Where is Xinwen County in Yibin City? Geographical location, customs and culture

Baxingwen County is located in the southern margin of Sichuan Basin, at the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, with a long history, developed agriculture, rich natural resources and rapid economic development. The county is 47 kilometers long from east to west and 43 kilometers wide from north to south. The county seat is 0/05km away from Yibin and Luzhou/kloc. The county has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 7 townships (including 5 Miao townships; before the township adjustment in 2006, it was1/town and1township), 322 administrative villages, 2 1 community (including neighborhood committees), 2,082 villagers' groups and a rural population of 390,000. There are 17 ethnic minorities in the county, including Miao, Hui, Tibetan and Manchu. Among them, there are 45,000 Miao compatriots, accounting for 1 1% of the total population. The town in the county has a population of 50,000 and an area of 4 square kilometers. Customs and habits-Marriage customs Miao people, regardless of gender, old and young, love to sing and dance, often accompanied by lusheng, trumpet playing and cowhide drum percussion, men and women sing and dance together. Miao music and dance are colorful and unique in style. Music can be divided into song music and instrumental music. There are various forms of music, often oral instruction, imitation and improvement, with different lyrics and styles on different occasions. Songs and music can be divided into three categories: etiquette and love songs. Instrumental music includes lusheng, bamboo flute, oral string, suona and other music. Miao people love to drink, so wine is the most popular. The songs in the wine season are full of rich local flavor, elegant charm and euphemistic tunes. It can be said that drinking, singing, impromptu dancing and singing are helpful to make people happy. Singing with wine can express their rich inner feelings and their pursuit and yearning for a better future. Generally, there are two duets and groups singing alcoholic drinks. Before singing, both sides should fill their glasses to show their respect. Only after singing, can they drink. Then the singer filled them one by one and began to sing: "A glass of wine is clear and bright, and then the sagebrush tree comes to announce the spring, urging the grains to be sown early and making them bright." "Two glasses of wine will shine, and you should plow hard." These wine songs are unpretentious and truly show the charm of the Miao family. Love Miao young men and women love each other and get married freely, that is, young men and women dress up, sing and dance, take song as the red line, fall in love freely, get married after mutual affection, and then get married with the consent of their parents and uncles. The second is the choice of matchmaker and parents, emphasizing the bride price, three media and six certificates, from inviting media, recognizing men and women, falling in love, falling in love and getting married, obeying parents' wishes. The third is to visit relatives and friends, that is, after the Spring Festival or autumn harvest every year, the man who proposes marriage invites the best man to take a singer, carry local wine, vegetables and lusheng on his back, and walk village by village until he gets married. When choosing a spouse, Miao men and women generally don't pay much attention to economic conditions, and they don't choose a perfect-looking one. They have special standards, and women pay special attention to the skills of men and boys. First, they must be able to sing and sing dozens of love songs. Second, you must be able to play the lusheng. Third, you should be good at dancing. If you have all three conditions and are excellent, girls in ten villages and eight villages should beg, chase and get married. The man asked the woman to know how to weave, pick flowers, embroider and sing. If a girl can play the string and the konoha, it is a good match. Such girls will become idols in boys' hearts. The most common way to propose marriage is parents' orders and matchmakers' words. In this kind of marriage, the man usually asks the matchmaker to bring a bride price to the woman's house to propose marriage, and the woman knows more about the man's personality and family through the matchmaker, and accepts the bride price if she agrees. After a while, I went to the bride price two or three times, which is called "three transgressions and nine times". The second stage of engagement is "inserting an umbrella", and both men and women negotiate the etiquette of formal marriage. Choose an auspicious day. On this auspicious day, the man prepared wine and meat and hired Ge Lang to go to the woman's house to "open an umbrella". The man went to the woman's house to sing a song with flowers, and the woman also asked Ge Lang to accept it, and explained the man's necessary bride price in the form of a duet. The bride price doesn't end until the two sides agree, and then the man chooses the wedding date and gives it to the woman. On the wedding day, the man's family will give the woman a bull