The Buyei [ethnic group] mainly resides in the area of Guizhou Province in southwest China. The rest are scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and other provinces. The Buyi are mainly agricultural, with a long history of growing rice.
Buyi people eat two meals a day when they are idle and three meals when they are busy. To rice, corn as the main food, wheat, sorghum, potatoes, taro and beans as a supplement. There are wooden pots, tripod pots cooking rice, oil stewed rice, rice (rice mixed with corn), bud rice, rice thread, bait block, pea flour, rice cakes and other varieties. Among them, glutinous rice dumplings, flower rice and sesame oil dumplings are the most well-known, mostly used for ancestor worship or banquets.
Their meat comes mainly from domestic animals and poultry, and they also love to hunt squirrels, bamboo rats and bamboo worms. Most of the cooking methods are roasted, boiled, exploded, fried, pickled and frozen, and they usually do not eat raw food.
Buyi people are very fond of dog meat, there is a "fat sheep can not withstand the skinny dog" said. VIP guests to the home guest, kill the dog hospitality is a very high courtesy. They pick the dog's standard is "head yellow, two black, three flower class, white dog meat flavor is the most bland". Roasted and stewed dog meat, dog sausage, Huajiang dog meat are well-known party. Guizhou's Buyei people in case of marriage and funeral, like to use the yellow cow as a dish.
Cold vegetables, "moss jelly meat", "mixed peas and cold noodles", etc., is a favorite food of the Buyi people. Sauerkraut and sour soup are necessary for almost every meal, especially for women. Most of the Buyi people are good at making pickles, cured meat and edamame, and the unique folk pickles "salt and acid" are famous in China and abroad. There are also blood tofu, sausage and flavorful dishes made from dried and fresh bamboo shoots and various insects. Also good at making bad spicy, noodle spicy and pickled vegetables, to the fragrance of fresh and sour for the beauty.
Wine plays an important role in the daily life of the Buyi. Every year after the fall harvest, every family has to make a large amount of rice wine and store it for year-round drinking. The Buyi people like to treat their guests with wine, no matter how much they drink, as long as the guests arrive, they will drink wine first, called "welcome wine". When drinking wine, they don't use cups but bowls, and they have to make orders to guess and sing.
There is a kind of tea in the Buyei area that not only has a unique flavor but also has a very nice name, which is the girl's tea. Qingming (traditional Chinese rituals, tomb-sweeping festival) on the eve of the girl on the mountain to pick back the tip of the tender flavor, hot fried to maintain a certain degree of humidity, and then stacked the tea leaves one by one into a cone, sun-drying, and then processed, made into a roll of a roll of the cone of the girl's tea. The girl tea is not only beautiful shape, but also excellent quality, is the best tea. This kind of tea is only given to friends and relatives. In love or engagement, by the girl to the lover. Girl tea, girl picking, girl do, this is the origin of the name of the girl tea tea.
New Year's Day Food Customs
Some festivals are similar to those of the Han Chinese, and some of them are exclusive to this ethnic group, such as the "Year of the Year" (the last day of the first month), March 3 (the Earth's Silkworm Society Festival), April 8 (Cow King Festival), June 6 (the sacrifice of the Pangu), and the Eat New Festival. Among them, on the ninth day of the first month, "cooking raw food", on the thirtieth day of the first month, "sesame oil dumpling rake", on the third day of the third month, "bud flower", on the eighth day of the fourth month, "four-color glutinous rice", and on the sixth day of the sixth month, "boiled chicken", etc., most of them are related to the national legends and the education of the countryside.
