Marriage Customs, Dietary Customs and Traditional Festival Features of Yi Nationality

Yi nationality is one of the ethnic groups with a long history and ancient culture in China, with different names, such as Sunuo, Nasu, Wu Luo, Misapo, Sani and Axi. Do you know the customs of Yi people? Next, I will introduce the wedding customs, food customs and traditional festival features of Yi people to you.

Yi people's wedding custom Young men and women should prepare a wedding banquet after they get engaged. Pigs and chickens are often used at wedding banquets, but mutton is generally not used (mutton is used for funerals). The Shiping Yi people in southern Yunnan have the habit of inviting men and women to eat and drink before marriage. Yi people in western Yunnan, who have married their daughters, want to build a shed with branches in the yard or on the dam for guests to drink, smoke, eat and sit around. People call this a temporary shed made of branches? Green cabin? .

The marriage and love of Yi people are strange and interesting. The most interesting thing is that they have been detained. Change clothes? Girl, can I come in? Play? Having sex with your sweetheart, the matchmaker says that you are close to drinking and getting engaged, starving the bride, crying all night, throwing water at the bride-to-be, robbing the bride, fighting in the bridal chamber and other traditional wedding customs.

Girls change nepotism.

When Yi girls come of age (usually 15 years old), they should hold a grand ceremony according to the custom. Change clothes? . At the ceremony of changing skirts, the girl asked her sisters to change her original single braid into double braids and put them on her head. It is also necessary to tear off the original white pendant or old earring line and replace it with coral beads or silver earrings such as red agate to show good luck. Finally, the girl took off the original red and white children's skirt and put on a blouse embroidered with lace and a colorful pleated mop-up dress in black, blue, yellow and white. Can the girl arrive after putting on the new skirt? Play? Dance and sing, participate in social activities, and start looking for a sweetheart.

Back bride

According to Yi custom, when the bride leaves the house, her feet can't touch the ground, otherwise there is a danger that her children are not sweet. The young man who takes care of the bride must carry her and help her get on the horse. There are also various rules on the way home: if the mountain is too high and the road is too narrow to ride a horse, the young man who takes care of the bride must take turns carrying the bride; Crossing the river and wading, it is even more necessary for people to carry water across the river. The bride's embroidered shoes must not get wet.

Splash water on relatives.

Yi people believe that clear water can drive away evil spirits and bring happiness. Therefore, Yi people must splash water when they get married. In order to withstand this test, men should be strong and nimble when greeting their relatives, so as to cope with the cold caused by splashing water and complete the arduous task of "grabbing" the bride. They often review the candidates repeatedly and select the best candidates, and some of them will travel long distances to select talents.

What is the wedding ceremony of Yi people? Rob? The way to do it. Are you online? Rob relatives? On the first night, the girls launched a fierce water war against the young man. The girls attacked the young man violently in various ways, such as splashing, splashing, falling and patting. Rob relatives? This young man is overwhelming. So, the clever young man found a place to store water before dark and quietly poured out a part to reduce it? Flood? Attack.

Splashing water all night, it's dawn, grab a relative? Here we go. At this time, the girl was holding the bride, and the boy went? Fight for it? The girls are well defended, and the young man must be smart and changeable. Taking advantage of the loophole that appeared in an instant, I grabbed the bride and ran, and ran directly out of the Yierli Mountain Road before I changed to walking. So, the bride? Rob? How difficult it is to go to my husband's house! However, the Yi people believe that this kind of splashing and robbing in the wedding will drive away evil spirits and ensure that their future life will not be disturbed.

Fight in the bridal chamber

According to Yi custom, if the bride doesn't fight, she will be laughed at. This is a woman who won't resist! ? It is said that the children they will give birth to in the future will not be recognized by their ancestors after death? Gangdom? So what! So the banquet guests dispersed, and a couple in the bridal chamber still fought. They were banging, tearing their clothes and scratching their faces, and the banging from the bridal chamber shocked the neighbors. The next morning, the groom led the bride to recognize her parents. In the afternoon, the groom made an appointment with his partner and followed the bride back to her parents' home to recognize her in-laws. If the young man accompanying him is a naughty boy, when he arrives at the bride's house, the young man will go in first, call his parents first, and then the groom will call him, so that the bride's parents can't tell which is their son-in-law.

Yi people's eating habits The main food in Yi people's life is corn, followed by buckwheat, rice, potatoes, wheat and oats. Meat mainly includes beef, pork, mutton and chicken. They like to be cut into fist-sized pieces to cook, which the Han people call? Meat? . Liangshan and most Yi people do not eat dog meat and do not eat horse meat, frogs and snakes. Yi people like to eat hot and sour, and they are addicted to alcohol, so they have the etiquette of entertaining guests with wine. Wine is essential for solving various disputes, making friends, weddings, funerals and other occasions.

Yi nationality is the most populous nationality in southwest China, which is distributed in several provinces in southwest China. Yunnan Yi people account for 2/3. Due to the rich geographical environment and resources, the Yi people based on agriculture grow corn, potatoes, barley, wheat and buckwheat. Vegetables are also abundant. Yi people living in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas like to raise sheep, especially in Xiaoliangshan.

