Cow King Festival
Every April 8 of the lunar calendar, the Buyei people, no matter how busy farming, are to cattle rest, each household to do yellow, blue, black, white, red "five colors" glutinous rice **** with "dyed rice flowers, leaves" coloring ****, steamed and pinched first. Sticky rice steamed first pinch a ball to the cattle to eat, as a token of appreciation for the hard work of the cattle, and then people eat. On this day, the house should be hung around the maple branches and leaves, rumor has it that this way the crops can grow as lush as the maple.
Small year
Small year for part of Guizhou Province, the traditional festival of the Buyi people. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year. On the morning of this day, every family plays rice cake to honor the mother. Before dinner, a stewed pig's foot and various dishes are set up on the eight-image table in the hall, incense is lit, paper money is burned, firecrackers are set off and drums are beaten to invite the ancestors to come back to celebrate the New Year, and then the family dines together. After dinner, young men and women to "steal pro *** green ***", is to go to the vegetable field to steal a few pieces of green leaves, to the roadside to beat each other's bodies, said to beat off the body of the evil to protect the peace and good luck, but also means that the more you hit the more close to the friendship with the person who was stealing that stole him because he and his intimate, and therefore feel very happy.
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Buyei Mid-Autumn Festival is also held on August 15th. The Buyi people have the custom of stealing old gourds to cook glutinous rice in the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival. And will steal the old melon wrapped in red cloth, firecrackers all the way to the lack of children's homes, the hosts to invite them to eat wine night. Children also go to the ground to steal sunflower, peanuts, to get no children to the family to fry and eat, it is said that this will bring children to the family. Instead of blaming the stealers, the stolen families believed that the stolen vines would produce bigger and better melons, and that the sunflowers and peanuts would be bigger and fuller because of the stealing.
Chabai Sacrifice Day
Chabai Sacrifice Day is a traditional festival of the Buyei ethnic group in Chabaizhai, Xingyi County, Guizhou Province. It takes place on the 22nd day of the 6th lunar month every year.
Playing Baofu
Playing Baofu is the synonym of "playing leopard and tiger". Guizhou Province, Dushan, Libo and other places Buyei folk festival, the purpose is to pray to the gods to stop the locusts to eat crops. It is held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. The festival is said to have a history of more than two hundred years.
Di Opera Festival
Di Opera Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi ethnic group in Huaxi, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, held on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The Huaxi opera began in the Daoguang period, initiated by Long Defu, an artist from An and Bu*** now Pingba***, and is performed on the fifteenth day of the first month of every year, gradually forming a fixed festival. The ground theater does not set up a stage, the actors stand on the ground to perform, the audience in the surrounding high places to watch, hence the name.
Donglangqiao Song Festival
Donglangqiao Song Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyei ethnic group around Huishui, Guizhou Province, held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. Nearly 10,000 Buyei people from neighboring villages in the adjacent counties come to the Donglang River to sing and gather together. This day, is young people talk about love, seek lovers great opportunity, the girl and after the step after they generally meet to sing the first enthusiastic acquaintance song, interchangeable names, addresses, and then around the interesting plate song * * * also called guessing song * * * plate heaven and ask for the ground, each other feel the bottom, and then began to sing songs of praise and adoration song. If the girls through the song to find a lover, the traditional festivals and customs of the Buyi people will be presented with rice dumplings and sock pads, and then both hide to avoid the quiet place to talk about love.
Catch dry hole
Catch dry hole festival is Qinglong County, Guizhou Province, the traditional festival of the Buyi people, when the second day of the Qingming Festival every year. According to local legend, the dry hole located in the southeast of Qinglong County was originally called Qingquan hole, and the spring water is clear all year round. At that time, the local two cottages in a pair of young people A Wei and A flower fell in love, often in the Qingquan hole side of the song date, both parents read them both heart true intention, also agreed to their marriage, and scheduled to be married at the Qingming Festival. Unexpectedly, this matter let the patriarch know, he thinks not through the matchmaker door to door to hire the marriage is hurtful to the customs, so to interfere. A Wei Ahua learned of the very angry, to the Qingming Day night secretly to the Qingquan cave, the cave as a matchmaker, kneeling to heaven and earth, the wedding on their own. On the next day, the chief of the clan came to ask for punishment, Awe Ahua had to escape and throw the Qingquan Cave martyrdom. The god of Qingquan Cave was touched by the loyalty of the two youths, so he drained the Qingquan water and let Awe Ahua turn into a pair of golden eyebrows and fly away. From then on, the cave dried up. A Wei A flower deeds moved the nearby Buyei cottage in the young men and women, they are in every year on the second day of the Qingming Festival, will be rushed to the dry hole to sing and play, talk about love. Now this festival has evolved into a large-scale trade event.
Catch Nuomi slope
Catch Nuomi slope festival is Huishui County, Guizhou Province, the party of the ancient area of the Buyi, Miao folk traditional festivals, held every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. On that day, people from all directions flocked to the local glutinous rice slope, the girls dressed in costume, or song or dance, the elderly are gathered in a family life. Young men holding their respective horses, first around the field for a week, and then galloped back and forth on the glutinous rice slope, a time the runway on both sides of the crowd of observers. Slope on the most important activity is the song, many nearby Hmong youth also came to participate in the song, the song is mostly acquaintance song, praise song, young men and women who are mutually interested in singing love songs, and then to a secluded place to make up their minds. At night, the slope of the cottage family full of guests, we continue to drink and sing. It is said that Nuomi Po Po will have a history of more than two hundred years. Legend has it that once upon a time, the Buyi women went to the slope to dig wild vegetables while singing about the poverty of life and the cruelty of rituals, and brought glutinous rice for the noon meal. When the latter heard the singing, they came to sing to each other, thus forming this festival. Miao legend, their ancestors could not stand the oppression of the Tusi, migrated here, but also brought the "April 8" festival here, so every year this festival.
