Diet and Life in Julie She Nationality Township

The She people in Julie She Nationality Township live a simple life, and they don't pay attention to the taste and style of food on weekdays, but they pay attention to satiety. Most of the rations are sweet potato shreds, supplemented by rice, sorghum, barley, wheat, wheat, corn and millet. Therefore, there is a custom of "planting sweet potatoes to eat sweet potatoes and eating them as vegetables". Shred sweet potatoes and dry them in the sun. They can be boiled into "braised rice", boiled in boiling water or steamed rice. In most places, fresh shredded potatoes should be washed with water to remove starch and processed into "powder buttons" to be eaten as vegetables.

Her family has three meals a day, potatoes and dry rice. During the Spring Festival (from the first day of the first month to the third day of the first month), we eat white rice for three days, and some use steamed rice to give a dime to children or guests. Usually cook one or two bowls of coarse vegetables before serving. When the guests arrive, the children don't come to the table, for fear of competing for food and delaying the guests. When the farm is busy, it is difficult to prepare the dishes in time, and only a bowl of salt soup or vegetables can cope. But when pigs are slaughtered, they will cut a catty of pork and often invite relatives and friends to taste it. Before the spring ploughing and autumn harvest, in order to meet the heavy labor, we should kill sheep, chickens and rabbits and buy pig's trotters to nourish ourselves.

Every household of She nationality grows vegetables. In addition to daily fresh food, ordinary families often pickle mustard and radish into pickles for home cooking. Bamboo shoots are found all year round in She Village and are often processed into dried bamboo shoots. Use less oil to flavor and more ginger. Drinks are mostly glutinous rice wine. After the 1950s, the economic situation of the She nationality has greatly improved, and most people eat rice. Sweet potato shreds, sorghum and barley have become non-staple foods. Most of the She villages in Julie She Township are located in hills and mountains, and a few are located in coastal areas and islands. They built on the mountain, lived in groups and formed their own villages. Building a house is north-south oriented. All kinds of trees in front of the door. Choose an auspicious day to "build a house". After the ground is broken, the orientation should be fixed, and the vertical brick is commonly known as "orientation". Woodworkers should set a "riding day" when they move saws and axes. The room mainly prepares tea, wine, five fruits, incense and firecrackers for Luban. After the sacrifice, construction began and beams were erected. Later, please pay tribute to me, stick columns, press beams and valleys, hang red cloth, write "Wei Zi's tribute" in the middle hall, and put columns in the palace to stick "Building a house to welcome the ecliptic day"; "Shangliang is lucky to meet Zixing". Put a "bucket lamp" in the atrium to show the great cause of shining on future generations. After the completion, we should choose a day to enter the house, and the owner should shoulder the burden of ancestors, so that the older generation can enter the house first and the younger generation will fall behind. In the past, due to economic difficulties, the houses in She villages were poorly built, and many thatched houses were herringbone or "children holding umbrellas".

Since the Qing Dynasty, houses have mostly been converted into civil tile houses, built on the mountain. Rammed earth wall surrounded by loess. There are two or four frames in the middle, and there are seven or five wooden columns and tiles on the roof. The middle of the main seat is divided into front hall and back hall. There is a permanent small door on the left side of the back hall leading to the back hill. There are four main rooms on both sides of the front and rear halls, which are specially used as bedrooms. There are generally two patios in front of the main hall, which are used to take out garbage and fertilize agriculture. Some have cloisters, and the front and back cloisters are used as kitchens or stacking farm tools to make pigsty. A house usually has two floors. The upstairs is low and the hall is high, which makes the hall sunny. There are fixed stairs or mobile hand ladders leading upstairs. The upstairs walls are divided by muddy bamboo or wooden boards, and the upstairs rooms are mostly used as grain depots or furniture. There is a small open space in front of or behind each house for drying firewood, clothes, shredded sweet potatoes and so on. All kinds of kemu trees shade the corner. After 1950s, the living conditions of She nationality improved obviously, and brick houses and concrete structures gradually replaced the old houses.