Mutton is its main food source, and there are some special customs to eat sheep: the liver and stomach of sheep are first used to sacrifice ancestors, then burned, and some are eaten raw; Sheep brain for the elderly to eat; Women in reproductive period should avoid eating rams; Shepherds can't eat sheep's tails; Sheep blood mixed with shredded radish, salt to make pickles. Steamed rice is especially delicious.

Yi people are also very particular about eating chicken. Generally, it is stewed in a clay pot without a knife. After cooking, tear the chicken into strips by hand and dip it in pepper and pepper juice. The head of a chicken is eaten by the elderly, depending on the hexagrams (the shape of the chicken brain).

Yi people like drinking. There are two kinds of wine, sweet and spicy, which used to be brewed at home. Sweet wine is made of glutinous rice, and spicy wine is made of sorghum or corn. what's up It is disgraceful for a guest to go home without wine. Tradition.

During the Spring Festival, the Yi people always slaughter cows, sheep, pigs and chickens, but they seldom move animals unless they entertain guests. Yi people have the custom of killing pigs, half for themselves and the other half for their parents-in-law. Pigs are mostly used for curing, hanging up and drying in the shade to make bacon or ham. We should also eat meat rice cakes, drink jar wine, soak wine and tea during the New Year.

On the Torch Festival on June 24th of the lunar calendar, every household slaughtered sheep and chickens and cooked new buckwheat rice. Mix mutton and scatter it around as a sign of sacrifice, praying for a bumper harvest and no disaster or disease. Light a fire at night, sing and dance to dispel insects, snakes and pests. On the first day of September, the Yi people in Guangxi have the custom of "tasting new things", that is, eating new rice. These are festive eating customs.

Yi people have a set of social etiquette and dietary customs. Yi people are hospitable, and all guests in the family should treat each other with wine first. Banquets are big or small, giving gifts to cows and gradually killing sheep, pigs and chickens. When slaughtering animals, the animals should be brought to the guests to show respect. Cattle and sheep don't have to be treated with a knife, crushed or killed by hand. Therefore, it is called killing animals, and its technique is extremely agile. Animals are often skinned before they die.

When entertaining guests, there is a certain habit of seating. Usually they eat on the floor around the pot farm, and guests usually let them sit on the top of the pot farm. Shire? Department; Comment on the pot farmer sitting on the right, easy to say? Nimu? Department; Helpers, women, relatives and friends are sitting at the bottom of the pot. Bite fruit? Location. When there are many guests, it will be postponed to the right.

Is the order of drinking according to the Yi proverb? Farmland from bottom to top, wine from top to bottom? . Sit down first, then sit down. Wine belongs to the elderly and meat belongs to the young? After pouring wine for distinguished guests, the elderly or elders should be given first, followed by young people. Everyone is involved.

In rural areas, there are weddings, funerals and weddings. Six o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening? The custom of. That is, six bowls of lai in the morning, such as tofu, braised pork, Sichuan-style pork, Chinese cabbage vermicelli, pig blood and peanuts. Eight bowls of lai in the evening, such as yellow strips, braised pork, crepe sand (fried pig skin), thousand pieces of meat, cold white meat, braised sausage, peanuts and so on. Stew a bowl of chicken when you are well off. Yi people are good at baking, frying, boiling, mixing and other cooking techniques, with salty, fragrant, spicy and hemp taste, especially at making milk cakes.

Yi people's daily drinks include wine and tea, and wine is used to entertain guests. There is a folk saying that "Han people value tea, Yi people value wine".

Most Yi people are used to eating three meals during a solar eclipse, and their staple foods are miscellaneous grains, noodles and rice. Yi people in Shousha River, Anning River and Dadu River basins often eat a lump of rice for breakfast. Lunch is mainly Baba, and all tables are available. Among all Baba, Baba made of buckwheat noodles is the most distinctive. It is said that buckwheat Baba has the effects of promoting digestion, relieving sweating and diminishing inflammation, and can be preserved for a long time without deterioration. Nuning, a traditional snack in Su Qiao, Guizhou Province, has become a well-known local snack.

Meat is mainly pigs, sheep and beef. Mainly to make it? Stripped meat? , beef soup pot, sheep soup pot, or roast sheep, roast piglets, deer, bear, rock sheep, wild boar, etc. What is obtained through hunting is also a supplement to daily meat.

The mountainous area is also rich in mushrooms, fungus and walnuts, and the vegetables produced in the garden make the sources of vegetables very extensive. In addition to fresh, most of them should be made into sauerkraut, which is divided into two kinds: dried sauerkraut and pickled sauerkraut, and the other one is famous? Doraba? Our food is also the most common folk food.

Typical foods that Yi people often eat are: buckwheat cake, a staple food with Yi flavor; Paste sauerkraut meat, the home cooking of Yi farmers; Boiled suckling pig, a traditional food of Yunnan Yi people, is cooked in suckling pig and dipped in it. Crispy rice flour is a famous Yi-flavor snack in Yunnan, which is made of pea flour.

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