What are the customs of the Bai people?

Bai marriage is basically monogamous, in addition to the same family name and the same clan shall not be married, within the nation or with other ethnic groups can be intermarried. Before liberation, most marriages were arranged by parents and arranged by matchmakers. The son of the family after marriage that is separate and independent life, the man has the right to inherit property, and in some places the youngest son also has the right of priority inheritance. Nujiang Bai no son-in-law custom, the only daughter to be married, and

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Bai people revere the white color, to white clothes for honor. Men in the Dali area tend to wear white lapel coats and black collared coats. The white men in the eastern part of the Erhai Sea are wearing suede coats, or leather and satin coats, with embroidered bibs on the waist and blue or black pants underneath. Women's clothing varies from place to place. Dali area mostly wearing white blouse, red shoulders, or light blue blouse, jacket black velvet neckcoat, right lining knots hanging "three beard", "five beard" silver jewelry, waist tie embroidered short girdle, wearing blue wide pants, footsteps embroidered shoes. Women's headdress is even more colorful: Dali area unmarried women combing a single braid

and coiled outside the flower head, and then wrapped in flower ribbons, etc., the left side of a bunch of white tapestries hanging spikes; after the marriage of the braid into a bun, coiled on the top of the head, outside the package tie-dyed or batik blue cloth pad, wrapped with a plain cloth strips. The girls of Feng Yu, Dengchuan and Eryuan like to wear the "Phoenix Pa"; in some places, their heads are wrapped in a flower towel or only their braids are coiled around their heads, and then wrapped with a bunch of red headbands; in some places, their heads are decorated with "a piece of tile"; in some places, their heads are covered with several pieces of head cloths stacked on top of each other, and the outermost piece of cloth is embroidered with the favorite cloth of the Bai people, which is a white tapestry. The outer piece of cloth is embroidered with the favorite patterns of the Bai people. The headdress is then wrapped with headbands of many colors, making it particularly beautiful. Women like to wear jade or silver bracelets and earrings. Townspeople wear Han clothing, young people love fashion. <br>

Paiwanese costumes vary slightly depending on the place of residence, but the general characteristics of the embodiment are: bold colors, light colors, dark colors, contrasting, bright and coordinated; picking embroidery is exquisite, generally have a lace flower decorations, decorative complex but not mixed. The regional characteristics of the Bai people's clothing characteristics linked to the study can be found roughly such a trend: the more the Bai people's clothing to the south appears to be more colorful decorative flourish, the more to the north, the more elegant decorative simplicity; mountainous areas and dams compared to the mountainous areas of the Bai people dressed in a more colorful, dams Bai people are relatively more vegetarian. <br>

The Bai women's clothing can be called modeling and color extreme blending of artistic masterpieces. Young women's clothing, mainly with head scarf, blouse, collar and blouse, around, pants several parts. Tops with white, yellow, lake blue or light green, jacket black or red collar, right obeisance knob hanging "three beard", "five beard" silver ornaments, waist tie embroidered or dark short waist, under blue or white pants, or up and down one, the same tone, or clothes, coats, Pants and waistcoats are each of one color, seeking harmony in the contrast of multiple color blocks. Some of the tender yellow blouse, with the same color pants, embellished with red velvet lab coat, some of the lake blue or green blouse, with a black velvet lab coat, and then inlaid with dark edges, embellished with dark bands of light-colored waist to raise the color, bright and bright in the plain, showy in the dignified, eye-catching and generous, no sense of minutiae.

<br> White men generally wear white shirts, pants, leg wrappers, straw shoes, black lab coat, or leather or satin, texture exquisite, commonly known as "three drops of water", the waist Department of the bib, under the black or blue pants.　Bai clothing is adapted to the Bai people's production and labor, life and culture, as well as climate characteristics of the product, but also the beautiful lakes and mountains of the subtle cultivation of the Bai people's aesthetic concepts of the results of cultivation, with a unique style of silver glittering "boarding" "boarding" is the source of the cave "Boarding" is a kind of headdress especially favored by the Bai women in Dongyuan County. "Boarding" is a sign of girls' dexterity. Every girl carefully sews a "boarding" and wears it on her head to visit relatives, friends, fairs and parties. "If you don't know how to sew a 'boarding', you won't find someone you like." . It is said that once upon a time there was a white girl named Suhua, who fell in love with a young hunter, Eagle. There was a black-faced goblin who wanted to destroy their marriage from it. One day, the black-faced goblin took advantage of the fact that Eagle was hunting alone in the mountains, and whipped up a fierce demon wind, which swept him into the devil's cave. After learning the news, Suhua traveled all over the mountains to look for Eagle, despite the difficulties and dangers. His sincerity touched the gods, who gave her a shiny silver "boarding". She put it on her head and immediately felt powerful. She followed the fairy's directions and found her way to the Magic Cave, where she fought to the death with the black-faced goblin. At this time, "boarding" the silver light blinded the black-faced goblin's eyes, Su Hua finally defeated the black-faced goblin, rescued Eagle, and married him. Since then, the white women are "boarding" as a symbol of good luck to wear on the head

Straw shoes - a token of love Eryuan County, Xishan white area has circulated an interesting story about straw shoes. Legend has it that a long time ago, men and women who lived in the Xishan area did not wear shoes. One day, a girl gave her intended recipient a beautiful embroidered purse, and sang: "Sister send little brother gold purse, linen is my own weaving, flowers are my own pick: if the little brother to send a letter, the street to buy I do not want, as long as the brother's hands to do." After the two sides parted, the male youth searched for a night, in the end to send each other what token is good. Finally, he thought, she used hemp leather to weave hemp cloth, I used hemp leather to play hemp shoes, is not a good match? So, the young man with a roll of hemp, came to the dam area of an "old friend" home with three days and three nights to play two pairs of straw shoes, a pair of their own to wear, another pair of back to the girl in love. The girl was full of joy to take the straw shoes, put it on the feet, both feel the shoes are just the right size, walking is very comfortable. Soon after, they became relatives, mutual respect and love, very harmonious. From then on, the men here have learned to play straw shoes, and the women here are still Xing wear men playing straw shoes.

