Yunnan is not the eight monsters but eighteen monsters *** there are three versions of the following
Version one:
The first monsters, eggs with grass strings to sell: the local townspeople in order to make it easier for buyers to carry the eggs purchased, and not be touched, they will be to the bamboo or wheatgrass sticking to the eggshells braided, each one are separated, ten for a string, can be hung in the墻, want to eat when they eat a few to take a few.
The second strange, take off the hats when the pot cover: Yunnan bamboo forests more, so many utensils are bamboo as raw material, and the pot cover is similar to the mainland's hats, just top slightly smaller, easy to grab, and use this as a pot cover, breathable heat preservation, made out of the rice more fragrant.
Third strange, three mosquitoes a dish: Yunnan many areas of the weather is hotter, mosquitoes and flies all year round, especially in the wild and livestock pens mosquitoes are bigger, so it is exaggerated to say that three mosquitoes a dish.
The fourth strange, the fire tube can be a water pipe: the local people smoke cigarettes used by the pouch is very similar to the mainland blowtorch, but the blowtorch is blowing outward, and it is sucked into the smoke through the water filtration, you can reduce the concentration of tar, the flavor is more cool and mellow.
The fifth strange, tsampa is called bait block: Yunnan production of large rice, very glutinous, the rice steamed and pounded, kneaded into a long semi-finished products, can be fried, boiled and eaten, steamed and eat, the color is white as snow, like the mainland to do the white rice poop, locally known as bait block.
Sixth strange, carrying a doll to fall in love: the local ethnic minorities look forward to prosperity, Sheng wedding a few days after the daughter-in-law will return to the door, and so there is a doll and then go back to the in-laws to meet with their husbands, began to really fall in love.
Seventh strange, the four seasons of the same clothing: Yunnan region, the climate is variable, summer is not hot, winter is not cold, the temperature difference between day and night is large, can be said to be hot and cold instantaneous change, in the street four seasons of the dress can be seen everywhere, long, short, thick, thin, colorful, colorful, colorful.
The eighth strange, grasshopper can do drinking dishes: many areas of Yunnan people have a hobby of eating insects, pests into delicacies, insects into delicious, so grasshoppers, locusts, etc., are because of the oil after frying, burnt crisp fresh, and has become a delicious drinking dishes.
The ninth strange, the girl was called the old lady: some areas of Yunnan accent maternal not divided, shouting the girl in fact is to refer to the aunt and the mother, and the aunt and the mother shouted for the old lady, so you ask the girl he said the old lady, shouting the old lady is also the mainland people called the sister-in-law. Lijiang Naxi by the old lady in charge, they are responsible for taking care of household chores, especially hard-working, so by everyone's respect.
The tenth strange, monks can fall in love: Yunnan and several Buddhist Southeast Asian countries bordering the country, and these Buddhist countries, the men on the temple as a monk like the mainland schooling and study or military service, when it can also be secular marriage and children, by its influence, the border people are also wearing a monk suit to fall in love.
The eleventh strange, old lady climbing faster than monkeys: Yunnan, more mountains and valleys, the local women since childhood, hard-working, climbing mountains, planting and chopping firewood are accustomed to, and therefore practiced a strong body and feet, seventy and eighty years old old people climbing often as if walking on the ground.
The twelfth strange, new shoes behind a patch: minority women in the back of embroidered shoes, cloth skillfully made shoes trailing, above the embroidered flowers carefully embellished. Both beautiful and have the practical value of blocking dust and mud.
The thirteenth strange, the car is still faster than the train: due to the numerous mountain valleys, so the railroad in Yunnan is very steep, more curves, making the train speed is particularly slow, the formation of the train is not as fast as the car's unique landscape.
The fourteenth strange, toes all year round are outside: Yunnan everywhere mountainous and steep mountains, traveling more inconvenient, climbing and running more will have more foot sweat, and then made into a shallow product shallow shoes, exposing the toes, to be able to feel more cool.
The fifteenth strange, dolls all by the man with: here, the man loves his wife and children to become the fashion, "model husband excellent father" in the streets abound.
The sixteenth strange, peanuts and beans are sold in piles: in the old days, the people of Dian Province, more than pure goodness, like to barter, the shame of commodity trading, so the peanuts and beans and other items are sold in piles, the hearts of the people will be like weighing general.
