Miao people's music and dance have a long history, and the arts and crafts such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade, batik and jewelry making are well-known internationally. The ancestors of Miao nationality can be traced back to the Chiyou tribe active in the Central Plains in primitive society. Miao people used to believe in animism, worship nature and worship their ancestors. There are many festivals, besides traditional festivals and sacrificial festivals, there are also special festivals related to eating. There are many festivals in Miao nationality, but the names and laws are different in different regions, and the year of Miao nationality is the most grand traditional festival.
Taboo of Miao nationality
: when you are a guest, you can't eat the chicken head. Guests generally can't put chicken liver, chicken offal and chicken legs. Chicken liver and chicken offal should be respectful to elderly women, while chicken legs are reserved for children. Avoid crossing the child's head, otherwise the child will not grow tall. It is forbidden for women to sit on a bench with their elders. Avoid killing dogs, beating dogs and not eating dog meat; You can't sit in the ancestral shrine of Miao family, and you can't step on the tripod on the kang with your feet; No whistling at home or at night; Can't shoot the ashes and eat the chaff baked by fire; You are not allowed to use bound Miao people when frolicking; Don't enter the house when straw hats, branches or wedding and funeral ceremonies are hung on the door; Lu Yu newlyweds, don't go through the middle, etc.
Taboos of Yi people
: fasting the meat of dogs, horses, bears and other animals; Fresh vegetables are forbidden to enter the house within three days of Chinese New Year, otherwise it is the greatest disrespect to ancestors; Women do not eat the meat of livestock that died during childbirth; It is forbidden to push the mill within seven days of the new year, otherwise it will make the family poor; Don't buckle the spoon on the edge of the bowl after eating, because it is a way to offer food to the dead. It is forbidden for women to cross men's clothes, let alone from men's bodies and heads. Female guests are forbidden to go upstairs. It is forbidden for women to give their jewelry and clothes to others, otherwise it will affect fertility and the smooth growth of children.
the Zhuangs
Zhuang nationality has the largest minority population in China. Mainly distributed in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan, Guangdong and Guizhou provinces. Zhuang people believe in polytheism and worship boulders, old trees, mountains and land. Ancestor worship occupies a major position. Every main house is dedicated to the god position of "heaven and earth are close teachers". Some still believe in Buddhism.
Zhuang songs have a long reputation, and regular "Gewei" festivals are held for the songs of the song competition; Zhuang embroidery, bamboo awning weaving and "dry fence" architectural art are famous far and near.
If guests come to visit, they will always give them a warm reception. The host offered his seat for cigarettes and served tea with both hands. If there are guests at home, don't talk loudly. Go in and out from behind the guests. When dining with guests, you should land your legs shoulder-width apart, and don't cross your legs.
The diet is mainly rice, corn and potatoes. It is considered that dog meat and game are delicacies and treasures. When eating, you must wait for the oldest old man to sit down before you can eat; The younger generation must not eat the dishes that the elders have not moved; When serving tea and rice to elders and guests, you must hold it with both hands, and you can't hand it to your elders in front of the guests or behind your back. Those who finish eating first should say "eat slowly" to their elders and guests one by one before leaving; The younger generation can't eat after the whole table.
Generally like to drink. It is grand to have wine on the table for entertaining guests. The custom of toasting is to "drink a cup". In fact, a white porcelain spoon is used instead of a cup.
Women in Longzhou and other places also have the custom of chewing betel nuts, and in some places betel nuts are still a necessity for hospitality.
Don't like carrots, tomatoes, celery, etc.
Respecting the old and loving the young is the traditional virtue of Zhuang nationality. Old people in Lu Yu should take the initiative to say hello and give way, and don't cross their legs, swear words or cross from the old people. When killing a chicken, the head of the chicken and the nose of the chicken must be respected to the elderly.
Zhuang people are taboo to kill animals on the first day of the first lunar month; Young women in some areas avoid eating beef and dog meat; For the first three days (some for the first seven days), women are forbidden to let outsiders in; Women who have not yet given birth to a full moon are forbidden to visit their homes. When you board the bamboo house of Zhuang people, you usually take off your shoes. Zhuang people are forbidden to enter their homes wearing hats and carrying hoes or other farm tools. Huotang and Zaotang are the most sacred places in the Zhuang family. It is forbidden to step on the tripod and stove on the Huotang with your feet. When young Zhuang people get married, pregnant women are forbidden to participate, especially pregnant women can't see the bride. Pregnant women are not allowed to enter the maternal home. If there are parturients at home, it is forbidden to hang sleeves and branches or insert a knife on the door. Those who accidentally break into the maternal home must give the baby a name, give the baby a suit, a chicken or a corresponding gift, and be the child's michel platini and godmother.
