What are the customs of the Lisu people?

Customs are as follows:

According to the traditional custom of the Lisu people, the construction of the house must be built within one day, or else it is considered inauspicious. In order to ensure that the house is built within a day, the owner must rely on the family, friends and neighbors to cooperate, that is, the Lisu language is called "Wa claw" form. Cover the house a few days before, by the owner of the house to notify the friends and relatives. Beforehand, respectively, enough of a variety of building materials, and then asked the sorcerer to choose an auspicious day, when all invited relatives and friends and neighbors to do it together, within a day that is completed.

The master of the house treats his friends and relatives according to their financial situation. In some places, the construction of houses is relatively simple, basically small bamboo buildings. Upstairs, generally with a bamboo fence divided into two compartments, the two houses are set in the center of a fire pit, prepared tripod, as a cooking fire. At night, the whole family sleeps around the fire, and the fire is built all year round inside the fire. In the event of guests, the host will let the guests live by the fire. The bamboo floor is generally used to raise cattle, pigs and other livestock, and the bamboo floor is surrounded by a garden, planted with fruits and vegetables.

Distribution

The Lisu mainly live in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and the Wisi Lisu Autonomous County in Yunnan Province, while the rest live in Kunming, Lijiang, Baoshan, Diqing, Dehong, Dali, Chuxiong and other prefectures and counties in Yunnan Province and in Xichang, Yanyuan, Muli, Dichang and Panzhihua counties in Sichuan Province.

For example, Peide Village in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, located in Cuiyu Lisu Pumi Autonomous Township of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, is a traditional village of Lisu ethnicity, which relies on the deep cultural heritage of Lisu ethnicity, takes traditional residential architecture as a carrier, and traditional farming as a dominant industry, and inherits the excellent civilization of Lisu ethnicity.