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The Old Ancient Dance was also known as the Sacrificial Dance in the tribe. Not everyone could learn it.
At the end of every winter, during the Snow Festival, fifty people would be selected to perform the Sacrificial Dance next to the fire pit. These fifty people were all elites recognized by the tribe.
However, as far as Shao Xuan knew, the fifty people on the list had always been young warriors with several years of hunting experience, as well as some people who had made great contributions to the tribe. For hundreds of years, it was very rare for a teenager to be on the list. What's more, Shao Xuan had only been awakened for one year.
At first, it sounded a little ridiculous.
When Old Ke heard this from the messenger, his first reaction was disbelief. Normal people in the tribe wouldn't believe it. However, the messenger also made it clear that it was the Shaman who decided it, and he asked Shao Xuan to prepare as soon as possible.
No wonder Old Ke was so excited.
As an important part of the Sacrificial Ceremony in the tribe, in addition to the people chosen, the ancient teachings passed down in the tribe also had to be followed. However, Shao Xuan had never understood the so-called ancient teachings. It seemed that the ancient teachings were not just simple instructions.
Since Shao Xuan didn't have anyone who could teach him the Sacrificial Dance, even Qiaomai and his wife had never learned it, Shao Xuan could only go up the mountain to find the Shaman.
Early the next morning, Shao Xuan carried the stone box and ran to the Shaman's place.
The Shaman was discussing the upcoming Sacrificial Ceremony with the Chief and the two team leaders. There were many things that needed to be prepared in advance.
Seeing Shao Xuan's arrival, the two team leaders and Chief Ao looked at him with subtle expressions. Shao Xuan's addition to the list of fifty was also out of their expectations. However, the other day, when the Shaman called them over, he directly told them to let Shao Xuan in.
They knew about the one-year promise between the juniors, and they also knew that Shao Xuan had blocked Tai's attack with just one move. In terms of strength, Shao Xuan was indeed the most outstanding of the young warriors who had awakened in the past two years. In addition, Shao Xuan had indeed made great contributions last year. Therefore, when the shaman decided to let Shao Xuan enter the list of fifty people, the two team leaders and the leader did not object.
In the eyes of the people in the tribe, it was an honor to be on the list of fifty. However, the two team leaders who knew the secret of the list had more ideas. Every year, they would try their best to recommend people from their own hunting groups to the Shaman to compete for the spots.
In addition to these people, Shao Xuan also saw Tuo here.
"Xuan, I'll let Tuo teach you the Sacrificial Dance. As for the painting, "the Shaman's smile deepened," You can stop for a while. "
Chief Ao looked at the Shaman, and then looked at Shao Xuan. He always felt that something had happened that he did not know. But sometimes, the Shaman was like this. It was hard to guess what he was thinking.
"Okay." Shao Xuan answered.
Shao Xuan did not stay in the stone house any longer, so he left with Tuo.
Tuo lived on the mountain, so it did not take long for them to arrive. Moreover, Tuo was also on the list of fifty people this year.
Tuo's father and ancestors had all been on the list of fifty people. Therefore, this ancient dance had been passed down. He did not need to find someone else to learn it, because he was very familiar with it. Otherwise, the Shaman would not let him teach Shao Xuan.
In fact, Tuo was very surprised when he received the instructions from the Shaman. After all, Shao Xuan was still young, and he was only a junior totem warrior who had awakened for a year. How could he be on the list of fifty people? Perhaps it was because he had found his ancestors, Tuo thought.
"I learned the ritual dance a long time ago. It's not difficult." Tuo said, "I'll do it first. Watch."
After saying that, Tuo began to dance in the house. His movements were still very funny in Shao Xuan's eyes. There was no beauty in it, and it did not feel very harmonious. There was also a movement that looked like washing dishes. However, Tuo's facial expression was very serious when he was dancing, as if he was doing something solemn. Even if it was just a demonstration, he was not careless at all.
After the first dance, Tuo taught Shao Xuan little by little.
"Bend your body forward like this … Stretch your hands back …"
Shao Xuan learned from Tuo. He swung his arms up, down, front and back. Sometimes he had to slap his arms and thighs, or shake and step, making a strong rhythmic sound. He also had to move his feet forward, back, left and right. Sometimes he had to lean forward, then squat down, then jump with one foot, and then do a horse step. His arms were like holding a horse pole, and he had to turn his head back every three steps …
If Shao Xuan had seen such a dance in his previous life, he would probably have laughed until he fell down. But now, he had to brace himself to do it, and he had to keep a straight face to show his seriousness.
Although there was no drum or whistle to accompany the beat, the dance still had to keep a specific rhythm.
It was not only the movements. Tuo told Shao Xuan that when the ritual dance was dancing, it also needed to be combined with the power of the totem. There were also other ways to combine the breathing. These were also "ancient teachings".
In general, Shao Xuan came to a conclusion: when the ritual dance was dancing, it also needed to be combined with meditation and a specific breathing method!
What was the use of such a combination? Tuo did not say it now, but Shao Xuan could guess that it should be related to the fire seed or the totem.
Shao Xuan once heard that the earliest form of human performance was the dance posture and human body movements. Dance and body movements were also a kind of behavioral language to express people's passion and desire.
