Yi people's funeral customs

The Yi people in Weining were cremated before the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ashes are packed in clay pots and placed underground or in caves; The mound is a small round mound. What is it called? To the grave? After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was gradually changed to coffin burial. After death? Boomer. Looking through the scriptures, we chose an auspicious day for burial. Neighbors and relatives in the village came to help with the cooking. Relatives brought wine to drink sacrifices, some brought suona teams to play funeral music, and some invited young men? Jump? (bell dance). Before being carried up the mountain, anyone from Dai Xiao should kowtow to the coffin to show his condolences. When carried up the mountain, the oldest member of the deceased's family should call for the soul of the whole family to prevent the soul of the family from going with the deceased. Kill sheep and chickens when buried.

The Yi people in Weining believe that there are three souls after death. One soul is in the ancestral hall, the other is looking at the grave, and the third soul is returning to the place where the ancestors came. When people die, the soul will not die, and the soul of ancestors will become? Criticism? (Bodhisattva), bless future generations with peace and happiness. Therefore, they worshipped their ancestors infinitely and created extremely rich ancestor worship customs.

In order to honor their ancestors, families or families have built ancestral halls (ancestral halls are not allowed to enter at will, especially for women). Write the ancestors' surnames and names on bamboo boards in Yi language and wrap them in red cloth, or tie a white flower burning grass or grass root with red and green thread and add some wool? Zutong? (3-4 inch long bamboo tubes) for use above ancestral halls or halls. ? Zutong? The red line inside represents the male deceased, the green line represents the female deceased, wool represents the cushion and quilt cover, and white flowers burn grass or thatch roots represent the soul of the elderly. The ancestral temple should be kept pure and clean, and people who died abnormally should be treated first. Wu Bubumo? (Bumo, who fasted for the abnormal dead) What is it to chant Buddhist scripture and then pass the normal fasting? Zutong? Enter the ancestral temple; Young men and women who died young and had no children could not set up ancestral temples to worship. Can the shrine be held if it is rotten or moth-eaten? Microfinance? (sacrificial form) replacement. A long time. There are many algebras. When the ancestral home list was placed in the coffin, it was sacrificed once, leaving the ancestral home list of the last fifteen generations, and all the rest were sent to the lonely rock foot cave, and the bark was used to shelter from the wind and rain. Symbolically, cooking utensils, farm tools, gold, silver, etc. All the hidden hands were sacrificed, indicating that future generations are no longer responsible for sacrifice. If there are many branches in the family, the residence is scattered, and it is inconvenient to sacrifice, you can separate the ancestral hall. Generally, the nine generations are separated. Classic? Boomer. After chanting, later generations each had their own clique? Zutong? Build another ancestral temple, but the family supports it? After one o'clock? (Yi surname) remains unchanged, while Han surname can be changed.

The most solemn ancestor worship activity of Weining Yi people is fasting and sacrifice (? Number supplement? Or? how much is it? ), the scene is very big, it can be carried out at the same time as the funeral, or it can be postponed and left to future generations. When fasting and offering sacrifices, the host family should choose spacious and empty land nearby. Ideal city is made of cypress branches and branches, with east, south, west and north gates. It is separated into an alley shape by ropes, and the mourning hall for the dead is located in the middle. Relatives who come to pay homage bring their own food and sacrifices (livestock for memorial). And a family can come to one or two hundred people or even thousands. At the beginning of the memorial ceremony, ground guns were fired, and pigs, sheep or cows were slaughtered. Vault team? Bells are ringing and dancing among the sorrowful music played by the former suona team. All undertaker either danced sacrifices or bent down to cry with lanterns. Take it? Harvester? Under Bumo's leadership, they circled the mourning hall in order, worshiping three times and offering three sacrifices. Turn around the spirit and call it an end. The time track is dustpan-shaped or dustpan-shaped, changing from time to time and orderly. After the sacrifice, those who enter the south go out of the north, and those who enter the east go out of the west. The memorial time varies, and the old man can stay in Kuya for nine days. What is the commemoration? Boomer. Host, do you want to read Yi Sacrifice Instrument? Revenge? Or? Foot mom? (meaning? Direction? ), let its soul return to its ancestral home. The road it refers to is the ancestral migration route, which generally refers to the landscape names from Weining Fengshan (shrine) and Caohai to Dongchuan, Qujing and Xuanwei in Yunnan, which is different from the guiding routes of the rest of the Yi areas in the province.

For funerals and fasting? Jump? (also known as bell dancing), eight young men hold a pony bell and shake it rhythmically, with their waist twisted and their feet tuned with the bell. Dance is mostly a simulation of climbing a cliff. Climbing mountains, cutting through thorns and carrying each other's backs are quite like repeating the scene of ancestors' migration. Dancers dance and sing? Hey? (Mourning songs), lyrics or praise the merits of the deceased, or deeply mourn the deceased, or describe the old adage. Extremely rich