Bai custom

In a Bai family, the son is separated from his parents after marriage. Bai people share the same family name and do not intermarry. Warm reception for guests, whether they know each other or not. All guests will be treated with "three tea". Three tea is the most exquisite tea ceremony, with the characteristics of bitter taste, sweet taste and aftertaste. Tea can't be filled for guests. There is a saying among Bai people that "wine is full of respect and tea is full of deception".

Bai people are very polite when dining. The elders and guests sit at the head, and the younger generation sits on both sides or at the bottom in turn. They are always ready to add food and soup to their elders and guests and are warmly waiting.

Bai nationality's marriage customs

When a young Bai man proposes to a girl, if the girl agrees, she should send Baba to the man; At the wedding, the bride will go to the kitchen to make "fish soup"; On the first Mid-Autumn Festival after marriage, the bride will make a big cake to show her cooking skills. At the wedding ceremony, tea should be served first, and then four or four seats (that is, four dishes, four plates, four pots and four bowls) should be placed.

betrothal marriage is a popular marriage custom in the Bai area of Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. At every intersection, fork road or place where people gather, the accompanying guests will stop and code the dowry into two big piles, so that the groom can carry the bride around the dowry and wrap the "8".

Bai people's food customs

Bai people mainly live on rice and wheat; The Bai people in mountainous areas mainly eat corn, potato and buckwheat. The staple food is mainly steamed.

Because fresh vegetables are perennial, Bai people like to eat fresh vegetables and all kinds of pickles at every meal. Most Bai women are good at pickles, and there are many kinds of pickles. Besides pickled fresh vegetables, they also make bean paste, lobster sauce and noodle sauce. Bai people in Jianchuan and Heqing often pick seaweed flowers from Erhai Lake and cook them into various flavor dishes.

The meat is mainly pork. Besides cooking with fresh pork, we also like to marinate old pigs and process them into delicious food such as ham, sausage, pork liver, blow-dried liver and rice sausage. In winter, Bai people like beef soup in a big pot. When eating it, they should add mustard, radish, onion and other condiments to eat together. The Bai people who live near the river are good at cooking fresh water.

Most Bai people like drinking. Because of the different raw materials and methods used, there are many kinds of wine. When making wine, more than 4 kinds of herbs are often used to make distiller's yeast and make all kinds of white wine, among which kiln wine and dry wine are traditional wines. There is also a glutinous rice liqueur, which is specially made for women and pregnant women. It is said to have nourishing and lactagogue effects.

Drinking tea is another hobby of Bai people, and Bai people pay great attention to drinking tea twice every morning and noon. Morning tea is called "morning tea" or "sober tea". It is drunk as soon as you get up, and adults drink it. Afternoon tea, also called "rest tea" or "thirst-quenching tea", contains rice flowers and milk, and even children should drink a cup.

there are many Bai ethnic dishes. Raw skin is one of the necessary dishes for Bai people to celebrate the holidays, and it is a cold meat dish mixed with a variety of spicy and spicy dishes. Donkey soup pot is made of donkey meat. Steamed pig's head with willow is also one of the traditional dishes of Bai nationality, which is made by steaming pig's head on a wicker frame and putting it into a pot. Noodles cake is a special cake made by Bai people in Mid-Autumn Festival, which is steamed with fermented dough and seasoning.

Bai Festivals

There are many traditional festivals of the Bai nationality. The "March Street", which has a history of thousands of years, is the biggest annual festival of the Bai nationality, and now it is named "March Street National Festival". There are also national festivals such as "Torch Festival" (also known as Star Festival) and "Butterfly Festival".

Bai costumes

Bai men and women advocate white, and white is noble. Most men in Dali wear white double-breasted clothes, coats with black collars, or several leather and satin collars, commonly known as "three drops of water", belts around their waists or embroidered stomachs, and blue or black trousers. In Xishan District, Eryuan County, Yunnan Province, every adult Bai man carries a small and exquisite embroidered purse embroidered with the words "double finches climbing branches" and "Yuanyang playing in the water". Embroidered purse is a symbol of love, and it is the crystallization of the wisdom of Bai girls.

Women's clothing varies from place to place. In Dali, most women wear white shirts, red waistcoats, or light blue shirts, with black velvet collars, embroidered short waists, blue wide pants and embroidered "hundred-knot shoes". Unmarried women wear a plait on their heads and wrap it around a white headscarf with a bright red rope. The red and white colors complement each other. The waist is embroidered with short waist, which is more colorful and elegant. Married women change to bun. On the east bank of Erhai Lake, women comb the hair style of "phoenix nodding", cover it with silk screen, or cover it with a hairpin, all of which are covered with embroidered towels or black cloth. Bai women have the custom of wearing earrings and bracelets. A kind of headdress that Bai women living in Eryuan County of Dali like is called "boarding the plane", which is a sign of the girl's ingenuity.

Bai architecture

Bai folk houses are independent and closed houses, which are a bit like quadrangles in Beijing. A dignified residential courtyard is mainly composed of courtyard wall, gate, zhaobi, main room and left and right wing rooms. The general architectural form is: "two rooms and one ear"; "Three rooms and one wall", a few rich people live in a "four-in-one and five-patio", that is, four-sided high-rise rooms, four-sided wing rooms, one big well at a time and four small patios at a time. In addition, there is the "Liuhe Tongchun" connected by the two houses; Upstairs and downstairs are all connected by corridors, and so on, which are really varied and like a maze. However, this ancient and expensive gorgeous house has not been adopted by the local Bai people. Nowadays, it is mostly a two-story building with one family and its own courtyard. However, carving and painting are still the same, and they have developed.

Bai people's houses often pay attention to the gatehouse, zhaobi building, door and window carving and painted decoration of the main wall. The gatehouse is the essence of the whole building. The level of architectural art of the gatehouse can confirm the economic status of its owner, and it is also a symbol of glorifying ancestors. It usually uses clay sculpture, wood carving, marble screen, stone carving, painting, embossed brick and blue brick to form a comprehensive artistic building with a series of cornices, light flowers, overlapping arches, exquisitely carved, strong and stable. The Bai people's gatehouse building is not only rich in national characteristics, but also unique in architectural structure and skills. In some places, the whole gatehouse does not need a nail or other iron parts, but the connection is very firm. After decades of storms, it is very solemn and dignified to install two thick iron-black wooden doors.

The wood carvings of doors and windows of Bai residents are full of superb craftsmanship of Jianchuan carpenters. Generally, transparent and relief techniques are used to carve layers of mythical and auspicious white crane pine, crane lotus, eagle chrysanthemum, peacock magnolia and geometric patterns. The surfaces of doors and windows are also painted with Chu red paint, which is smooth and bright, simple and elegant.

Bai taboo

In the Bai family, the son is separated from his parents after marriage; Bai people with the same family name do not marry; Tea can't be filled for guests. There is a saying among Bai people that "wine is full of respect and tea is full of deception".