Chinese Wine Culture Yi, when there are distant friends to come why should be carried out, into the wine to sing!

The first course is "bar gate wine". When you walk to our Baina Yi village, the hospitality of the Yi people will play the trombone, bamboo flute and other folk instruments, they sing and dance to stand at the gate to meet the guests, your feet have not yet stood firm, the hands and feet of the Yi family Ah Mei, on the hold on a horn cup of mellow Yi small pot wine, if the horn cup put in a wooden leaf, then indicate that the guests to be guests on the spot with the host to sing a song of wine. The wine songs of Yi people are as brilliant as the stars, and there is no fixed style of wine songs, but the Yi people who are good at singing and dancing will express their feelings through the scenery, and make up their own songs on the spot for the age of different guests. The most sung in the bar door wine is the "welcome tune", which also belongs to a style of wine songs. The "welcome tune" sung in the bar door wine is very intoxicating: "People from afar, ah, into the Yi family is a guest, guests, ah, please drink a cup of welcome wine! The small pot of wine of the Yi family is mellow and fragrant, after drinking this cup of welcome wine, the Yi people are happy in their hearts, after drinking this cup of welcome wine, so that your spirit and happy" Listening to more mellow and intoxicating than the small pot of wine to welcome the guests, even people who have never dipped a drop of wine, from the hands of the Yi sisters will receive a large cup of goat's horn ramen wine, and then drink a mouthful of beautifully.

The second is the "blessing wine". Drinking through the bar door wine can enter the courtyard of the Yi family paved with green slate, the sumptuous delicacies in the hall on the green pine hairs open, hospitable Yi people will invite you to the table. After you are seated, you will naturally be served with wine, and the host will offer you a double cup of wine and a blessing song at the same time. The blessing song has ready-made tunes, warm and high-pitched voice, the content of the lyrics have traditional words, but also improvisation of the creation, but the content of the blessing song are some wishes for praise, auspicious words, can be sung by one person, or a number of collective chorus: "Guests from afar, ah, please drink two cups of blessing of the Yi family wine; a cup of blessing, I wish you a lifetime of good health; two cups of blessing, I wish you four seasons of good luck; guests, ah, please drink double cup of blessing of Yi family wine; a cup of blessing, I wish you good health; two cups of blessing, I wish you Please drink these two cups of blessing wine, and don't leave any drops behind." Appreciate the Wuding (Wuding County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province) Yi people dancing and singing the blessing wine song, which word for word speaks the sincere heart of the Yi people, in a burst of laughter and singing the blessing of the wine song flying defeated, only obediently lifted up the two cups of wine, a drink.

The third way for "stay guest wine". We Baina township of the most hospitable Yi people, hospitable Yi people always want to keep the guests, but the world does not have a banquet, when the guests to go, the hospitality of the Yi people to send the guests to the gate, and then invited the guests to drink the last cup of wine, the cup of wine, the Yi people called the "guest wine". In drink guest wine, natural trombone, bamboo flute at the same time playing guest tunes, young Yi brothers and sisters, will be surrounded by songs and dances, the master holding a goat horn wine cup, sung guest tunes, although the content of the wine song varies, but ultimately did not leave the blessing of the guests happiness, good luck, as well as the master's attachment, retention of the theme of the guests must finish the cup of wine, in order to set off on a new journey. The intoxicating "stay guest tune" rose again: "distant guests ah, please stay; Yi family small pot wine ah, and mellow and refreshing; guests ah stay, let us *** drink small pot wine; and mellow and refreshing small pot wine ah, we can not drink three days and three nights; distant guests you really want to go, please drink! If you really want to go, please drink this cup of guest wine; if you don't finish this cup of guest wine, you don't want to go; if you finish this cup of guest wine, you want to go, you go." Moving musical instruments play up, moving wine singing up, moving dance jump up, the master of the toast to hold this cup of hospitality wine, there is no one who does not drink it all the way through.