The New Year's Day is the Miao people's ? Spring Festival. It is also known as the Hakka Year. Hakka New Year. During the New Year, every family kills pigs and goats, and bakes wine and makes pies to celebrate a good harvest, hoping for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year. According to the custom, the Miao people express their blessings and hopes for the New Year by singing songs. Early in the morning, compatriots from five townships and four towns in the border area of Guizhou, Hunan and Chongqing rushed from all directions to the foot of Tianxingpo at the junction of the three provinces and cities to express their joy of welcoming the New Year with songs. Also sing the "Spring Song", lyrics to the effect of thinking about spring, spring, spring, spring, spring, and so on.
2. Treading Flower Mountain Festival
Treading Flower Mountain is a traditional festival of the Miao people. The Hmong people in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces in the lunar calendar in the first and second month or April and May prevailing stamping on the mountain, jumping field, from young men and women's courtship activities. During the festival, young men and women sing songs, dancing Lusheng dance, seeking a spouse; the old farmers came to the flower field to exchange production experience, teaching production techniques, wishing a good harvest. The Miao people living in the mountainous areas also have bullfighting competitions during the festival. Pingbian County, the Miao people also organized a jumping lion and climbing flower pole competition.
3. April 8
The traditional festival of the Miao people, legend has it that this festival started in the Ming Dynasty. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the Miao people are dressed in full costume gathered in Guiyang City by the fountain, blowing the sheng and playing the flute, singing and talking to commemorate the legendary ancient 4. hero Yanu.
In addition, April 8 is also a festival of the Buyi people, some call it ? The Cow King Festival? The, there is also called the? The festival is also called the "Shepherd Boy Festival". or? The first time I saw the movie, it was a very good one, but it was a very good one. or "Kai Yang Festival". On this day, both people and cows have to eat? Niuwangba
5. Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a Miao festival popular in western Hunan and southeast Guizhou Shi Dong, Song Tao area. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. On this day, in addition to competing dragon boats, there are also running horses, bullfighting, stepping on drums and other activities.
6. Sisters Festival
In the Miao villages along the Qingshui River in the eastern part of Guizhou Province, the fifteenth to eighteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year for the Miao? Sisters Festival. In the festival, the Miao family according to the traditional custom to eat? Sisters rice. This kind of rice is with the girls in the mountains to collect wild flowers and leaves to the glutinous rice dyed into colorful steamed. The festival also includes lively bullfighting scenes and? The festival also includes a lively bullfighting scene and The festival is also characterized by a lively bullfighting scene and a "tour of the square" event.
7. Catch the Miao Festival
It is a traditional festival of the Miao people. It is popular in Xuyong and Gulin. It is held twice a year on February 13 and July 3 of the lunar calendar. Regarding the origin of the festival, it is said that it was formed after the failure of an uprising of the Miao people. The government did not allow them to join the party. People then to the field dam blowing reed-sheng entertainment in the name of secret contact, and later gradually evolved into a fixed festival.
8. Gift Belt Festival
Popular in the lower east of Xuyong County. It is held on the fifth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, dozens of miles around the young men and women. If the two sides are interested, they can give each other belts, as a betrothal gift. Afterwards, those who regret, you can ask for the belt back, to dissolve the relationship.
9. Eat new festival
Also called ?
