Question 1: What festival the Bai people have now messed up, what festival are over, China's foreign countries are messed up, all the traditional Han Chinese all over, the Bai people themselves have March Street and, Torch Festival, around the three spirit is considered to be will it.
Question 2: What is the grandest festival of the Bai people The grandest festival of the Bai people is the Dali March Street.
Dali March Street is a thousand-year-old ethnic tradition, it is the oldest and most prosperous trade fair in western Yunnan, but also the people of all ethnic groups in Dali Prefecture, the annual folk arts and sports exchange of the grand festival.
There is also the Bai Torch Festival.
In Yunnan, many ethnic groups have a torch festival, and each has a different way. Bai torch festival held on the 25th day of the sixth lunar month every year, the white language called "Fu Wang dance", meaning "June carnival". Whether the city or countryside, mountainous areas are all celebrated together. In the minds of the Bai people, it is second only to the Spring Festival's grandest festival. In addition to the village erected a large torch of collective activities, families have to prepare delicious food, a variety of festive supplies, married out of the girl have to go back to her mother's family reunion. Before the festival, sold all over the street is the symbol of the torch festival - with bamboo gabion colored paper paste tie the small rising bucket, small torches, paper fire incense bags, as well as for women to use to dye the red nails of the root of the phoenix flower, etc., Gongri atmosphere is very strong.
Question 3: What are the festival customs of the Bai people Residence:
The Bai people mainly live in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and others are distributed throughout Yunnan Province and the Bijie area in Guizhou Province, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, and Sangzhi County in Hunan Province.
Language:
The Bai people use the Bai language, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. There are three dialects: southern, central and northern. The vast majority of the Bai people speak their own language and are fluent in Chinese.
Ethnic arts:
The Bai have a long cultural tradition, and many beautiful and touching legends, such as "The Creation", "The Burning of the Songming Building", and "The Cloud of Hope", have been passed down to the present day, and many of them have been incorporated into dramas and plays.
Religion:
The worship of the clan is equivalent to the village community god of the Lord, Buddhism.
Ethnic Festivals:
There are many traditional festivals of the Bai people, and the "March Street", which has a history of more than a thousand years, is the biggest annual festival of the Bai people, and is now named the "March Street Ethnic Festival". In addition, there is the "Torch Festival" (also known as the Star Festival) and other national festivals.
Every festival, in addition to the necessary holiday food, but also to worship Buddha, worship and ancestor worship activities. The New Year's Day is the most solemn. Since the month of Lunar New Year, every family has to buy new year's goods, kill pigs, grind tofu, and pound bait and glutinous rice flour. On New Year's Eve, the head of each family brings rice, tea and wine on a tray and worships the gods of heaven and earth, the gate, the well, the god of the stove, and the tablets of the ancestors in Shunpachi. Then the whole family has a reunion dinner. Grand reunion dinner in the center of the table set a large copper hot pot, must be on the pig's head meat, surrounded by eight bowls of symbolic day dishes.
Sacrifice:
Zhongyuan Festival and Sacrifice of Heaven is dedicated to sacrificial festivals, especially in the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, is the Festival of the dead ancestors, if the new funeral home sacrifices to be more solemn, then we must prepare eight bowls of food offerings, which has a thousand sheets of meat, pork ribs, crispy pork, stuffed eggplant, lilies, morels, as well as the chopped fish wrapped in stuffed pork, each dish not only exquisite materials, workmanship, and should be rich in ornamental value. Each dish should not only be well-made and well-prepared, but should also be rich in ornamental value. Such as immediate family members or in-laws, before the funeral, but also to do called "three drops of water" full table to condolences. The so-called "three drops of water" full seat is to have fruit, livestock gift (made into a phoenix, fish, lion and elephant-shaped dishes) and eight bowls of three categories.
Food:
The Bai people are usually used to eating three meals a day. During the busy season or festivals, there are more breakfast and lunch, the Bai people in the Pingba area are mostly rice, wheat as the main food; Bai people in the mountainous areas are mostly corn, taro, buckwheat as the main food. Staple food are mainly steamed, often eat dry rice, go out to do the work along with carrying a box lunch, cold meals on the spot.
Drinking tea is another hobby of the Bai people, the Bai people are very focused on the morning and noon twice a day tea. Morning tea called "morning tea" or "sober tea", get up and bake tea, the whole adult drink; afternoon tea and eat "rest tea" or "thirst-quenching tea "inside the rice flower such as milk fan, including children also want to drink a cup.