The seventeenth strange, this side of the rain on the other side of the sun: this sentence is used to describe Yunnan's special geographic location and ten miles of different days of the changing climate. A difference of ten miles will have a different weather scene, and the two sides of the same mountain is also a side of the sun, a side of rain pouring. Cold air from the east is blocked in the Wumeng Mountains between Yunnan and Guizhou, the front is difficult to enter Yunnan, making Yunnan "four seasons like spring".
The eighteenth strange, four bamboo rats a sack: mountainous areas of bamboo forests, there are many luxuriant bamboo shoots. Eating bamboo shoots of rats more fat, the shape of the house with a big difference in the rat. With such mountain treasures to treat guests is really better than chicken and goose.
Version two:
One, the bamboo tube as a pot to cook rice for sale: Cooking with a pot this is the ancient custom, but in Xishuangbanna and other areas, people can often see the bamboo tube instead of pot cooking, cylindrical, the appearance of a layer of white wrapped in the bamboo flesh, the pleasant aroma of the bamboo tube rice.
Two, milk made into a fan to sell: located at the foot of the Cangshan Mountain erhai coast of Dali eryuan dengchuan dam, produced a special process with milk fan-shaped curd sheet, the local commonly known as the "milk fan", is a favorite food in Yunnan tens of thousands of households.
Three, over the bridge rice noodles everyone loves: Yunnan over the bridge rice noodles to rice white, ingredients pay attention to both meat and vegetables with the family, oil and not greasy, tasty for the characteristics of the old and young. Hot chicken soup with raw meat, lettuce and made of rice syrup constitutes the most famous flavor of Yunnan: a "line", "bridge rice noodles".
Four, straw hat as a pot cover: straw hat is the Yunnan ethnic groups are particularly good at the craft, around the grass woven chairs, grass pier and grass woven curtains, pot hat. Foreigners are woven by the world of grass dazzle, the shape of a similar straw hat as a pot cover mistaken for strange, of course, strange.
Five, rice poop called bait block: the ancient Central Plains will be made of rice steamed cake-like dry food, snacks called "bait" easy to carry that is to eat, a unique flavor. Speaking of "bait" is a bit like fish bait, but described as Beijing's three dregs of cake more accurate (referring to the color and shape).
Sixth, eggs with grass tethered to sell: Yunnan mountains accounted for more than ninety percent, the road is bumpy and rugged, the old folks to sell eggs on the street, wrapped in grass to prevent the eggshells from cracking, and at the same time facilitate the sale.
Seven, three grasshoppers a dish: Yunnan food sources in certain historical conditions, people eat moss, eat fungus, bamboo worms, bee pupae, fried grasshoppers, looking at the strange food up crispy delicious. Tasting up and no insect flavor, crunchy.
Eight, earthen pot through the hole steamed chicken for sale: Legend has it that in ancient times, there are smart chefs in order to tout the magistrate adults through the hole in the earthen pot steamed aroma, fresh and tender "steamer chicken", and contains "cultivate the righteousness of the meaning of the", and then widely circulated in folklore, and become a famous Dian cuisine. It has become a famous dish in Yunnan cuisine.
Nine, love with song generation: Yunnan ethnic minorities can sing and dance, every festival celebrations, singing is indispensable, young people talk about love is often from the beginning of the song.
Ten, the bamboo tube to do smoke: Yunnan's rich bamboo resources, the use of bamboo is also widely used, dry bamboo buildings, bamboo chairs, bamboo hats, etc. Especially the bamboo pipe is the most characteristic. Especially the most characteristic bamboo pipe, smoke through the water storage bamboo tube, sucking the rhythmic sound of gurgling, moisturizing the throat, sound, color, taste.
Eleven, Xingyun Lake fish boundary: in Yunnan Jiangchuan Xingyun Lake and Chenggang Fuxian Lake, where the water is connected, but the two lakes of the fish do not come to each other, the east side of Fuxian Lake and the west side of Xingyun Lake of the yellow fish to the "boundary fish stone" as the boundary, to this turn around.
Twelve, the bride to wear sunglasses: the day before the wedding bride to bid farewell to her parents to cry marriage, crying marriage to cry very much. So in the wedding day eyes will be swollen, with sunglasses can cover the eyes of crying.
Thirteen, dolls go out with men: in the eyes of the Han Chinese, this is a role reversal, in fact, do not understand gender equality. Yunnan mountains and steep slopes, the man back doll is not only safe and reliable, but also show the man's true colors.