Also known as the "New Harvest Festival", the festival is also known as the "New Wo Festival". The festival is also known as "New Harvest Festival". is one of the festivals of the Miao people who live in the middle and upper reaches of the Qingshui River and the Duliu River. There is no standardized date. According to the custom, in the harvesting season, they find a field with the best growth of rice, and celebrate the festival here. Eat New Festival? Legend has it that in very ancient times, there was no grain on earth, only the grain country in charge of the heavenly sue hu (Lei Gong) had grain, and people had to hunt for a living. In order to get the grain seed, the Miao's old ancestor first surao took nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine kinds of rare birds and beasts to the valley of the country in exchange for nine buckets and nine liters and nine bowls of grain seed, put in the warehouse, and so on the next year, the beginning of the spring sowing. But one night, A Wuyou, who had very long and long arms, with his hands grasping the sky, stepped on a stone and pounded fern roots by the light of a sky lantern, and accidentally knocked the lantern over, which happened to fall onto the roof of the wooden plank barn. As a result, a fire started, which got bigger and bigger, and the grain seeds cried out in the barn, and finally flew up to the sky on the smoke and ran back to the house of Sue Hoo. Gueilao went to Gueilao and asked him to persuade the grain seed to come back, but Gueilao insisted that the grain seed had not gone up to the sky. But he insisted that the grain seed had not gone up to the sky. There was nothing else to do, so he discussed with Sue Hoo and took another 9,999 kinds of rare birds and animals to exchange for the grain seed. After nine layers of skin had been worn out and his voice had been dried up, Sue Hoo refused to agree. After thinking for nine days and nine nights, Sue Hoo finally came up with a plan: when the grain is ripe, send a dog to the paddy field to play a few rolls, so that the grain is stained on the fur to bring back. On the morning of July 13th of the ancient calendar, the dog was about to set off, and the surau was again confided in: to take the grain stalks were five feet high, and the ears were five feet long. But because the dog walked too fast, to the south gate, accidentally tripped and fell, the confession of the words reversed, the result is to run into only five inches long rice paddy, hastily rolled a few times to run back. The strategy was recognized by the defendant Hue, when the dog went to the bridge, the sue Hue early sent ninety-nine strong warriors to guard the bridge, they knocked the dog down to the Tianhe River, they thought the Tianhe River is wide and deep, the dog is only one way to die. But they never thought, the dog fell into the sky river after hurrying to the tail high exposed to the water, after nine oxen and two tigers strength, swim across the sky river back, the tail is also stained with nine grain seed. Sue Lau has a grain seed, quickly plowed and withdrawn the seed, to the ancient calendar June 6 this day, the tip of the seedling drew out a string of dog-tail like the ears of grain, a month later, the golden ears of grain ripened. On the 13th day of the 7th month of the ancient calendar, it was the day of obtaining grain seeds for a year, and on this day, Sue Law picked nine liters of grain and cooked a big pot of fragrant white rice. He scooped up three large bowls for the dogs to eat before tasting the new one himself. The rest of the grain seeds were sown year after year, so that all the people ate white rice. In order to remember the day when the grain seeds were taken, the 13th of July was designated as the New Eating Festival, which has been passed down. On the day of the festival, every family uses the new grain to cook, the day just breaks, people will bring the new rice, wine, chicken, duck, fish, meat to the field, after sacrificing the ancestors, the feast begins, everyone forms a circle, each person will raise the hand of the wine cup to the lips of the next, the old man gave an order, everyone cheered three times in succession, then each other to toast and wine, drink it all. All of a sudden, the laughter echoed in the fields, and the traditional cultural and sports activities such as singing, stepping on ponds and jumping Lusheng began until dusk.
10. Sheep and Horses Festival
Popular in Xiushan County, Longchi, Shidi area. It is held from April 26th to 28th of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, people kill pigs and sheep, invite guests and give gifts to celebrate the festival.
11. Catch Autumn Festival
Popular in Xiushan County. Every year, it is held on the day of Autumn. At that time, people from all directions flocked to the meeting place, to participate and watch the swing, lion dance, play dragon lanterns, on the knife ladder and other activities. About the origin of the festival, legend has it that in ancient times, a clever young man, looking for his beloved girl for the people, will be a person sitting in the swing changed into eight people sitting in the swing, attracting people from near and far to swing. On the swing, he finally found his beloved girl. From then on, every fall, people would gather together to swing. The people would come together every year to swing on the swings, and year after year, they would form the Catch the Autumn.
12. Miao New Year
Miao New Year, the Miao language called? The year of the Miao, known in Miao language as? The date of the Hmong New Year is not very uniform, in the Rongshui Hmong to the 30th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Eve, the next day for the New Year, the Hmong New Year of the most populated, the widest geographical area.
