What should Yi people prepare for the New Year?

Due to historical reasons, the time to celebrate the Year of the Yi people varies from place to place. All villages choose a day to celebrate the New Year after the harvest of grain in the solar calendar 1 1 month. However, Yi people will also prepare some new year's goods for the Spring Festival. Now, let me introduce it to you. Welcome to read it.

What should Yi people prepare for the New Year?

Yi people need to prepare all kinds of new year's goods, such as pigs, sheep, chickens, cigarettes, wine, flour (buckwheat flour, oat flour, etc. ), firewood, rice mats, fern grass, white grass and so on.

Yi people are proud to slaughter fat pigs in the New Year, and they will start preparing pigs for the coming year after the New Year every year. The bigger and fatter the pig is during the Chinese New Year, the more glorious it feels. If a family doesn't kill pigs during the Chinese New Year, it will be considered that there is no Chinese New Year. Therefore, killing pigs is the top priority of the Yi people in the New Year. Those who are poor or have not killed pigs for other reasons use sheep for the New Year, and those who have no sheep use hens for the New Year.

Big fat pig, castrated sheep and castrated chicken are the best in Chinese New Year, regardless of color. Generally, cows, goats and cocks are not used in the New Year. If goats are slaughtered, they should be postponed before or after the China New Year. During the three days of Chinese New Year, goats can't be slaughtered, and goat meat can't be used for ancestor worship. Only chickens, pigs and mutton can be used for ancestor worship. Few people kill sheep. Pigs and chickens are necessary for the Chinese New Year, so they must be prepared before the Chinese New Year.

Secondly, we should prepare food and other utensils, such as flour, cigarettes, wine, firewood, fern grass, white grass, mats, chopping boards and so on. The day before the Chinese New Year, Butuo Yi people called it? Aphrodite? On this day, we should clean the house, clean the dam and wash the dishes. Every household should push tofu pudding to eat.

In the afternoon, when the cattle and sheep return to the circle, in the courtyard dam, the firewood usually prepared will be carried back and piled up according to certain rules. On the firewood pile, there will be fern grass for cooking pigs the next day, white grass for spirit, bamboo branches for lighting, chopping boards for cutting meat, contempt seats and so on. After dinner, at dusk, every household gives it? Grinding and feeding? The mill is fed with corn, buckwheat, oats, etc. And the grinding eyes are full of a kind of grain. Grinding is not allowed during the Chinese New Year. Prepare enough flour before the Chinese New Year. After the Chinese New Year, choose an auspicious day to open your eyes. What is it called in Yi language? Is it broken? .

In some places, it is a fashion to worship trees tonight. The way to worship trees is: two people with meat and knives, choose a fruit tree, one climbs the tree, and the other stands under the tree. The person under the tree asks: Shuzi, did you bear fruit this year? The man in the tree replied:? No result, no result. ? The man under the tree said:? If you don't do this, I'll cut you off. ? So he raised his knife and cut several times at the tree. The man in the tree said:? I am the result, the result. ? At this time, the man under the tree stopped his knife and said, as a result, I won't cut you. As long as you have a result, I will give you a New Year call. ? Wipe the meat you brought to the fruit tree, indicating that you want to pay New Year greetings to the fruit tree and feed the meat.

Yi people's New Year customs:

Due to historical reasons, the time to celebrate the Year of the Yi people varies from place to place. All villages choose a day to celebrate the New Year after the harvest of grain in the solar calendar 1 1 month. In addition, some places in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi used to celebrate the Year of the Yi people, which is recorded in the local chronicles of China. However, since the rule of Wu Sangui and E Ertai in the Qing Dynasty, it has not been the year of the Yi people. After the founding of New China, according to the wishes and demands of the Yi people in Liangshan, the People's Congress of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture passed a decision to designate 1 1.20 as the Year of the Yi people every year, with three legal holidays, so that people of all ethnic groups in Quanzhou can celebrate the Year of the Yi people. Liangshan Yi Year, the whole process is roughly divided into three stages: the preparation stage, the festival activity stage and the end stage.