Folkways and Customs of the Hani People

The folkways and customs of the Hani people are reflected in religion, marriage customs, funerals, housing, and taboos of interests.

1. The religious beliefs of the Hani people are mainly multi-god worship and ancestor worship.

Thinks that there are powerful gods of heaven and earth, gods of the earth, dragon and tree gods, and gods of the village and the family with the nature of the protection of the gods, etc., and they must be sacrificed regularly to pray for blessings. For the various ghosts and gods that bring diseases and disasters to people, they have to be restrained and driven away through sacrifices and witchcraft. The Hani tribe in Xishuangbanna has to sacrifice "Long Ba Men" (i.e., the gate of the village) every year.

2. According to the different places where they live, the Hani people have different marriage customs.

The Hani people living in the Mojiang area, the groom, accompanied by cousins and companions of the same age, go to meet the bride. After arriving at the bride's home, the bridegroom has to pay his respects to the father-in-law and the mother-in-law and get their consent before marrying the bride. The bride cries when she leaves the house, and this is the custom of crying marriage.

Three days before the bride is married to the new to cry wedding, indicating that the deeper her feelings for her parents and family. Bride in the younger siblings and friends and relatives, accompanied by crying all the way to the bridegroom's village door before stopping the letter to send the bride's team is picking the back of the dowry, has been sent to the man's home.

3, the Hani people have a special way of burial

People die in the earth burial. Some areas for the dead to choose a cemetery with rolling eggs, eggs rolled to what place broken, where the hole dug and buried.

4, the Hani tribe's mushroom room shaped like a mushroom, by the earth base wall, bamboo and wood frame and thatched roof composition.

Mushroom house, as the name suggests, is housing like mushrooms. Its wall base is made of stone or brick, half a meter above and half a meter below ground, on which the earth is pounded with plywood and moved upward into a wall, and finally the roof is covered with multiple thatches to form a four-sloping surface. The internal structure, usually consists of the main room, the front porch (equivalent to the front room of the main house) and the ear room.

5, the Hani ethnic group has a special etiquette taboos

Road to meet the elderly should be kindly called "A Bo", "A Pi" (grandpa, grandma), and take the initiative to the side of the road, let the elderly go first. When you see an elderly person in the house, you should take the initiative to give up your seat. To give the elderly cigarettes, wine, tea should be held in both hands, bowing to show courtesy.

Hold the bottom end of the pipe when you hand it to the elderly. In front of the elderly, you can not stilt your legs, do not whistle, do not talk loudly. You can't walk in front of the old man, you have to go around behind him. When a chicken is killed, the head and liver of the chicken should be honored to the old man. Of course, when there are guests in the house, in order to show respect to the guests, the host often clip the chicken head to the guests.

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