Question 1: What are the traditional festivals of the Bai people? The traditional festivals of the Bai people include March Street and Torch Festival.
March Street, also known as "Guanyin City", is the grandest festival of the Bai people. It is held every year from the 15th to the 20th of March in the lunar calendar at the foot of Diancang Mountain in the west of Dali City. Initially it was a religious activity, but later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants from Sichuan, Tibet and Jiangnan provinces came here to trade. After the founding of New China, March Street has developed into an annual material exchange and national sports and art conference.
The Torch Festival is held on the 25th day of the sixth lunar month every year. It is a traditional festival of the Bai people. On the day of the festival, men, women and children gather together to worship their ancestors. Through activities such as worshiping torches, lighting torches, playing with torches, and jumping on torches, we wish for a bumper harvest and prosperity for livestock.
Question 2: What are the festivals of the Bai people? The main festivals of the Bai people include the "Great New Year", "March Street", "Rao Sanling", "Torch Festival", "Playing with the Sea", "Worship" "Riwang" and so on. Like the Han people, they also celebrate Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. Among them, "March Street" and "Torch Festival" are distinctive and famous far and wide. ?
New Year's Day
The Bai people living in Bijiang, Yunnan, have their own unique annual calendar. They determine the season based on the growth of the trees. When the peach blossoms bloom, it is March for them, and when the lacquer leaves grow to five inches, it is May... In this way, they regard the year as not twelve months, but thirteen months.
In the year, March and December are their rest months. March is the March Festival, and twelfth month is the New Year's Day. However, there is only one day for the New Year, and this day is not fixed. It is agreed upon by the elders of each clan in the village every year. After the New Year was confirmed, in the early morning, all members of the village, led by a prestigious old man, brought home-brewed rice wine and glutinous rice cakes, and went to the big tree at the head of the village to hold a tree sacrifice ceremony to wish good weather and prosperity for the livestock in the coming year. , a bumper harvest. The memorial ceremony is complete, and people will first give one of the New Year gifts they brought to the elderly, and then toast each other with New Year wine and cakes...
After the memorial ceremony, everyone goes back to kill the New Year pig. If it is agreed that they will cook meat together on this day, the pig-killing family will give one-tenth of the meat to everyone to cook and eat; if they do not eat together, the pig-killing family will also donate pork to those who do not raise pigs to show solidarity. Friendship.
March Street
March Street: Also known as Guanyin City or Guanyin Meeting in ancient times, it is said to have a history of more than a thousand years. It is held every year in March of the lunar calendar and is located in Dali. At the foot of Zhonghe Peak in Cangshan Mountain in the west of the city. The content of the festival was originally a Buddhist temple fair, where grand lectures and worship activities were held. It is a traditional festival of the Bai people. It is held every year at the foot of Zhonghe Peak in the ancient city of Dali and in the open space beside the Zhongxi River. During the "March Street" period, merchants from as far away as thousands of miles away and as close as neighboring counties come from all directions to participate in transactions. Market commodities range from medicinal materials to food, furniture, and livestock. It is the largest gathering place for commodity trading in western Yunnan.
It is said that a long time ago, there was a tyrant who hoped for immortality. He listened to an attendant and ate a pair of human eyeballs every day, which brought serious disaster to the local Bai people. At that time, there was a warrior who was full of magical power. In order to eliminate evil spirits and harm to the Bai people, on one day in March, he used a clever trick to lure the tyrant to the foot of Zhonghe Peak in Cangshan Mountain. He summoned a divine dog to bite the tyrant's throat. Drink up his blood, destroy this devil, and eliminate the evil for the Bai people. In order to commemorate this great day when the warriors and the Bai people were saved, people gather at the foot of Cangshan Mountain every year from the 15th to the 20th of the third lunar month to sing and dance. Year after year, the annual "March Street" is formed. Now during the "March Street", in addition to exchanging materials, there are also performances of ethnic songs and dances, sports and other activities. In particular, the riders of all ethnic groups participating in the horse racing meet gathered at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, whipped their horses, and rushed towards the Erhai Lake like clouds and mist. The scene was truly spectacular.
