What are the customs of the Buyi?

There are the following customs:

Diet:

Buyi specialty dietsBuyi people to rice, corn as the main food, wheat, sorghum, potatoes and potatoes and beans as a supplement. There are wooden cans, tripod cans cooking rice, oil stewed rice, Erhe rice (rice mixed with crushed corn, also known as bao gu rice), bao gu po, rice flour, two pieces of po, pea flour, rice tofu and other colorful varieties. Among them, glutinous rice dumplings, flower rice and sesame oil dumplings are the most well-known, and are mostly used for ancestor worship or banquets. Their meat comes mainly from domestic animals and poultry, and they also love to hunt squirrels, bamboo rats and bamboo worms. Cooking methods are mostly roasted, boiled, popped, fried, pickled and frozen, and raw food is generally not eaten.

Wine plays an important role in the daily life of the Buyi. Every year after the fall harvest, families have to brew a large amount of rice wine and store it for year-round drinking. The Buyi people like to treat their guests with wine, no matter how much they drink, as long as the guests arrive, they will drink wine first, called "welcome wine". When drinking wine, they don't use cups but bowls, and they have to make orders to guess and sing.

There are many traditional snacks for the Buyi people, such as rice flour, two pieces of rice flour, pea flour, rice tofu, etc. The Buyi people are generous and hospitable. The Buyei people are generous and hospitable, characterized by the annual lunar calendar, "February 2", "March 3", "April 8", Dragon Boat Festival, "June 6", "July 30", Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., are grand festivals, April 8, "many of the Buyei people use maple leaves, yellow rice flowers, dyeing dandelion flowers and other plant branches and leaves of the glutinous rice dyed into colorful, flower sticky rice to entertain the guests and give to friends and relatives.

Etiquette:

Buyi girl blowing wood leaves Buyei hospitality, warmth, generosity, sincerity, all to the cottage, friends and relatives, old friends, never know, all will be treated with wine. Buyi people are very polite, do not welcome foul-mouthed, rude guests.

Buyi families live apart. However, despite the separation of brothers, in the distribution of property, parents are left with a pension field, which is cultivated by brothers in turn. After the death of their parents, the old-age field is turned into a grave field for sweeping the graves during the Ching Ming Festival. So that future generations will always remember the elders' earnest advice and the grace of their upbringing.

Marriage:

Buyi marriages are conducted independently. To receive the bride to the song, commonly known as the song of the sisters. The bride to the man's home on the evening of the day, to be held to sing the purse song and want to purse activities, there is "one night purse one night song," the saying .

Traditional festivals include March 3, April 8, June 6, Eat New Day, and July 30th.

"March 3" is the traditional grand festival of the Buyi people, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, rice cultivation begins, to sacrifice the mountain gods, land gods and ancestral gods and the soul of the rice, making five-color flower glutinous rice offerings.

The area of Qianxinan Prefecture, young men and women will gather in the "Chabai song field" to play the mountain song, the participants amounted to thousands to tens of thousands of people. Many unmarried young men and women get to know each other, fall in love, and make a life-long commitment to each other by blowing on wooden leaves and singing songs.

Taboos

On the first day of the year, do not open the box cabinet, do not sweep the floor, do not comb your hair, do not dry clothes. The first to the third day of the year does not move the soil, the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month does not move the knife, dishes can only be twisted by hand. It is forbidden to bury graves in front of or behind the village. When sweeping the village, outsiders are forbidden to enter the village, and when driving out ghosts, outsiders are forbidden to enter the house. It is forbidden for a married girl to give birth to a child in her mother's house. If there is a woman giving birth in a family, red cloth and gabion hats are hung at the door to prevent people from entering the house, and men are not allowed to enter the house where the woman is giving birth. It is forbidden to whistle or sing love songs in the house. If a person dies an unnatural death, it is forbidden to report the death with drums.

To the Buyi people's homes as a guest, shall not touch the shrine and offering table, the tripod by the fire taboo trampled. 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.

When a child is weak and sickly, his parents have to look for a protector godfather or godmother for him. There are two ways to find godparents:

One is to choose a day to wait at home, the first person to come to the door within three days, that is, the child's protector;

The second is to choose an auspicious day for the child's parents to lead the child, waiting for the first passer-by on the road, that is, the protector.

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 is no rice before mankind, it is the dog from the god of the sky to bring back rice to the Buyi people, making the Buyi people the earliest of mankind planted rice, "rice nation". Part of the Buyei branch of the clan does not eat fish, because according to legend, the earliest mother of the Buyei is the daughter of the Dragon King a sacred fish .

Introduction: The Buyi are one of the largest ethnic minorities in southwestern China, with a population of 2.87 million at the 2010 Sixth National Population Census. It is now ranked 12th among the 56 ethnic groups in the country.

The Buyi population in Guizhou Province accounts for more than 97% of the country's total population of Buyi, and is the most important settlement of the Buyi. They are mainly found in the two Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefectures of Qiannan and Qianxinan in the province, as well as in Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, where the Huangguoshu Falls are located, Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Ziyun Miao and Buyei Autonomous County in Anshun, and more than 100,000 of them in Guiyang City, and in Panxian, Liuzhi in Liupanshui, and Weijin County in the Bijie region, while outside the province, the Buyei are scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan, northern Vietnam, and other places, Outside of the province, the Buyi live in Yunnan, Sichuan, and northern Vietnam. The Buyi language is a language of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and in the 1950s, with the help of the government, the Latin Buyi language was created. The Buyei are mainly agricultural people, and their ancestors began to plant rice at an early age, enjoying the name of "Rice Nation".

Buyi people evolved from the ancient bureaucrats, the Tang Dynasty called "Southwest Barbarians", after the Song and Yuan Dynasty, the book called "Tomato", "Zhongjia barbarians", Ming and Qing Dynasty called "Zhong barbarians", the Republic of China is called "Zhongjia", "ShuiDou", "Yi", "TuBian", "local", "around the family" and so on. Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the Buyi and Zhuang were called "slang bureaucracy", "barbarians" or "barbarians".

In 1953, representatives of the Buyei ethnic group in various parts of Guizhou Province, after consultation, according to the wishes of the ethnic group, formally united with the ethnic **** with the self-proclaimed "Buyei Buxqyaix" for the name of the ethnic group.

Population Distribution:

China: According to the sixth national census in 2010, there were 287,034 people, accounting for 0.2153% of the national population. The Buyi in China are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, with Guizhou being the most populous, with most of them living in the Buyi Miao Autonomous Prefectures of Qiannan and Qianxinan, as well as in Anshun and Guiyang, and also in the Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefectures of Qiandongnan, Tongren, Zunyi, Bijie, Liupanshui, and Luoping in Yunnan, and Ningnan, Huidong, and Puge in Sichuan.

Vietnam: A small portion of the Buyei live in Vietnam, having emigrated from China about 200 years ago.

Economy:

After the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Buyi people, under the leadership of the PRC***s Communist Party and People's People's Government, carried out a series of social reforms, eliminating feudal land ownership and abolishing the root causes that gave rise to ethnic oppression and feudal exploitation.

The Party and the government have vigorously assisted the Buyi people in the development of medical and health care in terms of manpower, material and financial resources, and have initially formed a health care network in the Buyi areas, which has effectively safeguarded the people's physical health .