What does the year of the Yi nationality mean?

The origin of the Yi calendar year is a traditional festival of the Yi people, and the Yi language is called "Ku Zhi". It is held in October of the lunar calendar and November of the solar calendar. In villages where Yi compatriots and Yi people live in compact communities all over our state, auspicious days begin on the 6th day of the lunar calendar 10/kloc-0 and end on the 30th. Due to the differences of auspicious days in different places, some Gregorian calendar days are early, some are in the middle and some are late. Every village has a three-day Yi calendar year. Therefore, it has a month's explanation in the Yi calendar year. The Yi calendar year has the meaning of celebrating that year, offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for good weather, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and all the best in the coming year.

Why does the Lunar New Year celebrate in October? Legend has it that there are two reasons. First of all, there are ten months in Yi history as a year. According to this calendar, October is the end and beginning of a year, which coincides with the New Year in China, so it is customarily called "October Year". Second, because during this period, the crops in the Yi area have been harvested, and the crops are abundant and slack, which is suitable for the New Year.

Like the Spring Festival of the Han nationality, the Year of the Yi nationality is the happiest and most desirable festival of the year. There are many traditional rules in the Yi people's year in Jiulong, including: preparing an altar of buckwheat liqueur one month before the Chinese New Year. Three days before the Chinese New Year, every household should chop enough firewood for the three days of the Chinese New Year and prepare enough rice noodles, salt, tofu pudding and so on. On the morning before the New Year in China, every family cleaned the inside and outside of the house and around the yard to show that they would welcome the new year.

At the same time, every family puts a pile of firewood in front of the door and makes a fire to smoke during the Chinese New Year. It is said that this is a symbol of welcoming ancestors back for the New Year. Just before dawn on New Year's Eve, every household lit a bonfire in a simple pit stove and burned hot pig water, waiting for the boys who killed pigs to arrive. When you kill pigs, you should divide them into young and old, starting with elders and their pigs. When the pig killers arrived, the host presented them with "pig-killing wine", which is called "five-color wine" in Yi language. Yi people in Jiulong love to look at the heart, gallbladder, pancreas, urine bubbles and other internal organs of Nian pig. Heart replaces the climate in the coming year, hard texture indicates drought in the coming year, and soft texture indicates no waterlogging in the coming year; It is a good omen for the host to replace bile and pancreas in the coming year, and the lack of bile and pancreas body indicates that the host's family will be lucky in the coming year, and vice versa; Urine bubbles replace next year's crops. Most of the urine in the bubble is a bumper harvest in the coming year, and less is a poor harvest. After cutting the pig, cut some tongue coating, slippery back, liver, kidney and so on. Burn it and dissolve it in a wooden bowl and put it on the wall hanging plate above the fireplace to worship the ancestors. At the beginning of the cooking group year, after the group dinner, the children were asked to send cooked meat and rice to people who didn't kill pigs.

At night, the whole family sits around the fireplace, which is called "accompanying ancestors" or "vigil". The elders talked about the sufferings of the old society and the sweetness of the new society, but also told a lot of truth about being a man.

On the morning of New Year's Day, people put on holiday costumes and flocked to all the houses to congratulate them on the New Year. Every time they go to a house, the workers treat each other with pieces of meat and bowls of wine, which is called "knowing a blog" in Yi language.

Cut pig's trotters and take them to the mountains to play with the dam. Adults accompany them to light a bonfire and guide them to throw pig's trotters into the fire regardless of you and me. After they are cooked, you take them out one by one and I will eat them one by one, so as to cultivate the moral fashion of unity and friendship from an early age.

Young people will sing, dance and play the piano on the slope near the village. After that, the boys took out their horses and raced on the dam next to the village. All the men, women and children in the village went to see the horse race. The sound of hooves, whipping and cheering interweaves to form a soaring sound, which pushes the atmosphere of the New Year Festival to a climax.

After the horse race, the boys wrestled again to exercise themselves and make everyone happy.

During the Chinese New Year, people in Zhaili love to eat "reunion dinner". They eat from one place to another and play from that place to this place. They come and go happily, resolve their usual troubles, and strengthen unity and friendship between neighbors. If foreigners pass by the village, take them to eat and drink with everyone and don't let them go on the road.

On the last night of the Spring Festival, the family sat around the fireplace. In the middle of the night, adults carefully draw lessons from past production and life and carefully plan the blueprint for production and life in the coming year. In the middle of the night, parents told the children to carry a handful of corn, a handful of beans, a hat and a small dustpan of oats to the courtyard dam, and spread the corn, beans, a hat and oats to the east, south, west and north. At the same time, they learned to bark like horses, pigs, Niu Jiao, sheep and chickens, and shouted for horses, cows, sheep and pigs. Then scatter corn, beans, beans and oats in the dustpan to show the prosperity of the six livestock in the coming year.

After the rooster crows, women married from other villages, carrying dolls, pigs' heads, oatmeal, eggs and an altar of buckwheat wine, rush back to their parents' home for the New Year. Other people who need to visit relatives and friends also set off at this time for good luck.