Happy Little Mayor

Festivals and celebrations in many countries around the world have a long history, such as the Chinese Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, such as Christmas in Christian countries. The history of these festivals is much longer than that of New Zealand.

New Zealand is a young country, and the Maori are not indigenous on this island. They are the first immigrants to cross the ocean, but they do not have a fixed festival.

The biggest Maori celebrations are either the Spring Festival or the Autumn Harvest Festival. The time is not fixed. As long as you feel that spring is coming or autumn is going to be harvested, you can celebrate.

This time their meeting is called 'Hakari', and it is called Maka in Hori, which means 'Grand Banquet', and it specializes in hosting important guests on important days.

They have no doubt respected the mainstream residents of New Zealand and made Christmas Eve a big day. They also respected Wang Bo as an important guest.

Before coming, Wang Bo thought it was just a party with the Maori people. In fact, it was not so simple. All the Maori people in Sunset Town came to the scene. There were also some Maori people in the homeless town. It was estimated that there were thousands of people!

There is a square in the center of the Maori village. The area is about the size of a half-football field. There is a wide wooden table and a bonfire stand around it. When Wang Bo arrived, the flames burned. Cheers.

Aturu introduced him: "This is our Malayi, which means the large courtyard in front of the hall, and today Hakari is held here."

Wang Bo exclaimed: "God Moi is up, this is a huge scale!"

Atulu proudly said: "In fact, this is a small scale. When the Maori tribe was most prosperous in the last century, our hakari was huge!"

"You definitely don't believe it. At that time, our tribe would have a hakari, and it had to be prepared ten days ago. For example, to prepare food, it was necessary to catch a lot of fish, hunt a lot of cattle and sheep and beasts, and set up food Only one meter high! "

He pointed to a wooden shelf in the north of the square, about twenty meters long and two meters wide, covered with a huge red satin at this time. Wang Bo didn't notice it at first, but after thinking of Atulu's introduction, he thought that there should be food below.

Behind the food rack is the party hall, a wooden bungalow building with a herringbone roof. Some elderly people sat inside and saw the bonfire stand burning with flames, and they came out tremblingly.

These old people have the most status in the Aturu tribe. The current Māori tradition has been impacted by modern society and civilization, and has become a bit messy. In many tribes, the patriarch is no longer the most authoritative leader.

For example, their tribe, the patriarch is Aturu, but he is not the most respected person in the tribe, and even he can become the patriarch, completely because his grandmother, Otutu, is a priest in the tribe.

Wang Bo, Eva, and Little Lolly walked over first. The old woman, Otto, grabbed Pharaoh's hand with a dazzling look, and said, "Thank you for joining us in Hakari! Great mayor, our God will bless you and sunset town, and our God will bless you and sunset town! "

"Thank you very much, Lord Priest, and I am glad to receive his blessing." Wang Bobin thanked politely.

When Otto grabbed Eva's hand, the beauty teacher took a big red envelope from her bag and gave it to her, smiling. "This is what the mayor asked me to dedicate to your tribe. Bless you all, Ding Xingsheng, Endure forever! "

After receiving the red envelope and listening to her words, the old priest's old face showed a bright smile like never before.

Wang Bo didn't know that he would have to get a red envelope when he came here as a guest. For the first time, he was visiting the Maori tribe seriously.

Atulu guided them to the hall, and the Pharaoh whispered to Eva, "When will you prepare the red envelope? Do you still need to prepare the red envelope?"

The beauty teacher smiled sweetly and said, "Of course, I know you won't bother to study the etiquette of others. Every time the Maori host prepares a hakari, they need to prepare a lot of food. It ’s stressful, so guests are required to bring gifts. "

Wang Bo said awkwardly: "I really don't know this. If it weren't for you, I'm in trouble today."

Eva waved her hand: "No, you didn't make a mistake, Aturu told me that most of the expenses of Hakkar this time were provided by you. The amount of red envelopes I brought was not big, just good-looking."

They sat and chat in the party hall, and there were young and beautiful Maori girls pouring water for them.

Wang Bo drank two cups of tea and asked, "What are we waiting for?"

Atulu said: "Waiting for other guests, there are still people coming from Wanderer Town. Bright Warriors, Destroyer, Bakajia, etc., all tribes will send important people."

After more than ten minutes, it was a little over 3:30. The square was full of voices again, and the bright warriors with tattoos on their shirts and other parties arrived.

Wang Bo thought that these people were deliberately late. He whispered to Eva, and Eva pouted, then explained: "This is also a tradition. Until modern Maori talents have the habit of using clocks and watches, they did not have watches before. The concept of time is very poor. When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, Queen Maori and the chiefs of those large tribes were late. This may not be a virtue, but it is a tradition. They are paying tribute to the tradition. "

"Are there such good things? Everyone is late to pay tribute to tradition?"

"No, it's not that simple. We agreed at 3:30. They were actually stuck in time. They were one or two minutes late. Being late is a tribute. Too late is too provocative!" Eva Marry these traditions.

The brilliant warriors and others also gave a red envelope as a result of the arrival, and a Maori fat man gave cash directly. A thick mule, Pharaoh roughly estimated that there were tens of thousands of yuan.

This Maori fat man has the impression that Xiao Wang's former owner, he is the richest man in the Homeless Town and the famous wealthy man in New Zealand Maori, otherwise he would not have the financial resources and wrists to bring the lion and tiger beast to his home.

The two sides met and hugged each other. Wang Bo wasn't prepared to come. He knew that this kind of gathering would not start as soon as they met, but they would not salute until the official start.

Different tribes of the Maori people have different forms of welcome, and the higher ranks of the Aturu tribe bring guests into Malai.

There are many long stools around Malai, and people will sit here. Among them, Wang Bo sits in the first row, Eva and Daier are taken to the last row, and his left and right are the priests of Aturu and Otto. This is obviously a theme.

, (To be continued.)