What are the traditions of the Yi people?

Yi people's unique and colorful folk customs can make people return to the original and experience the charm of ancient civilization. The unique and colorful national customs formed by the Yi people in the special natural environment are reflected in their food, clothing, housing, transportation, weddings, funerals and worship. Yi people have a traditional habit of eating Baba, which is mostly steamed and baked with corn and buckwheat flour. Flat and round, weighing about half a catty, exquisite. It is made of corn, which is first coarsely ground and shelled, and then finely ground with water. It's steamed and baked according to Baba's method. It's exquisite, sweet and especially delicious. Generally, it is specially made only on New Year's Day or when guests come to the door, which is considered as high-grade food. Yi people are used to drinking "Zhuanzhuan Liquor", but they will drink when guests come or celebrate festivals and some festivals and meetings. When drinking, several people or dozens of people sit around together, and one person takes turns drinking with a container of wine, one bite at a time, and so on until he is as drunk as a fiddler. You can drink a lot when you are happy, regardless of a bowl and a half bottles, to show generosity. Yi people are particularly hospitable. No matter who comes in, whether it is a relative or an acquaintance, as long as the name and family support are given, they will be warmly received. According to family conditions, try to treat people with wine and meat, and stay, never ask for remuneration, sincere and generous. Treat relatives, friends and guests by killing chickens and sheep. For particularly distinguished guests, if conditions permit, we will also kill cows to entertain them. Killing a chicken is the lightest entertainment. You should also invite the guests to eat all the chickens on the table first, and then invite them to eat a chicken head to see wealth. Killing pigs and sheep not only entertains guests to eat well, but also gives them half a pig's head and a piece of mutton to take away to show their respect and enthusiasm. Most of the homesteads of Yi people are located on hills or slopes with dangerous terrain. In ancient times, Yi people often migrated because of production and living factors. Most wealthy families build two houses in high and low mountains. In winter, they live in low mountains and move to high mountains in summer. In summer, some of them live in Meigu, Daliangshan, and move back to Ebian in winter. In the past, the houses of Yi people were mostly one room. There are no windows and ceilings on the four walls of the earth wall and tile, and the room is very dark. The entrance is a middle room with a fire pit filled with three pots and stones. It is a place for the whole family to cook, eat, warm up, discuss, stay and entertain guests. The middle room is separated by bamboo basketry on the left, which is the housewife's room for storing food, clothes and money, and on the right is the mill and the place where sundries, farm tools and even pigs are tied. Before the democratic reform of the marriage customs of Yi people, the marriage customs of Yi people in Ebian adopted such marriage systems as internal marriage of Yi people, hierarchical internal marriage, family support for external marriage, unmarried aunt, transfer of house, and uxorilocal marriage. Monogamy is generally practiced, and there are also some phenomena of arranged marriages, matchmakers' words and buying and selling marriages. From engagement to marriage, the wedding etiquette and form with national characteristics have been preserved. Yi people's funeral custom Yi people generally cremate the dead, but bury the dead baby who has not yet teethed. During the Yi New Year, Liangshan Yi people mainly have two traditional festivals: Yi New Year and Torch Festival. Ebian Yi Festival: Liangshan Yi Year is the solar calendar of Yi people, and it lasts for ten months. One month at the end of the year is equivalent to October of the lunar calendar, and it is also the end of the autumn harvest in Yi areas. Yi people choose an auspicious day in each village, usually from the first day of October to the thirteenth day, which is the first day of the Yi people's New Year. The day before the Chinese New Year is New Year's Eve, and every household has to do a lot of cleaning, sweeping the floor and tidying up the furniture. In the early morning of the first day of the lunar new year, every family that has the conditions will kill pigs for the New Year. According to the traditional habits and regulations of respecting ancestors and the elderly, the Chinese New Year begins with killing pigs in the most respected nursing home in the village. Then every household will be slaughtered accordingly. After killing the pig, take out the gallbladder, waist, spleen and breast, cook and cut into pieces, and put them in a tall wooden basin with buckwheat. Then put a red-hot stone into a bowl of clear water, and generate steam to circle three times, which means to remove dirt and filth. Then, pour the soaked wine, put the meat bowl on the altar in the inner room and hold a ceremony to welcome the ancestors. During the New Year in China, everyone wears new clothes. Young people hold horse racing, wrestling, sheep fighting, chicken fighting and other activities, while children have a picnic outside the village and have fun; Invite old people to chat and drink together. Three days later, I began to visit relatives and friends and pay New Year greetings to distant relatives. The married girl went back to visit her parents with gifts such as wine and pig's head. After about five or six days, the Chinese New Year is over.