8 pieces of Buyi folktales

1.

A father went up to the mountain to work, but did not return after dark. The family said, "it's so late, it's already dark, why don't you come home?"

just as he was saying, the child came near the house with his father's leg on his shoulder. Hearing his family's worry, he said:

whether the father's leg is Ding

this father-eating son was later chopped up by his family with a knife and ax, and then put into the stone mill of his pedal, crushed into powder, and then scattered in the air. These fragments fall and become the most painful long-legged mosquitoes, swarms of Fly.

2.

in ancient times, there was a family with many brothers and hungry food, and the mother could not resist the daily cries of her children, so she had to go to her mother's house. When my mother left, she told me, "I'll give you a bamboo tube, and you can go up to the mountain to pick wild strawberries. When the bamboo tube is full and your brothers will come home again, then I will return from my grandmother's house."

the two brothers took bamboo tubes and went up the mountain. But the wild strawberries of the two brothers dropped one by one, and they were dissatisfied with how many strawberries they put into the bamboo tube. It turned out that my mother had made a round hole in the bottom of the bamboo tube, and the bamboo tube could never be filled.

I don't know how long it took for the two brothers to wear rotten clothes and hair all over their bodies.

when the mother came home, she brought Zanba from her mother's house and called to her child:

Oh--

Child, child

come home to eat Ciba

I brought Ciba

the child answered her in the mountains:

We didn't eat sesame seeds. The mother slapped four pieces of red Zanba on their buttocks and said:

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go--

you can't return

eat sesame

from then on

turned into a monkey, leaving the mother

the two brothers returned to the mountain forest and became wild monkeys.

Note:

Zumba, a kind of cake to be made during Buyi New year's Day, pours cooked rice into utensils and twists into many small balls after beating, which is flat and round, usually white and dyed red.

le ru-en, incorrect transliteration, a wild fruit.

3.

one day, a mother said to her children, "I'm going to grandma's house. Call the old woman from the neighbor's house to accompany you, children." Mother gave her advice and left.

at night, the two children called to the neighbor's old woman at home, but the old woman was old and deaf and had never heard of it, but she listened to the cow woman in the mountain forest, and the cow woman came to keep company with the two children. The cow woman said, "my child, my mother-in-law has hemorrhoids. Bring a hoop bucket to sit with my mother-in-law." The cow woman was able to hide her tail in the hoop bucket.

when I reached Rest, the cow woman said, "Son, let your brother sleep at the head of the bed with me, and you can be the elder brother's bed at the end of the bed."

in the middle of the night, the cow woman ate her brother, chewing in her mouth and bleeding all over the bed.

my brother asked, "Grandma, what are you eating?"

the cow replied, "I'm eating fried corn kernels, son."

"Why is the bed wet?" The brother asked again.

the cow replied, "this is your brother who wet the bed, son."

but the brother had found out, so he said, "mother-in-law, mother-in-law, I'm going to relieve myself."

the cow said, "just go to your father's bedside and solve it."

"Dad came back to scold me."

"Just go to your mother's bedside and solve it."

"No, Mom will scold me even when she comes back."

"then go out and go to the stables." The cow woman said, "I'll tie your leg with leggings, I'll take this end, you take that end, and when you're done, you shake and tie the leg cloth. As soon as I drag you back, don't be afraid."

the elder brother is a clever boy. when he released his hands, he tied the leg-binding cloth to the horse's legs. the horse shook, and the cow asked, "son, are you done with your hands?" There was no answer. The cow woman pulled again, the horse shook again, but the child did not come back.

the cow woman was worried. The cow woman said, "Son, where are you? why don't you come?"

by this time the child had climbed a persimmon tree in front of the door and escaped for his life. The child said: "mother-in-law, I am in the persimmon tree, mother-in-law, do you want to eat a persimmon?"

the cow said, "eat, eat."

"you take some tung tree oil, put it on the persimmon tree, and you can climb up." The child said.

Niu Po went to take some tung oil and put it on it. How can an oiled tree get up? The child said, "Mother-in-law if you want to eat persimmons, come to the head of my father's bed and get a fork. I'll give it to you."

according to her words, the cow woman brought a long fork and handed it up to the tree. The child said, "Mother-in-law, if you want to eat persimmons, just open your mouth and wait."

the cow woman opened her mouth wide and stood under the tree waiting. The child hurled a long fork through the cow's throat. The dying cow turned into a thorn bush, besieging the persimmon tree. When the parents of the child go home, they cut it off with a sickle, and the thorn bush cannot be cut off except that it has been born and removed.