The folk activities of the Miao New Year are very rich, the main ancestor worship, blowing the reed-sheng pedal hall, walk the village knot the same year. The reed-sheng pedaling is held in the village reed-sheng hall, men blowing and women pedaling, men and women participate. First by the small reed-sheng player blew a short sheng music, and then the size of the sheng player to play together, the girls are wearing bird clothes, wearing silver jewelry, silver flower crown dancing, silver Pei's brittle and sheng song, interweaving into the festival moving melody.
Walking the village knot with the year is also an important folklore activities during the Miao New Year. Every year in the year of the Miao. Zhai and Zhai will be between each other as the host, each other knot the same year. The village men and women dozens or hundreds of people, with a reed-sheng, dressed in festive attire, beating gongs and drums to the same year village to carry out joint activities. Before entering the village, the hosts are informed by three sheng songs, and the hosts lead the men and women of the whole village out of the village to meet them. Then they play the reed-sheng again in the reed-sheng hall and step on the hall as a ceremony of entering the village, and the host also plays the reed-sheng and steps on the hall to return the favor. After the ceremony, the guests are invited to their homes for hospitality. The guests usually stay for three days, playing lusheng and treading on the hall during the day, having lusheng competitions, and performing Miao opera in the evening, during which unmarried young men and women have the opportunity to play? Sitting Sisters? The social activities of the song, the pursuit of their loved ones, all night long.
During the Miao New Year, in addition to the above activities. Miao people also held bullfighting, horsefighting, birdfighting, shooting, pole climbing and other traditional sports competitions. Among them, bullfighting and horsefighting are the most attractive, often attracting thousands of people to watch.
13. Mars Festival
The traditional festival of the Miao people. It is popular in the Guanling area of Guizhou. The content of the festival is mainly to stipulate the rules of the township. Depending on the family name, the time of the festival varies. Roughly July, August and September 27 vary. Once a year, according to the people in the clan, take turns on duty, the duty is responsible for convening everyone to discuss the rules of the township and related events, and then the duty family should prepare wine and kill chickens, and invite everyone to drink? Then the family on duty will prepare wine and kill a chicken, and invite everyone to drink "Heshin Wine". and honor the head of the chicken to the next year. The cycle rotates to whoever is in charge of the year, in whose home to hold a gathering and drink "will heart wine".
14. The Hakka Year
The Hakka Year of the Miao people is the Spring Festival. On the evening of the 30th day of the Lunar Calendar, family members get together and are not allowed to be disturbed by outsiders. They use a half-covered door to set off firecrackers to show that no one is allowed to enter at this time. Early in the morning on the first day, they continue to set off firecrackers to honor their ancestors and get rid of evils. People use both hands to do the cattle, stopping the sheep shape, mouth said: "Catch the cattle, catch the sheep to show that the six months. Cattle, sheep in order to show that the six animals flourish, and then eat the New Year's dinner. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Miao people in full costume start to go around the countryside, congratulating each other on the festival. Hospitable hosts make three toasts to their guests. Every house is filled with festive joy. Young men and women gather on the lawns in front of villages and villages to play the lusheng, moon zither, dance and sing, and in some places, they also hold a festival called "Stomping on the Flower Mountain". In some places, the festival is also held as "Stomping on the Flower Mountain". In some places, the festival is also held. and oxen. The event is a great opportunity for the people of China to learn more about the history of the country.
15. Drying Bridge Festival
The traditional festival of Zhaitou in the Miao township of Sansui County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, is also known as the second day of the second lunar month. February 2? According to legend, the people of Zhaitou originally lived in the foggy mountains, and because of the fertile land in Zhaitou, the whole village moved into Zhaitou together. On the day of the move, the dragon should also follow the move, but the water of the Shiping River blocked the way of the dragon, so the Walled City's Guru Luo (elders) discussed, decided to build a bridge to the dragon to receive the dragon, because the dragon symbolizes good luck and happiness. The whole village twelve rooms are to receive, so the bridge was built twelve piers. The bridge was repaired and named? Dragon bridge? The bridge is the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, in order to commemorate this day, every year this day the head of the twelve houses of the Zhai Miao family to lift a pig, slaughtered on the bridge.
