What food do Yi people like to eat?

The Yi people's favorite staple foods are potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice. Non-staple foods include meat, beans, vegetables, spices and drinks. Carnivores are mainly cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and they kill animals when entertaining guests. Killing cattle is the most expensive, followed by sheep and pigs. Beans are mostly soybeans, beans, peas and so on. There is a way to eat soybeans, which the Yi people call "Dulaba", that is, grinding soybeans into pulp and cooking them with sauerkraut.

Seasoning food mainly collects three kinds of wild plants, one is the leaves of "Halagu", the other is the roots and flowers of a tree "wood bank", and the other is the roots of a herb "cut". All three plants have peculiar smells.

Drinks are mainly wine, and Yi people mainly entertain guests with wine. Yi people's wines mainly include jar wine (also known as miscellaneous wine), barrel wine and water wine. Many Yi areas have the habit of drinking tea. Tea was introduced from Han areas, but some of it was grown by ourselves. For example, the Yi people in Yushe, Shuicheng, Guizhou, are good at growing tea. Before drinking, they roast the tea in a small pot, then boil it in water and eat it. This is the so-called "roasted tea".

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Yi festivals:

1, Torch Festival

Torch Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people, which lasts for three days on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year. During the festival, people dressed in costumes gather on the flat dam or gentle slope near the village, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep shooting, wrestling, beauty contests and so on. The activities are colorful and lively.

2. Yi Year

The Year of the Yi Nationality is a grand traditional festival of the Yi nationality in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, which is called "Kush" in Yi language. The time of Chinese New Year varies from place to place, and auspicious days are generally chosen from October to the middle and late November of the lunar calendar every year.

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