1 faith
Yi people's religious belief is still in the primitive religious stage, and the concepts of nature worship, totem worship, ancestor worship and animism are widespread in society. "Bimo", a priest and "Suni", a wizard of this nationality, have a certain influence in Yi areas, especially in Liangshan areas adjacent to Sichuan and Yunnan.
2. clothes
Yi nationality has many branches, scattered residence, complex natural environment and unbalanced social and economic development, and its clothing has formed obvious regional characteristics in texture, style and pattern. Generally speaking, it can be divided into six types according to Liangshan, Wumeng Mountain, Honghe, Southeast Yunnan, West Yunnan and Chuxiong.
3. Architecture
Liangshan Yi folk houses are "tile houses"; Guizhou, northern and central Yunnan are "earth palm houses", "square towers", "stacked wooden houses" and "mansion houses"; Guangxi and eastern Yunnan are "dry columns" houses.
Step 4 prescribe diet
The staple foods of the Yi people are potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice. Non-staple foods include meat, beans, vegetables, spices and drinks. Carnivores are mainly cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and they kill animals when entertaining guests. Killing cattle is the most expensive, followed by sheep and pigs. Beans are mostly soybeans, beans, peas and so on. There is a way to eat soybeans, which the Yi people call "Dulaba", that is, grinding soybeans into pulp and cooking them with sauerkraut.
5. Language and writing
Yi language belongs to the Yi branch of Tibetan-Burmese language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There are six dialects in North, East, South, Southeast, West and China, including five sub-dialects and twenty-five dialects.
6. Literature
Yi folk literature has various forms and rich contents, including poems, myths, legends, fairy tales, fables, proverbs and riddles. Most of them are oral literature widely circulated among the people.
7. Calendar
October solar calendar is a traditional calendar of Yi people. It is not based on the moon's profit and loss, but on the earth's cycle around the sun, so it is called "solar calendar".
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Yi people's name:
Before the founding of New China, the Yi people had many branches due to different regions and dialects, and had many different appellations and self-descriptions. The main appellations are Yi, Hei Yi, Bai Yi, Hong Yi, Gan Yi, Huayao and Micha.
Among the main self-names, Zhaotong, Wuding, Luquan, Maitreya and Shiping in Yunnan, and the Yi people in Liangshan and Xiaoliangshan in Sichuan call themselves Sunuo, Nasu and Niesu, accounting for about 1/2 of the total population. Yi people in Ailao Mountain, Wuliangshan, Kaiyuan, Wenshan and Maguan in Yunnan call themselves Misa (Po), Lasu (Po), Prapo and Nipu. The Yi people in Guizhou call themselves Na, Nuo and Nie.
After the founding of New China, after national identification and in accordance with the consent of the broad masses of Yi people, Ding Yi's "Yi" was adopted as the unified name of the whole country.
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