Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Introduce an ethnic group in China, write about its settlement areas, customs and folklore. Don't be too long.

Introduce an ethnic group in China, write about its settlement areas, customs and folklore. Don't be too long.

The Bai people Gathering area: the Bai people are an ethnic minority in the southwest border of China. Mainly distributed in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, Lijiang, Bijiang, Baoshan, Nanhua, Yuanjiang, Kunming, Anning and other places and Bijie, Guizhou, Liangshan, Sichuan, Hunan Sangzhi County and other places are also distributed. Customs: Bai Women

The Bai basically practice a monogamous small family system. Sons are separated upon marriage, and parents generally live from their youngest son. In the landlord class, there are a few "four generations of the same family". There was no intermarriage between members of the same clan and the same family name, but cousin marriages between aunts and uncles were practiced routinely. Those who had daughters but no children were allowed to take on a family member, and those who had no children were allowed to take on the children of their brothers of the same clan (in succession) or adopt a son. The son-in-law and adopted son must change his name in order to obtain the right to inherit property. The Bai people practiced cremation before the Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty, it was changed to earth burial due to the influence of the Han Chinese. Funeral ceremonies are generally more solemn. The Bai people in the Pingba area eat rice and wheat, while those in the mountainous areas are mainly corn and buckwheat. Bai people like to eat sour, cold, spicy and other flavors, good at curing ham, bowfin, oil chicken brown, pork liver vinegar and other dishes, but also like to eat a unique flavor of "raw meat" or "raw skin", that is, the pork roasted into a half-raw half-cooked, shredded meat, ginger, garlic, vinegar, etc., mixed and eaten. Eat. Bai people also like to drink roasted tea.