Torch Festival
Held every year on June 25th of the lunar calendar, it is the most solemn and grandest festival for the Bai people. On this day, every village will set up tall torches, and each family will set up small torches. As night falls, large and small torches are lit together, like thousands of fire dragons galloping all over the mountains and plains. People go to the fields to catch insects and eliminate harmful insects. Families that have just given birth to a baby invite the villagers to a "wedding wine" under a large fire torch to wish the mother and child safety.
Rao San Ling
Held every year from the 23rd to the 25th of the fourth lunar month.
At that time, the Bai people worship the Golden Turtle Temple, Shengyuan Temple, and Chongsheng Temple, and at the same time sing and dance all night long on the grass in front of the temples.
Rushing for the first water
New Year’s Eve is an annual festival for the Bai people of Dali to “grab the first water”. When night falls, the girls and boys are busy dressing up. They put on colorful national costumes, carried a bunch of firecrackers in their hands, and carried a bucket of water on their shoulders. They marched through the village and alleys with smiles on their faces, and came to the well. At midnight, we could hear firecrackers blasting, and everyone was scrambling to "get the first shot." After each household carries the "tau water" they "robbed" home, they use it to make soup balls, noodles and other foods. After cooking, they put them in bowls or plates and deliver them respectfully from door to door. In the hands of the elderly, I wish them a happy new year, happiness and health. After the old man accepts the gift, when returning the dishes, he puts a few cents in the dishes to express New Year's Eve. I wish the younger generation healthy growth, happiness and happiness... The "grabbing the first water" activity fully reflects the Bai people's national tradition of respecting the elderly and loving the young.
Sea Play
The Bai people along the Erhai Lake in Yunnan hold a traditional sea play event every year on the 24th of the sixth lunar month. According to legend... >>
Question 3: What is the traditional festival of the Bai people? March Street
The Bai people
Mainly live in concentrated areas with a population of about 1.4 million. In Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, the rest are distributed throughout Yunnan, Bijie area of ??Guizhou Province and Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan. More than 90% of the population is engaged in agricultural production and is good at growing rice. Dali snow pears and Binchuan oranges are famous specialties at home and abroad. The Bai people have their own language, and Chinese has been commonly used by the Bai people since ancient times. Believe in Buddhism. The Bai people have a long cultural tradition. Many beautiful and moving legends and stories, such as "Creation", "Burning the Songming Tower", and "Wang Fu Yun", have been passed down to this day, and many of them have been compiled into dramas.
Custom: In Bai families, sons separate from their parents after they get married. The Bai people of the same clan and surname do not intermarry. Treat guests warmly regardless of whether you know them or not. All guests who come here will be treated with "three courses of tea". Three-course tea is the most exquisite tea ceremony, with the characteristics of one bitter, two sweet, and three aftertaste. When serving tea to guests, you should not fill it to the top. There is a saying among the Bai people that "respecting others when you are full of wine will deceive them when you are full of tea." The Bai people pay great attention to etiquette when dining. The elders and guests sit at the head of the table, while the younger ones sit on either side or at the head of the table. They are always required to add rice and soup to the elders and guests and wait warmly for them.
Wedding customs: When a young man of the Bai ethnic group proposes to a girl, if the girl agrees, she must give him a cake; at the wedding, the bride must go to the kitchen to make "fish soup"; on the first Mid-Autumn Festival after marriage, the bride must make "fish soup" A large noodle cake is made to express the bride’s cooking skills. At weddings, it is important to serve refreshments first, followed by the four-four-ruyi (i.e. four plates, four plates, four basins, and four bowls) banquet table. Marriage is a popular marriage custom in the Bai area of ??Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan. Whenever there are crossroads, three-way roads or places where people gather, the guests will stop, put the dowry into two big piles, and ask the groom to carry the bride on his back and circle the figure "8" around the dowry.
Food customs: The Bai people in the Pingba area mostly eat rice and wheat as their staple foods; the Bai people in the mountainous areas mostly eat corn, potatoes, and buckwheat as their staple foods. The staple food is mainly steamed.
