2, diet. First, the food. Yi people live in mountainous areas, and their food mainly includes potatoes, buckwheat, tobacco, barley, corn, round roots and vegetables. Second, meat. There are mainly cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens in Yi area, and mutton is the most expensive. To kill a pig, you should use fire to remove hair, or use boiling water to remove hair. Third, drink. Yi people attach great importance to wine, which is indispensable for weddings, funerals, holiday banquets, mediation of disputes and exorcism. Fourth, drink tea. Yi people have good tea, and men and women over middle age have the habit of drinking tea. Cook in a small pottery casserole, use a small refined porcelain cup as a teacup, and use buckwheat cake and fried noodles as supplementary food. Fifth, smoking. Yi people like to smoke their own orchid cigarettes, and there is a saying that they can't afford to smoke the years.
3. clothing. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the decorations of the Yi people in Ninglang were made of gold, silver, copper, jade, bones, shellfish and other raw materials, and there were many kinds. Whether it is women's clothing or men's clothing, or the clothing of Norway and the people, the seasonality is not strong, and the heat is unchanged. Wearing a blanket all year round is both a shelter from the rain and a cold. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, most men and a few women changed into Hanfu. Those who wear Yi costumes are mainly made of cotton, silk and fiber products, with novel styles and fine sewing.
4. Marriage. Before the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Yi people in Ninglang implemented strict systems of intermarriage within the clan, hierarchical intermarriage, intermarriage outside the clan, unmarried uncles and aunts, and preferential intermarriage between uncles and aunts. Marriage between men and women is arranged by parents, and it is very common to choose a spouse for marriage when you are young. Both men and women have no right to freedom of love and marriage autonomy. After liberation, the original marriage system of Yi people has gradually changed. Intermarriage and so-called intermarriage at different levels caused by the demise of slavery in the past have gradually increased. Young men and women have some freedom of love, but there are still marriages arranged by their parents.
5. Funeral. The Yi people in Ninglang, except babies who died before the age of one, leprosy patients covered with cowhide and pots, were all cremated. 1. Mosuo people's festivals include Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhuanshan Festival, ancestor worship festival, pastoral festival and so on.
2, diet. Mosuo people live on corn and rice, and others include barley, potatoes, oats and highland barley. In summer and autumn, there are vegetables such as green vegetables, radishes, turnips, lotus flowers and carrots. Before dinner, I like to drink butter tea, accompanied by a bus.
3. clothing. Mosuo men and women wore robes and belts before the age of 65,438+03. After the ceremony at the age of 65,438+03, both men and women wore gold-rimmed robes with silver coins and colored beads as buttons.
4. Funeral. The funeral ceremony of Mosuo pedestrian cremation is complicated, which is generally divided into several steps, such as washing the corpse, binding the corpse, calming the soul, stopping the corpse, loading the coffin, going on the road, explaining the genealogy, washing the horse around the village, thanking the villagers and so on.
5. matrilineal family. The characteristics of matrilineal families are that men don't marry women, and the family is calculated according to matrilineal descent. family fortune is inherited by women, and grandmother is the father, grandmother is absent and mother is the mother. Men go out to do business to earn money, while women do housework and are responsible for agricultural production. 1, Festival. The main festivals of Pumi nationality are Wuxi Festival, 15th National Day, Dragon Boat Festival, July and a half, Pinnian Festival and Zhuanshan Festival.
2, diet. Pumi people generally eat rice, wheat, highland barley, buckwheat, potatoes, broad beans, kidney beans and so on. Vegetables are mainly cucumbers, melons, peppers, radishes, vegetables and tomatoes. Meat is usually pork, beef and mutton. I like to drink milk and make ghee and cheese. Pumi people in Ninglang like to stir-fry noodles with butter tea.
3. Clothing: Before 1949, boys and girls of Pumi nationality wore flax fir and flax belts when they were children. /kloc-after the adult ceremony at the age of 0/3, men wear burlap, wide pants and sheepskin collar. Bao Tupa, a Pumi woman, wears a braid. She likes to braid yak tail and silk thread on her head, which is beautiful for her thick braid. With the continuous development of economy and society, people's living standards have gradually improved. Pumi people, like mainlanders, put on cotton, wool and chemical fiber clothes. However, the national characteristics of Pumi costumes have not changed, but the clothes are more colorful, the fabrics are more exquisite and the styles are more novel.
4. Funeral. Pumi people believe that the soul will never leave the body after death, and the body will be burned, but the soul still exists, thus forming a set of funeral ceremonies to place the soul and deal with the body. The Pumi people in Ninglang are cremated, and funerals vary from place to place, but they are all buried twice.