Feasts and Food Customs
The Buyei people are very hospitable, and when a guest arrives, there must be six wine rituals, such as "Entrance Wine", "Crossing Cups Wine", "Gedang Wine", "Turning Wine", "Thousands of Cups of Wine", and "Sending Guests Wine", etc. If pork is offered, it is a gift of pork, which is the best way for the guest to enjoy the meal. If it is to offer pork, is to wish the guests to raise big pigs in the coming year, the harvest is good; if it is to offer chicken, chicken head to the first guest, symbolizing good luck, chicken wings to the second guest, said to take off, chicken legs to the third guest, meaning down-to-earth. The feast also sings the "Toast Song" and the "Late Night Song", the former being an earnest exhortation to drink, and the latter to sing all the items and food on the table - one by one - to show their minds and talents.
Staple Food
The staple food is mostly rice. Folk like to use a special cooking utensil "cauldron" to steam rice into rice. The Buyei people generally like to eat glutinous rice, and is often used as a staple to improve their lives or to spice up their tastes. Cold vegetables, "moss jelly meat", "mixed pea cold noodles", etc., is the favorite food of the Buyi people. Buyei people love hot and sour, pickled vegetables, sour soup and chili almost every meal must be, especially the most popular among women. There are also blood tofu, sausage and dried and fresh bamboo shoots and various insects processed and made of flavorful dishes.
Pickles
Most of the Buyi are good at making pickles, cured meats and edamame, and the unique pickle "salt and acid" is famous all over the world. Among the meat dishes, dog meat, dog enema and beef soup pot are the best dishes. (Part of the Buyi branch of the people do not eat dog meat, because the dog once saved their ancestors) in the slaughter of pigs Buyi custom in the blood pot first put more salt, and then with the pig's blood to stir, to prevent the pig's blood from coagulating, the onion, spices, plus minced meat under the water to boil the soup, to be the soup cooled to room temperature, and the pig's blood with stirring diluted, stored until solidified, can be eaten, known as "raw blood "It can be eaten as the best dish for guests. The Buyei people in Guizhou like to use yellow oxen for cooking if they are in a wedding or funeral.
Welcome Wine
Wine plays a very important role in the daily life of the Buyi. Every year after the fall harvest, every family has to make a large amount of rice wine (bento wine) and store it for drinking all year round. The Buyi people like to treat their guests with wine, and no matter how much the visitors drink, as long as the guests arrive, they will drink wine first, which is called "welcoming wine". When drinking wine, they use bowls instead of cups, and they have to make guesses and sing songs.
Traditional snacks
There are a lot of traditional snacks for the Buyi people, especially those living in Yunnan, who are good at making rice noodles, bait block, pea flour, rice cake, etc.
Buyi people have a lot of traditional snacks, especially those living in Yunnan.
Buyi special diet
The Buyei people are generous and hospitable, characterized by "February 2", "March 3", "April 8", Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar every year, "June 6", "half of July", Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. are grand festivals, April 8 "many Buyei are used maple leaves, yellow rice flowers, dyeing dandan flowers and other kinds of plant branches and leaves of glutinous rice dyed into colorful, do flower glutinous rice hospitality and guests. to entertain guests and give them to their friends and relatives. The culture and arts of the Buyi are colorful. Traditional dances include the Copper Drum Dance, the Weaving Dance, the Lion Dance, and the Sugar Bun Dance. Traditional musical instruments include
Buyi Love Song Duet Opera (6 photos)
Sona, Yueqin, Dongxiao, Muye, flute and so on. Ground Opera and Lantern Drama are the favorites of the Buyi people. The big song and the small song are two forms of singing with multi-voice structure circulating in Qiannan; the plate song is used to sing to interrogate each other, randomly respond to each other's questions and answers, astronomy, geography, mountains, rivers, grasses and trees can be included in the song. There are myths, legends, stories, fables, proverbs and poems in the oral literature circulating among the people. Buyei cloth, woven by farmers themselves, has long been famous. In recent years, enterprises specializing in the production of Buyi brocade, batik cloth and ethnic craft clothing have been established one after another, and their products are exported to Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe and America. The music of the Buyi ethnic group in Qianxinan is known as the "living fossil of sound" and "heavenly music".