What are the customs of the Yi people?

Customs of the Yi people

1, Torch Festival

The traditional festival of the Yi people, which is held on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, lasts for three days. During the festival, people dressed in costumes, concentrated in the village near the dam or gentle slope, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep fighting, wrestling, beauty contest, etc., the activities of the content of colorful and lively. In the morning, people have to kill animals to sacrifice to their ancestors; in the evening, they have to hold torches and roam around in the crop fields, meaning to burn pests and pray for a good harvest.

2, burial

Most areas of the Yi people practiced earth burial, Liangshan Yi cremation, burial, digging in the ground, stone cover tight, or the ashes into a bag, with a horse to hide in the caves. Thereafter, to hold a "spirit" ceremony for the dead, with an inch or so of bamboo, wrapped in white wool, wrapped in red thread, into the five-inch-long, dug grooves within the stick, and then wrapped in hemp, sharpened the ends of the stick, hanging on a piece of bamboo gabion, the spirit will be made, known as the Yi language, "Ma Du "

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3, marriage

Yi wedding has retained many ancient customs, such as splashing water, wipe the black face, crying marriage, the bride before the wedding fasting, after the wedding, "sitting home" and so on. Wedding date according to the two sides of the year of birth of the selected genus, generally in the annual lunar calendar after November to the following February after the autumn harvest of the golden season, the best day is in the six stars and the moon into a parallel line of time, the Yi people known as the "hebo".

4, make up the New Year's Day

Yi residents in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, in the New Year after the tenth and eleventh days of the second month of the lunar calendar, but also to have a New Year's Day, the Yi language called this festival for the "hemp dragon fire". Whenever the morning of the tenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, each family should prepare a table of rich reunion dinner, and then by the housewife to the man of the house to toast a cup of wine, and then the whole family **** into the lunch. At noon, men of all sizes are concentrated to the two "hemp Gongba" home to drink.

5, the Dragon Festival

Yunnan Shiping, Yuanyang, Weishan area of the Yi ethnic group every year, two Dragon Festival, the first in the summer month of February, the first day of the dragon, the second in the fall before the harvest, called "compensation for the dragon," which means thanks to the Dragon King's grace of the rain.