, they don't bite, they don't have horns, they only know how to hum!" People laughed at him as timid, but he didn't care.It was those well-meaning and crooked people who laughed at him as useless, unable to make a baby, and he was the most sad that such a beautiful and capable woman was an empty vase.He has already secretly eaten several pairs of dog kidneys and pig tendons behind people's backs (including his own woman).Guigui is physically strong, and sometimes she can't sleep at night, and she is afraid that she will sigh and make Yuyin unhappy.

"Yuyin, we just want to have a baby, even a younger sister." "Yes, I'm already twenty-six, and I'm in a hurry." "If you give birth to Mao Mao, I will do the housework, I will wash diapers and poop, and I will coax you to sleep at night." "Where is the breast? You feed it too?" Yuyin giggled. "You're still a mother! I don't have two lumps of meat on my chest." Listen, Gui Gui is sometimes playful and a little naughty. "You are bad, you are good and bad..." "I put Maomao under my rib cage every night, 'ah, ah, ah, baby is going to sleep, ah, ah, ah, baby is asleep.' During the day, I hug Maomao, just Kissing on the little face non-stop, non-stop. Give Mao Mao a nickname, it's called 'I can't kiss'..."

"You still talk! You still talk!" "What? Did I make a mistake?" "Thinking about Mao Mao is crazy! Woooooo, you have no conscience, you are deliberately trying to anger me, woooooooo..." Yuyin began to cry. Guigui is a man's family, how did he know that women's families always think it's his fault if they can't give birth to Mao Mao.Just like a mother-in-law who only pecks rice but does not lay eggs has not fulfilled her duty. "Forget it, forget it, Yuyin. Ah, ah, ah, good Yuyin, I don't blame you... Still crying? If you cry too much, your eyes will get foggy. Look at the wet pillow veil." Gui Gui thought I'm so sorry, I'm guilty of making my woman cry.He coaxed and comforted his woman like Maomao:

"You are barren all your life, I don't blame you. We work with two hands, stutter with two hands, work on the team, and have a side job. Our life is no worse than that of any other family in the town. That's it. When you are old, I will serve you and you will serve me. If you don’t believe me, I will swear to you..." When she heard that the honest man was going to swear, Yuyin was afraid that it would be unlucky, so she quickly stopped crying, sat up and covered Guigui's mouth, and cursed softly: "I'm going to die! See if I don't beat you! How many auspicious words can’t be said? If you don’t grow up, I’m sorry for you... Even if you don’t blame me, some people point their backs when you set up a rice tofu stall on the fair...” Hu Yuyin has been with Li Mangeng since the hot day that year Twists and turns, when Dongxia married Li Guigui, she was infatuated and infatuated, and gave it all to the man. She felt that her fate was big and lonely, and she was afraid of overpowering her husband, so she valued Guigui more than herself.

Every night before going to the fair, because of the need to grind the rice milk, I went to the Furong River to carry water to boil the sea pot, boil the rice tofu and pour it into a large tile vat, and prepare to go to market the next morning. The couple always went to bed very late. , It takes four or five hours to push the stone mill.One person stands on one side, and the other puts out a hand, holding the grinder and turning it, turning it.Hu Yuyin evenly and accurately feeds the rice grains soaked in lime water to the rotating grinding eyes one by one... The couple face to face, eyes to eyes, and often pull out the twinges in their hearts in unison. kill time.At this moment, Yuyin won't cry, and is a little naughty:

"Hmph, from my point of view, I can't blame women if I can't be proud of my belly, and I don't grow hairy..." "God knows, we're both in good health, and we're not sick." Gui Gui had a bit of a man's self-esteem, and refused to admit that he was responsible. "I heard from the female teacher at the school that now the hospital is looking for examinations, and both men and women can go for the test." Yuyin blushed, looked at the man and said. "How to check? Don't wear a piece of gauze? I'm going to go to you! I can't afford to be so ugly!" Gui Gui's face was redder than a woman's, like an autumn persimmon sold on a fair.

