All the customs and traditions of the Yi people What are the marriage customs of the Yi people?

1, hospitality customs.

The folk have always been "playing sheep", "playing cattle" to welcome guests and hospitality habits. All guests to, must be killed first guests, and according to the identity of the guests, the degree of affinity to cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc., respectively. Before killing the animal, the live animal to the guest before, please guests after the slaughter, to show respect for the guests. Wine is a welcome gift to the guests, in Liangshan as long as the guests into the house, the host must first wine to honor the guests, and then make a variety of dishes. Guests of the meal to pig fat fat thick large for decent, in the middle of the meal, the housewife to pay attention to the guests in the bowl of rice, not to be eaten by the guests to add at any time, in order to show sincerity to the guests. When eating, the elders sit on top, the next generation in order to sit around the sides and below, and for the elders to add rice, hostage dishes, bubble soup.

2, roast tea kissing custom.

Roasted tea is China's high mountain canyon areas of ethnic minorities of the necessities of life, due to the cold and dry climate, the lack of vegetables, it is often to drink rich hot tea to supplement the lack of nutrients, the so-called "three times a day must drink tea". Roasted tea varieties, salty, sweet, bitter and spicy, a hundred flavors of life, not only is the source of energy for hard work, but also the spirit of festivals and hospitality.

It is said that in the local, if you can not learn a hand baked tea technology, to the girl's home baked tea, the old man will think you have no ability, and do not want to marry the girl to you, therefore, the local boys fifteen or sixteen years old to learn to bake the tea, have a set of their own baked tea tricks.

The Yi people also rumored that the Hundred Spirit from the Wuliangshan Mountain, a hundred feet high cliffs to tea seeds for people to cure all diseases of the story, in honor of the spirit bird, the guests drink tea, young boys and girls will always imitate the spirit bird dance, and paste the rice pots and pots of fragrant tea of each process is also related to the Hundred Spirit.

3, marriage customs.

After the engagement of young men and women, it is necessary to prepare for the wedding banquet. Wedding banquets are mostly made of pork and chicken, and generally not mutton (lamb is used for funerals). Shiping Yi in southern Yunnan have invited men and women to gather before the marriage of partners to drink the habit of gathering; Yi in western Yunnan, where the marriage of the bride, are in the courtyard or dam, with branches of the shed, for guests to drink, smoking, eating, sitting, the folk with this branch of the temporary hut called the "green shed". Yi marriage is strange and interesting, the most interesting is, held a "skirt ceremony" of the young girl, can be in the "playground" in the relationship with the sweetheart, as well as matchmakers and wine betrothal, so that the bride is starving, friends and relatives overnight crying wedding, to welcome the bride to splash the bride, grab back bride, cave fighting and other traditional wedding The traditional wedding customs such as the "Cave Fighting" and so on.