What are the customs and culture of the Yi people?

Yi customs are characterized by festivals, weddings, funerals and so on:

1. There are a lot of traditional Yi folk festivals, the main festivals are the October Year, the Torch Festival, and regional festivals and rituals, the October Year is a traditional year for the Yi people, which is mostly held in the first half of October of the lunar calendar on an auspicious day. The Torch Festival on the 24th day of the 6th month of the Lunar Calendar is the biggest traditional festival of the Yi people. The Yi choose their annual festivals according to the Yi calendar.

2. The wedding of the Yi people has preserved many ancient customs, such as splashing water, wiping the black face, crying for marriage, fasting before the wedding of the bride, and "sitting at home" after the wedding, etc. Before the wedding, men and women of the Yi people have to hold a ceremony to celebrate their marriage. Yi men and women to be held before the wedding engagement ceremony, engagement to take the first auspicious signs of marriage, men and women killed a pig, take the gallbladder, pancreas to watch to gallbladder color yellow, pancreas big straight fat for the auspicious, if the pancreas curled for the evil, that can not be matched.

3, most areas of the Yi people practicing burial, Liangshan Yi cremation, burial, digging in the ground, stone cover tight, or the ashes into a bag, with the horse hidden in the caverns. Thereafter, to hold a "spirit" ceremony for the dead, with an inch or so of bamboo, wrapped in white wool, wrapped in red thread, into the five-inch-long, dug grooves within the stick, and then wrapped in linen, sharpened the ends of the stick, hanging on a piece of bamboo gabion, the spirit will be made, known as the Yi language, "Ma Du The spirit plate is then made, known as "Madu" in Yi language. "Mardu" placed in the interior under the beam above the god.