Fourteen, four seasons with clothing to wear: Kunming has been known as the "Spring City" of the reputation, the average annual temperature average of twenty-one degrees and ten degrees between, "four seasons chaotic clothing" has become a major feature of Kunming. In Wuhan, there is also such a season, not "four seasons", but "two, four, August (lunar calendar) chaussure de foot".
Fifteen, marble head as a painting to sell: marble texture is delicate, smooth and moist, brightly patterned. Composition and colorful marble, known as natural stone painting, has a high artistic appreciation value, was sold as "stone painting".
Sixteen, the train is not as fast as the car: Yunnan in the quasi-railway before the emergence of railroads, the beginning of this century that is the meter railroad, due to the peaks and ravines and gullies, the train coiled mountains, sometimes even faster than the oxcart, only thirty or forty kilometers per hour or so, the only section of the country's existing Yunnan, "inch track" (seventy-two centimeters) railroads until the early 1990s, is still in use. Yunnan is the only section of the "inch rail" (72 centimeters) railroad, until the early nineties is still in use, compared to the speed is even slower. Cars have a big advantage in transportation in Yunnan. It looks and feels a bit weird, and it's arguably the weirdest of the eighteen.
Seventeen, stone born in the clouds outside the sky: in Yunnan, towering in the mountains and ridges of strange peaks and rocks can be seen everywhere, a thousand forms.
Eighteen, flowers bloom in all seasons: Yunnan's three-dimensional climate and plenty of sunshine in all seasons, known as the "Kingdom of Plants" of Yunnan flowers bloom in all seasons.
Version Three: The New Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan:
1. Cave Music
The sound of heavenly music is a delight to hear. In Lijiang, Jianshui and other places in Yunnan, there is a kind of cave music that has been passed down from ancient times, and its ancient instruments, simple music scores, and ancient and rare performers make people enjoy it.
Dongjing music is rumored to have come from the Tang and Song dynasties and has been handed down to the present day with the chanting of scriptures. As the years go by, unlike the scripture music and ritual music of the past, it has been integrated into the local ethnic culture, but it still sounds like heavenly music, which makes people mesmerized.
2, Jianshui steam pot fairy love
Stir-frying pan, cooking pot, soup pot, everyone has seen, but the middle of the hole in the Jianshui steam pot, you do not necessarily seen. The center through the hole of the steamer can still be used? You will know if you go to Jianshui County to take a look. Jianshui steamboat is made of good clay, and the hole in the center of the mouth is raised like a small chimney, which is higher than the edge of the pot, so that the food will not leak out of the pot.
The famous Jianshui Steamboat Chicken is made by putting the chicken into this pot, adding well water and seasonings, and then putting the steamboat on a round pot with water, stuffing the gap between the two pots with cotton paper and water, and steaming it over a raw fire. The steamed chicken meat is white and tender, the soup is clear and bright, the aroma is strong and the flavor is beautiful.
3, Jade everyone with
In Dehong State, Mangshi, Ruili, Yingjiang and other places, the streets are full of jade jadeite sales. Everyone understands three jade, everyone on the body to wear jade. No wear, home also have a few pieces of jade stored. From a few hundred dollars to a few million dollars of jade jewelry, people are dazzled.
Walking on the street, cold will see passers-by hand or neck wearing a jade on the value of a house, let a person's mind is difficult to calm. Jade out of Dehong, just because and the earth's only jadeite origin Myanmar neighbor.
4, barefoot on fire really can
Fire can burn, is for regular people. When you see someone barefoot in the red hot coals walking, will be surprised. This is some of the Yi, Lahu and other fire worship of the people of the national ability, many years of practice skills. Since ancient times, these and the fire bonded with the people, and fire as a companion, flourish, every national festival, you can also see barefoot on the fire of the wonderful scene.
5, the knife mountain as a ladder race
Bare feet, climbing on the sharp knife ladder. It will make you break out in a cold sweat. Every year on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, is the Yunnan Li Su people's "knife pole festival". Dozens of steel knives can break hair, tied to two large bamboo as a ladder, high up in the center of the square, the brave Lisu girls and boys, barefoot, stepping on the steel knife, up and down freely, thrilling.
