What's the difference between a snow vine mat and a Hani mat? What's the difference between a snow vine mat and a Hani mat?

Food customs Most of the Hani people live in the southwestern part of China's Yunnan Province, a mountainous ethnic group living in the Red River region of Yunnan Province, mainly in agriculture, good at terracing rice paddies, digging slopes to plant tea forests, and they have cultivated the famous "Purple Rice" (Elderberry Rice) and "Pu'er Tea", creating one of the seven types of fields in the history of China's agricultural "Terraced Field Culture". There are folk festivals such as October Festival (New Year's Day), June Festival (Eating New Year), Botou (Mountain Sacrifice), Mother Sacrifice Festival, Recognizing Uncle, and Abado (Love Song Banquet), etc. The rich food culture and festival culture mirror each other, constituting a unique Hani style. Hani people eat two meals a day, mainly rice, corn as a supplement, like to eat dry rice, poi, rice thread, roll powder and pea cold noodles, but also will be thin meat chopped fine, with rice, ginger, star anise, grass congee together. They love to eat glutinous rice poi, wrapped in banana leaves with cured meat. They also use purple glutinous rice to make purple rice, purple rice poop, purple rice congee, purple rice flour, purple rice zuobao rice, purple rice steamboat chicken, purple rice boiled eggs in sweet wine, purple rice medicinal sugar congee and so on, which constitutes a complete series of medicinal meals. These medicinal dishes have the effect of tonifying the blood, warming the spleen and stopping the deficiency, strengthening the brain and the kidney, and collecting the uterus and strengthening the body. Hani people also love to eat meat, pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, large pieces of food, big bowls of wine is the master of hospitality, guests from the idea of the way, we gathered together, as happy as possible. The village has a family to kill pigs and slaughter chickens or do what delicious food, men and women of all households are invited to the elders **** food, and the liver and other most tender and delicious parts of the salary to the elderly to enjoy. Hani people and good at careful budgeting, often eat fresh leftover pork, beef made of flavorful fire-smoked bacon and dry bar, year-round reserves to treat guests. When the system, the meat cut into strips, sprinkled with pepper, salt, anise powder and other spices, cover the composting of a day and night, it will be hung above the fire, let it smoke and bake, half a month or a month later, bacon and dry bar were purple-red, fragrant unusual and slightly fresh flavor, removed and loaded into a special large contempt cage, hanging beams, can be prepared to eat throughout the year. Fire-smoked bacon and dry bar is a famous Hani delicacy it! The Hani people also have a strange food called "white wang", is made with raw pig blood, sheep blood, dog blood, chopped raw, the Hani tribe of Ai Ni people called "A pressure horse pinch". Just slaughtered pigs, sheep, dogs blood as the main raw material, or then chopped and fried lean meat, liver, waist, etc., sprinkled with chili powder, star anise, wild peppercorns, pepper and other spices, without losing time to quickly stir and become. This dish is afraid to look at, eat fragrant, mellow flavor, spicy and delicious, is listed as indispensable during the killing of pigs and slaughtering goats famous dishes, but also the Hani people warm hospitality delicacies. The Hani people on the south bank of the Red River are good at fermented soybeans mixed with soybean ash to make a special flavor of edamame, almost every meal is used to accompany the meal, eat more, known as "Hani monosodium glutamate". With its modulation of the "sparrow meat pine sauce", fresh and fragrant. The traditional Hani calendar divides the year into a cold season, a warm season and a rainy season, each of which lasts four months. It is customary to have two annual festivals in a year, one in October and the other in June. The October Year is the first dragon day in the tenth month of the lunar calendar and lasts for five or six days, when the gods of heaven and ancestors are sacrificed. At that time, each family kills a big red rooster and cooks it on the spot, without taking it indoors. Each member of the family eats a piece, and married girls are not allowed to eat. On the third day, a grand "Ziwudu" activity is held every afternoon, that is, the whole village people drink unity and happiness together. Walled village is divided into three groups, each group takes turns one day as the east, the day will be west, the man in charge of the sound of gongs and drums, will be delicious food as well as sorghum casserole pot wine to the center of the street, the order of the order of a long time on the long contempt of the fence has already been laid. Some large villages feast up to 100 meters long, the man in charge of each household around the table plate feet on the feast, each family competing to come up with their own good Lai, according to the rules of the side drink and dance. Hani people like to drink wine, wine festival is special. Such as mother festival, old man festival, yellow rice festival, naming festival, dragon festival, recognize uncle festival. Whenever there is a festival, there will be wine. The most interesting is the "Abado" wine and song love banquet. "Abado" is a wine festival where young Hani people show their love for each other, reflect their wisdom and compete with each other in cooking skills. More held in the agricultural leisure, by a village of boys jointly invited the neighboring villages of girls to participate, the number of equal, generally in about twenty people, people night banquet will be held in a big house, men and women about the pairing into the table, dishes, there must be a boiled rooster (on top of the two chickens testicles placed on the