As a rice-growing nation, the Zhuang people love frogs very much. In some places, the Zhuang people have a special "frog worship instrument", so it is forbidden to kill frogs or eat frog meat in Zhuang areas.
Bai (BA)
Mainly concentrated in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, the rest are distributed in various parts of Yunnan, Bijie Prefecture of Guizhou Province and Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan Province. Bai people call themselves "Bai Gang", "Bai Ni" and "Bai Zi", which means "white" in Chinese. 1956, officially named Bai according to the wishes of the people of this nation. There are many traditional festivals of the Bai nationality. The "March Street" with a history of thousands of years is the biggest festival of the Bai nationality every year, and it is now named "March Street National Festival". There are also "Torch Festival" (also known as Star Festival) and other national festivals.
Tujia nationality
Most Tujia people live in Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan. Tujia people call themselves "Bizka" (meaning local people) and have their own language. Most people speak Chinese, and only a few inhabited areas still retain Tujia language. Tujia people attach great importance to traditional festivals, especially the Spring Festival. Every year, the second day of the second lunar month is called "Society Day", at which time you will have a society meal. Eat zongzi on Duanyang Festival. Baba is played on the Double Ninth Festival. Tujia people used to be superstitious about ghosts and gods and worship their ancestors. They should pay great respect to their ancestors every New Year's Festival, and they should also pay little respect on the first and fifteenth days. 48. Tu Tu people mainly live in Huzhu, Minhe and Datong counties in Qinghai Province, and the rest are scattered in Lebu, Menyuan and Tianzhu in Gansu Province. Tu people call themselves "Mongolian Le" or "Mongour Kong" (meaning Mongolians), and they used to be called "Qinghai natives", while Tibetans call them "Hall". The Tu people are mainly engaged in animal husbandry and agriculture, especially in raising sheep. The "Seven-Day Meeting" is a carnival for the Tu people to celebrate the harvest. Many festivals of Tu nationality are closely related to religion. During the festivals, there should be various sacrificial activities and festive food.
Hani ethnic group
According to historical records, Hani nationality, Yi nationality and Lahu nationality originated from the ancient Qiang nationality, and now they are mainly distributed in southwest Yunnan. Hani people claim to be many. After the founding of New China, they were collectively called Hani people. The Hani people believe in polytheism and worship their ancestors, and the traditional festivals mainly include "Zallet at the first year of the year" (10 month) and "Eating Zhazha" (May Festival). In addition, there are two small festivals, namely "Seedling Planting Festival" (also known as "Yellow Rice Festival") and "Taste the New Year Festival", which are one of the ethnic minorities in China. Existing population 1253952. They mainly live in Yuanjiang, Mojiang, Luchun, Jinping and Jiangcheng counties between the Red River and Lancang River in southern Yunnan, and there are also cities, prefectures and counties such as Simao, Xishuangbanna and Lancang. Mainly engaged in agriculture, good terraced fields.
The Hani nationality can be found in the names of Chinese historical records, such as "He Yi (Man)", "He Ni", "Wo Ni", "A Ni" and "Ha Ni". There are more than 30 kinds of self-proclaimed, such as Hani, Yuni, Biyue, Kaduo, Haoni, Baihong, Budu, Doni, Yeche, A Mu and so on.
Hani nationality has its own language, belonging to Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. It can be divided into three dialects: Ha (Ni) Xian (Ni), Bi (Yue) Ka (Duo), Hao (Ni) Bai (Hong) and some dialects. Hani people originally had no characters. In 1950s, they created a set of pinyin characters for them, which are still being tried out.
Most Hani people live in mountainous areas with an altitude of 800 to 2,500 meters, mainly engaged in agriculture, and the terraced rice culture is particularly developed. The output of lac from Mojiang ranks first in China. Nannuoshan, where the Yi people live in Xishuangbanna, is one of the main producing areas of Pu 'er tea, which enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. The winding Ailao Mountain has vast virgin forests and many rare birds and animals protected by the state. Gejiu City, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, is a famous "tin capital" in China.