Since fresh vegetables are available all year round, the Bai people like to eat fresh vegetables and various pickled vegetables at every meal. Most Bai women are good at making pickles. There are many types of pickles. In addition to pickling fresh vegetables, they also make bean paste, tempeh, and noodle sauce. The Bai people in Jianchuan and Heqing often pick sea cauliflower flowers from the Erhai Lake and process them into various kinds. Flavor dishes.
The main meat is pork. In addition to using fresh pork for various stir-fry dishes, New Year pigs are also pickled and processed into ham, sausage, sausage, pork liver, liver, rice sausage and other exquisite flavor foods. . In winter, the Bai people like to make large pots of beef soup, and add carrots, radishes, green onions and other condiments when eating it. The Bai people who live near the river are good at cooking fresh water.
Most of the Bai people like to drink. Due to the different raw materials and methods used, there are many types of wine. When making wine, more than 40 kinds of herbs are used to make distiller's yeast to make various kinds of liquor, including kiln wine and dry wine. It is a traditional wine. There is also a kind of glutinous rice liqueur, which is specially made for women and pregnant women. It is said to have nourishing and lactation-stimulating effects.
Drinking tea is another hobby of the Bai people. The Bai people attach great importance to tea twice a day in the morning and at noon. Morning tea is called "morning tea" or "sober tea". It is drunk as soon as you get up. Adults drink it. Afternoon tea is also called "rest tea" or "thirst quenching tea". It contains rice crackers and milk, and children also drink a cup.
There are many Bai flavor dishes. Rawhide is one of the must-have dishes for the Bai people during the New Year and festivals. It is a cold meat dish made with a variety of spicy ingredients. Donkey soup pot is made from donkey meat. Steamed pig head with willow is also one of the traditional famous dishes of the Bai people. It is made by putting the pig head on a wicker frame and steaming it in a pot. Big noodle cake is a special cake made by the Bai people during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is steamed with fermented dough and seasonings.
Clothing: Both men and women of the Bai people admire the color white, which is considered noble. Men in the Dali area mostly wear white double-breasted jackets, black-collared jackets, or several leather or satin collared jackets, commonly known as "three drops of water". They wear belts around their waists or embroidered bellybands, and blue or black trousers. In Xishan District, Eryuan County, Yunnan, every adult Bai man carries a small and exquisite embroidered purse with words such as "Two Birds Climbing the Branches" and "Mandarin Ducks Playing in the Water" embroidered on their shoulders. The embroidered purse is a symbol of love, and it is the crystallization of Bai girl's wisdom.
Women's clothing varies from place to place. In the Dali area, they usually wear a white top, red waistcoat, or light blue top, a black velvet collared jacket, an embroidered short apron, and blue wide trousers. Wear embroidered "Baijie shoes". Unmarried women wear a single braid on their head, and wrap a bright red headband around a white headscarf. The red and white complement each other. The waist is tied with an embroidered short apron, which makes it more colorful and beautiful. Married women wear buns instead. Women on the east bank of Erhai Lake style their hair in a "phoenix-nodded" style, covering their hair with a silk net or tied with a hairpin, and wrapping their heads with embroidered scarves or black cloth. Bai women have the custom of wearing earrings and bracelets. A Bai woman living in Eryuan County, Dali...>>
Question 4: What are the festival customs of the Bai people? Living:
The Bai people mainly live in Dali, Yunnan Province Autonomous prefecture, others are distributed in various parts of Yunnan Province and the Bijie area of ??Guizhou Province, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, and Sangzhi County of Hunan Province.
Language:
The Bai people speak the Bai language, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. There are 3 dialects: southern, central and northern. The vast majority of Bai people use their own language and are proficient in Chinese.
National Art:
The Bai people have a long cultural tradition. Many beautiful and moving legends such as "Genesis", "Burning the Songming Tower", "Wangfu Cloud" and so on have been passed down to this day. , many of which were compiled into drama performances.
Religious belief:
The tribe worships the owner who is equivalent to the village god and believes in Buddhism.
National festivals:
There are many traditional festivals of the Bai people. The "March Street" with a history of thousands of years is the grandest annual festival of the Bai people. It is now named "Three March Street". Moon Street National Festival”. There are also national festivals such as the "Torch Festival" (also known as the Star Festival).
