Yi people's customs and taboos

Yi people have festivals such as the New Year Festival, the Torch Festival, the Flower Face Festival and the Year of the Yi people. In festivals, there are customs such as singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, wrestling, beauty pageant, sacrifice and ancestor worship. There are taboos such as farting and swearing in public, whistling at night, taking primate meat, crossing the fire pit, marrying and slaughtering sheep.

Yi nationality is a minority in China, and its national language is Yi language, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, including 5 sub-dialects and 25 dialects, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

Yi costumes have obvious regional characteristics in texture, style and pattern, which can be divided into six types according to the six major settlements of Yi people. For example, Yi women in Liangshan all wear right-handed clothes with large rows of buttons, blankets and leggings.

The Year of the Yi Nationality is a grand traditional festival for the Yi people in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. The Yi language is called "Kush", and the New Year's time varies from place to place. Most people choose auspicious days from October to the middle and late November of the lunar calendar.