Hani people believe that all things have spirits and people can't die, so nature worship and ancestor worship prevail. There are rich oral literature and folk dances. Men, women and children like to carry Bawu, flute and other musical instruments with them. Taking October of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the year, the traditional festivals are "Zallet" (October, the New Year) and "Zhazha" (May Festival).
In the rolling hills of Ailao, dozens and hundreds of terraces stretch upward from the foot of the mountain along the slope, overlapping layers, leading directly to the vast sea of clouds, which is spectacular.
For thousands of years, facing the living space of high mountains and canyons, Hani people have created and summarized a set of rich experience in cultivating terraces. They built dikes and embankments according to different topography and soil quality, and used the natural conditions of "how high the mountain is, how high the water is" to introduce mountain springs and streams that are constantly flowing all year round into terraced fields through water ditches. In the early spring, terraces of different shapes and sizes are filled with clear springs, and in the bright sunshine, the mountain breeze is slightly blowing and sparkling; In March and April, the terraces are green and dripping, just like green tapestries; In late summer and early autumn, the rice is ripe and looks golden when you look around. This is simply a strange, simple and beautiful ink painting.
There is a saying among the Hani people in Ailao Mountain: terraced fields are the faces of young people. Whether the young man is beautiful or not depends mainly on how well he does in farming. If he builds ridges, shovels dikes and plows fields, he will be praised by everyone and won the love of girls. Whether a girl is beautiful or not depends on her work in the terraced fields.
Terraces are an important source of food and clothing for Hani people, so they cherish water especially. In order not to miss the farming season, there has been a folk agreement of "carving wood to determine water" since ancient times: according to the area that can be irrigated by a mountain spring, people work out the amount of water due to each field through friendly consultation, and set a crossbar at the inlet of the ditch and the field according to the sequence of water flowing through the field, and carve the position of the amount of water due to that field on the crossbar to let the water flow into the field by itself.
Hani families are also used to raising fish in terraced fields. After rice seedlings were planted in March in Yangchun, people put in fry and let them grow naturally. In late autumn, while harvesting rice, a basket of fresh fish has become a delicacy on the table.
Buffalo is the right-hand man to cultivate terraces, so the Hani people's custom of respecting cows is enduring. When the cow gave birth to the calf, the whole family went up the mountain to find tender grass to feed it, and some even added fat and brown sugar water; In case of cold weather, do not hesitate to wrap it with old clothes and cotton wool to keep out the cold. On the morning of the third day after the calf was born, the host family put a large steamed glutinous rice in front of the stable, and made several rice balls as big as bowls according to the number of the family population and the number of buffalo mothers and children. After feeding one ball to each cow, the family took one ball and ate it locally. This custom means that people and cattle have equal status.
Hanizu clothing
The costumes of the Hani nationality vary from place to place due to different branches, and generally like to make clothes with navy Hani homespun. Men wear double-breasted jackets and trousers, and wrap their heads with black or white cloth. Women usually wear collarless jackets with right lapels, trousers or skirts of different lengths, embroidered with colorful lace at the lapels and sleeves, embroidered with waists, and silver ornaments of various styles on their chests.
In some areas of Honghe County, the clothing of women with leaf cars is unique. Women wear a pointed soft hat sewn with white cloth, and the edge of a dovetail at the back is embroidered with exquisite patterns; Wearing indigo double-breasted short-sleeved wide-mouth earth cloth, with no collar and no buttons, wearing a colorful belt with a width of 10 cm; Wear tight-fitting super shorts, depending on the tightness of the shorts until the buttocks are beautiful, and all the shorts are bare below. Until recently, regardless of summer and winter, they dressed up for farming in the fields and chopping wood in the mountains. Shorts called "Laba" are deeply loved by girls. They cut themselves and sewed themselves. When they were wearing, the trousers were rolled up to the hips layer by layer close to the thighs and parted inward. Finally, the shorts were pleated into a seven-lane inverted "eight" shape.
The woman in the car is proud of wearing more clothes, because it means that the family is rich and looks good. Tops are divided into coats, shirts and underwear. Usually, several blue-green false edges are added at the hem of underwear, which is dazzling. However, on the festive day of the New Year's Day, the girls really wear more clothes: seven coats, seven shirts and one underwear. At the same time, wearing a silver bracelet, hanging a pair of silver chains on the chest, and hanging silver pieces and silver bubbles on both sides of the waist, they jingle when they walk, which makes them look colorful and fit.
