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What are the distinctive cultures of the Yi people? On the unique culture of yi people.

The national characteristics of Yi nationality are:

1. Clothing: traditional clothing of Liangshan Yi people. Both men and women wear right-handed clothes with large rows of buttons, shoes, blankets and leggings. They stumble at ordinary times and wear Ma Xie in winter.

The man's head is wrapped in a bun, and different dialects have different styles. There are beeswax beads, silver earrings and so on hanging on his left ear. Men's trousers are divided into "big trousers", "middle trousers" and "small trousers" according to different sub-dialects in the northern dialect area. Women wear pleated skirts and headscarves. After giving birth, they can wear hats or wrapping paper, like to wear earrings and jewelry, and wear silver collars. Traditional fabrics are mainly self-woven and self-dyed wool and linen fabrics, and the traditional colors are black, red and yellow. Patterns and decorations are mostly cockscomb, ox horn, fire sickle, fern grass, panes and other animals, plants and living objects.

2. Architecture: Liangshan Yi folk house is a "tile house"; Guizhou, northern and central Yunnan are "earth palm houses", "square towers", "stacked wooden houses" and "mansion houses"; Guangxi and eastern Yunnan are "dry columns" houses. Generally speaking, Yi villages live in groups, and most of them are located on the hillside near the mountains and rivers, sheltered from the wind and sun, with lush trees, fertile land and open terrain, which is conducive to farming, grazing and military defense. Scattered in high mountains, concentrated in mid-levels and river valleys. A blood clan lives together to form a natural village, ranging from a few households to dozens of households, with closely related branches scattered and adjacent.