What are the customs and habits of the Yi people?

Folk people have the habit of "beating sheep" and "beating cattle" to welcome guests. If there are visitors, they must be killed first and then treated. According to the identity and closeness of the visitors, they are treated as cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens respectively. Before killing animals, bring live animals to guests, ask them to have a look, and then kill them to show respect. Wine is a welcome gift for guests. In Liangshan, as long as guests come into the house, the host must entertain them with wine first, and then cook various dishes. The fat pig is the most decent meal for the guests. In the middle of eating, housewives should always pay attention to the food in the guest's bowl, and replenish what they can't finish at any time to show their sincerity in hospitality. When eating, the elders sit on it, and the younger generation sits on both sides and below in turn, adding meals, serving dishes and soaking for the elders.

2. The custom of baking tea on a blind date

Baked tea is a daily necessity for ethnic minorities in the alpine valleys of China. Because of the cold and dry climate and the lack of vegetables, we often supplement the nutritional deficiency by drinking rich hot tea. The so-called "tea must be drunk three times a day". Roasted tea is diverse, salty, sweet, bitter and spicy, full of life flavor. It is not only the source of energy for hard work, but also the spiritual thing to entertain guests in festivals.

It is said that in the local area, if you can't learn the skill of baking tea and can't bake good tea at your aunt's house, your father-in-law will think that you are incompetent and won't marry your girl. So local boys will learn to bake tea when they are fifteen or sixteen, and they all have their own unique skills in baking tea.

There is also a story among the Yi people that Bailing takes tea seeds from Baizhang Cliff in Wuliangshan to treat all diseases for people. In order to commemorate Lingbi, when guests drink tea, boys and girls always imitate Lingbi to dance, and every time they paste rice and fragrant teas, pots and pans are also related to Bailing.

3. Marriage customs

After the young men and women are engaged, they should make preparations for the wedding reception. Pigs and chickens are often used at wedding banquets, but mutton is generally not used (mutton is used for funerals). The Shiping Yi people in southern Yunnan have the habit of inviting men and women to eat and drink before marriage. Yi people in western Yunnan, who have married their daughters, want to build a shed with branches in the yard or on the dam for guests to drink, smoke, eat and sit around. People call this temporary shed made of branches a "green shed". Marriage and love of Yi people are strange and interesting. The most interesting thing is that girls who have held the "dressing ceremony" can have sex with their sweetheart in the "theater", and there are traditional wedding customs such as the matchmaker saying that they are friendly to drink and engage in betrothal, starving the bride, crying all night, splashing water on the guests attending the wedding, robbing the bride and fighting in the bridal chamber.

Yi people's clothing style

1, Liangshan type

Mainly popular in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province and its surrounding counties, as well as Jinsha River Basin of Yunnan Province. The specific natural geographical environment and social form in a specific historical stage formed by the isolation of natural ravines and gullies in Liangshan are simple and unique, which completely maintains the cultural characteristics of traditional costumes.

2. Wumeng Mountain type

In the past, this kind of clothing was mainly made of wool and linen, but now it is mainly made of cloth, and the color is still black, mostly blue and blue. Its basic style is big chest, right hand gown and long education. Women's clothing has floral decoration on shoulders, neckline, hem and skirt. It can also be divided into Weining style and Panlong style.

3. Red River type

This kind of men's wear is basically the same all over the country, mostly stand-up collar short coat and wide crotch pants; Women's dresses are colorful, with styles ranging from long dresses to long dresses and short dresses. Most dresses have vests, ordinary pants and aprons. The headdress is dazzling, especially decorated with silver bubbles or wool. It can be divided into Yuanyang style, Jianshui style and Shiping style.

4. Southeast Yunnan type

This kind of clothing is popular in Yi nationality area in southeast Yunnan and Napo in Guangxi. The main styles of women's wear are right lapel, double lapel coat and trousers, and skirts are worn in some areas; Men's clothes are double-breasted, with vest and wide crotch pants. Some Yi people in Napo, Guangxi, Malipo, Yunnan, etc. still retain the ancient official square robes, which are only worn by women at festivals or ceremonies. This kind of clothing is mostly white, blue and black, decorated with animal and plant patterns and geometric patterns. The process includes embroidery, patchwork, batik and other techniques. There are three styles: Lunan, Maitreya and Wenxi.