Most of the Bai people like to drink wine, brewing is a major side business of the Bai family. Due to the use of different raw materials and methods, home brewing many kinds of wine, wine-making commonly used more than 40 kinds of herbs made of wine, made of a variety of white wine, which to kiln wine and dry wine for the traditional good wine. There is also a glutinous rice sweet wine, which is made for women and pregnant women, and is said to have a nourishing and milk-boosting effect.
Wedding customs:
When a young Bai man to the girl love, the girl agreed to send the male side of the poop; wedding bride to the kitchen to make "fish soup"; the first after the wedding Mid-Autumn Festival, the bride to do the big noodle cake, and as a way to show the bride's cooking skills. Wedding between the preaching first on the tea, and then set four four Ruyi (i.e., four plates, four plates, four pots, four bowls) seat.
The back wedding is a popular wedding custom in the Bai ethnic area of Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Whenever the crossroads, three forks or people gathered in the place, the guests will stop, the dowry yards into two large stacks, so that the bridegroom back bride around the dowry around the "8" word.
Etiquette:
The guests, whether they know each other or not, are warmly received. Where guests come, must be "three-way tea" to be. Three-way tea is the most elaborate tea ceremony of the Bai people, that is, pouring tea three ways: the first way for pure roasted tea, the second way to add walnut pieces, milk fan and brown sugar, the third way to add honey and a few peppercorns. Thus, it has the characteristics of one bitter, two sweet, three aftertaste. When eating, the elderly guests sit on the top, the younger generation in turn sit on both sides or the bottom, and at any time for the elders and guests to add rice and soup, warm hospitality.... >>
Question 4: What are the festivals of the Bai people? Bai Festival:
March Street, also known as the "Guanyin City", is a grand festival of the Bai people and good times. Lunar March 15 to 20 at the foot of Dancang Mountain, west of Dali City. Initially, it is with religious activities, and later gradually become a grand exchange of materials.
Torch Festival, held on the 25th day of the 6th lunar month in the Bai Tuenzhai.
The Three Spirits Festival is held in the second half of April on the lunar calendar and lasts for three or four days.
Shibaoshan Song Festival, held for three days in Shibaoshan Shizhong Temple at the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar;
Chicken Festival, held from the first day to the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar in Binchuan Jizu Mountain;
Playing the sea will be the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, held in the Dali Caitun;
Ge Ge will be the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, held in the temple of the three pagodas in Dali.
The Jianchuan Mule and Horse Festival, the Benjamin Festival, the Butterfly Festival, the Common Gromwell Lake Song Festival, and the Haixi Sea Song Festival.
Question 5: What are the taboos of the Bai people? Bai etiquette and taboos:
Bai hospitality, the first guest after the host is the etiquette of Bai hospitality. Home to the guests, to wine, tea to treat. The famous "three-way tea" is the Bai's hospitality. However, the Bai people pour half a cup of tea into a vessel, and full cups of wine into a vessel; they believe that "wine is full of honoring people, and tea is full of deceiving people". By the Bai people's hospitality, should say "Noiwei you" (thank you) to express your gratitude and thanks.
Respect for elders is a traditional virtue of the Bai people. To see the elderly to take the initiative to greet, greetings, make way, seat, tea, hand cigarettes. The first cup of morning tea after getting up should be honored to the old man first. When you eat, you should let the elderly sit on the table and move the chopsticks first. In front of the elderly do not swear, do not stilt legs. In some mountainous areas of the Bai people, family members each have a relatively fixed seat, generally male elders sit on the upper left, female elders sit on the upper right, and guests and juniors sit on the lower and left side. The fire pit of the Bai people's home is a sacred place, it is taboo to spit water into the fire pit, and it is forbidden to cross over the fire pit. The threshold of the Bai family is also taboo to sit. The tools used by men are forbidden to be crossed by women from above. Family taboo wearing a filial pall to enter, that will bring unclean to the family.
White women pregnant, to tie hinge double apron, and the head and folded in the waist as a sign of happiness. When outsiders see it, they should know how to pay attention to key protection. If a pregnant woman is injured by mistake, she will be guaranteed the safety of the mother and child after delivery. Some places of the Bai people, pregnant women can not enter the bride and groom's cave. After the baby falls to the ground, whoever is the first to step into the door of the mother's house is the one who steps on the birth. The Bai people believe that who step on the birth of the future child's temperament like who. White most taboo to wear mourning to step on the birth, so the baby was born, the family should immediately use quicklime in the doorway to spread three arcs, and wrapped in the threshold of a green scorn. If the birth of a new male, but also in the green scorn under a straw shoe, some also nailed to the bottom of a cauldron fence on the door, to show the taboo. Inadvertently broke into the maternal home, you must send a bowl of fresh thick rice soup, brown sugar, eggs, sweet white wine and a pot of pig's feet stewed leek root to the maternal food. The morning of the third day after delivery, the maternal home to invite "congee rice guest" or "thin rice guest". To the Bai people's home to do congee rice guest, to use the bamboo blue advance eggs, brown sugar, children's clothes and hats, etc. to go to congratulate. Dali, Jianchuan area of the Bai people, women after childbirth, the host to invite the first guest into the home to eat the egg dumplings, guests can not refuse, otherwise the host will be angry.
