Wa people's customs and habits

In the history of Wa people, men wore black shorts and wide-mouth pants. Women wear hooded dresses and short skirts with stripes. Their decorations include collars, necklaces, bracelets, belts and anklets. Most of them are made of silverware or bamboo and rattan products, or painted with natural pigments or depending on natural colors, which are almost loved by men, women and children.

With the development of society, the Wa people's clothing has also begun to change, with the appearance of long skirts, tube skirts and some costumes and decorations with a sense of the times. However, the areas where Wa people live in compact communities still maintain traditional ethnic characteristics, and most of the clothes are cotton and linen grown by themselves. According to their traditional methods, some patterns are like peacock, silver pheasant and other feathers, and some are like civet cats and silver pheasants.

Second, life.

Most Wa villages are built on hillsides or hilltops. Some villages in Ximeng area have a history of hundreds of years and have gathered into hundreds of villages. Wa people like to live in bamboo houses, and some live in adobe bungalows, which is a new form of living that changed later. This bamboo building can be divided into two floors, with people living on the upper floor and people living on the lower floor.

The indoor furnishings are simple and bright, and it is essential to have fire pits for people to use and fire pits for offering sacrifices or heating sacrifices and livestock feed.

Third, diet.

Wa people cook with bamboo tubes. When eating, housewives divide the dishes according to the number of people and share them equally at a time. I like to chew betel nut and drink. There is a saying that "no wine is a gift, and words don't count." Shuijiu is fermented from little red rice, and most of it is put in a big bamboo tube with a thin bamboo tube inserted to suck it. Wa people also have the custom of drinking strong tea, and eating Chili is the common hobby of men, women and children.

Fourth, marriage.

Wa nationality is a monogamous family, most of the property is inherited by the youngest son, and the daughter has no inheritance right. When naming the Wa nationality, the inverse father-son naming system is adopted to trace back their ancestors. All the names of the earliest generation inferred by the Wa people are called "Sigang", which means gourd or cave, and it is a worship of maternal rights.

Men and women can freely associate before marriage, which is called "string women". Young men and women get together to sing love songs and express their commitment with betel nuts and tobacco. However, it is up to the parents to decide the marriage, and the man has to pay the dowry of several cows, which is called "nursing fee" and "money for girls". Sometimes when one parent disagrees, the two parties run away and the parents don't pursue it. In the past, Wa people used uncles and aunts to express their marriage, but now great changes have taken place.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) funeral

Wa people practice thin burial, and the village also has the same cemetery. In some areas, the custom of burying the dead in or near bamboo houses has been preserved.

Extended data:

General situation of Wa nationality:

1. The Wa nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China and Myanmar. Its national language is Wa language, which belongs to the German branch of the Monkhmer-Kampuchea language family in South Asia and has no common language. People use objects and woodcuts to record, count or transmit information.

2. The Wa people mainly live in Cangyuan, Ximeng, Menglian, Gengma, Lancang, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang and Yongde counties in southwest Yunnan Province, China, and Wa and Shan States in Myanmar. There are also some Wa people scattered in Baoshan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Kunming and Dehong Autonomous Prefecture in China.

3. The origin of Wa nationality and the myths and legends in Sigangli are widely circulated. According to the explanation of the Wa people in Cangyuan, "Sigang" is a "gourd" and "Li" is a "out", a person who comes out of the gourd; According to the interpretation of the Wa people in Ximeng, "Sigang" means "cave" and "Li" means "coming out", which means "people come out of the cave".

4. Wa people have three religious beliefs: primitive religion, Buddhism and Christianity.

5. According to the statistics of the 6th national census on 20 10, the total population of Wa nationality in China is 429,709.

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