What are the customs and cultures of Yi people?

The customs and characteristics of the Yi people are embodied in festivals, weddings, funerals and weddings.

1. Yi people have many traditional folk festivals. The main festivals are October Festival, Torch Festival and regional festivals and sacrificial activities. October is a traditional festival of the Yi people, usually held in the first ten days of the lunar calendar. Torch Festival is the biggest traditional festival of Yi people, which falls on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year. Yi people choose festivals according to the Yi calendar.

2. Many ancient customs, such as splashing water, discrediting face, crying for marriage, fasting before marriage and "confinement" after marriage, have been preserved in the Yi wedding. Yi men and women should hold an engagement ceremony before getting married. When they get engaged, they should first get married with good luck. Both men and women should kill pigs and take the gall bladder and pancreas to watch. The gallbladder is yellow, and the pancreas is fat. If the pancreas is curly, it will be fierce, indicating that it cannot be matched.

3. The Yi people in most areas are buried in the earth, and the Yi people in Liangshan are cremated. After burial, they will dig up the ground and cover the stone tightly, or bag the ashes and hide them in the cave with horses. After that, an "Anling" ceremony will be held for the deceased. White wool will be wrapped in an inch of bamboo, wrapped with red silk thread, put into a wooden stick with a groove five inches long, wrapped with hemp skin, sharpened at both ends of the wooden stick, and hung on a bamboo basket to make a spirit tablet, which is called "Madu" in Yi language. "Madu" is placed on the throne below and above the indoor beam.