About the Lisu People

The Lisu people mainly live in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and the rest are distributed in Lijiang and Diqing, Dali, Baoshan, Dehong, Chuxiong, Lincang and other counties. They are also found in Yanyuan, Yanbian, Muli and Dechang counties in Sichuan Province. According to the fifth national census in 2000, the population of Lisu is 634,912, and the Lisu language is the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. They have used three scripts, a phonetic script created by Western missionaries, a syllabic script created by Wang Renbo, a Lisu farmer from Weixi County, and a new script in the form of the Latin alphabet created after the founding of New China, which has been implemented in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. The Lisu originated from the ancient Qiang people who migrated southward, and belongs to the same ethnic group as the Yi. The name of the ethnic group was first written in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the name of the Lisu tribe was first mentioned in Tang Dynasty writings, which referred to them as "Li and Su barbarians" or "Li barbarians" and "Shi barbarians" and "Shun barbarians". "Wu barbarians", distributed in today's Sichuan, Dian Ya Bi Jiang, Jinsha River, Lancang River and other vast areas; Yuan Ming more by the Lijiang places Naxi feudal lords, etc. The 16th century, due to the unbearable Naxi Wood's Tusi enslavement and the threat of war, a large number of lisu in the head of the leader Brahmu Bibi Pa under the leadership of Nujiang River and other areas of northwestern Yunnan In the 17th-19th centuries, the Lisu migrated to the Nujiang River in northwest Yunnan. In the 17th-19th centuries, after the failure of the uprising, the Lisu people migrated again and again, part of them into Burma; some of them moved to the old slap, Thailand, etc. Until the Qing Dynasty, the migration still continued. The migration continued until the Qing Dynasty. In the course of history, the Lisu people dissolved into the bloodline of many other ethnic groups. There is no doubt that the Lisu are a branch of the ancient Yi people. But is not today's Yi? This is now a lot of scholars are very skeptical of a problem. I believe that ethnicity will die out, but community is impossible to die out! The following is my understanding of the Yi and Lisu tribes: 1. From the origin of the Lisu tribe, it is a branch of the Yi people. 2. From the religious culture, it is the same as the Yi today, especially in Liangshan Mountain - ancestor worship and nature worship. 3. From the totem point of view, there are dragons, tigers, chickens, snakes, birds, bamboo, buckwheat, trees, mountains, etc. From the point of view of social organization, it is the system of family branch heads with blood relations and ties, and there is the habit of blood revenge. Liangshan Yi "Degu" and Lisu "real steak" and "rub my" in fact, there is no essential difference. They all act as mediators.4. From the point of view of witchcraft culture, the Lisu have two kinds of "Nipu" and "Nigu", and the Yi have two kinds of Bimo and Suni. The social status of the "Nipu" and Bimo is higher than that of the "Nicu" and Suni. From the point of view of their duties are divination, exorcism, evil spirits, ancestor worship, pray for blessings. 5, from the point of view of marriage and funeral, in the marriage of the Yi and Lisu people have to give "uncle money", arranged by parents, marriage of close relatives. Funerals are the same as those of the Yi in Guizhou, with earth burials and cremation only for the non-fatal dead (in fact, they were later influenced by Han burials). 7, 9 two figures in the Yi in the funeral at the time of the auspicious figures, in Guizhou, the deceased male medicine to wear 9 pieces of outerwear, female to wear 7 pieces; cremated in Sichuan, rare to rack 9 layers, the anger of the medicine rack 7 layers; Lisu sacrifices of the male deceased 9 pieces of meat, 9 chestnut trees to lift the funeral, sacrifices of the female deceased 7 pieces of meat, the funeral with 7 chestnut trees to lift. Is it just a coincidence that these figures appear in the funeral 6, from the music and dance literature, music is mainly from life, so because of the history of different geographic locations, the music created by the people is also different, but the Yi and Lisu have a "sacrificial song". Musical instruments are mainly mouth strings and flutes. Dances are performed through lower limb movements (probably these dances originate from the production life). The dances are mainly performed on the feet, with sturdy steps and rugged movements. Literature are "flooding", "brother you marriage", "bamboo wa". 7, from the dress point of view, on the Yi dress on the Chuxiong type, Liangshan type, Wumeng Mountain type, Western Yunnan type, Red River type, Dianchi and Southeast Yunnan type and other 6 types, Lisu according to the dress is divided into the black lisu, white lisu, flower lisu. But most of them have **** the same characteristics are revered black, men with green cloth head, women are wearing skirts. 8, from the language comparison of many words are the same, such as in the language of the Lisu people slaves "rubba" (P101 "Brief History of the Lisu people") means villain, the separation of the family "Haidu" (P144 "A Brief History of the Lisu people"), "Haidu" (P144 "A Brief History of the Lisu people"), "Haidu" (P144 "A Brief History of the Lisu people"). "(P144 A Brief History of the Lisu People) These are exactly the same as the Guizhou Yi language. Tiger called La, New Year's Eve for the "Kosh" these and the Liangshan Yi language is exactly the same. 9, from the point of view of the wine culture of the Yi and Lisu are very much the same, no wine is not a gift, no wine is not a feast. 10, from the point of view of taboos, meaning the little man, separating the family "Haitou" (P144 "Brief History of the Lisu") these and the Guizhou Yi language is exactly the same! 10, from the taboo point of view of the Yi and Lisu people are regarded as a sacred place of the fire, Lisu house on the fire on the tripod, forbidden to pedal or move, can not splash on the saliva and snot, can not use the foot instead of hand to the tripod under the firewood. 11, the Yi and Lisu people are going to have a torch festival. This is transferred from a netizen, that netizen transferred from a website