with four teeth and six teeth, and another two cranes, 400 yuan, as milk rice money to show their parents' gratitude and bring the agreed bride price to the wedding reception. The wedding banquet is generally composed of the groom, the best man, the elders, the matchmaker, the Lusheng player and the bride price. They walk to the woman's house. Two singers sang "Wine Song" in duet, and then they got married and held a vulgar ceremony in the form of duet. The man wants to sing: first, a marriage proposal song, which is about the origin of this marriage. The second is to invite guests to sing and ask the elders, relatives and friends at home if they are present. Singing the song "A Table" is about the reason why men borrow tables from women, and the lyrics are funny. Fourth, put the ceremony songs, collect the bride price and count the names one by one. For example, "an elephant has less nose (pig)" and "two corners bend towards the house (cow)", which are full of harmony and joy. The fifth is a ritual song, which is given to the woman according to the bride price list. The main idea of the lyrics is that the man has mountains, water, fields, cattle, pigsty and big family, and will not be hungry and cold after marriage. Sixth, wine songs were played, mainly ancient songs and wine songs, mostly sung by elders or singers in the village. The scene was very lively and jubilant, which made everyone laugh and the wedding reached its climax. This woman is different. When you get married, you should sing a crying wedding song to comfort your parents to take care of themselves, miss their kindness, and express their feelings that their daughters will never leave their parents. For example, the song "Parents bring up twenty, if they cry separately, parents will marry well, and daughters will come back tomorrow." There must be an odd number of people to send the bride. At the wedding, the man sang "Farewell Song" in the media, and the song was on the way. Before the wedding procession leaves, after the wedding procession leaves. In the farewell procession, there must be a married uncle and elder couple to send relatives, as well as several or a dozen young men and women who can sing and dance. They don't sit in sedan chairs or ride horses. The hostess takes the lead and the mother follows. There are 3-5 people wearing colorful clothes and red umbrellas. No matter how far the man lives, on the way, the bride and the people who mainly go to see the bride off, on the one hand, they should allocate a sweet bitter bamboo and fold a tung tree ether as a wedding gift to stay with their mother for a few days, on the other hand, they should eat the lunch prepared by the woman, worship the gods and sing "midnight songs". This popular Miao language is called "Laurent's pet", also known as "ghost relatives" (the gods who sent their relatives away), and the ceremony has been going on. Choose a secluded place near the man's house, so that the bride can put on more colorful and beautiful new clothes. When they arrived at the groom's house, people who greeted their relatives entered the groom's house from the east, just like the Miao ancestors migrated from the east. The younger generation should not forget their ancestors when they hold happy events. When entering the door, the man's family should decorate the incense table outside the door, make a grudge ceremony and apologize to the escorted gods. When the bride enters the room, the person to be married leads her around the stove in the main room for three times (symbolizing prosperity), and then goes to another room to rest. There will be a common ceremony in the evening to take the old name (longevity name) with the tongue of the chicken. A bride's banquet is held in the middle of the night, and only female guests and male elders are invited to attend, indicating that women are supreme. That night, the bride slept with the best man, but not with the groom, otherwise it would be impolite. In the morning, the farewell party bid farewell to the man's house and sang a confession song to the effect that "the girl grows physically but not mentally." Although she 18 years old and still ignorant, her in-laws and sisters-in-law are strict in discipline, so if she makes a mistake, it will be even more troublesome. " The whole process of getting married is over. After returning home for half a month, her family sent someone to pick up the bride, stayed for more than a month, and then sent it back to the groom's parents. At this point, boys have a knot, and etiquette is generally over. After marriage, young Miao men and women have strong feelings, are more traditional, and are more loyal to their own life concepts. The Miao nationality has always adhered to monogamy, and concubinage was rare before the founding of the People's Republic of China. After marriage, if the woman is infertile or childless, the man may not marry the second wife with the consent of the original match, but the status of the concubine is the same as that of the original match. After liberation, the marriage customs of Miao people have changed, but many Miao people have followed the old customs to varying degrees.