dragon and a live crabs). They toast and sing to each other and stay together until dawn. The young man will give the lover sticky rice and meat, and agree on the date of the next gathering. The Hani people also have the custom of drinking "new grain wine". Every year before the fall harvest, living in Yunnan Yuanjiang area of the Hani people, in accordance with traditional customs, will hold a sumptuous "drink new grain wine" ceremony to celebrate the harvest, people and animals safe. The so-called "new grain wine", is each family from the field to cut back a handful of ripe grain handle, hanging upside down in the hall right behind the upper part of the wall of a small gabion along the edge of the meant to pray for the family God to protect the crops, and then strangled under the grain a hundred or so grains, some of the fried into the grain flower, some do not fry, put into the bottle of wine. Drinking "New Valley Wine" is chosen on an auspicious day, when every family organizes a sumptuous meal, and the whole family, young and old, without exception, drinks a few mouthfuls of "New Valley Wine". This meal should be eaten by everyone who is full of wine and rice. The Hani people regard fire as the life of the family, protect the fire carefully, and worship the fire pit religiously. They have several different fire pits in each house, not only to smoke and fire long burning, and can not be mixed. The first fire pit to cook small pots of rice, fried vegetables, the second fire pit specializing in steaming rice, there is a fire pit only to cook pig food, the fire pit hanging over a hard gabion made of hammock-like "fire class", used to smoke the food. During festivals, each family prepares a bowl of rice, meat and vegetables, and spicy wine to worship the sacred fire pit. Hani Funeral In the Hani rituals of life, the funeral is the most solemn, the Hani people believe that: "life in the world for a lifetime, death in the netherworld to get eternal life". Therefore, death is only the threshold to another world, the human soul will never perish, and thus a grand funeral should be held. Hani funeral generally have to eat the dying rice, renew gas, gun proclamation, easy bed, stop the body, clean wearing life clothes, nail coffin and a series of ceremonies. One of the most important part of the crying and singing hymns, it is throughout the funeral activities. The elegiac singing words mastered more or less depth, invariably also became a measure of Hani women whether intelligent and capable of one of the yardstick. Girls and young women in the event of a funeral, they will gather in groups at the funeral home, the field to copy and learn. As a result, the whole scene is lively with a mixture of real and fake cries. However, a song sung by the mourners is enough to make every listener weep. Two days before the funeral, the mourners should ask the famous Mopi (priest) to read to the deceased, "the road to the scripture" and genealogy, eyes half-open, half-closed, holding a handful of bamboo tubes, and every time you read a paragraph, the bamboo tubes will be on the ground, "thud, thud, thud, thud," struck a few times. Returning to know the name of the ancestors, so the MoPi also want to keep reciting genealogy, so that the dead will be successfully recognized by the ancestors. Hani funeral in the most notable grand ceremony "Mo rub rub", generally for the normal death of men and women held in high life. On the night before the funeral, young men and women light a fire and beat gongs and drums in the funeral home. The young people brow to brow, singing and dancing shadow, all night long. Hani cottage usually strictly prohibit jokes about sexual content in front of the opposite sex or relatives, however, in the "Mo rubbing rub" night, completely replaced by life and death melt, sadness **** there is the scene, and this precisely reflects the concept of life of the Hani people: death, means life, no life without death, no death there is no life. The death and disappearance of the individual body should not become a metaphor for the decline of the ethnic group, but should become an opportunity for the ethnic hippie to live forever and prosperity. Dance to welcome the bride and "whack the bridegroom" Mojiang call themselves the Amu people of the Hani ethnic group, in the entire wedding ceremony, from beginning to end are inseparable from the dance. On the eve of the wedding, both men and women build a hut with pine and bamboo outside their houses as a place to welcome the bride and groom and to entertain guests. On the day of the wedding, the bridegroom's team leaves some of them on the way to be ready to receive them on the way back, and the rest follow the groom to the woman's house. When they came to the woman's home at the entrance to the walled village, the walled village drums and music, to send the bride and groom team jumped up the traditional dance to the entrance to the walled village, to receive relatives one by one, a toast to tea, and then everyone *** dance into the walled village straight to the shed. Rest for a moment, a pair of couples standing in a square table, the female relatives with two fingers holding a bamboo shoot leaves, dancing around the square table, intended to pray for good luck in the disaster. Halfway to the man's house, the bride and groom, surrounded by the welcoming team and the escorting team, meet another part of the receiving family, who have been waiting for a long time. They form a circle on the spot and dance to the rhythm of sharp points and drums to congratulate each other. When they arrived at the man's house together, a sumptuous banquet had been set up inside and outside the shed. Guests have just been seated, a woman who can sing and dance from the upper seat from table to table and dance, followed by a male host, who carries on three bowls and a wine gourd on the dustpan, to each table to take a little wine and