Here, the ritual dance was used to communicate with the fire seed and the totem, so it needed to be perceived when dancing.
Thinking that the ritual dance was used in the ritual, and thinking that the two team leaders had been fighting for the quota every year, maybe the ritual dance was really useful.
As Tuo said, the movements were actually very simple, and could be learned very quickly. Among them, the most important was how to meditate when dancing, and combine it with a specific breathing method, and not be confused.
When it was almost noon, Shao Xuan had already learned all the movements.
"Good, you learn very fast. You didn't make any mistakes just now." Tuo said.
Shao Xuan moved his arms and nodded, "I have to practice harder when I go back."
"Yes, you have to practice hard, and don't make any mistakes." Tuo stopped smiling and said seriously, "If you have any doubts, you can come and ask me." Since the Shaman gave him this task, he had to be responsible for teaching Shao Xuan.
There was no room for mistakes in the ritual!
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When the last snowflake fell, the clouds in the sky dispersed, and the moon appeared again. After a quiet winter, the tribe became active again.
The Shaman had already informed the tribe about the time of the Snow Festival ritual.
On the day of the ritual, Shao Xuan took a good bath, which was something everyone in the tribe had to do before the ritual. As for the cubs in the cave, they were dragged out to brush meat yesterday.
Caesar and Chacha stayed at home. Today, Chacha was very obedient and didn't go anywhere. She seemed to have sensed something, so she didn't stay on the roof, but went into the house early in the morning. Beasts always had a natural instinct to avoid danger.
"Come on, put it on and try dancing." Old Ke took out the clean Thorn Black Wind's leather clothes and let Shao Xuan get used to it. He was even more nervous than Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan's face twitched. He took the clothes from Old Ke and put on the thorny leather.
In the past, when it came to dancing, most of the dancers were graceful women who swayed their hips and shoulders, and their steps were light and coordinated.
But now, Shao Xuan felt like he was wearing Godzilla's body, baring his fangs and brandishing his claws. Fortunately, the tribe was dressed like this today, and they were all beasts.
Old Ke had already drawn patterns on his face with plant pigments, but Shao Xuan didn't. He needed to go up the mountain in advance. The patterns on the fifty people's faces were all drawn by the Shaman, and the colors were different from Old Ke's.
"Then I'll go up the mountain first." Shao Xuan put on the Thorn Black Wind's leather clothes and walked out of the door.
"Okay, go quickly. I'll go with Ge and the others later." Old Ke waved his hand and signaled Shao Xuan to go quickly. He didn't want the Shaman to wait too long. There were fifty people, and only Shao Xuan was at the foot of the mountain. He didn't want others to look down on him.
In front of the Shaman's stone house, the others had already arrived. Many of them had already heard from the two team leaders that Shao Xuan was going to join them. So when they saw Shao Xuan, they were more surprised and didn't say much. For them, today was a very serious and solemn day. Who would have the time to think about other things?
When the Shaman finished drawing the patterns for the fifty people, the sky was already dark.
"Let's go." A middle-aged man in the team said.
Because Shao Xuan had awakened his totemic power, he had grown a lot in the past year. But in the group of tall adult warriors, Shao Xuan was still very conspicuous. He was the shortest, and even though he was wearing animal skin, others could tell that he was still a child.
"Why is he there?!" Some people whispered as they walked towards the top of the mountain.
"Who is that?"
"It's Xuan! I know that Thorn Black Wind skin! "
Only Shao Xuan could wear Thorn Black Wind skin at this age.
"Did he really go to the right place? How could he be in the list of fifty? How old is he? "
"Shut up! That's the Shaman's decision! "
In the crowd, some people were shocked, some were envious.
Lang Ga and the others had already learned the truth from Old Ke, but even now, they still couldn't believe it. The list of fifty people was something they had wanted since they were young. But now, it was taken by someone much younger than them.
On a circle of wooden stakes around the fire pit, stone basins were filled with fresh fruits and ferocious beast meat for the ceremony.
Shao Xuan followed the team and walked to the side of a wooden pile. This was his current position.
The ceremony was about to begin, and there were already many people at the top of the mountain. There were still people coming up the mountain, and many people were still talking about Shao Xuan. As the youngest of the fifty people, and the only one in the last hundred years who had been awakened for only one year, he naturally became the topic of everyone.
This year, there were more than eighty children who were about to be awakened, two more than last year. Among them were Tu and Jie Ba from the cave, and Yang Guang and his sister from the Qiaomai family.
The sky was completely dark.
The steps were the same as in Shao Xuan's memory. When the Shaman finally began to chant, Shao Xuan clearly felt the totem in his mind move.
At the same time, the flame in the middle of the fire pit, which seemed to be difficult to burn even for the wooden stakes, jumped up and rolled up, as if a barrel of oil had been poured into it. In the blink of an eye, it began to expand and spread.
As a totem warrior, his perception of totems was naturally stronger. The rising flame in the fire pit drove the totem in his mind to also begin to expand.
When the fire pit was full of flames, the two-horned totem wrapped in flames also appeared at the top of the flames. (What a good activity! Cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow ~ Click on the Chinese website's official account (Add a friend on WeChat – add a public account – type qdread) and participate now! Everyone has a prize, follow qdread's official account now!)
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