Excavators are usually well organized. When picking ginseng, each person holds a rope stick (commonly known as a rope stick) and presses the grass to find ginseng. According to the mountain rules, you are not allowed to say anything. When you find ginseng, immediately shout: mallet! It is said that ginseng was stopped from running when a wooden stick was called. Then cover it with a straw hat, so that ginseng can be caught easily. Tie ginseng to a branch with a red rope and you can catch ginseng. People who collect ginseng are also very particular about their language. Digging ginseng is called raising ginseng, which is full of respect.
Over the years, the unique production culture formed in the process of ginseng mining has become a unique folk custom in ginseng mining areas. These customs seem incomprehensible now, but they undoubtedly reveal the strong belief that generations love life and conquer nature.
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People go into the mountains to collect ginseng, which is not only well organized, but also has various witchcraft beliefs in an attempt to control nature with people's minds. Due to the peculiar and hard-to-find folk psychological function of ginseng, many mountain rules have been formed in the production process: more words than words, speaking by luck. At first, I probably concentrated on finding ginseng, and later I formed a fixed "mountain rule".
One of the mountain rules is to shout loudly when you find ginseng: "mallet!" " "It is said that such a stick will be' fixed' and will no longer escape; At this time, the head of the delegation will ask, "What goods?" The discoverer replied: "five batches of leaves" (referring to five compound leaves produced by the aerial parts of ginseng) or "six batches of leaves". Then the partner smiled and said, "Come on! Hurry up! "In this way, the report of the discoverer in front is called' Calling the Mountain', and the questions and congratulations of the respondents behind are called' Meeting the Mountain'. The purpose of this shout is to scare ginseng, and naturally it also means to report and congratulate.
It is polite to say "hurry" when meeting. Show their psychology and desire, and take their auspicious meaning. People in the mountains are used to it. Even when talking about tools, we should add the word "fast", such as "as fast as a knife" and "as fast as an axe". Let the villagers greet each other and say "hurry up!" when they meet. "
"Calling a mountain" is a very serious matter, so don't shout it. If you mistake a grass for a "wooden stick", it is considered unlucky and called "mountain blowing". In the meantime, don't say anything when you see it. 、
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Digging ginseng-Baidu encyclopedia