16. Climbing Festival
The Miao climbing festival is also known as? The festival is also known as the "Climbing Festival". Horse Day? (the ancient use of twelve Chinese zodiac signs to mark the day), that is, the lunar calendar March 19 this day. At that time, the Miao people living in the Kaili area of Southeast Guizhou gathered on the incense burner mountain, where they sang songs and fought with the birds, singing mountains and seas of people, bustling with excitement. Young men and women sing while climbing along the winding mountain path to the top of the mountain. All the way to the spring breeze all the way to the song, the Miao fly song, love song, wine song, ancient song sprinkled all over the mountainside, the first to reach the top of the mountain is known as? The first to reach the top of the mountain is known as the hero of the climb? The first to reach the top of the mountain is known as the hero of the climb, and is respected by everyone. The first to reach the top of the mountain was known as the hero of the climb, and was respected by everyone. Legend has it that the Xiangfu Mountain Climbing Festival commemorates the Hmong's handsome young man, A Tinker, and the Jade Emperor's youngest daughter, Abel. The Jade Emperor's youngest daughter, Abel, longing for a free life on earth, flew down the mountaintop and married the smart, capable, loyal and kind A Tonic and had three daughters. One day at dawn, the whole family was happy when the rooster crowed for the first time. The Jade Emperor stipulates that every day when the rooster crows three times is the time of pilgrimage, and if Abel can't get there in time, there will be a great disaster. Anxious as fire, Abel ran towards the sky at the top of the mountain and collapsed the top of Fragrant Furnace Mountain by one foot. Without the top of the mountain, Abel could no longer descend to the earth, and the Jade Emperor, who could not enjoy the incense on earth without the top of the mountain, punished Abel by turning him into an incense burner for the purpose of burning incense. In order to commemorate the faithful love of Abel and A Patch, the Miao people will have an annual climbing festival on the day of A Patch's transformation into an incense burner.
17. Pick Onion Festival
It is a gathering of the Miao youth in Wengpaipo, Baojing County, western Hunan. Legend has it that a long time ago, the daughter of the old nose Miao village official, Ada, fell in love with Ramsha's Miao cattle rancher, Yan Nuo. The land official was furious and said: ? How can a phoenix bird **** a nest with a pegged sparrow? Iwano's old man also advised Iwano:? The old man also advised Iwano: "The honeysuckle flower and the ground cabbage can't share the same heart". Adajia was locked in the hammock and couldn't go out. Every day at dusk, Yannuo drove his cows home and ran from Ramsha to Laobizhai to see his beloved girl. Losing her freedom, Adajaya sang in a song: ? The kingfisher is locked up in a bamboo cage, but the flower on the mountain is a long way off. Birds look forward to the flowers, flowers look forward to the birds, Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival Qingming Festival. The Qingming Festival is a time for Miao girls to gather flowers at the Qingming Festival. It is a Hmong girl who goes up to the mountain to pick gourd onions on Qingming Day to seek the blessing of the mountain gods. Iwano understood the meaning of the girl and sang: "I will pull down the vine and roll it up. The vine of the tree is rolled on the ground, the vine is withered, the leaves are also withered, so lonely, looking forward to Ching Ming, spring rain, wrapped up in the village and then not to leave the mile. On the day of the Qingming Festival, the two men left home early and met on the slope of Wengpai in the lush green hillside. Their faithful love for each other touched the HULU onion fairy goddess, which contributed to their beautiful marriage. Therefore, every year in the Qingming Festival, Miao young women dressed in festive costumes, with steamed? Qingming Ba Ba? The young women wear festive dresses, bring steamed Qingming Baiba, hold onion knives in their hands, and the young men hold sand knives and gather on the slope of Wengpai to sing songs to choose their spouses. This is an annual event. The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and it was the first time I had ever seen a kid.