This quaint costume comes from its historical legend. According to legend, a long time ago, when Yeche people moved south from Kunming, they were besieged by strong people. In order to survive, they smeared men's faces with pot ashes, while women changed into shorts, attacked in multiple ways, and finally succeeded in breaking through. Finally, they moved to all parts of southern Yunnan to settle down. In order to commemorate this breakthrough, the women of Ye Che inherited the dress at that time.
hani mushroom house
Legend has it that in ancient times, Hani people lived in caves. Later, when they moved to a place called "Yeluo", they saw huge mushrooms growing all over the mountains. They were not afraid of the wind and rain, but also allowed ants and bugs to make nests below, so they built mushroom houses like this.
A mushroom house, as its name implies, is a house shaped like a mushroom. Its wall foundation is made of stone or brick, with half a meter above ground and half a meter below ground. On it, a section of solid soil is moved to form a wall with plywood, and finally the roof is covered with multiple thatchs into four inclined planes. The internal structure usually consists of the main room, the front porch (equivalent to the front hall of the main room) and the ear room. The mushroom house with two or three floors is unique in architectural design: the front porch is connected with the front wall of the main room, and the wing room is connected with one (two) sides of the main room; The front porch and the top of the wing are solid soil platforms, which can not only rest and enjoy the cool, but also dry the harvested crops; The second floor of the main house is completely sealed with mud, and then thatched roof is covered at a height of three or four meters. The space from the second floor to the roof is called "bank up Building". Bank up Building is usually separated by wooden boards, which is used to store grain, melons and beans for school-age children to love and stay. The bottom floor is used for keeping livestock and stacking farm tools. The middle floor is divided into three rooms: the left, the middle and the right, with a square fire pit in the middle. When the guests come, the host will sit around the fireplace and let you suck a long hookah, drink a cup of hot "glutinous rice fragrant tea" and a bowl of delicious "stuffy pot wine". Taking advantage of the wine boom, the host opened his voice and showed you the simple and loud singing voice of Hani people, wishing the guests good luck and friendship.
Mushroom house is durable, warm in winter and cool in summer, which is unique in Chinese folk culture. Together with towering peaks, charming sea of clouds and colorful terraces, it forms a wonderful landscape of Hani Mountain.
Dancing to greet the bride and "beating the groom"
The Hani people in Mojiang, who call themselves A Mu people, can't live without dancing from beginning to end in the whole wedding ceremony. On the eve of the wedding, both men and women should set up a shed with pine and bamboo outside their house as an activity place for welcoming new people and entertaining guests. On the wedding day, some people of the wedding reception team were left on the way to meet them on their return trip, and the rest followed the groom to the woman's house. When they came to the women's village, drums and music were everywhere in the village, and the farewell party danced traditional dances to the village, toasting and offering tea to their loved ones one by one, and then everyone danced into the village until they reached the shed. After a short rest, a couple stood at a square table, and their relatives danced around the square table with a bamboo leaf between their fingers, in order to avoid disaster and pray for good luck.
The bride and groom, surrounded by the welcoming team and the seeing-off team, meet with another part of the family who has been waiting for a long time halfway to the man's house. Everyone formed a circle on the spot and danced heartily with the rhythm of gongs and drums to express mutual congratulations. When they came to the men's house together, the inside and outside of the shed were already filled with rich banquets. As soon as the guests were seated, a woman who was good at singing and dancing got to the table from the last seat, followed by a man, who took a dustpan with three bowls and a wine gourd on it and took some food and wine from each table. At the end of the banquet, a chef came out of the kitchen with a bamboo sieve with eight big bowls and danced to each banquet, and the guests symbolically served the dishes. Finally, under his command of "it's time to dance", all the guests left in succession, dancing and singing in circles. Everyone warmly wished the couple to get married and encouraged them to be diligent in keeping the house, respecting the old and loving the young.
