What are the main customs of the Jingpo people

The main customs of the Jingpo people: Jingpo clothing customs, Jingpo architectural customs, Jingpo dietary customs, and the Menaosong Festival.

1, Jingpo clothing customs

Jingpo men and women are particularly revered black, so their clothing color basically, are mainly black or dark colors. Of course, the Jingpo men also like to wear white lapel collar shirt. The head will wear white or black head wraps, and the waist will also wear a belt knife and a tube of the Pa.

Jingpo women's costumes are more complicated than those of men. They like to wear a short black blouse and a black and red skirt, and both young and old tie their legs. Jingpo women are particularly concerned about silver jewelry, which they wear whenever they celebrate a festival or get married, such as silver collars, silver chains, silver earrings and silver bracelets.

2, Jingpo building customs

Being rid of such as a certain blood-drinking era, began to learn the ability to build a house. Whether it is the Han Chinese living in the Central Plains, or ethnic minorities living in other regions. In the process of their national development, have formed a relatively unique building practices. Because the Jingpo people live in the Yunnan region, building houses with local materials is one of their major features.

Bamboo and thatch are the main building materials of the Jingpo ancestors, and they generally build their houses according to the actual terrain of the area. In the vast majority of cases will see two-story bamboo buildings, and other local ethnic minorities housing style is similar. They are divided into two floors, upstairs to live, downstairs to raise livestock or pile up debris.

3, Jingpo food customs

Yunnan region is rich in rice, so the Jingpo people eat rice. They will make rice into a variety of food, we are more familiar with the bamboo tube rice, meat rice, are Jingpo people every day necessary food. Because their people especially like to eat spicy food, so they will often put some vegetables or meat, put a lot of chili before eating.

The New Rice Festival food custom is a special feature of the Jingpo people. Whenever the harvest season comes, the rice bin of the Jingpo people is filled with new rice. They will cook the fresh rice into fragrant rice, and the family will sit around the table to savor the fun of the harvest. Of course, the hospitable Jingpo people will also invite their neighbors, men, women and children*** to taste the new rice, and this custom is actually the "New Rice Festival".

4, the Minnao Song Festival

Jingpo Minnao Song Festival is very unique, according to the interpretation of the Han Chinese is dancing. Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the "Munaosong Festival" will be held, and under normal circumstances, the duration of this festival varies from two to six days. The main reason why it is called the "Mennao Song Festival" is that four mennae pillars are erected in the center of the field when the festival is held.

Each of these pillars is decorated with symbolic designs and crossed with two long knives and swords. At the beginning of the festival, the Jingpo people will dance the "MENAO" dance. The author believes that this dance actually originated from the ritual activities of the Jingpo ancestors.

Jingpo history

1, Sui and Tang dynasties from the plateau to the south migration

Jingpo ancestors first lived in the southern mountainous areas of the Kham-Tibetan Plateau, about the 7th-9th century and large-scale migration. They moved southward along the Hengduan Mountains and eventually came to the attention of the Tang rulers. The terms "Xuanchuan barbarians" and "Gaoligong people" were used by the Tang Dynasty to refer to the Jingpo community at that time.

The word "barbarians" in "Xuanchuanban" shows that the Jingpo people had already moved into the Lancang to Jinsha riverside during the Tang Dynasty. That's why the Tang Dynasty rulers officially classified the Jingpo tribe as one of the southern barbarian groups. This not only facilitated centralized management, but also made the Jingpo more recognizable.

2, Ming Dynasty, a large number of westward migration

About the 15th-16th centuries, Jingpo ancestors due to war infringement, so they had to be from the east to the west of the large-scale migration, and at this time is in the reign of the Ming Dynasty. Especially in the latter part of the 16th century, a large number of Jingpo people moved to the Dehong area and intermingled with local minorities and Han Chinese.

In fact, as early as the center of the Yuan Dynasty, the Jingpo people had migrated, and in the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty, basically completed the process of migration to Yunnan. The name of the ancestors of the Jingpo ethnic group also changed with different times during the migration process. The author believes that such changes can also confirm the historical development and transformation of the Jingpo people.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Jingpo People