1. Festivals: Festivals are the centralized expression of the lifestyle and customs of the Yi people in various places, and the two most solemn festivals are as follows:
(1) Yi New Year: The Yi New Year is a grand traditional festival of the Yi people in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, known as the "Kusi" in the Yi language. The time of the New Year varies from place to place, and is usually celebrated on an auspicious day from October to mid- or late-November of the lunar calendar each year.
(2) Torch Festival: A traditional festival of the Yi people, it is celebrated on the 24th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for three days. During the festival, people dressed in costumes, concentrated in the village near the flat dam or gentle slopes, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, goat-fighting, wrestling, beauty contests, etc., the activities of the content of colorful and lively.
2. Marriage: The marriage of the Yi people is characterized by intra-ethnic marriage, extra-family marriage, hierarchical intra-marriage, preferential marriage of aunts and uncles and forbidden marriage of aunts and uncles. This feature is most prominent in the Liangshan Yi region, before the founding of New China, if interracial marriage, according to customary law to be executed or expelled from the family.
Strictly forbidden to marry within the family branch, the same clan, the same name intermarriage is regarded as incest, violators will be punished by death. Strictly enforces the hierarchical endogamy, the ruling class of the Zimo and Nuohe and the ruling class of the Qu Nuo, Ajia, Gluttony West, intermarriage is prohibited, extramarital sexual relations are also strictly prohibited, violators are to be executed.
3. Burial: most areas of the Yi ethnic group practiced burial, Liangshan Yi ethnic group cremation, after the burial, digging in the ground, stone cover tight, or the ashes into a bag, with the horse hidden in the caves. Thereafter, to hold a "spirit" ceremony for the dead, with an inch or so of bamboo, wrapped in white wool, wrapped in red thread, into the five-inch-long, dug grooves within the stick, and then wrapped in linen, sharpened the ends of the stick, hanging on a piece of bamboo gabion, the spirit will be made, known as the Yi language, "Ma Du "
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"Madu" is placed on the god's seat above the indoor beam. It is the holiest place in the house and is not to be defiled.
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The staple foods of the Yi people are potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice. The side dishes type of food are meat, beans, vegetables, seasonings and drinks. Meat to cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens mainly, guests need to kill animals to kill cattle as expensive, sheep, pigs second. Beans are mostly soybeans, beans, beans, etc., soybeans, a way of eating Yi called "all Raba", that is, soybeans ground into pulp, even the lees plus sauerkraut cooking and eating.
Yi villages generally gather and live, mostly located in the mountains and water, sun and wind, trees, fertile land, open terrain, conducive to farming and military defense of the mountain slopes. In the high mountains, more scattered, mid-level mountains and river valleys, more clustered. A bloodline family clusters together, forming natural villages, small a few households, more than dozens of households, the blood closer to the various branches scattered adjacent to each other.
In the Yi society, monogamy is the dominant form of marriage, which is compatible with the patriarchal small family. In the past, Liangshan, in addition to sip West and part of the children of the Aga, the general men and women in childhood or early childhood, by the father on behalf of the choice of a match, matchmaking, divination and marriage, the hiring of the engagement. After a certain period of time, the wedding will take place.
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