1, bar mitzvah: When a girl comes of age, a bar mitzvah should be held. The dress-changing ceremony of Yi girls in adulthood is called "Salaho" in Yi language, which means to take off their childhood skirts and put on adult skirts, commonly known as "changing children's skirts", which is held when the girls are 13 or 15 or 17 years old.
2. Wedding customs: The Yi people's wedding has retained many ancient customs, such as splashing water, wiping their faces, crying for marriage, fasting the bride before marriage, and "sitting at home" after marriage. Yi men and women should hold an engagement ceremony before getting married. When they get engaged, they should first get married with good luck. Both men and women should kill pigs and take the gall bladder and pancreas to watch. The gallbladder is yellow, and the pancreas is fat. If the pancreas is curly, it will be fierce, indicating that it cannot be matched.
Second, Yi costumes
In traditional costumes of Liangshan Yi people, both men and women wear right-handed clothes, shoes, blankets and leggings. They stumble at ordinary times and wear Ma Xie in winter. The man's head is wrapped in a bun, and different dialects have different styles. There are beeswax beads, silver earrings and so on hanging on his left ear.
Men's trousers are divided into "big trousers", "middle trousers" and "small trousers" according to different sub-dialects in the northern dialect area. Women wear pleated skirts and headscarves. After giving birth, they can wear hats or wrapping paper, like to wear earrings and jewelry, and wear silver collars.
Thirdly, the festival customs of Yi people.
The Year of the Yi Nationality is a grand traditional festival of the Yi nationality in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, which is called "Kush" in Yi language. The time of Chinese New Year varies from place to place, and auspicious days are generally chosen from October to the middle and late November of the lunar calendar every year.
Torch Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people, which lasts for three days on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year. During the festival, people dressed in costumes gather on the flat dam or gentle slope near the village, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep shooting, wrestling, beauty contests and so on. The activities are colorful and lively.
Four. Yi diet
Yi people's dietary materials and eating methods have a unique style. The staple foods 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.
Five, Yi folk houses
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. Most villages of Yi people live in groups, and most of them are located on the hillside with lush trees, fertile land and open terrain, which is conducive to farming, grazing and military defense.
Extended data
The present situation of Yi nationality;
195 1 year 1 month 1 day, the first Yi autonomous regime in China-Hongmao Ancient Yi Autonomous Region (district level) in Xichang County was established. 195/kloc-0 In April and May, two county-level regional ethnic autonomous regimes, Zhaojue Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Eshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, were established respectively.
With the in-depth development of ethnic work and the implementation of ethnic policies, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Wei Chu were established in the 1950s.
From 1950s to 1980s, a single Yi or Yi people were established in Jiangcheng, Ninglang, Weishan, Lunan, Nanjian, Xundian, Yuanjiang, Xinping, Luquan, Yangbi, Pu 'er, Jingdong, Jinggu, Weining, Longlin, Guangxi, Ebian and Mabian, Sichuan. 1979 1 month, Xichang, where the Yi people live in compact communities, was merged into Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
The organs of self-government in the Yi nationality areas shall, according to the specific local conditions and in accordance with the provisions of the law, formulate separate regulations for ethnic autonomous areas. For example, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture has formulated the Measures for the Implementation of Democratic Reform; It is stipulated that the local common Yi and Chinese languages should be used as the tools for the organs of self-government to exercise their functions and powers; In the agricultural cooperative movement, we should take care of the customs and habits of the Yi people and stipulate that hemp fields, young girls' sheep and long-lived trees should be kept. There are also appropriate care and regulations for Yi people's holiday grain and national clothing cloth.
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