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Customs of the Jingpo People

1. The traditional festivals of the Jingpo people mainly include the Meineng Song Festival, the Nengxian Festival, and the New Rice Festival, etc., among which the grandest and most solemn festival is the Meineng Song Festival. The Megamind Song is a traditional festival of the Jingpo people to worship the god of heaven, "Mudai". "Mudai" is the biggest heavenly god in the supernatural belief of Jingpo people, representing wealth and happiness, able to give blessing to people, and is a god that only the mountain official family has the power to worship. The meme brain of "Mudai" is a symbol of the mountain official's prestige and power, and the more often it is held and the larger the scale, the higher the mountain official's prestige is among the people. In the past, Megumi was held mainly for rituals, celebrating a good harvest, and celebrating a victory in a war or a battle.

2. Jingpo marriage is practiced between the husband's species (called "Muyu" in Jingpo and "Meng" in Zaihua) and the aunt's species (called "Dama" in Jingpo and "Mo" in Zaihua), and the husband's species is practiced between the husband's species and the aunt's species (called "Dama" in Jingpo and "Mo" in Zaihua). "The marriage is a one-way union between the two families. Once a marriage is concluded between two families, not only are there two personal identities of "aunt" (son-in-law) and "father-in-law" (father-in-law), but there are also two personal identities of "aunt" and "father-in-law" (father-in-law). The relationship between the "father-in-law" and the "son-in-law" (son-in-law) is a fixed one, and the "father-in-law" (father-in-law) is a fixed one.

3. The funeral customs of the Jingpo people are unique. The Jingpo people have unique funeral and burial customs. They cremate the dead, bury the young and bury the dead in the sky, and bury the dead in the soil. Natural deaths at home are considered good deaths, while accidental deaths, deaths by gunshot or knife, hangings, suicides, and deaths in childbirth are all considered bad deaths. When a person dies in an accident, his body cannot enter the village. The good dead died, the family immediately fired a gun towards the sky to report the funeral, friends and neighbors heard the news with gifts to come to the funeral, to help.