food. When the banquet is about to end, a chef carrying a bamboo sieve with eight large bowls, out of the kitchen to dance to each banquet, the guests and symbolically to the ???dishes???. Finally, in his "time to dance" under the command, the guests have to leave the table, circle after circle dancing and singing, we warmly wish the new couple happy marriage, encourage them to be thrifty, respect for the elderly and children. The new equal land called Kado's Hani tribe, to welcome the bride, there is a bride "whack the groom" comedy. Welcome team to the woman's home, the hosts and guests to exchange a few pleasantries on the drink, both parents are also there to eat and drink, talking about the East and West, seems to have forgotten that this day is the day of the bride to get married. After a while, the head tied red silk, chest full of silver jewelry of the bride, only shyly and slowly appeared in front of the wedding team. When walking to the groom in front of her, she suddenly huffed in color, raised his hands to the groom to split the face to whack. At this time, everyone uproar cheer. Only to see the bride and cry and whack, the groom is to dodge the west, not to fight back. When the bride whacked enough, suddenly broke into tears when the groom said, "Now it's time to go it. In the difficult to part, mother and daughter hugging and crying and singing. At this point, the bride's siblings forced her to separate the two, back up the bride to run out of the welcome team also followed. It is said that the original intention of the "bridegroom pounding" is to test the groom's loyalty to love. Eat new valley and long dragon feast Red River around the Hani tribe, the first dragon day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, there is "eat new valley" custom. Eat new grain this day, each family in accordance with the old rules, should be in the east just dew white, to their own paddy fields to pull back a small bundle of even with the ears of rice. When pulling rice to choose the number of plants in a single rice hole, back when no matter encountered raw, familiar people do not greet, otherwise thought unlucky. In the afternoon, the morning back to the ears of rice rubbed down the grain, with the shell in the pot baking until the rice flower. People eat rice flower before, should be given to the dog to eat a little. Because of the ancient legend, the Hani people in a big flood after regaining the grain seed is the dog to carry, so to thank it. Have eaten rice flowers, but also the year planted melons, beans, vegetables and vegetables are taken out to taste the new, at the same time must eat a bowl of tender bamboo shoots, symbolizing the next year's harvest as high as the new bamboo; but also to kill and eat castrated big fat chicken, hoping that the next year's life is rich and beautiful. The biggest festival of the Hani people is the "October Year", which lasts six days before and after. According to their ancient calendar, the first Dragon Day in October of the lunar calendar for the beginning of the New Year (equivalent to the first day of the Chinese New Year). New Year's Day, each cottage to **** kill a pig. Pigs, regardless of size, meat is distributed evenly by household, even if the heart, liver, lungs, intestines, belly and other limited number of families to share. In the afternoon, each family sacrifices to their ancestors with their share of the pork and the next water. During the festival, the whole family gets together and invites friends from other ethnic groups in the neighborhood to join them. They celebrate all day long, especially singing old folk songs about the origins of the festival and the history of the people, and singing about the joy of a good harvest. In the second half of the New Year, each village will set up a long banquet in the center of the village, and the whole village **** drink and have fun together to celebrate the traditional festival which symbolizes their unity and harmony and good luck and happiness. This banquet looks like a long dragon, so it is called "Long Dragon Banquet"; because located in the center of the street, people also called "street wine". If it is a small cottage, street wine an afternoon can end, if it is a large cottage, it is divided into three groups by household, held in three afternoons, each group takes turns to be the host. According to the agreed date, the host of the families, early in the morning to carry the square table to the center of the clean street, one after another placed, a hundred tables connected to more than 100 meters of the long line. In the late afternoon, after a greeting, the host family scrambled to put the best dishes and wine on the table. The better the food and wine, the more decent, so many people even their own usually can not afford to eat the delicious food are offered one by one. At a glance, the fish bird, river loach, carp, bamboo shoots, fungus, mushrooms, big fat chicken ...... 20 bowls per table, table fragrant, showing the fruits of the hard work of the Hani people and the traditional cooking skills, showing the longest and grandest feast of the Hani ethnic style. In the bustling atmosphere of gongs and drums, people voluntarily take their seats in groups according to their different ages, interests and hobbies. When the gongs and drums stop, the drummers carry the gongs and drums from table to table to accept the toasts and offerings. Then, a pair of girls represent the crowd to toast the grandmothers one by one. The women eat first, and then the men raise their glasses and chopsticks. For hours on end, the street feast was warm, harmonious and joyful, with laughter and songs. When night falls, a bunch of bonfires are lit, and young men and women dance to the accompaniment of gongs and drums, three strings and bamboo flutes. As the night wore on, people gradually left, and those couples headed for the palm groves and golden bamboo bushes ......