The Tujia nationalityCondole foot building " steal common "

Secretly, all through the ages is to be regarded as disgraceful despicable behavior, but be in the condole foot building of the earthy family live in a compact community that E Xi leads, still withholding a few kinds of having sth new, forgive up to now zestful " steal common " . This " steal common " do not be earthy family not only disgustful, and the admiration that still gets earthy folk is passed for a story pasted on with approval.

　　 Steal Liang Shu

Earthy family builds house of wood of condole foot building, the horizontal stroke is wanting to put aside a crossbeam on central scroll fastigium. Draw is worn in the center of one side of ground of bridge go to court too extremely graph. Both ends is being written respectively " full hall of treasures of high position and great wealth " wait for lucky word, the picture is worn " heaven and earth " life divinatory symbols. Earthy family values bridge very much, say it is being placed henceforth promote decline honour or disgrace.

This Liang Shu should come secretly however. Before building house, on the hilltop that host is in around family stealthily the brawny and slender, branch is exuberant cedar in the photograph, brawny and slender state descendants is flourishing later generations is much, branch represents a great cause thriftily long long. Those who arrived to wear bridge before today at night, host brings a few strong young man, choose goes out when ecliptic auspicious, to the tree before, ignite 3 column first sweet, burn a paper, read aloud a few againCongratulate, after cutting down with big axe, raise go, gas cannot rest to cannot speak among, carry master home is put to the trojan to machine crossbeam by the carpenter.

There is a strange common one time again when upper beam lively. The following day, tree advocate the sweet grey paper that sees stub side is grey, the tree that knows oneself was done Liang Mu secretly, do not enrage not angry is very glad, it is good to state because of this the country of oneself is geomantic, gave the Liang Mu that the family likes.

Steal pumpkin

When 15 moons are round in August, close friend reunites in condole foot building, live the Mid-autumn Festival. Had waited for midnight the period of the day from 11 pm to 1 am, a few people talk in whispers stealthily hind respective departure walks, gently ground takes garden of melon of a form of address formally used by an employee to his employer or a tenant-peasant to his landlord, or enter on the west domestic vegetable plot, choose that big round pumpkin picks the next, with red cloth the bag rises to go. The following day, the host that breaks melon sees the melon the base of a fruit that picks newly, wrangle anything but, laughed, return in the heart pray silently to steal melon person: Old day blesses his the coming year to have unripe!
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