Hani folk culture

The folk culture of Hani nationality is mainly reflected in dress, diet, marriage and holiday customs.

1, Dress Custom: Hani men generally like to wrap their heads with green cloth, and then wear double-breasted shirts and pants with large crotch. Women like to wear black or blue robes, lace hats on their heads, colored belts around their waists and silver ornaments on their wrists and ankles.

2. Dietary customs: Hani people like to eat glutinous rice, sauerkraut, pork and fish, as well as various wild vegetables and wild fruits. Hani people like to drink their own brewed grain wine and tea, so there is a special way to cook tea with bamboo tubes.

3. Marriage custom: Hani people are monogamous, men and women are equal, and marriage is free. Weddings are usually held at the groom's house. The bride should wear red and the groom should wear white. At the wedding, pigs and cows will be slaughtered, rich banquets will be arranged, and friends and relatives will be invited to congratulate them.

4. Festival customs: The grand traditional festivals of the Hani nationality include the Bitter Zhazha Festival (that is, the Torch Festival on June 24th of the lunar calendar), October and the New Valley Wine Festival.

Hani language and writing:

The classification and characteristics of hani language: hani language belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. There are three dialects, namely Haya dialect, Bika dialect and Bai Hao dialect, and there are several dialects under the dialects. Hani language is a kind of tonal language with four tones, which are represented by Latin letters A, E, O and U respectively. There are many loanwords from Chinese, Dai, Wa and other national languages in hani language's vocabulary.

The development and creation of Hani characters: Hani people had no characters at first, only oral legends and ballads. According to legend, the part of Hani oral history containing prehistoric characters was lost when they moved out of Sichuan. From 65438 to 0957, the China government organized experts and Hani cadres to create pinyin characters based on Latin letters according to the wishes of Hani people.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hani Culture