During every festival, in addition to the necessary festival foods, there are also sacrificial activities such as worshiping Buddha, offering sacrifices to heaven, and respecting ancestors. The New Year's Day is the most solemn. Starting from the twelfth lunar month, every family has to buy new year's goods, kill pigs, grind tofu, pound bait cubes and glutinous rice flour. On New Year's Eve, the heads of each family will bring food, tea and wine on trays to worship along the eight pillars of heaven and earth, gates, wells, kitchen gods and ancestors' tablets. Then the whole family has a reunion dinner. For the grand reunion dinner, a large copper hot pot is placed in the center of the dining table, and pig head meat is always served, surrounded by eight large bowls of Japanese dishes with profound meanings.
Sacrifice:
The Zhongyuan Festival and the Heaven Sacrifice are special sacrificial festivals, especially the Zhongyuan Festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. It is a festival to worship the souls of ancestors. If it is a new funeral, The family sacrifices are even more grand. Eight large bowls of delicacies must be prepared for the ceremony, including thousands of pieces of meat, pork ribs, crispy pork, stuffed eggplants, lilies, morels, and fish stuffed with meat. Each dish is not only exquisite in ingredients, but also The workmanship is exquisite and it must be of great ornamental value. For direct relatives or in-laws, a full feast called "Three Drops of Water" should be made to express condolences before the funeral. The so-called "Three Drops of Water" banquet refers to three categories: fruits, sacrifices (dishes made into anchovies and lions) and eight bowls.
Food customs:
The Bai people are usually accustomed to eating three meals a day. During busy farming seasons or festivals, more breakfast and lunch snacks are served. The Bai people in Pingba area mostly eat rice and wheat as their staple food; the Bai people in mountainous areas mostly eat corn, potato and buckwheat as their staple food. The staple food is mainly steamed, and they often eat dry rice. When going out to work, they carry packed lunches and have cold meals on the spot.
Drinking tea is another hobby of the Bai people. The Bai people attach great importance to tea twice a day in the morning and at noon.
Morning tea is called "morning tea" or "awakening tea". It is roasted as soon as you get up and is drunk by all adults. Afternoon tea is also called "break tea" or "thirst quenching tea", which is filled with rice crackers like milk fans, and even children drink it. One cup.
Most of the Bai people like to drink, and wine making is a major sideline business for Bai families. Due to the different raw materials and methods used, there are many types of home-made wine. More than 40 kinds of herbs are used to make distiller's yeast and various white wines, among which kiln wine and dry wine are traditional wines. There is also a kind of glutinous rice liqueur, which is specially made for women and pregnant women. It is said to have nourishing and lactation-stimulating effects.
Marriage customs:
When a young Bai man proposes to a girl, if the girl agrees, she must send cakes to the man; during the wedding, the bride must go to the kitchen to make "fish soup"; after marriage, On the first Mid-Autumn Festival, the bride makes large dough cakes to show her cooking skills. At weddings, it is important to serve refreshments first, followed by the four-four-ruyi banquet table.
Back marriage is a popular marriage custom in the Bai area of ??Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan. Whenever there are crossroads, three-way roads or places where people gather, the guests will stop, put the dowry into two big piles, and ask the groom to carry the bride on his back and circle the figure "8" around the dowry.
Etiquette:
Warmly welcome guests, whether they know you or not. Every guest who comes will be treated with "three courses of tea". Three-course tea is the most exquisite tea ceremony of the Bai people, that is, three courses of tea are poured: the first course is pure roasted tea, the second course is added with walnut slices, milk fans and brown sugar, and the third course is added with honey and a few peppercorns. Therefore, it has the characteristics of one bitter, two sweet, and three aftertaste. During the meal, the elderly guests sit at the head, and the younger ones sit on either side or at the head of the table. They are always required to add rice and soup to the elders and guests, and wait warmly. ...>>
Question 5: What is the most solemn festival of the Bai people? The most solemn festival of the Bai people is March Street in Dali.
