Lisu Festivals What is the difference between Lisu festivals in different places?

The different seasons of abundance in different parts of the Lisu people.

The "Age of Abundance" is the grandest traditional festival of the Lisu, equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese. In addition, due to the different geographic and cultural environments, the Li's "Fung Nian" also varies from place to place. The "rich year" plays an important role in the cultural heritage of the Li people. Let's take a look at the different "rich years" of the Li in different regions.

Generally speaking, it takes about a month from the fifth day of the first lunar month to the tenth day of the first lunar month of the following year. This period is the cherry blossom season, so every year the cherry blossom is the Lisu people's new year, but also the Lisu people's "harvest year".

The purpose of a "good year" can be summarized in four ways: first, to worship heaven and earth and pray for blessings; second, to offer prayers to ancestors. The third is to seek the protection of the Dagoma and drive away the ghosts of the gods. The fourth is to pray for heaven and earth to regulate the weather for a good harvest in the new year. This is the origin of the Harvest Festival.

Before the festival, Lisu people slaughter pigs and goats, brew water wine, make corncrakes, and give each other gifts depending on whether they hope to have enough food and clothes for the new year. Young people tie colorful gates to the fence of the village head to enclose the event area. On the morning of the festival, families scramble to gather branches and leaves from pine trees and spread them around the house, placing them in front of the door for good luck. Then people dressed in holiday attire gather at their village's public ****ing place for a ceremony to welcome the old and the new, presided over by Reverend Barbie.

The ceremony begins with a pine tree planted in the center of the lawn, from whose branches hang crossbows and ribbons carefully embroidered by the girls. Under the tree was a large basket filled with buckwheat. It was surrounded by 12 small baskets of buckwheat and 12 jars of new wine, symbolizing the month of December in the year. Barbie stands in the center, reciting the history of the country and wishing good luck for the New Year.

Afterward, Barbie brings 12 young men and women to play huckleberries and sing happy ballads. He brought 12 small pine trees into the mountains and planted them next to 12 small grain baskets to signify bringing back an auspicious New Year. Then, 12 jars of buckwheat wine were poured for everyone to drink, and the crossbow shooting, dancing, singing, and swinging activities began. The whole village was intoxicated by the festive atmosphere of the men, women and children.

During the open season, crossbow tournaments do not require registration or payment. People use crude oil and meat brought in voluntarily as arrow targets. Archers take turns competing. Whoever hits the target gets the crude oil and meat. The one who shoots thick meat is the best archer.

Customs of Lisu Autonomous Prefecture

The Lisu people are mainly concentrated in the Nujiang River Valley in Yunnan Province. The Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture is the only Lisu autonomous prefecture in China. When the local Lisu people celebrate the Spring Festival, every family will pound long rice cakes and glutinous corn cakes and make fragrant water wine. To pray for a good harvest and happiness in the coming year, families put the first pounded indica rice cakes on peach and pear trees.

On New Year's Eve you cannot eat at someone else's house or you will disappear like the moon. So that night, every family member cannot go out and the whole family must get together for a reunion dinner. In an old Lisu legend, it was the dog that brought the rice seed back to earth. The Lisu also offer a bowl of rice, a long piece of rice cake and a piece of meat to the dog as payment for the New Year's sacrifice.

Customs in the interior of Nujiang

The Lisu live in different "years of plenty," even in the Nujiang region. The Lisu in Kung and Bijiang have a "Year of Abundance" that lasts from the first day of the festival to the twelfth day, which means there are 12 months in a year. During the Spring Festival, the whole family rests and everyone wears their best clothes to celebrate the festival. In this village, autumn poles and high jumping frames are erected and sports competitions such as swinging and jumping are held.

Young men carry lutes in their arms and invite young girls to sing and dance in the wilderness. Or go to the beach near the Nu River to play "river sand buried people" game, rowing bamboo raft race. The old man drank 'singing' and was very tired. He drank a bowl of water wine, rested for a while, and then sang for several days and nights. The seventh day of the festival is a day of rest for women. On this day, women did not carry water or cook. The ninth day was a day of rest for the people. On this day, people neither carried water, nor cooked, nor went hunting in the mountains. The custom of seven women and nine men competing on the same stage is an ancient custom that has been passed down from generation to generation among the Lisu people.

Luxian Customs

In the "Year of Plenty", the Lisu people of Lushui County have the custom of "spring bathing". Anywhere there is a hot spring is where they gather to bathe. Autonomous Prefecture, the capital of the six reservoirs near the "canyon sixteen soup", is also the "spring bath" of the perfect place to go. The Donggan and Linen baths near Rokko have been held for hundreds of years.

On the second or third day of the "Year of Plenty", the Lisu people would bring their luggage, prepare food, and set up bamboo huts near the hot springs, where they would eat, drink, and take a hot bath. Some people would travel hundreds of miles up the mountain to bathe in the hot springs. Singers from dozens or hundreds of miles nearby would gather here, divided into groups of men and women, singing and dancing.

Hungry, they eat their own wine and food. Tired, they go to their makeshift tents to rest. Eat, sleep, sing and dance to their hearts' content. At the same time, swings, crossbows and theater performances were held. Young men and women exchange feelings and choose partners through various activities.