The Hani people, who call themselves Kaduo on an equal footing, have a comedy in which the bride "beats the groom" when they greet the bride. When the wedding procession arrived at the women's home, the host and guest exchanged a few pleasantries and drank heartily. Parents of both sides also ate and drank there, gossiping, as if forgetting that it was the bride's wedding day. After a long time, the bride with red silk on her head and silver ornaments on her chest appeared shyly and slowly in front of the wedding procession. When she walked up to the groom, she suddenly became angry, raised her hands and beat her face to face. At this time, everyone cheered. I saw the bride crying and beating, while the groom dodged and didn't fight back. When the bride beat enough and suddenly burst into tears, the groom said, "It's time to go now.". When they are inseparable, the mother and daughter are crying and singing. At this point, the bride's brothers and sisters forcibly separated them, picked up the bride and ran out, and the wedding procession followed. It is said that the original intention of "beating the groom" is to test the groom's loyalty to love.
Eating New Valley and Long Dragon Banquet
The Hani people along the Red River, on the first Dragon Day in July of the lunar calendar, have the custom of "eating new valleys". On the day of eating New Valley, every family should, according to the old rules, pull back a small bundle of rice with roots and ears from their paddy fields when the fish-belly is white in the east. When pulling out rice, you should choose a rice hole with a single number of plants, and you will not say hello when you meet strangers or acquaintances, otherwise you will think it is unlucky.
In the afternoon, the ears of rice that came back in the morning were rubbed off and baked in a pot with shells until rice blooms. Everyone should give the dog some rice flowers before eating them. Since ancient times, it has been said that the seeds of the Hani people recovered after a big flood were brought by dogs, so we should thank it. After eating rice flowers, you should also take out all the melons, beans and vegetables planted in that year and taste them new. At the same time, you must eat a bowl of tender bamboo shoots, which symbolizes that the harvest in the coming year will be as high as that of Hsinchu. I also want to kill the big fat chickens that have been castrated, and hope that the life in the coming year will be full and happy.
The biggest festival of Hani nationality is "October Year", which lasts for six days. According to their ancient calendar, the first dragon day in October of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the new year (equivalent to the first day of the Han nationality). On New Year's Day, every stockade will kill a pig. Regardless of the size of the pig, the meat is distributed equally by households, even if the number of hearts, livers, lungs, intestines and stomachs is limited, everyone should be assigned. In the afternoon, each family offered their ancestors their share of pork and water. Family reunions are held during the festival, and friends from other ethnic groups nearby are also invited to participate. They are full of cheers all day long, especially singing ancient folk songs, telling the origin of the festival and the history of the nation, and singing the joy of harvest.
In the second half of the new year, every stockade will put a long banquet in the center of the stockade, and the whole village will have fun together to celebrate the traditional festivals symbolizing their unity, harmony, auspiciousness and happiness. This kind of banquet is like a long dragon, so it is called "Long Dragon Banquet". Because it is located in the middle of the street, people also call it "street wine". If it is a small village, the street wine can be finished in one afternoon. If it is a big village, it is divided into three groups according to households and held in three afternoons, and each group takes turns to be the host.
On the appointed day, the host families carried the square tables to the clean street center early in the morning, and put them one by one, and hundreds of tables were connected into a long queue of 100 meters. In the afternoon, after a greeting, the host families scrambled to put their specialty dishes and wine on the table. The better the food and wine, the more decent it is, so many people even offer delicious food that they are reluctant to eat at ordinary times. At first glance, fish finches, river loach, carp, bamboo shoots, fungus, mushrooms, big fat chicken ... each table has 20 bowls, and the table is fragrant, showing the fruits of Hani people's hard work and traditional cooking skills, and showing the style of the longest and grandest banquet of Hani people. In the noisy atmosphere of gongs and drums, people sit voluntarily according to different ages, interests and hobbies. At this time, the gongs and drums stopped, and the gongs and drums were carried by the gongs and drums to accept people's toasts and dishes. Then, a pair of girls toasted the grandmothers one by one on behalf of everyone. Women eat first, and then men raise their glasses and move chopsticks. The banquet in the street for several hours was warm, harmonious and beaming, with endless laughter and songs.
When night falls, piles of bonfires are lit, and young men and women dance with the accompaniment of gongs, drums, sanxian and bamboo flute. Late at night, people gradually leave, and those couples go to palm groves and golden bamboos …
Hani respect for the elderly festival
Every year, the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is the Hani people's day to respect the elderly. Early in the morning, the old people put on new clothes to celebrate their own festivals. Adults kill chickens and ducks at home and prepare a good meal. The young man carries a small pine tree next to the festival lawn, and the girls pick clean water to water it, symbolizing that the young people wish the old people a healthy and long life like a pine tree and remain young forever.
