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Traditional Festivals:

The Buyei have many traditional festivals, in addition to the New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals similar to the Han Chinese, "March 3", "April 8", "June 6 "and other festivals have the inherent characteristics of their own ethnic groups.

1, the New Year's Day, according to Fangzhi records, the Buyei people "in November for the first year". Pingtang, Libo area is still in November 30th "small year", but most areas have been incorporated into the Spring Festival. In the month of Lunar New Year, families are busy brewing wine, making glutinous rice, curing bacon, making blood tofu, or sewing new clothes. On New Year's Eve, the ancestors are honored with sumptuous food and wine, firecrackers are set off, and the whole family observes the New Year's Eve until the rooster crows.

2. On February 2, the main purpose of the festival is to worship the "Land God", blessing the whole village with peace and quiet, killing chickens to honor the ancestors, and eating two-color (white and black) glutinous rice. The Buyi in Yunnan Province, this festival will be three days, to sacrifice the "old man room" as the center of the ritual activities. On March 3, it is mainly to offer sacrifices to the mountain gods or to sweep the village to drive away the ghosts, wishing for a good harvest.

Customs:

1, the Buyei people's rich and colorful culture and art. Myths, stories, fairy tales, fables, proverbs, poems and other oral literature are widely circulated among the people, recounting the ancient history of the nation, glorifying the people's diligence and bravery, exposing the darkness and brutality of the old society, and looking forward to the happiness and brightness of the new society.

2. The folk songs of the Buyi are rich in national characteristics, including narrative songs, ancient songs, production and labor songs, customary songs, love songs, bitter songs, songs of weeping and marrying, children's songs, and new folk songs, etc. They are either sung in the Buyi language or sung in the Buyi language. They are either sung in Buyei or in Chinese, with different sentence patterns and structures.

Expanded Information

1. Origin and Distribution of the Buyei People:

The national language of the Buyei people is Buyei, a branch of the Zhuang-Dai language of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, which is closely related to the Zhuang language and is commonly used in Chinese.

Buyi people evolved from the ancient bureaucrats, mainly in agriculture, Buyei ancestors began to cultivate rice, enjoying the name of "rice nation".

The Buyi are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other provinces, with Guizhou province having the largest population of Buyi, accounting for 97% of the country's Buyi population. They mainly live in the two Buyi Miao Autonomous Prefectures of Qiannan and Qianxinan, as well as in the cities of Anshun, Guiyang, and Liupanshui, while the rest of the cities, prefectures, and localities are scattered, and a small part of them live in Vietnam.

2, Buyei taboos

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, do not open boxes and cabinets, do not sweep the floor, do not comb your hair, do not sun drying clothes. The first to the third do not move the soil, the fifteenth day of the first month do not move the knife, dishes can only be twisted by hand. It is forbidden to bury graves in front of or behind the village. It is forbidden for outsiders to enter the village when sweeping the village, and it is forbidden for outsiders to enter the house when driving away ghosts.

Forbidding married girls to give birth to children in their mother's home. If you have a woman in labor, hang a red cloth and a gabion hat at the door to keep people out of your home, and men are not allowed to enter the house where the woman is giving birth. Prohibit whistling and singing love songs in the house. People who die unnatural deaths, avoid the sound of drums to report the funeral.

To the Buyi people's homes as a guest, shall not touch the shrine and offering table, the tripod by the fire taboo trampling. Buyi custom to honor guests with wine, guests should drink a little more or less. It is forbidden to touch or cut down the trees of the Buyei villages. The Buyi must give gifts in even numbers.

Part of the Buyi branch of the people do not eat dog meat, one explanation is that the dog once saved their ancestors, another explanation is that there was no rice before mankind, it is the dog from the god of the sun to bring back rice to the Buyi people, so that the Buyi people have become the first of mankind to plant rice "rice nation". Part of the Buyi branch of the tribe does not eat fish, because according to legend, the earliest mother of the Buyi is the daughter of the Dragon King - a sacred fish.

Source of reference; China.gov.cn-Buyi

Source of reference; Baidu Encyclopedia-Buyi