6, the solar calendar Yi family cottage
Only 10 months a year calendar, have you ever seen? It is the Yi October Solar Calendar, an ancient calendar created by the ancestors of the Yi people, with a history of more than 10,000 years, common to the Yi, Bai, Hani and other ethnic groups in Yunnan. It uses the 12 phases of the solar cycle, with a week of 12 days, 3 times a month, and 30 times a year.
That is, 10 months a year, 36 days a month *** 360 days, the remaining 5 days for the New Year. 1989 in Wuding County, Chuxiong Prefecture, and found that the ancient 18-month solar calendar, and the Indian tribe Maya 18-month solar calendar, the same, 18 months a year, a month of 20 days *** 360 days, the remaining 5 days, the Maya people known as the "taboo day". Day".
7, the feast long long set through the street
A hall put dozens of tables on the feast you have seen, rows of 4 kilometers long feast you have seen? The world's longest banquet belongs to the Yunnan Province, Honghe Prefecture, "Long Street Banquet", is a traditional custom of the Hani tribe in October year "Angma sudden" festival. Every lunar October 10 or so, the villagers in the center of the street a table or two. Tables connected, stretching more than a thousand meters, dozens of dishes, sea food for 3 days. This is a kind of harmony, this is a culture, a flavor.
8, folk songs and ditties to drink
Drinking without drinking dishes, folk songs and ditties to bring generation. In the famous state of Jianshui, you can often see a few people sitting around drinking, but no food. Next to a person singing folk songs and ditties, a number of people listen and sing, sing and drink, very happy. Now you go to the Jianshui city gate than the Forbidden City is also old sunrise, you can often see this scene, the folk also have this habit.
9, swallow's nest nest emperor love
One of Asia's most spectacular caves - Jianshui Swallow Cave, abundant bird's nest. Local farmers often climb up to the top of the 50-meter-high, 450-meter-long cave with their bare hands to collect swallows' nests. The stuff, made from the saliva of swallows, has a high nutritional value and is so difficult to collect that it was offered as tribute in ancient times.
10, burned tofu with corn counting to sell
The world's tofu is much, only the most interesting Jianshui. The strange in the delicious, strange in the selling. Half the size of a matchbox Jianshui burnt tofu, was covered with a stink to sell. It is roasted over and over again on the fire, and then cooked into a round "small ping pong ball". The aroma of the cooked tofu can be smelled from several blocks away. Sitting by the fire, you can cook one and eat the other. Usually sold individually, the stall owner sees you eat one, put a corn kernel in a small bowl to count, and finally count the corn kernels to settle the bill.
11, grass buds as ivory to sell
The world is rich in thousands of ingredients, Jianshui grass buds, the only one here. Strange to say, grass buds only Jianshui only have, shaped like a smaller version of the ivory, white and tender bend, delicious and sweet. It can be fried, meat fried, can also be boiled in soup, the most authentic Yunnan Bridge Rice Noodle, grass sprouts is an essential main ingredient.
12, wearing the stars and moon Naxi thia
Wearing the stars and moon on the body, do you know who? Ethnic dress number Yunnan most, each ethnic dress has a unique cultural connotation. Naxi women are known for their hard work, carrying "seven-star sheepskin" to prevent wind and rain and labor injury to the shoulders and back.
"Seven stars sheepskin" is made of a piece of sheepskin, above the round top sewn with a black edge, symbolizing the night sky, the following nailed to the seven color embroidered round cloth plate, representing the Big Dipper seven stars, the head and a circle of sterling silver to create a round headdress to symbolize the moon, commonly known as the "stars wearing the moon! The moon is a symbol of the moon, commonly known as "Draped in stars and moon". It symbolizes Naxi women's hard work and diligence as they go out early and return late.
13, Tropic of Cancer Twin Walled City
There is a place where twins abound, drink the well water in the well of the twins here, it is said that will give birth to twins, you say strange not strange. What's even more amazing is that the Earth's Tropic of Cancer passes right through this place, which adds a lot of reverie. There are really a lot of twins here the birth rate of twins is much higher than other places.
The local government has launched the "International Twin Festival", organizing local, inviting foreign and international twins to gather here, from the age of zero to eighty to ninety years old, so that people were amazed, dazzled, and could not tell who is who, this is the Mojiang County, Yunnan Province.