Dali March Street is a traditional ethnic gathering with a thousand-year history. It is not only the oldest and most prosperous trade fair in western Yunnan, but also the venue for the annual folklore, art and sports exchanges between people of all ethnic groups in Dali Prefecture. Grand holiday.
There is also the Bai Torch Festival.
In Yunnan, many ethnic groups celebrate the Torch Festival, and each celebrates it in different ways. The Bai Torch Festival is held every year on the 25th day of the sixth lunar month. In Bai language, it is called "Fuwang Dance", which means "June Carnival". Everyone in cities, villages, and mountainous dam areas celebrates the occasion. In the minds of the Bai people, it is the most solemn festival after the Spring Festival. In addition to the collective activities of setting up large torches in the village, every household must prepare delicacies and various festival supplies, and married girls must return to their parents' homes for reunion. Before the festival, the symbols of the Torch Festival are sold on the street - small buckets made of bamboo strips and colored paper, small torches, paper fire incense bags, and impatiens roots specially used by women to dye their nails red, etc. The atmosphere of Gongri is very strong.
Question 6: Do you know what traditional festivals the Miao and Bai people have? The Bai people’s residential buildings have a unique style. Housing mostly adopts the layout of "three squares and one screen wall" or "four in one with five patios". They attach great importance to the decorative art of gatehouse construction and screen walls, door and window carvings and gable paintings. The gatehouse is usually decorated with clay sculptures, wood carvings, colored paintings, stone carvings, marble screens, convex tiles and blue bricks, etc. to form angular cornices. The flower fringes are exquisite and the brackets are overlapping. They are powerful, steady and beautiful, reflecting the architectural talent and art of the working people of the Bai people. creativity. The Bai people prefer white, and the overall color tone of their houses is white. The color of the Bai's traditional clothing is also white, and white is considered noble. Men in the Dali area usually wear white double-breasted jackets with a black collared jacket; men in the Haidong area wear leather collared jackets, or several leather or satin collared jackets, commonly known as "three drops of small", with a belt or embroidery on the waist. Dudu, wearing blue or black trousers. Women wear a white top, a blue, red or black waistcoat, and an embroidered apron around their waist. Married women's headdress is usually blue. The girl tied her braids with a red rope, and then wrapped a colorful patch around her head. The thunder-white tassels fluttered on the right side of her head, which showed her charm. The Bai people in Dali love flowers, and almost every household grows medicine. There is a local saying that "three households have one well, and one household has several pots of flowers." Most of the girls' names have flower characters, such as: Jinhua, Yinhua, Dehua, Meihua. Flowers, spring flowers, etc.
The unique festivals of the Bai people include "Rao Sanling", "Shibaoshan Song Festival", "Benzhu Festival", "Shuhai Festival", the grand and rich "March Street", and the Bai people's own "Torch Festival", etc. Numerous festivals. Miao Nationality The Miao Nationality is an ancient and colorful ethnic group. They call themselves "Mu", "Meng", "Damu" and "Daji". He said that there are several situations. First, they are called "red seedlings", "flower seedlings", "white seedlings", "black seedlings", etc. based on the color of their clothing. Second, they are called "highland seedlings", "eight seedlings" and "eight seedlings" based on their place of residence or the crops they grow. "Zhai seedlings", "planted ginger seedlings", etc.; the third is the insulting names given to them by the rulers in the old times, such as "raw seedlings", "ripe seedlings", "linen seedlings", etc. After the founding of New China, they were collectively called "Miao". The Miao people in Guangxi account for 5.5% of the national Miao population and 1% of the Guangxi population. They rank fourth among the various ethnic groups in Guangxi after the Han, Zhuang and Yao people. The Miao people in the country are mainly distributed in Guizhou and Hunan. The Miao people in Guangxi mainly live in the mountainous areas in the north, northwest and west of Guangxi bordering Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan. The biggest feature of the Miao people is that they are rich in various types of wood and local products. They maintain a splendid and simple national tradition. The Miao people have their own traditional festivals, such as the Miao Year, Lagu Festival, Lusheng Festival, etc., but the most solemn and