Believe in animism, worship nature and worship ancestors.

Tibetan calendar festival is the biggest sacrifice activity of Miao nationality.

Generally, a small sacrifice lasts for seven years and a big sacrifice lasts for thirteen years.

It will be held on the first day of October to November of the lunar calendar, when a roe deer cow will be killed and a Lusheng dance will be performed to sacrifice its ancestors.

Invite friends and relatives to get together during meals to enhance feelings and family harmony.

Local customs:

In most areas, rice is the staple food of Miao people's three meals a day, and fried Baba is the most common fried food.

If you add some fresh meat and sauerkraut as stuffing, the taste will be more delicious. ?

Most meat comes from livestock and poultry farming. Miao people in Sichuan and Yunnan all like to eat dog meat, and there is a saying that "Miao's dog is Yi's wine".

Living customs:

Avoid washing drinks, rice bags and rice bowls at any time, and wash them only when eating new rice to show that the old rice has passed away and the new rice is welcome.

Washing at any time will wash away the family wealth and there is not enough food.

Drinking raw water in the mountains should not be directly drunk. You must mark the grass first to show that you are killing sick ghosts. Don't touch other people's clothes on the roadside, so as not to catch leprosy.

Avoid children playing with small bows and arrows at home for fear of shooting their ancestors. Avoid crossing the child's head, or the child will not grow tall. It is forbidden for women to sit on a bench with their elders.

Taboos of Miao nationality vary according to different branches.

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Taboo:

Taboo of living customs: In some Miao areas, it is forbidden to wash and drink rice retort, rice bag and rice basin at any time, only when eating new rice, to show that the old rice is removed and the new rice is welcomed. Washing at any time will wash away the family wealth and there is not enough food.

Drinking raw water in the mountains should not be directly drunk. You must mark the grass first to show that you are killing sick ghosts.

Don't touch other people's clothes on the roadside, so as not to catch leprosy.

Avoid children playing with small bows and arrows at home for fear of shooting their ancestors.

Avoid crossing the child's head, or the child will not grow tall. It is forbidden for women to sit on a bench with their elders. Taboos of Miao nationality vary according to different branches.

Maternity taboo: pregnant women give birth and avoid outsiders. The wrong person should wash his feet and drink a bowl of cold water when going out to prevent the maternal milk from being "trampled dry".

Maternal avoid eating old beef, pork, pheasant, small fish, vegetables, peppers and so on.

In some Miao areas, it is forbidden for pregnant women to meet pregnant women and go to other mothers' homes, otherwise it will be considered as prolonging the delivery period.

Farming taboo: Miao people send manure back to the fields for the first time every year, and it is forbidden to meet outsiders. If they meet, they are forbidden to say hello.

When planting seedlings, if you see fish in the Miao Di, don't say fish, or the fish will eat the roots of the seedlings.

When some villages harvest millet, the ears are small and they are not harvested. If children ask, don't say "no", say "they haven't grown up yet", otherwise Xiaomi will refuse to grow again because of sadness.

Don't mention mice in Tanaka, for fear of hearing them destroy crops, you can only call them "their father and son" instead.

Avoid May Day. After the first month in beginning of spring, avoid breaking ground and carrying water on May Day.

Funeral taboo: In some Miao areas, male death is forbidden during the day and female death is forbidden at night. Think that the time is wrong, the deceased must be accompanied by another opposite sex.

Therefore, he was unwell when he died. When he lost his family, he often asked the wizard to say a spell and then "change". At the same time, he made a palm-sized wooden coffin to be buried with him, indicating that he had a companion.

Avoid putting iron, copper and other non-silver metals, cotton and tung oil in the coffin, thinking that the deceased can't buy water to drink on the way back to the east, and iron and copper will toss the deceased.

In some Miao areas, you can work in the village on the Day of the Dead, but don't go to the fields.

On that day, people in the same village should avoid collecting firewood and go home, otherwise the firewood collectors will have disaster.

During the suspension of classes, family members are forbidden to eat vegetables.

After burial 1 month, nothing in the family can be sold or borrowed.

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