What are the customs of Yunnan

Customs of Yunnan:

1. Song pairing

Song pairing is the traditional way of youth of many ethnic minorities in Yunnan, as well as a way of celebrating festivals.

For example, the Miao people's "touring the party", the Yao people's "singing the wind flow", the Buyi people's "wave whistle and catching the table", the Lahu, Hani and Bai people's singing the tune, the Tibetan people's singing the song, etc. All of them are the young men and women of the minority nationalities who sing through their own singing, and they are also the young men and women of the minority nationalities who sing songs. All of these are methods and ways for young men and women of ethnic minorities to exchange feelings, find lovers and choose spouses through songs.

2, crying wedding

Crying wedding is Zhuang, Yi, Hani, Tibetan and other nationalities of the marriage customs, generally in the first few days or on the wedding day, by the bride's mother and her family in the female accompanied by the bride to cry, showing the bride to the sadness of the passing of the young girl's life away from her parents, the parents of the grace of the parting of the parting of the parting of the family's fondness for the sadness of the bride, but also to the marriage of dissatisfaction of the accusation.

3, bride kidnapping

In Yunnan Yi, Dai, Bai, Achang, Lisu, Jingpo, Yao and other nationalities have the custom of bride kidnapping, usually in the case of men and women in free love marriage is blocked. Prior to get the acquiescence of the woman, by the man paid about the partner pretend to rob the marriage or about the partner to rob secretly selected girl, the girl even if she is willing to, but also must pretend to resist.

4, throw the bag

Annual Water Festival, the Dai young men and women dressed in festive attire, relative rows of two lines, the woman threw the flower bag to the boy, if the man is interested in, pretend not to take the flower bag, happy to concede defeat, the gift to the girl, and both left the field to talk about their feelings. Throwing bags interspersed with songs, dances, picnics and other activities.

5. Axia Marriage

The old marriage custom of the Mosuo people in Ninglang, Yunnan Province, was that "Axia" was a Mosuo word meaning "friend", and men and women were not called husband and wife but "Axia". "As long as men and women are in love with each other, they can live together after exchanging tokens.

Walking marriage is the most peculiar, walking marriage is the night male to the woman's home to visit the door to visit the night, the next day at dawn back to their own homes, different food and different labor, no family economic ties, the birth of children belonging to the female side, men and women can be the same relationship with other people, this marriage is a matriarchal system of the remnants of the social system.

6, plagiarized cattle to celebrate the harvest

Dulong people celebrate the harvest of the sacrificial festival. Every year in the fall choose a day to celebrate the harvest, plagiarism ceremony held in the village square, presided over by the head of the family, the cattle will be tied to the square on a wooden post.

A young woman hangs a string of beads on the bull's horns, and after a short ceremony, a girl drapes hemp fabric over the bull's back, and finally a young man with both parents plows a sharp bamboo spear into the bull, and the crowd leaps up to cut the meat. Then people cheered and jumped and danced the joyful potshuang dance, *** celebrating the festival.

7, step on the moon

Miao youth dating and marriage customs, also known as walking the village, when the moonlight night, the young men in groups of three or five playing the moon piano, blowing the hole xiao to the villages and villages to look for the girl of their choice, blowing, playing, singing and laughing, through the "stepping on the moon," each other to understand, to establish a friendship, and even fall in love with each other and vowed for life. The "Moon Stomping" program is a great way to get to know each other, establish friendship, and even fall in love.

8, leaf letter

In Jingpo, Lisu popular "physical letter", the use of leaves to express feelings, transfer information, each leaf represents a different meaning.

Such as the man with two young leaves plus other things, expressing love for the woman; the woman is interested in the return of grass smoke, reed, etc., such as the expression of refusal to turn the two leaves back to back to the male party. Live far away from relatives such as receiving a two-finger wide peeled beef know that someone died at home.

Expanded Information:

Yunnan, abbreviated as Yunnan, with its capital city of Kunming, is located in southwest China. Border, the Tropic of Cancer across the southern part of Yunnan Province, is a low-latitude inland area, the east and Guizhou, Guangxi as a neighbor, the north and Sichuan is connected to the north, the northwest close to Tibet, the west and Myanmar border, the south and Laos, Vietnam adjacent to the 25 border counties in Yunnan, respectively, and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, the border is 4060 kilometers long, is China's access to Southeast Asia, South Asia's window and gateway.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Customs of the Hmong People