Lisu people in Tengchong County, Baoshan District, Yunnan Province, will also hold a performance of "Climbing Mountain and Descending Fire". They have chosen 72 steel knives. First, they try to see if they are sharp. If not, they don't want them. Then the knives are securely tied to two poles to form a "knife ladder", which is fixed by standing on flat ground. Barefoot Lisu people stepped on the steel knife, step by step to climb the ladder, on the ladder to perform a variety of actions, the red flag inserted in the top of the pole thrown in all directions.

Then step by step they go down, feet don't get hurt. At night, they piled a red-hot charcoal on the ground and walked barefoot across the blazing coals. Seeing the Lisu people "going up and down the mountain" not only made them nervous, but also impressed them with their bravery.

Folklore

There is a beautiful and touching legend that more than 1,000 years ago, there was a huge dam in southern Qinghai where hundreds of families lived. They lived in harmony, exchanged ideas and lived a peaceful and beautiful life. One of them was Abaud, who had three sons. Yes, the first son, the second son was Hua, the third son was Ayuhen, and the third son was Ma.

This family worked hard, the husband and wife respected each other, and the three sons were obedient and filial. Their life was enviable. But one year, the capital city sent soldiers to capture them, saying that there was a war ahead and all the family members had to go. The man who captured the soldiers said maliciously, "There are three brothers in your family. You must go to the front, and there are two others. No matter who goes or stays, you must reply within five days." The three brothers did not dare to make a sound and looked at each other.

In the evening, they gathered around the fireplace to discuss their plans and work out how to escape the devil's clutches. Abbott said, "There are two paths before us now. One is to be a strong man and be controlled by them. This is the way of death. One is to escape. Maybe there is a way to escape." The two younger brothers also have plans to run away, but love each other y. It was hard to tell if they would live or die. Neither of them has said a word.

Abaud added, "I can't leave you either, but if I don't run, I'll die. I'd better run." The two brothers thought for a moment, then said in unison, "It's settled." After that, the three brothers struck chicken blood together and swore in unison that they would travel the world, not forgetting the kindness of their parents in raising them, not forgetting the kindness of their ancestors when they left their roots behind, and not asking to live **** and die with their compatriots, but only asking not to forget the flesh and blood, the lives and the dreams of their compatriots, and to return to their hometowns when they die.

Boldly move forward. Success is at our feet. Year after year, a new year comes. When one is only one year old and "rich", one is destined to meet thousands of miles away. It's hard to separate one person's heart from another's. The roots of this tree are in Goshen. People travel thousands of miles to return to their homeland. Cherry blossoms are in bloom, and Du Chun is busy plowing. Traditionally, "koso" is a time to return to one's roots year after year, and it is destiny to return to one's roots.

The next night, the three brothers wept bitterly. They could not be separated. They encouraged each other, prayed for each other and said goodbye to the place where their ancestors lived. The older brother, carrying a crossbow, went first. I don't know how many nights he traveled, how many mountains he climbed, and finally crossed the ocean to another country. The second brother, Li Aike, put away his long knife and wiped away his tears. He said goodbye to his elder brother and mother and fled to the south to settle down.

Abaud took the old and the young, dragging children and women along the dark Black Hills. When he was hungry, he ate fried noodles, and when he was thirsty, he drank cold water, all day long. I don't know how many mountains and rivers I climbed, but on the tenth day, my aged and frail mother finally fell ill. The couple was desperate to do nothing. Despite the call of the spirits and the sacrifice of the ghosts, the mother gave up.

The couple had to bury the old man with tears in their eyes, dry their eyes, pack their things, and carry their child on their backs as they continued their journey westward. After another five days, they came to the east bank of the Lancang River. Looking across the river, they could vaguely see some scattered wooden houses under the snowy peaks on the other bank. The columns of smoke on the roofs made the whole family happy. They had been away from home for more than ten days. It was the first time they had seen a peasant family, but how could the raging river cross it?

Abaud became intrigued by his plan when he saw the dense bamboo forests along the Lancang River. He swung his machete and cut down the bamboos in a few strokes. Then he tied them in a row, made a raft and cut two oars. He took the helm at the bow and told his wife to support him at the stern. After floating for a bag of cigarettes, the family finally reached the west bank of the Lancang River.

After a short rest, they continued on their way. I don't know how far they traveled, but eventually they came to a small cottage. Upon inquiry, they learned that it was a Lisu walled village, *** with more than 20 families. Due to the war, they soon left the mainland. This mountain is high and steep, treacherous and sparsely populated, but still far from being a place of wrongdoing.

After some discussion, the couple decided to settle here. The next day, too many cooks began building houses with cut materials, thatched roofs, stones and rocks. After a few days of hard work, a three-bedroom house with wooden walls was built! The family lived happily inside!

After a few days, for the coming year, everyone took knives and hoes and cut down the trees on the sunny slopes, the green heads, and the forest edges, then built fires on the ground and planted rice and wheat in the mild places, and soybeans, corn, buckwheat, indica, oats, and other crops in the steeper places. In order to prevent birds and animals from spoiling the crops, people also built sheds and sent people to protect them.

When there was no work to do, the men went to the field to hunt birds and deer for bees, and the women sewed linen at home. Time passed so quickly! The cherry blossoms are blooming again. It's time to "generalize the time self". To Abbott's family, "We don't have any big hogs. We want to hunt wild boar in the wild. We didn't use rice cakes with silkworms instead. We honor our ancestors and express our thoughts of the departed with wild boar heads and rice cakes with asparagus. Once a year, forever."