The custom of the Bai people to worship and seek relatives has a long history. On New Year's Day, the Bai people have a lot of taboos, the most taboo is in the New Year, the new year, and people have verbal quarrels. If the young man was bluntly rejected, the two sides may quarrel, it will be "taboo". So, smart and capable, optimistic and open-minded Bai ancestors "invented" this interesting, chic "to seek relatives" custom.
Question 6: What is the Bai Festival March Street, also known as the "Guanyin City", is a grand festival of the Bai people and good times. Lunar March 15 to 20 at the foot of Dali City, west of the point of the Cangshan held. Initially, it is with religious activities, and later gradually become a grand exchange of materials.
Torch Festival, held on the 25th day of the 6th lunar month in the Bai Tuenzhai.
The Three Spirits Festival is held in the second half of April on the lunar calendar and lasts for three or four days.
Shibaoshan Song Festival, held for three days in Shibaoshan Shizhong Temple at the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar;
Jianchuan Mule and Horse Festival
Benzhong Festival
Butterfly Festival
Torch Festival
Commonwealth Gromwell Lake Song Festival
Haixi Sea Song Festival
Chaojijie Festival, held from the beginning of the first month of the first month of the lunar year to the fifteenth in Jizushan of Binchuan;
Juggling Sea Festival, held on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar in Dali Caitun;
Ge Gen Hui, held on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the temple of the Three Pagodas in Dali.
Question 7: What are the customs of the Bai people? 30 points Customs of the Bai people
The Bai people are an ethnic minority with a long history and culture on the southwest border of China. They are mainly distributed in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and also in Lijiang, Bijiang, Baoshan, Nanhua, Yuanjiang, Kunming, and Anning, as well as Bijie in Guizhou, Liangshan in Sichuan, and Sangzhi County in Hunan. According to the Fifth National Population Census in 2000, the population of the Bai ethnic group was 185,806,063, and they speak Bai, which belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The vast majority of the residents speak their own language, and the Chinese language is commonly used. In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, "k-wen" (Bai-wen) was used, or the so-called "white reading of Chinese characters". The Bai people use Chinese characters to write, but they have their own language and are rich in literature and art. They are good at agriculture and salting azaleas. Three-way tea is a traditional way of drinking tea when the Bai people in Yunnan Province entertained VIPs.
The Bai are an ancient people, and have a relationship with the ancient Qiang people. As early as the 1st century AD (Han Dynasty) before the distribution of the Erhai area. In the 2nd century A.D., Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up counties here, and in the 3rd - 4th centuries A.D., due to the war, many Han Chinese had taken refuge in the Bai area, and some of them were integrated with them; a large number of people of various ethnic groups moved to the Erhai area from the eastern part of Yunnan in 715 A.D. were integrated into the Bai. there were a number of Han Chinese who were in the area before and after the 14th century and then were integrated into the local Bai people. Later, some Yi and Achang people were also integrated into the Bai. Especially in the period of the Dali State, the Bai people will form a largely with *** with the language and culture, close to the economic level, the settlement is relatively fixed in ancient times, after the Tang Dynasty, the Dali subjugation to the central government, by the mainland Han culture, more economic impact, agriculture, handicrafts and commerce have further development. To the Yuan Dynasty, this place has been a very prosperous city. Dali beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, in this beautiful and fertile land, hard-working, brave Bai people with their long history, developed culture. Colorful local customs attract many travelers. Dali Bai people have a long history and developed culture. 1253, the Yuan Dynasty established a province in Yunnan and set up Dali Road and Heqing Road in Dali area. The Ming Dynasty changed the name to Dali Prefecture and Heqing Prefecture and implemented the policy of land reorganization. The Qing Dynasty continued to inherit this policy from the Ming Dynasty, but appointed a number of native officials and native priests in the remote mountainous areas.