richest among them is the Miao Festival. Year. The time for celebrating the Miao Year is different in different places. The Miao Year in Rongshui, Sanjiang and Longsheng areas usually falls on the Hai day of the 11th lunar month. The Miao Year is grand and lively. In addition to ancestor worship and banquets, various activities are also held. When the New Year comes, the whole family stays up late. After eating the "Crossing Earth Dinner" (this is the most advanced reunion meal between the Miao family and their ancestors in the underworld) and celebrating the New Year, people carry out various activities. Worshiping the Dragon Pond, worshiping the Goddess of the Fields, and playing the sheng accompanied by dancing are very lively and are the most solemn scenes in the Miao Year. Praying to gods for a good harvest is a major theme of Miao Nian activities. The Miao people celebrate the New Year with a variety of foods, including rice, glutinous rice cakes, meat (sour meat), fish (sour fish), etc. There is also a special food called "chili bone", which is fragrant and spicy, can increase appetite and drive away The wind protects against cold and prevents colds. It is a common food in the Miao family and is also a good treat for guests. Yao Nationality The current population of the Yao Nationality is 2.134 million, distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. There are currently 173,000 people in Yunnan, mainly distributed in Hekou, Jinping, Maguan, Funing, Wenshan, Malipo, Qiubei, Yuanyang, Lvchun, Honghe and other places. In addition, there are also a few distributed in Mengla, Jingdong, Jiangcheng and other places. Historically, the Yao and Miao people have close kinship relations and originate from the "Wuling Man" tribe in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Around the Sui Dynasty, the Yao and Miao people living in what is now Hunan and Hubei have divided into two ethnic groups. The Yao people in Yunnan moved into Wenshan from Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou respectively after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Later, they moved to the Red River Basin, Mojiang, Mengla and other places. There are historical reasons why many Yao people in Yunnan can not only speak their own language, but also Chinese, Zhuang and Miao languages. In the past, the Yao people had different characteristics in terms of living and clothing, such as "Guoshan Yao", "Hongtou Yao", "Daban Yao", "Pingtou Yao", "Landou Yao", "Sha Yao" and "Baitou Yao" "Waiting for self-proclaimed and... >>
Question 7: What are the customs of the Bai people? Life customs of the Bai people
1. Clothing
Early men's and women's clothes Mostly made from cotton cloth. Older men mostly wear double-breasted shorts, long-breasted gowns, and wide-fronted trousers. Wearing a small melon-skin hat. Wear cloth round-mouth tiger-toe shoes or lotus leaf embroidered shoes. Young men mostly wear blue and white double-breasted clothes, black coats with silver buttons, black and blue trousers, and melon skin hats or Baotou or felt hats. Wear a belt. The feet are made of cloth or embroidered shoes called bottom leather shoes. At the beginning of the Republic of China, young women's clothing changed and they wore various big sister outfits and red, purple, and black gowns. They embroidered various patterns on their own and wore various wide and narrow laces. Silver light sheets are stitched on the sleeves and placket. The pants are black, blue and water red. Middle-aged and elderly women also have trousers with lace on the hems. Girls wear black and blue cloth waistbands or embroidered aprons. Wear embroidered shoes made of various cloths. Like to wear silver, jade earrings, willow leaf earrings. Bracelets include slide bracelets, twisted wire bracelets, flat silver bracelets, jade bracelets, and gold and silver rings.
Married women wear their hair tied back in a bun, with silver hairpins and jade hairpins pinned to it by red strings, and some wear net pockets. There are also black cloth strips 4 inches wide and 1 inch long used to surround the bun and the top. After the age of fifty, the pattern of clothes gradually decreases, and people usually wear short and wide coats with large cuffs and knee-length coats. The coat is a black coat with all the ruffles, a black and blue tie at the waist, and ordinary trousers with ankle boots. Wear boat-shaped cloth shoes with pointed nose. Earrings and bracelets are only worn during New Year holidays and when visiting guests.
2. Marriage
1. Proposal: After the man’s parents have visited the girl, they ask a matchmaker to go to the girl’s house to propose marriage. When the girl's parents agree, they tell the man the girl's birth date and birth date, and the man asks someone to "match the horoscope". If the marriage is successful, it means that the marriage has been decided.
