What are the customs and taboos for Buyi people to celebrate the Spring Festival?

Buyi people, as one of 56 ethnic groups. They have rich national festivals and cultural traditions, and most of them live in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces, cities and autonomous regions. As a member of Buyi people in Guizhou, I have a deep understanding of many cultures and living habits of Buyi people. Buyi people living in Guizhou have many traditional festivals, such as "March 3rd", "April 8th" and "June 6th", among which the Spring Festival is the most important one.

Buyi people's Spring Festival custom.

What is said here is how traditional rural Buyi families celebrate the New Year. The average family will start preparing for the Spring Festival early, probably starting from the twelfth lunar month (the twelfth lunar month). First of all, from the preparation of some food to some taboos of behavior activities, they are all in the ranks of preparation, and these taboos are very particular. As an ordinary Buyi woman, it is necessary to learn to brew rice wine. In dialect, rice wine is called "biang 35dang wine". The raw materials for brewing wine are crops produced by Buyi people themselves. Ordinary rice wine, such as rice, corn and sorghum (mainly rice), looks no different from ordinary white wine, but it tastes good, and the mellow taste makes you covet. In addition, in the brewing process, if neighbors visit, they must share the newly brewed rice wine with their neighbors. In order to get lucky, drinkers usually say something like "the wine baked in your house today can't fit in the jar". At the same time, how much wine is brewed can also predict whether the family's family fortune will be smooth in the coming year. If more wine is brewed than expected, the family will be smooth sailing, prosperous and safe in the coming year. Brewing takes a long time and cycle, and it is usually prepared at the earliest. Then make tofu (before the emergence of mechanical equipment, Buyi people used to grind it with traditional stone mill and push it by hand in the middle), so they used to push tofu or grinding bean curd. Fresh sour soup tofu is a beautiful dish on New Year's Eve. However, most of the tofu made is salted tofu pickled with salt. Smoked with bacon, it becomes "dried tofu" and can be preserved for half a year. Dried tofu is also very simple to eat, as long as it is cooked with water and sliced to prevent it from being fragrant and delicious. In the middle of the twelfth month, all kinds of snacks are ready. Generally, there are bait cakes (rice cakes), tortillas (raw materials are waxy corn), Ciba (made of glutinous rice) and rice noodles. Except for bait cakes and rice noodles, which are sent to a nearby processing room for making, Ciba and Shibuya cakes are made by traditional hand at home. Hard-working Buyi people will always carefully prepare for the arrival of the Spring Festival for a long time, not for anything else, but to repay their hard work for one year. We have already mentioned winemaking. How can there be wine without meat? As Buyi people who live on the land, they certainly don't buy meat like city people. They have their own pigs, which are slaughtered before the arrival of the New Year as a way to celebrate the New Year. Killing pigs next year is something that almost all Buyi families will do. It usually begins on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Buyi taboo.

You can only kill Nian pigs on odd days (except for the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, because the kitchen god Bodhisattva will return to the sky for the New Year, and killing animals is considered a crime and taboo). If you kill pigs, please ask your neighbors for help, and you will also invite friends and relatives to enjoy delicious pig-killing wine and share the joy of this year's harvest. Except for some pork eaten during the Chinese New Year, most of the rest will be cured with seasonings and smoked on firewood for more than ten days, which will prolong the storage time. Bacon is not only a good gift for friends, but also an excellent dish for Buyi people to entertain guests when visiting relatives and friends. In addition to preparing all kinds of new year's goods, Buyi people will have many taboos in the twelfth lunar month and the first month. If they don't comply, it will affect or even hurt people, things and things at home. From the twelfth lunar month, the family should keep harmonious and quiet, especially don't make a scene, which will be considered as a way to go to the ancestors' home for the New Year. During this period, children can't cry, and it will be considered unlucky. Buyi people call it "avoid the head in the first month and the tail in the twelfth month." And rely on this to pin the peace and smoothness of the coming year. During the first month, usually from the first day to the fifteenth day of the New Year, machines and equipment can't be started in the processing room, and strong vibration is considered as disrespect for the dead. On New Year's Day, domestic water should be stored, not thrown out, and the garbage in the living room and bedroom should not be swept out. If you don't do this, it means pouring out or sweeping away all the wealth of a year. Before the tenth five-year plan, the washed clothes should not be hung in the yard, but outside the yard. If you do this, it won't rain in your home this year. It rained several times in your neighbor's house, but it won't rain here in your yard. Whether superstitious or not, these customs and habits are unique to Buyi people and accumulated over hundreds or even thousands of years.

Have their own customs and traditions, deeply branded with ethnic minorities in the class. It needs to be passed down to protect these declining national cultures.