Buyei customs
New Year's food
Some festivals are similar to the Han Chinese, and some of them are proprietary to their own ethnic groups, such as the "New Year "*** on the last day of the first month***, March 3*** Silkworm Festival***, April 8*** Cattle Festival***, June 6*** Pangu festival***, eat new festival, etc. Among them, on the ninth day of the first month of the first month of the year, the "April 8 Festival" is held in the city of Buyei. Among them, the ninth day of the first month, "cooking raw food", the 30th day of the first month to eat "sesame oil dumpling rake", March 3 to eat "bract flower", April 8 to eat "four-color glutinous rice", June 6 to eat "boiled chicken", etc., most of them are related to the national legend and folklore education.
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", "cross-cup wine", "Gedang wine", "turnaround wine", "a thousand cups of wine", and "sending off the guest wine". If the offering of pork, is to wish the guests to raise big pigs in the coming year, a good harvest; if the offering of 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 the rice into rice. The Buyei people generally like to eat glutinous rice, and 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. Meat dishes, dog meat, dog *** and beef soup pot for the top 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 customary 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 scallion, spices, plus minced meat under the water to boil the soup, to be the soup cooled to room temperature, with the pig's blood and stirred diluted, and stored until solidified, can be eaten, known as the "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 an important role in the daily life of the Buyi. Every year after the fall harvest, families have to brew a large amount of rice wine *** bento wine *** stored for year-round drinking. The Buyei people like to treat guests with wine, no matter how much visitors drink, as long as the guests come, all to wine first, called "welcome 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 blocks, pea flour, rice cakes, etc.
The Buyei people have a lot of traditional snacks.
Musical Instruments
Sawona, Yueqin, Dongxiao, Muye, flute and so on. Ground Opera and Lantern Drama are the favorite dramas of the Buyi people. Songs and small songs are circulating in Qiannan with a polyphonic structure of the two forms of singing; Pan song is used to sing to interrogate each other, random mutual questions and answers, astronomy, geography, mountains, rivers, grass and trees can be into the song. Oral literature circulating among the people includes myths, legends, stories, fables, proverbs and poems. 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 people in Qianxinan is known as the "living fossil of sound" and "heavenly music"
Food
Buyi people mainly live in the area of Guizhou Province in southwest China. in Guizhou Province in southwestern China. The rest are scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and other provinces. The Buyi are mainly agricultural, with a long history of growing rice.
The 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, potato taro and beans as a supplement. There are wooden pots, tripod pots cooking rice, oil stewed rice, two together rice **** rice mixed with corn ****, bracts poop, rice line, bait block, pea flour, rice cake and other fancy 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 generally 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 standard is "head yellow two black three flower class, white dog meat flavor most bland". Roasted stewed dog meat, dog ***, Huajiang dog meat are famous 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 cold powder", etc., is the Buyei people like food. 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 black beans, and their unique pickles, "salt and acid", are famous both in China and abroad. There are also blood tofu, sausage, and flavorful dishes made from dried and fresh bamboo shoots and various insects. They are also good at making bad chili, noodle chili and kimchi, which is beautifully flavored with freshness and sourness.
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, they don't use cups but bowls, and they have to make guesses and sing.
Buyi region has a tea not only flavor unique, the name is also very nice, which is the girl tea. Qingming *** Chinese traditional rituals, tomb-sweeping festival **** eve, the girl went up the mountain to pick back the tip of the tea tender flavor, hot fried to maintain a certain degree of humidity, and then stacked the tea leaves one by one into a cone, dried, and then processed, it was made into a roll of a roll of cones of the girl's tea. Girl's tea is not only beautiful in shape, but also of excellent quality, making it the finest of all teas. 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 girl tea tea name origin.
Buyei taboos
To the Buyei people's homes as a guest, shall not touch the shrine and the table, the tripod by the fire taboo to step on. It is customary for the Buyi to honor their guests with wine, and the guests should drink a little bit of it, more or less. It is forbidden to touch or cut down the mountain god tree and the big Luohan tree in the villages of the Buyi people. The Buyi must give gifts in even numbers. When a child is weak and sickly, the parents have to look for a godfather or godmother to protect him. There are two ways to find a godfather or godmother: one is to choose a day to wait at home, and the first person who comes to the door within three days is the child's protector; the other is to choose an auspicious day for the parents to lead the child and wait for the first passer-by on the road, which is the protector. Part of the Buyi branch of the clan does not eat dog meat, one explanation is that the dog once saved their ancestors, another explanation is that there was no rice before mankind, it was the dog that brought back rice from the god's sunbathing field to the Buyi, which made the Buyi the earliest of the human race to cultivate rice, the "rice nation". Part of the Buyei branch of the people do not eat fish, because according to legend, the earliest mother of the Buyei people is the daughter of the Dragon King - a sacred fish.