What are the customs characteristics of the Yi people in Sichuan and Yunnan?

1. Festivals: Yi people have many traditional folk festivals. The main festivals are October Festival, Torch Festival and regional festivals and sacrificial activities. October is a traditional festival of the Yi people, usually held in the first ten days of the lunar calendar.

2. The Torch Festival on June 24th of the lunar calendar is the biggest traditional festival of Yi people.

3. Yi people choose festivals according to the Yi calendar.

4. Wedding: Many ancient customs such as splashing water, discrediting face, crying for marriage, fasting before marriage, and "confinement" after marriage have been retained in the Yi wedding.

5. Yi men and women should hold an engagement ceremony before getting married. When they are engaged, they should first get a good sign of getting married. Both men and women should kill pigs and look at the gallbladder and pancreas. The gallbladder is yellow, and the pancreas is big and fat. If the pancreas is curly, it will be fierce, indicating that it cannot be matched.

6. Funeral: In most areas, Yi people are buried in soil, and Liangshan Yi people are cremated. After burial, they dig up the ground and cover the stones tightly, or bag the ashes and hide them in caves with horses.

7. Afterwards, an "An Ling" ceremony will be held for the deceased. Spirit tablet will be made of about one inch of bamboo, wrapped with white wool, wrapped with red silk thread, put into a wooden stick with a five-inch long groove, wrapped with hemp skin, sharpened at both ends of the wooden stick and hung on a bamboo basket. It is called "Madu" in Yi language.

8. "Madu" is placed on the throne below and above the indoor beam.