Note:

bao wai ya wa-i are all monsters, usually living in forests or caves.

4.

once upon a time, there was a Jingnan who became the baby of a couple. When he went out to work, he put him in a flat bamboo basket and put him on the Rest by the fire pond. He knows that after his parents go out, he becomes an old man. Once a day, he grabs a chicken at home, kills and cooks, and eats. Before his parents go home, he becomes a baby again, falling asleep in the bamboo basket, or whining.

his father and mother were puzzled and said, "Why do you lose one chicken a day and one a day?"

the neighbor who knows it said, "whoever killed it is your child."

his parents naturally didn't believe it and said, "my child is so young that he can't walk and talk, so how can he kill the chicken?"

the neighbor said, "if you don't believe it, don't believe it. Wait and see."

A few days later, the chicken is still lost every day. On this day, the couple locked the door with baskets, water, and hoes on their backs, pretended to go out to work, but quietly hid back upstairs.

near noon, Jingnan repeated his old trick, turning into an old man killing chickens. While he was making a fire, his mother took out the water bottle in the back basket and poured some from upstairs.

Jingnan said, "Hey, your mouse, you pee. I'll make it later. I'll give you something to eat."

when his parents went downstairs, Jingnan hurriedly wanted to become a baby and lay back to the bamboo basket by the fire pond, but it was too late. He saw that his upper body had changed the baby, but he hung a leg on the edge of the bamboo basket, covered with adult sweat hair.

Note:

jin-eng n-ang. No transliteration, monster.

5. once again, her grandson begged for meat, and she said, "wait for Grandma to cook for you, wait for Grandma to cook for you." With that, she turned and went into her room. There were many earthen pots in the corner of her room, and it was said that she often dug up the graves of dead babies, took the bodies, and broke them in sauerkraut. Sure enough, she fished out a baby's palm from one of the jars and came back to cook it with her grandson. When she was caught by her son, the stool was badly beaten.

6.

in ancient times, a baby named Wu died early. His father tied it up with a pile of dried straw and took it to be buried, but his father was so careless that he fell unconscious from the straw. When his father came back, the road found a child lying in the corner of a wall. When he got home, he saw Wu's mother still crying. His father said:

Niangwu

stops crying. Niangwu

not only our children die

other children lie in the corner

7.

in ancient times, there was a man named Jia Jing, who often played practical jokes and harmed his neighbors. The villagers said, "Jia Jing, you are not upright, we will send you to heaven."

"if you want, send me to the sun, not to the moon." Jia Jing said.

not long ago, the neighbor lifted Jia Jing to the sky with a bamboo pole. when he went to the sun, Jia Jing said, "it's too cold, too cold", and he held him to the moon, and Jia Jing said, "Hot, too hot."

the neighbor said, "you are so evil that we will punish you and hold you to the hot moon."

later, on a clear moonlit night, you can see a shadow on the moon, like a big tree, and a man is carrying the tree below.

Note:

Jia Jing, transliteration, person's name. It is said that the folk opera of "View the Moon" is still being staged in some places.

8.

once upon a time, the Han nationality lived on the top of the mountain, while the Buyi people lived on the flat land at the foot of the mountain. The Han nationality can make tofu, but the Buyi people can't.

A Han Chinese became a servant outside the home of a member of the Buyi nationality (master of a large family, or patriarch). One day, the servant made tofu outside the house, and the staff thought that tofu residue was a good thing, so he said to the servant, "you work hard, too. I'll keep the tofu residue, and I'll give you the tofu water, and you can take it back and dispose of it."

the servant took tofu water home, added sour water, made white tender tofu, and sent it to the staff the next day. The outsider said admiringly, "what did you use to make it? why is it so much better than what I took?" The servant said, "give me the rest of the tofu, and I'll take it back and cook it for you as usual." The outsider said, "that's not necessary. Come down and live with us."

so far, Han talents have moved from the top of the mountain to live at the foot of the mountain.