Bai people's manners and customs

Bai nationality is one of the endemic nationalities in Dali, Yunnan Province, mainly living in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, mainly distribute

Bai nationality is one of the endemic nationalities in Dali, Yunnan Province, mainly living in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, mainly distributed in various parts of Yunnan. The following is what I arranged for you, I hope it will help you!

Bai customs-Bai folk customs

In Baijia, the son separated from his parents after marriage. Bai people share the same surname and do not marry. Receive guests warmly, whether they know each other or not. All the guests will be treated with "three teas". Three teas are the most exquisite tea ceremony, with the characteristics of bitterness, sweetness and aftertaste. Can't pour tea for guests. There is a saying among Bai people that "wine is full of respect, tea is full of deceit".

Bai people pay great attention to etiquette when eating. The elders and guests sit first, and the younger generation sits on both sides or next in turn. They are always ready to add rice and soup to their elders and guests, waiting enthusiastically. Rice and wheat are the staple foods of Bai people in Pingba area, while corn and adopted children are the main foods in mountainous areas. Bai people like to eat sour, cold and spicy flavors. They are good at curing ham, bow fish, fried chicken brown, pork liver and other dishes. They also like to eat a unique "raw meat" or "raw skin", that is, roast pork half-cooked, cut into shredded pork, and served with ginger, garlic, vinegar and so on. Bai people also like to drink roasted tea.

Customs of Bai Nationality-Marriage Customs of Bai Nationality

When a young Bai man proposes to a girl, the girl will give Baba to the man if she agrees. At the wedding, the bride will go to the kitchen to make "fish soup"; On the first Mid-Autumn Festival after marriage, the bride will make a big cake to show off her cooking skills. Pay attention to tea first, then what? Four four ruyi means four dishes, four plates, four pots and four bowls of seats.

Backmarriage is a popular marriage custom in the Bai area of Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. At every intersection, fork in the road or crowded place, the guests will stop and code the dowry into two piles, so that the groom can wrap the "8" around the dowry with the bride on his back.

Customs of Bai Nationality-Dietary Customs of Bai Nationality

Bai people mainly live on rice and wheat; Bai people in mountainous areas mainly eat corn, potatoes and buckwheat. The staple food is mainly steamed.

Because there are fresh vegetables all year round, Bai people like to eat fresh vegetables and all kinds of pickles every meal. Most Bai women are good at pickles, and there are many kinds of pickles. In addition to pickled fresh vegetables, they also make bean paste, lobster sauce and noodle sauce. Bai people in Jianchuan and Heqing often pick kelp flowers from Erhai Lake and cook them into various flavor dishes.

Meat is mainly pork. In addition to cooking with fresh pork, it also likes to marinate old pigs and process them into ham, sausage, pig liver, liver blowing, rice sausage and other delicious foods. In winter, Bai people like big pot of beef soup. Add mustard, radish, onion and other condiments to eat together. Bai people who live by the river are good at cooking fresh water.

Most Bai people like drinking. Because of the different raw materials and methods used, there are many kinds of wine. When brewing wine, more than 40 kinds of medicinal materials are often used to make distiller's yeast and brew all kinds of white wine, among which kiln wine and dry wine are traditional wines. There is also a glutinous rice liqueur, which is specially brewed for women and pregnant women. It is said that it has nourishing and prolactin effects.

Drinking tea is another hobby of Bai people. Bai people pay great attention to drinking tea twice every morning and noon. Morning tea is called "morning tea" or "hangover tea". You get drunk when you get up, and adults drink it. Afternoon tea, also called "rest tea" or "thirst-quenching tea", contains rice flowers and milk, and even children should drink a cup.

There are many dishes of Bai nationality. Raw skin is one of the dishes that Bai people must order on holidays, and it is a cold meat dish mixed with a variety of spicy dishes. Donkey soup pot is made of donkey meat. Steamed pig's head with willow leaves is also one of the traditional dishes of Bai nationality. Put the pig's head on a wicker rack and put it in a pot. Bread cake is a special kind of cake made by Bai people in Mid-Autumn Festival. It is steamed with fermented dough and seasoning.

Bai Nationality Style —— Dali Bai Nationality Dwellings/Buildings

Bai folk houses are independent and closed houses, and the general architectural form is: "two rooms and one ear"; "Three rooms and one wall", a few rich people live in "four entrances and five patios", that is, four high-rise buildings, four wing rooms, one big well at a time and four small patios at a time. A bit like a quadrangle in Beijing, a dignified residential courtyard is mainly composed of courtyard walls, gates, zhaobi, main rooms and left and right wing rooms. In addition, there is the "Liuhe Tongchun" connected by the two houses; The upstairs and downstairs are connected by corridors, and so on. It's really varied, like a maze. However, this ancient and expensive gorgeous house has not been adopted by the local Bai people. Now it is mostly a two-story building with a courtyard. But sculpture and painting are still the same, and both have developed.

Bai folk houses often pay attention to the gatehouse, zhaobi building, door and window carving and painted decoration of the main wall. The gatehouse is the essence of the whole building. The architectural art level of the gatehouse can confirm the economic status of its owner and is also a symbol of glory to its ancestors. It usually adopts clay sculpture, wood carving, marble screen, stone carving, painting, relief brick and blue brick to form a series of comprehensive artistic buildings with cornices, light flowers, overlapping arches, exquisite carving, firmness and stability. The Bai people's gatehouse building is not only rich in national characteristics, but also unique in architectural structure and skills. In some places, the whole gatehouse does not need a nail or other iron parts, but the connection is very firm. After decades of wind and rain, it is very solemn and dignified to install two heavy iron-black wooden doors.

The woodcarving of doors and windows of Bai residents shows the superb skills of Jianchuan carpenters everywhere. Generally, transparent and relief techniques are used to carve layers of mythical auspicious white crane pine, crane lotus, eagle chrysanthemum, peacock magnolia and geometric patterns. The surfaces of doors and windows are also painted with Chu red paint, which is smooth and bright, simple and elegant. In the housing form of Bai people, the dam area is mostly "three long houses", with huts with kitchens, barns and yards, or tile houses with "one front and two ears", "three sides and one wall" and "four entrances and five patios", with bedrooms, kitchens and barns separated. Most of the mountainous areas are straw houses, "flash houses", bamboo baskets or "wooden cribs" with stables upstairs and downstairs, and cooking and sleeping places are often connected.

Bai custom-Bai family

Bai people basically practice monogamy. The son separated immediately after marriage, and parents usually lived with their youngest son. Some of the landlords are big families with four generations living under one roof. People of the same family and surname don't marry, but they will marry their uncles and aunts as usual. Marriage is usually arranged by parents, so it should be appropriate. A childless woman can be adopted by her husband's wife, and a childless woman can also adopt her brother's children. Son-in-law and adopted son had to change their names and surnames in order to obtain the right to inherit property.

Bai Customs-Bai Festivals