National Culture of Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County in Yuanjiang

The traditional culture of Hani nationality in Yuxi City is relatively developed, and there are many taboo customs, which involve many fields of production and life. These restrictive norms and taboo habits have many colorful and excellent traditional cultural connotations. The Hani people mainly worship polytheism and ancestors, and there is a mountain temple in the village. Every year, the first dragon day in February of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is held in a temple on the mountain or under the "Dragon Tree" beside the forest. No one is allowed to destroy or infringe on the Mountain Temple and the Dragon Tree, otherwise it will be punished by the whole people or the gods. In the first month, there will be an annual "mountain closure meeting" for one day. The main purpose is to formulate regulations prohibiting deforestation and closing hillsides for afforestation. Offenders will be fined, fined, set up streets and build roads. The birth of a baby is a big event. At this time, a humanoid sign cut from bamboo shoots was hung at the door of the house to show that outsiders were forbidden to enter. Only women and grandmothers in the same family can enter the "Moon Ovary". In funeral customs, in some places, people who died outside are not allowed to enter the house through the gate when they are carried home. They want to pry a hole from the back gable, carry the body into the house, wash it and put it in the coffin, and then send it out for mourning; In some places, it is not allowed to carry pregnant women, babies and the dead who commit violence outside to the clan's "grave mountain" for burial.

Dota people and Han people celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time, but the content and activities of the festival maintain the inherent characteristics of the nation.

Hani yellow rice festival

The first sheep day in March every year is the Yellow Rice Festival celebrated by Hani people in Yuanjiang.

On this day, every family prepares delicious food. Soak the glutinous rice with the juice of the "dyed rice tree", swallow the fragrant yellow glutinous rice and cook the red duck eggs for the cuckoo who announced the arrival of spring. Boys and girls in the village gathered on a moderate lawn in Shan Ye to celebrate the festival. Young men and women take this opportunity to play with each other, sing folk songs and blow leaves, so as to choose their partners and fall in love.

Hani street banquet

According to the ancient calendar of the Hani nationality, the first dragon day in October of the lunar calendar is the first day of the New Year. On New Year's Day, all Hani villages will hold a grand banquet in the center of the village. The whole village will have a good time and take turns drinking, which symbolizes their unity, harmony, good luck and happiness.

Hanikuzaza Festival

The traditional bitter zhazha of the Niha nationality in Yuanjiang begins on the first monkey praying day in May every year and lasts for three to five days. This is a grand festival, wishing a bumper harvest and healthy people and animals.

Hani October year

"October year"; Hani language is called "Mi Souza" and "Zallet". This festival starts from the first Dragon Day in 10 and ends in the Year of the Monkey, and lasts for 5 to 6 days. At the dawn of the New Year's Day, women are busy making glutinous rice Baba and jiaozi, while men kill pigs and chickens to cook delicious food. In the morning, each family will slaughter a big red rooster in the yard outside the gate, cook it on the spot and eat it with the whole family. On this day, a swing was set up in the village square, and all men, women and children should play on the swing. Baizu Sanyue steet

March Street, also known as "Homecoming" and "Tian Zi Club", was grandly held on March 24th of the lunar calendar.

During the festival, activities such as "playing with lions", "playing with dragon lanterns", "playing with mussels", "playing with grass dragons", "playing with cave classics" and "swinging" are held grandly. Even the Bai expatriates scattered in Southeast Asian countries will come back to attend the grand ceremony even if they travel overnight. Bai torch festival

Because of the long history and cultural origin of the far Bai nationality, it has formed its unique national customs and habits. Among them, "Torch Festival" is one of the most representative traditional festivals of Bai people in Yuan Yin. According to historical records, during the Nanzhao period, the leader of the Bai nationality led his troops to "release their horses in the Ministry". Today's Yingpanshan, Dui, Nanyue Temple Cooper, Yuanba Fallen Tree, etc. are all legendary places where white officers and men left their horses in the division. According to folklore, when Duan led his troops into the village, it was the evening of June 25th of the lunar calendar. All the local ethnic groups were shocked by Duan's military strength and surrendered sincerely. Men, women and children lit a bunch of torches in Song and Ming Dynasties, and a blazing fire was erected in front of every household, making the streets as bright as day and welcoming Duan's troops into the village. Since then, the Bai people have taken root in Yuan Yin, and have been multiplying for generations.

Torch Festival

Every year, a few days before the 25th day of June in the lunar calendar, Bai men, women and children meet and go to the deep forest far away from the village to pick pine trees, peel them, and cut them into short and even white firewood as the torch for the festival. On the day of the festival, every household inserts a torch as high as ten feet in front of the door, hangs a string of firecrackers on the torch, and inserts colorful paper flowers and red golden phoenix flowers to set off the festive atmosphere. At night, in addition to lighting the fire handles fixed in front of each house, boys and girls each held a bunch of very strong and beautiful torches, and played forty or fifty rounds at a time, and one torch extinguished the poke and lost. Wedding custom of Huayao Dai nationality

Dai Ya and Dai Zong, commonly known as Huayaodai, are talking about the wedding etiquette of Huayaodai in ancient times. The custom of "stringing girls", also known as "stringing villages", is widespread in many ethnic minority areas in central China, but its name and form are different. For example, Miao people call it "crossing the moon" and "walking through villages and lanes", Yao people call it "climbing the building" and Buyi people call it "visiting the field", which are all ways for young men and women to fall in love freely. The "string girls" of Huayao Dai means that young men and women get to know each other's stockade, name and general family situation in some public places, such as the Flower Street Festival in the first month, the Flower Street Festival in Duanyang, the Spring Festival, and the singing field. Young men began to "string girls", while young women went to fields, under bamboo forests, beside ditches and other places in droves, singing the song of "poor wood makes coquettish" in a low voice, expecting the young men in their hearts to string together.

The lyric "Don't burn, don't burn, don't be barren, Mo Linggen" in the minor "Han Musheng Sao" is the best portrayal of this scene at this time, which means "the little girl and the young man talk to each other".

"Drink a little wine", young men and women are free to fall in love through the activities of "visiting villages", and then tell their parents separately after being married for a hundred years. So the man's mother and a married woman went to the woman's house one day, and the only gift they brought was a beautiful lunch box with glutinous rice, lean meat and other foods. If the woman's parents refuse to accept the gift. It means that you don't agree with this marriage. If the woman's parents accept the gift money, they agree with this marriage and kill chickens and string geese to entertain guests. A few days later, the man's mother brought a pair of silver bracelets, a chicken, a duck, two pounds of wine and gift money to the woman's house to engage in betrothal, exchange glasses with her parents and discuss the wedding date.