Song Tian, "Song Tian" —— Wildcats' Tea Party

Chaos Cat: Don't be afraid, the power will come soon. I heard that the residential property is under maintenance.

Wildcat: Oh, let's light some candles. Anyway, I searched a lot from the dream mirror rabbit.

Chaos cat takes out all kinds of candles from the drawer.

In the dark, the candlelight flickered, setting off two people's figures, empty and rickety.

Wildcat: Chaos, do you know the location of the pine farm?

Chaos Cat: Never heard of it. Is it a place where pine trees are planted?

Wildcat: Of course not. This is an execution ground and a mass grave.

Mixed up: can we not talk about this topic in this dark time?

Wildcat: I happened to be reading this article, Strange Stories in Songyuan: Historical Memory and the Legend of Urban Space.

Chaos: Then you can't read any other articles. In other words, why have you fallen in love with reading articles recently?

Wildcat: No, I'm a cat that finishes what I started. Books are systems and articles are inspiration. Do you want to be exposed in the rain?

Chaos Cat: Don't use words indiscriminately.

Wildcat: Don't you think it's interesting to talk about urban legends in this dark time?

Wildcat: No, I feel cold.

With that, he took out a plate of souffle from under the coffee table and began to eat it.

Wildcat: What's the panic? I don't want to talk about pine plantations. You know my geography has always been poor.

Chaos Cat: Worse than bad. It's ridiculous.

Wildcat: Each has his own merits! It suddenly occurred to me that I used to like a field, folklore.

Chaos Cat: Folklore? What is this?

Wildcat: Folklore/Folklore is a subject that studies customs, oral literature, traditional skills, life culture and its way of thinking, so as to clarify the changing significance of these folk customs in time and space.

Chaos cat:?

Wildcat: It is a subject that studies all unofficial cultures!

Chaos Cat: Oh!

Wildcat: I like folklore, folk songs, architecture and so on.

Chaos cat:

Red umbrella and white pole, lie on the board after eating.

Lie on the board, sleep in the coffin, and then bury the mountain together.

Buried mountain cried and shouted, and the whole village came to eat.

There is an umbrella for eating, and the whole village lies on the board together.

Does this count?

Wildcat: Well, maybe. I'm not a professional either. I just remembered a favorite cartoon "Ghost Catcher", which is my first time to understand folklore.

Chaos Cat: You've been studying for so many years, but you haven't studied folklore?

Wildcat: Is there any specialization in art? Moreover, it was not until 1920 that Peking University established the Folk Song Research Association, and 1922 founded the Folk Song Weekly, which revealed for the first time that the purpose of studying folk songs was literature and folklore. At the beginning of 1928, Sun Yat-sen University formally established a folklore society, published folklore periodicals and series, and held folklore classes. This has only developed for many years. But it's a pity to hear that many animations have been taken off the shelves. I don't know if my character is here.

Chaos Cat: Now that you mention it, I remember. It seems that a Hong Kong drama I like very much is also about folk customs.

Wildcat: Have a drink.

Chaos Cat: Bark, bark, bark, yes, the Twelve Legends.

Wildcat: I just realized that you actually watch Hong Kong dramas.

Chaos cat: keep pace with the times. I didn't know you read cartoons. I thought you only read books.

Wildcat: Hahaha, cartoons are sometimes more interesting. I often get motivation and inspiration from cartoons.

Chaos Cat: Are there any cartoons about eating recommended to me?

Wildcat: Yes, there are many. If there are any good Hong Kong dramas, recommend them to me.

Chaos cat: OK.

Wildcat: Speaking of Hui folk customs, do you know who is the representative of folk customs?

Chaos Cat: It must be a scholar.

Wildcat: Have you read Grimm's fairy tales?

Chaos Cat: The little match girl?

Wildcat: Well, that's Andersen's fairy tale.

Chaos cat: Oh, I think of it when I see candlelight. What are Grimm's fairy tales?

Wildcats: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Frog Prince. ...

Chaos Cat: Ah, I've seen it all.

Wildcat: Brothers Grimm are famous German historians and linguists in the19th century. At that time, Germany suffered the double oppression of foreign aggression and powerful feudal forces. In order to revitalize the national culture, they began to collect folk stories. In the process of collecting, they were moved by the beauty and strength of these stories, and compiled Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Chaos Cat: Oh, I see.

Wildcat: One thing is very interesting. There is an older Cinderella story in China, which is included in Youyang Miscellanies. Youyang Miscellanies is a collection of notes and novels written by Duan, a naturalist in the Tang Dynasty.

Wild cat: describes the daughter of a cave owner in the south before Qin and Han Dynasties, whose name is Ye Limited. I lost my mother when I was young, I was smart and capable since I was a child, and I was loved by my father. After her father died, her stepmother abused her in every way and killed a fish she carefully raised.

Wildcat: Ye Limited was instructed by the divine man who descended from the sky to hide the fish bones in the house. "It's up to you." In a local festival, Ye Xian lied to her stepmother, "Cui Yi is spinning her coat and stepping on golden shoes" to attend. After being discovered by her stepmother and half-sister, she ran away in a hurry, leaving a golden shoe. This golden shoe was acquired by the Lord of the Trust State on a nearby island. He sent someone to the place where the shoes were found, so that all the women could try them on. Finally, he "got the leaf limit", so "the fishbone and the leaf limit returned to China", "Ye limit became his wife" and "mother and daughter were killed by flying stones".

Chaos Cat: God, it's like Cinderella's story.

Wildcat: Maybe this is one of the charms of folklore.

Chaos Cat: However, conscious is conscious, but it seems useless.

Wildcat: Indeed. But in this world, interesting things are often useless. Most useful things have nothing to do with fun. We often make a very interesting thing boring.

Wildcat: But survival has nothing to do with fun. It is cruel, so people want to live in interesting things all their lives. Maybe it's just an extravagant hope.

Chaos Cat: I think it's interesting to catch up with the drama occasionally. Just relax。

Wildcat: Yeah, maybe that's enough, but ... the power is on.

Chaos Cat: Haha, I can cook food. What can I eat?

Wildcats: Red mushrooms and barbecues.

Chaos Cat: OK, authentic Yunnan poisonous mushrooms and Hong Kong-style roasted meat.

postscript

Wildcat tea party is a writing style I want to try. It discusses some illusory problems (philosophy, psychology, popular science, facts, etc. ) In the form of dialogue between chaotic cats and the wild, break the boundaries of various fields and chat while eating delicious food.

Wildcat: I was originally a librarian, because I loved reading too much, and finally I merged with books and became a demigod. She often becomes Embryo Cat, looking for incense in the world.

Chaos cat: an ancient god beast, it solves all problems by eating. Nothing can't be solved at once. It's really impossible to have another bite.

Wild cats meet chaotic cats by chance and start a wonderful cohabitation life.