2016年10月初的一天,我有幸参加了非洲南部一对茨瓦纳族新人的婚礼。新娘住的村落叫塞维约,距博茨瓦纳的首都西北约500公里,地处卡拉哈里沙漠腹地,很闭塞,听说我们一家是唯一受到邀请的外国来宾,当地土著的婚礼一般不对外公开。进入十月,正值当地雨季,首场豪雨下来才几天,原本灰不溜秋的原野,一下子变得万木葱茏。天刚亮,我们就驱车沿高速公路出发了。 On the first day of October 2016, I was fortunate enough to attend a wedding of a new Tswana couple in southern Africa. The village where the bride lives is called Seivio, about 500 kilometers northwest of the capital of Botswana. It is located in the hinterland of the Kalahari Desert, very closed. I heard that our family is the only foreign guest to be invited. Local indigenous weddings are generally not publicized. Into October, coincided with the local rainy season, the first rain down only a few days, the original gray wilderness autumn, all of a sudden become lush. When it was dawn, we drove along the highway.