Yunnan Lijiang Customs

Held in the middle of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, the meeting period of one week to trade mules, horses, cows, sheep and other livestock, but also the exchange of local products. Dali, jianchuan, heqing, zhongdian, yongsheng and other areas of the farmers have come to buy mules and horses and lijiang copper, listed mules and horses tens of thousands of heads. Various recreational activities held during the session, horse racing, theater, etc. is the most popular festival content.

Turning Mountain Festival

July 25 of the lunar calendar, the Mosuo people dressed in full costume to go on a pilgrimage to worship the Lugu Lake Lion Mountain (also known as Gem Mountain). Lion Mountain is the embodiment of the goddess Gemu, the goddess of Gemu is the highest protection of the Mosuo daughter country. People go to the mountain to burn incense and kowtow, hanging colorful streamers, offerings, praying for Goddess blessing. In between there is a large-scale horse racing, wrestling, song and other activities and picnic, young men and women take the opportunity to make friends a note.

Torchlight Festival

This is the biggest festival of the Yi people in a year, held on June 24 of the lunar calendar every year. During the festival, the Yi people hold rituals and burn torches in the fields to drive away insects and disasters. The Yangping of Yongsheng and Yongsheng in Nyingchi County hold horse racing, wrestling, bullfighting, sheep fighting, archery and other recreational activities. At night, men, women and children parade around with torches, sprinkle each other with rosin powder for the play and hold bonfire evenings, where people dance around the torches and sing, all night long. Young men and women take the opportunity to talk about love, looking for love.

Naxi Customs

Lijiang is dominated by the Naxi people. The Naxi people are forbidden to throw garbage, trash, spit, etc. into water sources and rivers, and are forbidden to destroy or block water sources and cut down trees near water. Inside the house, you can't sit on the threshold, break into the maternal room or spit into the water pond.

Chinese ethnic minorities. Mainly distributed in Yunnan Province, parts of Sichuan Province, a few in Tibet. Population 278,000 (1990). Use Naxi language, belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibetan-Burmese language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The majority of the people use Chinese as a common language. In ancient times, there was a hieroglyphic script, called Dongba Wen; another script was a syllabic script, called Geba Wen. 1957, a pinyin script program based on the Latin alphabet was designed. The Naxi name comes from the name of an ancient tribe of the Funky people. In terms of ethnic origin it belongs to one of the ancient Qiang people who migrated southward. Their forefathers were called Mosha Yi in Jin Dynasty history, and Mosha Barbarians in Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, they had established Yuezhi Zhao, which was later destroyed by Nanzhao. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and the early Qing Dynasty, some of the leaders were granted hereditary feudal lordships by the central dynasty. In the first year of the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty, the land was reorganized and most of the area developed into a feudal landlord economy.

The Naxi people are mainly engaged in agriculture. The main production of rice, corn, wheat, potatoes and cotton, hemp. The Jinsha River Loop is a forested area. The Yulong mountainous area has a great variety of plants and is famous for the name of plant warehouse. The Naxi people have created excellent culture and art. The voluminous Dongba Sutra is a valuable source of information for the study of the social and historical development of the Naxi people, their language and script, and their religious beliefs. The "Baisha Fine Music" and "Lijiang Ancient Music" are famous large-scale classical music pieces. Families are monogamous. After the death of a person, cremation has prevailed since ancient times, and after the end of the Qing Dynasty, some areas began to carry out earth burials. The dress code of men is similar to that of the Han Chinese. Women in the Lijiang area wear coats with a wide waist and big sleeves, plus a kangshi, embellished with embroidered seven stars and the sun and the moon, meaning hard work. Women in the Nyingchi region wear pleated skirts as long as the ground, short blouses, large green cloth headbands, and large silver earrings. Traditional festivals include the Agricultural Tools Festival in the first month of the lunar calendar, the Dragon King Temple Festival in March, and the Mule and Horse Festival in July, in addition to the Spring Festival, the Ching Ming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Torch Festival, and so on. They believe in the Dongba religion, which is a polytheistic religion, and natural phenomena and natural objects such as heaven, earth, mountains, water, wind and fire are regarded as deities.

Yi customs

Just stirrup the stone, can not cross people's fire, the children avoid using "beautiful", "chubby", "heavy" and other words of praise, into the Yi family to sit on the fire above the guest seat, can not sit wrong. Horses, mules, dogs, cats and monkeys are forbidden. Lisu ancestor worship corner of the house of things to avoid moving, avoid sitting on the threshold, prohibit the breakage of the sacred tree and harm the cuckoo bird, avoid eating horses, mules, dogs and other meat.

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