Customs of the Yi People

Yi men's clothing is generally lapel, short coat, long pants, women's clothing both long shirt, medium-length shirt, short clothes, and jacket shoulders, headdresses to silver bubble, pompom to do flowers, clothing patterns to natural patterns, followed by geometric patterns. The diet of the Yi people is mainly based on potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice, with meat, beans and vegetables as side dishes. There are altar wine, barrel wine, water wine, etc. The Liangshan Yi like to smoke orchid tobacco, while the Yi in other areas like to smoke leaf tobacco. Yi hospitality gift is playing sheep, playing cattle, as long as there are guests to, will kill animals to guests, according to the identity of the guests, the degree of affinity is divided into cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc., to kill before the live animals to the guests before the guests to let the guests over the eyes and then slaughtered, to show respect for the guests.