Hani festival
Hani festivals include October, June, Eating New Rice Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.
October is the new year, and according to the calendar of Hani nationality, October is the beginning of the year. The festival lasts for about six days, and the specific date can be later in each village. At this time, it was the time when Da Chun came on stage and the pigs were fattened in the stables. People who had the conditions all killed the animals, made glutinous rice, steamed rice cakes and dyed yellow glutinous rice for the ancestors of heaven and earth; Men, women and children are wearing new clothes, and relatives and friends visit each other; Families with boys often invite matchmakers to act as matchmakers in this festival, and married girls also go back to their parents' homes with wine, meat and Baba to pay their respects to their ancestors for the New Year. The elderly in the village take turns to visit people who have received engagement gifts or girls come home to share some gifts. Part of the Hani people in Mojiang often have a family reunion dinner (bring their own food) during the New Year Festival. There is also a special custom that brides who got married the year before should gather in Shan Ye outside the village to tell each other about their newly married life, and it is forbidden for men to eavesdrop.
June is also a happy festival. The Red River area is called "Bitter Zhazha". The date is usually around June 24th, and the festival lasts for three to six days. During the festival, cattle are sacrificed to the "Autumn Room" in villages, and beef households are separated to worship their ancestors. Young people gather together to "swing", wrestle, hunt and sing folk songs, and enjoy themselves.
The Hani people on the south bank of the Red River in the mainland also celebrate the first month, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Three to five days after the first lunar month, people who have the conditions kill pigs to worship their ancestors, eat glutinous rice balls on the first day, and entertain each other between relatives and friends. Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are generally the same as Chinese customs.
"Rima Lord" Festival
The Hani people who live by the Red River worship the cuckoo and call it "Hebo Ama" (mother cuckoo). Every spring in March, when camellia is in full bloom, everyone, regardless of gender, old and young, will say "I heard it" when they hear the cuckoo's song for the first time, indicating their cheers for spring. It is said that this answer can make the industrious and kind Hani farmers have a bumper harvest of grain and six livestock, and be peaceful and healthy all year round.
According to legend, the cuckoo was sent by Apomomi, a god, to fly out of a cave in the distant horizon to convey the news of spring to the world. When it flew over a sea called "Xiang A Wo Ni Beng Ma", it couldn't fly, and it was about to fall into the sea. Suddenly, a dragon's tail rose from the sea, and then the dragon's tail turned into a leafy tree, where the cuckoo rested. The cuckoo finally went through all kinds of hardships and conveyed the message of spring to the world.
According to the rules inherited by the predecessors, when most people hear the cuckoo's cry, they will meet on a sheep's day to prepare delicious food, soak glutinous rice in the flower juice of a big tree, steam out golden glutinous rice, cook red duck eggs and offer them to cuckoo devoutly. On this day, the boys and girls in the villages and villages are all smiles, dressed in festive costumes, and gathered on a moderate lawn to celebrate the annual "Rima Master" Festival (a grand event in spring), so as to choose objects and talk about love. After the festival, each family chose a good day. When the birds were not out of the nest and the four mountains were silent, the parents quietly inserted three clumps of seedlings in their fields, which means "opening the seedling door". It is said that birds can't be heard when the seedling door is opened, and crops will be free from disasters and get a good harvest this year.
"grasshopper catching festival"
The festival of catching grasshoppers, called "A Bao Nian" in hani language, is held on the first day of being a rooster or a monkey after the year of June (June 24th in the lunar calendar every year). Hani people live in mountainous areas and grow one-season rice. After the year of June, rice began to head. In order to ensure a bumper harvest of rice, the Hani people have adopted the way of "catching grasshoppers" to drive away and avoid insect pests.
On the day of "Catching Grasshoppers", all the men, women and children in the stockade went to the fields to catch grasshoppers. After each family caught enough bamboo slips (about two kilograms), they scattered one grasshopper into four parts: a pile of heads, a pile of legs, a pile of bodies and a pile of wings; In order to intimidate grasshoppers and other insects that haven't been caught, they were put in the ridges and drains in turn. Half an hour later, these grasshoppers will be put into bamboo tubes again. Take it home or mix it with Baba. It is said that grasshopper meat is very sweet. When leaving the field, people will keep shouting, "Oh, grasshopper, I won't catch you in three days, and you won't eat rice in three months!" "