18. Drum Festival
This is the traditional ancestral festival of the Miao people. The festival is held for twelve years and a small one for six or seven years. Legend has it that the mother of mankind? The mother of mankind, the sisterhood of the sisterhood of the sisterhood to stay? is born from the heart of the maple tree, they have to go back to the maple tree after death, the soul of a person after death to go back to the old home to rest in peace. The ancestral home is in the heart of the tree, and the wooden drum symbolizes the resting place of the ancestors. Later, the ancestor worship,? Ancestor worship? was changed to? Sacrifice drums? The drums were then called "drums for ancestors". Nowadays, the drum festival is the ancestor festival. The drum festival is a way to honor the ancestors. The drum festival is held in units. It's held in units of one. A "rengu" is a clan of blood relatives who have been passed down from one ancestor to another. is a clan of blood relatives passed down from an ancestor, and they worship a wooden drum in which the spirit of the ancestor is believed to reside. On the day of the drum festival, each family prepares a water-sticky bull, or several families can prepare one, or buy some beef. First, the bulls are released to fight, and the scene is spectacular with hundreds of bulls fighting together, and then they are slaughtered to honor the offerings. According to custom, whether it is to celebrate friends and relatives, but also to see the bullfighting guests, passing vendors, all stay, are not allowed to go, the more people, the owner of the face of the more colorful.
19. Miao Fighting Horse Festival and Bailongpo Festival
Rongshui northwest of the mountainous region of Angtai, Dongtou, Si Rong, incense powder, Anjian and other townships of the Miao people like to fight horses. Whenever the Miao people celebrate traditional festivals, there is no shortage of horsefighting activities. 1987, the Rongshui County People's Government designated November 26th as the County Day as the Horsefighting Festival. On the day of the festival, the village sang and sang to the sky, iron cannons and powder guns were fired. People of all ethnic groups dressed in festive costumes cheerfully dance the joyful Lusheng dance. At this time the spirit of the Miao compatriots, holding their respective horses, from all directions gathered in the horse arena. Horsefighting, is a two-horse racehorse fight, each time only a pair of fights, the winner stays in the field, continue to fight, to win or lose the number of times on the high and low.
In recent years, the fighting horses have been included in the festival of sports competitions, the winners were awarded one, two, three, to the war horse red color. Fragrant powder Gulongpo, is in the mang mountains in the rise of a slope of about 900 square meters, the first month of the lunar calendar 16, the annual? Gulongpo will be held here. is held here.
On the slope, there are more than a dozen wooden reed-pipe columns, the red paper on the columns is written? The sound of the sheng song boiled Changchun ground? The first is the "Pekingese", which is the name given to the "Pekingese". The red paper on the pillar reads: "The sound of the sheng song boils in the Changchun land" and "Peaceful world with joy". expresses the heartfelt wishes of the Miao children. Each reed-sheng column has a reed-sheng team playing around, each team has thirty or forty people. They hold a bamboo pipe made of reed-sheng, reed-sheng long more than ten feet, short Ying feet, sheng tube thick as a bowl, thin hungry fingers.
Dancing with lusheng and fighting horses and birds are the main content of Gulongpo. At dusk, each family to the foreign guests received at home, with home-brewed sweet wine and sour fish and other delicacies hospitality
20. Drum Festival
Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi and Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, the traditional festival of the Miao people. Held once every 13 years, the time in the lunar calendar in October. About the origin of the drum, folk legend has a beautiful story: drum original in the sky, the earth and the sky people can freely come and go. The drum festival in the sky, Yongpeng couple should be invited by the uncle's family, to see the drum activities in the sky, and from the sky to ask for the drum. When the drum sounded, the jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards fled, the mosquitoes and insects flew far away, and people got the year's harvest and peaceful life. Another legend is that Lui Gung and Ying fought a war, so that all the trees in the world were burned out and the mountains were bare. In order to find tree species, Haoliang traveled a long way and finally found cedar tree species and planted them. Later, there were green cedar forests in Miaoshan, but he turned into a flowering cow tree. People are grateful to Hao Liang benefit to mankind, they cut a section of the flower cow tree made of drums, pulled into the village, as if to invite Hao Liang back to the village, with men, women and children *** with joy. So there will be every 13 years held once pull drum festival.
Three rivers with the music of the Hmong around the drum pulling festival, to be in advance in February of the lunar calendar, first elected the main perpetrator, cut a thick flower cow tree (said six, seven feet long large empty tube tree), take a section of the chiseled tree heart made of wooden drums, and then a thick mountain vine through the heart of the drum, tied to the drums, rattan end of the vine to stay with a lot of fork, and must be in the drums pulling on the hill planted a tree of nanmu. October's auspicious day, the day just dawned, one person from each household on the drums on the mountain, the anti-brought to the pockets hanging in the tree, the sorcerer read the incantation, everyone will grab the leaves of the nan tree, into the bag, the villagers believe that the more leaves picked the more auspicious.