14, three steps over five streets
Three steps over five streets? Jianshui ancient city streets and lanes are dense, green stone alleys, crisscrossing, in all directions. Located in the east of the city Yongshan Street, three steps will be able to step over five streets, the novelty of the extreme, since ancient times has become a scene in the ancient city of Jianshui.
15, a hundred houses in a family
A family can live in a hundred houses? In fact, more than a hundred. Known as the "Southwest China Grand View Garden" of Jianshui Zhu family garden, located in the Jianshui Ancient City of Jianxin Street interruption, covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters, building area of more than 5,000 square meters was "vertical four horizontal three" layout, *** there are 214 houses, the scale of the grand, the rich and magnificent. Rich and magnificent.
This is the late Qing Dynasty Lin'an Chenggang General, Diannan Wang Zhu Chao Ying's private residence. After Zhu Chaoying was awarded the title of Lieutenant General for his participation in the Lin'an Uprising of the 1911 Revolution, the Yunnan Governor Cai E once inscribed a gift to him: "Doing things with guts and guts is not to be ashamed of one's face."
16, leaves sprinkled with water to show love
City people treat each other to gifts for the holidays, we are here for the holidays to splash each other, very frugal and environmentally friendly. This is the Yunnan Dehong, Xishuangbanna, Honghe and other places Dai, De'ang and other ethnic minorities of the millennium traditional festival - Water Festival. It is held around mid-April every year.
The earliest custom, which can still be seen in some remote villages, was to dip a tree branch in water and gently sprinkle it over one's shoulder to bless and greet each other. Now, due to the integration of foreign factors, the way to splash water has changed, branches are no longer used, small pots into a large pot, a second can make you "wet".
17, torch festival to everyone love
Establishment of fire is illegal, in many areas of Yunnan is different. Many ethnic minorities in Yunnan to fire as God, Yi, Bai, Naxi, Lahu and other ethnic groups have their own torch festival. It is an ancient festival of the nation and has been called the "Carnival of the East".
Most of the torch festivals are held around the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. In addition to the burning of giant torches, there are also special torch dances, bullfighting, cockfighting, horse races, wrestling and other activities, which make the festival a lively one.
18, Dulong tattoo face ancient generations
In Yunnan northwestern Yunnan Dulong people will be tattooed on the face. The Dulong are the least populous of Yunnan's unique ethnic minorities. The Dulong are known as the "Ornate People" and the "Qu People", or the "Embroidered Face Tribe".
The Dulong women started to tattoo their faces at the age of 12--15 years old. For why the Dulong women tattooed their faces, there are different opinions, some say it is for the sake of beauty, some say it is for the sake of guarding against looting of foreign tribes and self-destruction of their faces, some say it is to drive away evil spirits and avoid trouble, and some think it is the standard of adults or clans.
Expanded Information:
Yunnan, due to its unique geographic features, special climate conditions, the colorful ethnic styles, peculiar customs and habits, has produced many strange phenomena different from other places.
With the travelers from afar, the hasty passers-by in this magical land to leave a brief footprints and leave, they heard and witnessed those strange and interesting also gradually spread, and every time was crowned with the word 'strange', and thus also passed down the "Yunnan eighteen monsters
The so-called "eighteen monsters of Yunnan", "twenty-eight monsters of Yunnan", "eighty-one monsters of Yunnan" and so on.
The so-called "eighteen Yunnan monsters" is a description of Yunnan's unique geographic location, folk customs and folklore produced by some unique and even some strange phenomena or lifestyle. There are many versions of the eighteen Yunnan monsters, some of which have slowly disappeared, some of which are still preserved, and some of which are exaggerated. With the development of society, Yunnan's economic construction has been effective, the eighteen Yunnan monsters have also been distinguished from the original new Yunnan eighteen monsters.
Yunnan eighteen monsters jingle:
You say strange is not strange, Yunnan has eighteen monsters.
Four bamboo rats in a sack, broad beans and peanuts counting to sell;
Pocket pony more than capable of carrying a doll and then fall in love; four seasons of the same clothes to wear, perennial can be a good melon and vegetables;
Picked off the straw hat as a pot cover, three mosquitoes, a plate of food; stone long outside the clouds, this side of the rain over there in the sun;
Eggs on a string of grass to sell the train did not have a car fast; the little monk can fall in love with a word not to say
The grasshopper is used as a drink, and the bamboo tube as a water pipe; flowers bloom in all seasons, and toes are exposed all year round.
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