"I just mentioned something in passing, and I didn't insist on going, so don't lose your temper." Yuyin also closed her mouth.They all think that people are born of their parents, and raising children is an instinct, even if they don't have children for a lifetime, they can't lose people once.Sometimes Yuyin's heart is a little wild, a little rough, and her eyes are fixed on her man. There is a sentence that she can't say: "Do you want an heir? Or do you want my reputation and chastity? Maybe the joke made by the landlord Wang Qiushe is also a solution. Please try it yourself... Damn! Bad hoof, shameless, what are you thinking about?" ?” At this moment, Gui Gui seemed to have seen what was going on in her mind, so she stared at her coldly: “Dare you! Do you dare? See if I can break your leg!” Of course, They are all thinking in their hearts and guessing in each other's eyes.The ordinary people in the mountain town, they don't have much property, but they value a person's reputation and chastity-this kind of spiritual wealth with a slightly feudal color, more than their own life.

important. As time went by, Hu Yuyin, a young woman who only attended literacy classes at the beginning of Liberation, realized two profound reasons for her infertility: one is that her fate does not match that of a man.When she was thirteen years old, a blind gentleman with a Yueqin on his back and a boxwood cane in his hand gave her a "spiritual horoscope", telling her that she was destined to be a master, Kefu.It is necessary to find a descendant who belongs to the dragon or the tiger and takes killing as a mate, so that the family affairs can be harmonious and the descendants can continue.For this "spiritual horoscope", her parents have been looking for a man and a blind date for her for four years since she was fifteen years old. "Killing is a career, the dragon and the tiger" can't get together.In addition, since it is "recruiting men", the status of men is inferior in the eyes of neighbors, so they still need to be willing.Later, the parents finally relaxed the size, broke half of the superstitions, and found Li Guigui.Killing for a living is just right, he is the only son of an old butcher.He is handsome and has strength.It's just that he is not compatible with Geng, he is a rat, he is the most timid, and he blush when he sees a woman.People are honest and honest, and you can trap him in a circle.Picking melons in a basket, picking and picking, only Gui Gui is the favorite... There is another reason, that is, Yuyin believes that when she gets married, the excitement is lively, but the prize is not good.Alas, speaking of the hundred or ten families in Furong Town, none of the families who got married and married daughters did not have her share of splendor and ostentation.To this day, the girls and daughters-in-law on Qingshiban Street often talk about the grand occasion in an envious tone...