2. Engagement: After the marriage, the man chooses an auspicious day to "drink the wine", and the dates are usually the second and sixteenth of the first lunar month as auspicious dates.
3. Marriage: The date is usually in the twelfth lunar month of winter or the first two months of the first lunar month. It is divided into three days: taking the lottery (killing the pig), the wedding (the official guest), and the return home (thanking the lottery).
4. Welcoming a bride: commonly known as asking for a wife. In the past, people used to ride horses or sedans and play the suona to receive relatives.
5. Acknowledge your relatives: Return to the house on the third day to recognize your relatives, which is the first day after marriage.
3. Happy Events
1. Full Moon Wine: This is a treat for the first born baby after marriage. At that time, the aunts and uncles of both men and women: aunt, aunt, and mother-in-law will each receive 20 2 eggs, 1 pound of brown sugar, 1 liter of rice, and 3 feet of fabric. Congratulations to the man.
2. Announcement of good news: This is the third day after a woman gives birth. Her husband should bring a bottle of wine to the home of his parents-in-law to announce the good news.
3. Wearing Baijiasuo: When the child reaches one year old, he must go to the main temple to worship. And ask the elders who are married and have many children to wear a longevity lock on their children, wishing the children to grow up healthily and build a good family.
4. Build a new house: The foundation selection and excavation must be made by a land engineer. It is a good day to erect wooden beams, and new couplets must be posted. Relatives and friends send gifts and firecrackers to celebrate, and the owner kills pigs to sacrifice the land. Gods, ancestors and Luban are treating us for a day.
5. Birthday celebrations: When an old man reaches his sixties, he wants to treat him to birthday celebrations.
For children’s birthdays once a year, they often kill a chicken and put some cakes on it.
4. Festival activities
1. Spring Festival: from the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month to the sixth day of the first lunar month, it is a traditional festival of the Bai people, commonly known as the Chinese New Year.
2. Celebrating the Small New Year: the Lantern Festival.
3. During the two festivals of Qingming Festival and Winter Solstice, one has to go to the tombs to offer sacrifices to ancestors.
4. Dragon Boat Festival: Both adults and children should wear five-colored threads and drink calamus and realgar wine to ward off troubles.
5. Torch Festival: On the night of June 25th of the lunar calendar, chickens are killed to worship ancestors. After dinner, when it gets dark, light a torch, cut off the five-colored thread that the whole family wears during the Dragon Boat Festival, stuff it into the torch, and burn it.
6. Zhongyuan Festival: also called "July 15th", it is the "ancestral festival" of the Bai people.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival: also called "Reunion Festival".
5. Taboos
1. Death anniversary: ??On New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, avoid visiting the house and blowing fire. Women should avoid washing clothes and combing their hair. When building a house and holding a happy event, avoid the year, month and day of the parents. During funerals, avoid paying attention to mourning and Buddha. On the day of the Beginning of Autumn, avoid doing farm work and using knives, saws, axes, sickles, and hoes.
2. People who are taboo: If someone dies outside, they are not allowed to be carried into the village or home. The body can only be collected and buried outside the village. Those who die abnormally should not enter their ancestors' graves. Outsiders are not allowed to enter within a week after "Ancaimen". Women who are less than a month old are not allowed to enter his home. A filial son cannot enter other people's homes before the old man is buried.
3. Taboos: Women should not go to other people’s homes with disheveled hair and crying barefoot. Avoid crying in other people's homes. Don't step on the threshold when leaving someone else's house, and hold the door bars with your hands. Do not raise livestock into other people's homes.
4. Food taboos: Outsiders cannot eat the rooster meat killed on New Year’s Eve.
6. Funeral
1. Putting a coffin in a coffin and keeping a vigil: When an old person dies, the funeral is usually a happy event. After choosing an auspicious day, reciting sutras and offering sacrifices to relatives and friends, the funeral can be carried out. During the stay at home, the children should keep vigil day and night. During the period of salvation, wine and meat are held, and relatives and friends who come to make drink offerings are invited to eat.
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Question 8: What festival is an important festival for the Yi and Bai people? Hello:
The Torch Festival is for the Yi people , an important festival of the Bai people
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