Bench Opera

The hospitable Bai people, whenever they get married and build a house, will invite the village to sing bench opera. The program of bench opera is divided into two stages: the first stage, first sing three out of the first (God of Fortune, blessing, Kui Xing). First, a highly respected elder who is married to an old man sings "God of Wealth": "I am the God of Wealth, and I have come to celebrate today! The sky is open to three suns, the earth is fertile, the grains are plentiful, the farmers have three springs of flowers and willows, and the wealth is tens of thousands of gold." Then the older and more educated person sings "Bestow Blessings": "I am the Heavenly Officials, here to celebrate today! The sky is red, the ground is colorful, the earth is auspicious and happy for ten thousand years." Then, the countryside "Xiu Cai" sang "Kui Xing": "I am Kui Xing shooting bucket, today I come to congratulate! The stars and buckets in the sky arch over the moon, the literati on the ground, dare to compare with Li Du, diligence out of genius. After the first of the three singers, the second stage will be sung by everyone in turn. The form of the round of singing is unconventional, there is a word cavity, there is a blow blow cavity, there is Dian Opera. As for the lyrics, it is required to be joyful and festive, copying, improvisation, depending on the person, its content is colorful and interesting.

Serving rice and soup without a spoon, Dali, Yunnan Province, Jianchuan County, River Creek, compatriots of the Bai people, very hospitable. All weddings and funerals, we have to invite many guests, and let the guests are full of wine and rice. However, on the table on the rice, soup are missing ladle and spoon, guests are using their own bowl to handful of rice, directly pick up the soup to pour. It is said that this unrestricted guests handful of rice pouring soup, in order to reflect the host's generous, kind character, but also to show the guests and hosts of the friendship and unity of feelings. Now with the improvement of people's lives, many Bai people no longer do so, many habits with the Han are the same precious dowry - carved plum carving plum, is one of the precious dowry of Yunnan Bai girls. Whenever the plum ripe season, in the Bai villages, the girls will end up with a plate of plums, groups of three to five gathered together to carve, those yellow cool carving plums in their hands like a budding chrysanthemum, not only appreciate, but also tempting to taste. Carved plum to choose a large, thick flesh, small nucleus, yellowish color is good. Production, the first plum soaked in lime water for half a day, take out to dry, and then with the thumb and forefinger pinch the ends of the plum, with a special knife zigzag pattern carving, to be squeezed out of the core of the plum, it will be put into a clean pot, sprinkled with a little salt, such as sour plum salt "squeeze" out, and then with brown sugar impregnation. Processing fine carving plum, can be put for many years is not easy to mold. </P><P><b><font color="#990000"> life-saving room </font></b> </P><P> </P><P> in the high alpine mountainous area where the Bai people live, due to the unpredictability of the climate, is often: "The sun under the mountain rain on the mountain, send the dust away from the mud. Spring, summer, fall and winter one day now, take off the cotton jacket and wear a skirt." In order to make the field activities of the people in the weather fusion, the temperature drop can be through the risk for the Bai people in the high mountains, no one's transportation, built a "life-saving room". In the room with firewood, dry food, drinking water and other things, in order to prepare for the road emergency. These emergency measures, is the white compatriots to collect funds to do, which fully embodies the white compatriots of the pass<B><FONT COLOR="#990000"><IMG SRC="fengsuxiguan.files/xisu-3.jpg" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="228 " ALIGN="LEFT"></FONT></B>Unified Virtues. </P><P><b><font color="#990000"> to the bride and groom out of the question </font></b></P><P> in the Bai people live in the Eryuan County, there is such a custom: when the bride and the groom in the When the bridegroom and bride in the welcome team accompanied into the home, the guests are seated, the bridegroom and the bride to first into the kitchen and the tea room, to the cook and tea herdsman to pass the smoke salute to show their gratitude. And all those present, whether serving tea, food, or wipe the table to wash dishes, all treated equally. If you ignore this etiquette, should be on eight bowls, but only six bowls, leaving a pair of empty bowls, fastened with a strip of red paper, some of the side of a set of couplets, to the groom on the next couplet: some write a riddle for the groom to guess. The groom guessed its meaning, and then to the kitchen to pass a round of smoke, the meal will soon be on all.

</P><P><b><font color="#990000"> Shou Shou </font></b> <br> </P><P> In Eryuan County, Yunnan Province, Feng Yu dam. Bai girls and daughters-in-law, from a young age, the custom of learning to do life shoes. Women who do not know how to make shoes are often laughed at as incompetent. The shoes are made of red satin or fabric. The toe of the shoe is spelled with the character for longevity, and under the pattern is embroidered with a simple conifer pine in blue silk thread; the heel of the upper is a symmetrical right-angled triangle pattern; and the sole of the shoe has a triple-layer bottom. Wearing longevity shoes signifies that a person has entered his senior years and is blessed with good fortune. Talented people usually start wearing the first pair of birthday shoes on the day of the 60th birthday. Elderly people with many children will receive a pair of birthday shoes from their girls and daughters-in-law every year. The more the shoes are received, the more the old man has worked hard all his life, has children around his knees, has taught his children well, and has been respected by his descendants. When the old people wearing shoes walk through the streets and alleys into, people always cast an envious eye, the old people heart happy, children also feel glorious. The company's website has been updated with the latest information on the company's website.