When pulling the drum, there is a lusheng player in front to lead the way, the youths pull the drum down the hillside, others escorted on one side, and the surrounding area is full of people watching the fun and carrying wine and meat. Friends and relatives invited to participate in the activities, grabbing the letter vine, and from time to time to tie the end of the vine in the trees along the way to create trouble, so that pulling the drum can not be carried out smoothly. At this time, the organizers will toast to them, meat, hospitality, begging to let go. This is repeated five or six times, and finally pulled the drum back to the village, parked on the side of the village.
When the drummers return home, the women are in front of their homes, serving wine and meat to welcome them. Each family also entertains the guests. Finally, by the sorcerer of the 13 years of the family name and the deceased, the year and month of death written on paper, put into the drum, and then agreed to put the drum into the cave, it is considered to complete the resettlement of the ancestors of the big event. In the evening, people gather together, playing the reed-sheng, singing and dancing to their heart's content.
In Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, the Drum Pulling Festival is held once every 13 years and is also very lively. On the day of the drum, thousands of men, women and children, gathered in the wide grassy slopes, strong backwoodsmen, from the woods to carry out a long and large empty tube tree, with cowhide letters at both ends, into a strange drum. Tied the drum body with thick rattan, and then grabbed the rattan "oooh ah (good yo) oooh ah (good yo)" vigorously pull up the drum. At this time, the people around, applauding the applauding, playing the reed-sheng blowing reed-sheng, dancing dance, enjoyable, until the night moon slanting in the west. Which team can pull away the drum, which team will win the auspicious and prosperous.
21. Lusheng Festival
is the most common festival in the Miao area. Since ancient times, the Miao people have loved to play the reed-sheng, and are good at dancing the reed-sheng. In many places in Southeast Guizhou, such as Kaili, Congjiang, Rongjiang and Huangping, the Lusheng Festival is very grand. Among them, the Lusheng Festival is the grandest in Zhouxi Township in the suburbs of Kaili City and Gulong Dazhai in Huangping County. The Zhouxi Lusheng Festival in the border area of four counties, including Kaili, Majiang, Leishan and Danzhai, is held from the sixteenth to the twenty-first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and the Lusheng Hall is located in Heshaba. The sixteenth began? The festival starts on the 16th. The festival is held from the 16th to the 21st day of the first lunar month, the 17th day of the assembly, the 18th, 19th and 20th day of the jumping lusheng, the 19th day of the increase in horse-racing activities, the 20th day of the bullfighting, the 21st day of the end of the lusheng will be, the Miao men and women young people for? The event is held on the 21st. The activity of "Touring Square" is held at the end of the Lusheng Festival on the 21st. Lusheng will, nearby cities and counties dozens of kilometers around the people come to the meeting, a sea of people, sheng sound like tide. People form a circle to dance the reed-sheng, young men hold long and short reed-shengs in the circle and dance while blowing them, and girls dance to the rhythm of the sheng song. Huangping County Gulong Lusheng Festival is held from September 27th to 29th in the lunar calendar every year, with the lusheng field located on a gentle and wide hillside. People come from all directions, up to tens of thousands of people. The activities of the festival are not far from those of Zhouxi, and the scene of a thousand lushengs playing together is very spectacular.