That was in 1956, a group of celestial beings from the Zhou County Song and Dance Troupe came to collect and live in the hinterland of the Wuling Mountains.The leader of the troupe is Qin Shutian, the director of the troupe—now known as "Qin Shizi" today.All of them are fairies who came out of the paintings.He also practiced singing and dancing, which made everyone in Furong Town happy and drunk.Eyes that have not been opened since Pangu.It turns out that in the mountainous area of ​​Furong Town, a folk song and dance was popular among women before liberation-"Xi Ge Tang".Regardless of rich or poor, on the eve of a girl's wedding, the sisters and sisters-in-law in the village and town will come to accompany the girl to sit in the karaoke hall, singing and dancing for two days and three nights.The content of the lyrics is very rich, including "Song of Farewell to Sister", "Song of Paying Sister-in-law", "Song of Persuading Mother", "Song of Scolding the Matchmaker", "Song of Resentful Lang", "Song of Carriers" and so on.There are not only the bride's lingering attachment to her daughter's life, but also her doubts and fears and yearning for her newlywed life, as well as her accusations against feudal ethics and arranged marriages.For example, in "The Song of the Resentful Lang", it is sung: "Eighteen full-year-old man, three-year-old man, the groom wets the bed every night, stands up not as high as a broom, sleeps not as long as a pillow, and screams for milk in the middle of the night. I am your wife, not your mother. !" For example, in "Song of Cursing the Matchmaker", it sings: "Matchmaker, matchmaker! Teeth are grinding on both sides, and the man's family is Tian Zhuangguang, and the woman is Sai Chang'e. It is smelly and dead, and the parents and in-laws are dizzy! Matchmaker , Matchmaker! I ate a lot of old cocks, I ate it on the first day of the new year Died in the second day of junior high school, buried on the road slope in the third day of junior high school, with one foot of the cow, one foot of the horse, stepping on the intestines and dragging the dog..." There are hundreds of tunes in "Xi Ge Tang", which not only has the simplicity and humor of folk songs , there is also the beauty and softness of Yao songs. Where there is joy, there are mountains and flowers and flowing water; where there is sorrow, there are complaints like complaints; Qin Shutian is a local, and his father was a private school teacher.He led the actresses to collect and sort out "Xi Ge Tang", and determined the theme of anti-feudalism.He and the secretary of the township government approached Hu Yuyin's parents for many times to do work and negotiate, and then decided to turn Hu Yuyin's marriage recruitment ceremony into a live singing and dancing performance of "Xi Ge Tang".Although Yuyin's mother is old, she is an "old leader" in the karaoke hall.As for Yuyin, she sat in the karaoke hall with her mother since she was a child, accompanied others in marriage, and sang a hundred "happy songs" from beginning to end.In addition, she has a good memory, is beautiful, has a mellow voice, and she is emotional when she speaks, so she has long been regarded as a "little leader" among the sisters and daughter-in-laws in Furong Town.Even Qin Shutian, even those actresses, feel sorry for her. Such a person, at the age of eighteen or nine, recruited a man to come to his door... That night, the Huji Inn was decorated with colorful lights, the lights were bright and green, art and life were integrated, fictional and real gathered together, the actresses put on makeup, and Hu Yuyin also put on makeup, all the sisters, aunts, and aunts in the town They all came to sit around and help sing: green cloth skirt and red cloth head, my mother raised a female dendrobium pig head. The pig's head came to the mother and lost her daughter, and the bridal sedan chair came to the girl to be sad. Stones scatter fellow forest birds, strongmen twist chain links, The father and mother broke up the good marriage, and the husband's heart hangs in the younger sister's heart... Sing a song for reunion, sing a song for sisters to separate. Singing today to see off my sister, tomorrow singing to no one; Singing today sits in rows, tomorrow the singing hall will be empty; Daughters who marry out of the house, pour water out of the house, A girl's life is thinner than paper... There are songs and dances, singing and crying.Hu Yuyin also sang and cried.Is it sadness? Is it joy? It's like dreaming, red, green, green, flickering, muddled.A group of celestial actors surrounded her, gathering and dispersing at times, singing and dancing... Perhaps it was because Qin Shutian removed the bright and humorous part of the original "Happy Song" in order to emphasize the anti-feudal theme, making the entire live singing and dancing performances overwhelmed. There was a tone and atmosphere of grief and resentment, which made Li Guigui, the groom, a little disappointed, while the parents were very worried, fearing that they would ruin the success of their daughter and son-in-law.Later, Qin Shutian himself considered this point. At the end of the performance, he directed the whole family of the bride and groom, all the actors, sisters-in-law and sisters in the town to sing "Dongfanghong" and "The Sky in the Liberated Area is a Bright Sky" together.Although the content is a bit far-fetched, it is finally true that righteousness overcomes evil, and light overcomes darkness. Soon, Qin Shutian brought the actors back to the city, compiled and created a large-scale folk song and dance drama "Song of Girls", which was performed in the state capital and performed in the provincial capital, and was a success.Qin Shutian also published an anti-feudal article in the provincial newspaper. He became famous when he was in his twenties and won an award.But the good times didn't last long. In the second year's anti-rightist struggle, "Nu Ge Tang" was branded as a poisonous arrow aimed at the new society, complaining that feudal ethics were false and hating socialism was true.Taking advantage of the socialist stage to conspire against the law, the intentions are sinister, extremely rampant, and thoroughly reactionary.Immediately afterwards, Qin Shutian was labeled as a rightist, dismissed from public office, and sent back to his hometown to be supervised by the local people.From then on, Qin Shutian showed his face in the fair. Some people said that he sold straw sandals, and some said that he picked up cigarette butts from the ground to eat.Everyone called him "Qin Duzi". Alas, although the matter did not harm Hu Yuyin and her man Li Guigui, the couple always felt that they had some disgraceful connection with themselves.There is a new society, so what feudalism is there? What kind of feudalism is there to oppose? The new society is all anti-obtained? It has been six or seven years since the liberation, and the new society and "feudalism" are still made up and confused together.You see, just to fight against feudalism, Qin Shutian violated the law and became a member of the five categories; Hu Yuyin, who was involved, also suffered bad luck. After seven or eight years of marriage, he couldn't wait for it and had no children.