Which minority group is more in Kensui? Which lineage does it belong to? What are the totem patterns?

Jianshui was the land of the Eastern Wu Barbarians in the Tang Dynasty, where the ancestors of the Yi ethnic group lived. There are 136,736 Yi people in Jianshui, accounting for 27.97% of the total population, mostly living in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas.

The Yi in the county call themselves "Nisu" and "Parkla". The Yi in the northern part of the county, due to the long-term intermingling with the Han Chinese, are no longer wearing national costumes and speak Chinese, while the Yi in the southern part of the county speak the Yi language and retain their national costumes. The Yi script is called "Cuanwen" or "倮文", "Bimo Wen", the existing Yi script in the county has been rare, the content involves astronomy, geography, history, medicine and folklore-based. The Yi people belong to the Yi language branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

The Yi have the habit of eating "dry raw" (chopped fresh meat mixed with pig's blood, garlic and chili peppers and salt). Men wear double-collar lapel clothes with dense cloth buttons and trips on the front placket. Unmarried women will be long hair braided into a single braid, with a red head rope wrapped around three coiled on the top of the head, the front head wrapped in black gauze, the back of the head to reveal three locks of red head rope, so also known as the "three red". Married women's hair braid hair only two locks of red head rope.

Yi villages are mostly located on sunny slopes or flat hilltops, and the dwellings are small nests of earth palm houses. A small number of people still live in thatched houses that are warm in winter and cool in summer. Inside the house, there is a fire pit for roasting and cooking.

The Yi beliefs are mainly totem worship, nature worship, ghost worship, ancestor worship and so on. Almost all villages have an ancient tree designated as a "dragon tree", as an inviolable "God", there is the first month of the "sacrifice of the dragon" activities, the first day of the first month of the sacrifice of the "fire god", the first day of the first month of the "fire god". The first day of the first month of the year is dedicated to the "God of Fire" and other activities.

The Yi people, in addition to celebrating the Spring Festival with the Han Chinese, the traditional festivals are the festival of the toms (dragon festival), the torch festival and the lamp custom.

Yi lanterns and smoke box dance, lanterns are the local genus of the Han region of Yunnan. Jianshui lanterns are a branch of Yunnan lanterns. The music of Jianshui lanterns is different from other lanterns due to the integration of local Yi folk songs and dances. In Baiyun Village and Yangjie in the dam area where the Yi people live, the music has absorbed the tunes of Yi folk songs such as "Sha Oat Cavity", "Sea Vegetable Cavity" and "Miscellaneous String Tunes", and in the mountainous Tawa Village, the music has absorbed the tunes of "Clan Pig Tunes", "Clan Pig Tunes" and "Clan Pig Tunes". In the mountainous area of Tawa Village, it absorbed the tunes such as "pig tone", "Siping accent" and "Hebian accent" and developed into typical Yi lanterns, which was the result of the long-term cultural exchanges between the people of Yi and Han. As the Han lanterns entered Jianshui and were accepted by the local Yi people, the Yi lantern artists sang Yi tunes into the lanterns, which formed characteristics different from those of the Han lanterns: such as Yi singing, Han singing; mixing Chinese singing with Yi liner notes; Chinese singing with Yi dummy words to decorate; and absorbing Yi four-stringed and tree-leafed musical instruments into the orchestra composition.

The "Cigarette Box Dance" is a traditional folk dance favored by the Yi people around Jianshui and Shiping. When the dance starts, the leader plays the ukulele and dances while playing it, and the rest of the young men and women play the cigarette box, line up in rows, form a circle, and dance with the sound of the zither in a rough and dashing manner. The dancers hold the box in both hands, with shoulders shrugged and arms swinging back and forth, with inherent rhythmic force, playing the box on every strong beat of the dance, followed by hand and foot movements once. The four strings play the role of lead and accompaniment in the dance. In the strong beat play double tone, enhance the atmosphere of the dance, the weak beat with decorative sounds, so that the dance is more back to the joyful jump, the smoke box dance music beautiful tone, beat strong and weak, rhythmic joy jump, interval flow is more regular, give a person a kind of light and easy feeling.

March 3, June 6, September 9 of the lunar calendar, is the Yi and Han women do the temple fair of the auspicious days, a meeting period, the two ethnic groups in the middle-aged and elderly women, carrying incense bags, ringing rod and small drums from the villages and villages Jiangji to the temple towards the mountains to worship the bucket. Pilgrimage is over, they will be in front of the temple ringing small drums, singing a small tune, jumping up and down ringing rod dance and cashew dance, expression of piety to the gods, express the joyful mood.