The Origin of Miao People
The Miao people have a long history and culture. As early as 4,000 years ago, from the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin and the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, there were many clans and tribes living in the area, of which the history is called "Southern Barbarians". Southern Barbarians? The clans or tribes included the Miao ancestors. Some people believe that the ancient history of the legendary era of Chi for today's Miao honored ancestor, so there may be relatives with the Miao. Some people think that the ancient three Miao and Miao have a relationship. Some people believe that the present Miao can be traced back to the Yin and Zhou times? The fashionable people of the Miao. People. In addition, there are also the Tetsujin saying, the Yelang saying, the Barbarians of Baxian Nanxian saying, and the Wuling Barbarians saying, and so on. The various debates about the origin of the Miao have not yet been finalized in the historical circles, but there are enough historical materials to prove that as early as two thousand years ago, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancestors of the Miao people had already gathered in the west of Hunan and the east of Qiandong, which is still the most concentrated area of the Miao people, and this area was called the Wuxi area at that time. Wuxi? The area was then called "Wuxi". Historically, the minorities living in this area, including the ancestors of the Miao, were called the 'Wuxi Barbarians'. The Wuxi barbarians were called 'Wuling barbarians' in history. Wuling barbarians. Later they migrated to the west one after another, and only then gradually formed the present distribution situation.
Taboos of Miao People
(1) Dietary Taboos
1. During the meal, the head of the chicken should be honored to the old people, the liver of the chicken and the chicken miscellaneous should be honored to the old women, and the wings should be handed over to the young men and women, wishing them unlimited future, and the legs of the chicken should be left to the children. Children are not allowed to eat chicken blood, that if you eat after growing up to do things to speak, speak will be blushing.
2, avoid cooking and eating snake meat in the house.
(B) holiday taboos
3, festivals (especially the Spring Festival), can not fight, can not say unlucky words.
4, the first day of the Spring Festival, do not move the knife, do not pick the water, do not sweep the floor, do not knock the board wall, not barefoot must wear shoes, do not eat poop, wash water shall not be poured outside the house, women can not go to other people's homes.
5, the first day of the Spring Festival to the first three can not be in the walled village drying clothes, that is done, the year will hit the ferocious thunder, blowing the wind blowing houses. Women can not take the needle and thread at home, can be used outside. Women outside the needle and thread that some people say? Sitting year? (Chinese phonetic meaning).
(C) ritual taboos
6, the most taboo name is? Miaozi?
7, the same surname does not intermarry. Intermarriage is strictly prohibited in the same **** ancestor.
8, usually guests in the house, the male host accompanies the male guest at dinner, the female guest is accompanied by the hostess, the violation is considered impolite.
9, the guests to the Miao family, must be honored with wine, if the guests accept, the host will be cited as a confidant. If the guest is not able to win the force, but also to symbolize the smack.
10, the young can not be stilted in front of the elderly, especially not in front of the elderly stilted legs.
11, taboo women and elders sitting on the same bench.
12, in a family of several generations together, young men and women should not be too intimate behavior.
13, maternity should not go out to the door. If there is a woman in the family who is in labor, then insert a? The first time I saw this is when I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.
The first time I saw a woman in the house, I saw a woman in the house.
14, wearing mourning people can not enter the Hmong home.
(D) building taboos
15, people living in the house if the building steps, the number must be singular. Livestock pens if you build steps, the number must be even.
16, if the old man died, three years can not build houses.
(E) Funeral taboos
17, within one month after the burial, nothing in the home can be sold or borrowed.
18, the mourning one hundred days.
19, no wedding or wedding ceremony within three years, can not build a house.
(F) daily taboos
20, ? Grass labeling? is an important production activities of the Miao people, used to people and ghosts and gods of the object language signs. After the birth of six young animals, hanging in front of the door? Grass label?
20, the outsiders are not allowed to enter the house.
21, taboo across the top of the child's head, or the child will not grow tall.
22, no one can not whistle in the house, also can not whistle at night.
23, the sinister environment is not to laugh and smile, avoid the knife pointing upwards, avoid pointing at people with a murder weapon.
(VII) belief taboos
24, the Miao worship? The cowhide drum? The Miao people worship the "cowhide drum" and regard the "cowhide drum" as the thing that can pass the gods. as a thing that can pass the gods, all funeral and sacrificial activities are to knock? The cowhide drums? The drums are usually hung on the wall of the house. Drums? People's specific place is prohibited to move at will, but also prohibited from ringing the drum at will. The drums are not allowed to be moved at will, and it is even more forbidden to sound the drums at will.
25, the Miao family shrine, outsiders may not touch, taboo sitting against the wall under the shrine, and can not sleep under the shrine, because only the dead people placed under the shrine.
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