In ancient times, the Bai people had a combination of music and dance. Folk circulation of the "Genesis" long poem, recounting the story of Pangu opened up the sky and earth, tracing the Bai people in the primitive society, "the top of the world peace", "no distinction between the poor and the rich", "the people fat and fat! The story of the Bai people in the primitive society, "the world is at peace", "there is no distinction between the poor and the rich", "the people are fat and fat", and there is no class oppression and exploitation. Nanzhao Bai poets Yang Qikun's "On the Way" and Yang Yizong's "Title of Paeoniae in Daci Temple" and "Song of the Cave Clouds" are known as "masterpieces" and are included in the All-Tang Dynasty Poetry. Wang Fu Yun", "Snake Bone Pagoda", "kill state officials", "hook said head" and other literary works, glorified the ancient Bai people in the class struggle and production struggle of heroic characters. Nanzhao famous "lion dance", in the Tang Dynasty has been introduced to the Central Plains, "Nanzhao Fengsheng music" in the Tang Dynasty court is listed as one of the Tang Dynasty music 14. The Bai Clan Tune" is a widely circulated "three seven one five" (the first three lines of seven words, followed by a five-line) metrical poem. 15 century, some literati applied this folk song form to write famous poems, such as Yang黼's "lyrics about the mountain flower monument". The Bai Opera "Blow Blow" is a comprehensive art developed on the basis of the early "Da Ben Qu".
Important Festivals
The Bai people have a lot of festivals, in addition to the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Duanyang Festival, Mid-Yuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals, there are also a number of festivals with strong national characteristics, such as around the three spirit, small chicken foot song, March Street, fishing pool will be planted rice-planting will be, the torch festival, the Shibaoshan song, etc., which is the Shibaoshan song most interesting.
(1) Shibaoshan Song Festival
Every year, three days after the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Jianchuan and neighboring Yunlong, Eryuan, Lanping, Heqing, Lijiang and other counties of the Wo people, up to several tens of thousands of people, converging to the Shibaoshan Shibaoshan Shijhong Temple, Baoxiang Temple, Haiyunju and Jindeng Temple, four places in the hills, or even in front of the solemn temple statues, playing and singing to the Bai love song based on the song. Sometimes the song meets the rival, often singing for several days and nights, hard to part. Songs will make the original and do not know the unmarried young men and women for life partners. Occasionally, we can see from the ancient legacy of young men and women under the "wild" custom.
(2) Bai Torch Festival
Every year, on June 25 of the lunar calendar, is the grand festival of the Bai folk - Torch Festival.
On this day, in addition to the dragon boat, horse racing, the most characteristic activities to play the torch. Torch is a type of dry branches tied or split into; where the Erhai of the Bai villages, each village has a large torch, tie torch firewood and work by the year coincided with the celebration of some families to organize. A few days before the torch festival, several families will come together ...... >>
Question 8: Baek festivals The main traditional Baek festivals include: "Around the Three Spirits" - "Around the Three Spirits" is also called "around the mountain spirit", "around the three forests", is a traditional festival of the Bai people in Dali, Yunnan Province, the Bai language called "view on the tour", meaning "tour around the garden! "It is a traditional festival of the Bai people in Dali, Yunnan Province. "Around the three spirit" period for the annual lunar calendar April 23-25, *** three days. "Three Spirits" refers to the "God" Sheng Yuan Temple, "Xanadu" Jinqui Temple, "Buddha" Chongsheng Temple. The "Three Spirits" is mainly a tour of these three temples. During the festival, a sea of people, in the "three that around the south and four around the north", singing and dancing; night camping field, singing the Bai's Dabenqu, singing to the dawn; can be described as carnival all night long. March Street" - "March Street" is also known as "Guanyin City", "Guanyin Street", "March Street" is also known as "Guanyin City", "Guanyin Street". Guanyin Street", "sacrifice Guanyin Street", is the Yunnan Dali Bai people's grand festival and street period, every year in the lunar calendar, March 15 to 20 at the foot of the Dancang Mountain in the west of Dali city. Initially it was colored with religious activities, but later it gradually changed into a grand exchange of materials. "Juggling the sea will be" - "Juggling the sea will be", also known as "corpse fishing will be", is the Yunnan Dali Bai folk traditional festival of the Bai people in Dali, Yunnan Province. "It lasts for one month, from July 23 to August 23 of the lunar calendar. The largest one is the one held on August 8 in the villages along the lake on the west bank of the Erhai Sea in Dali. On that day, many villages around the boat will be gathered to the water near the village, but see the Erhai white sails, the shore is crowded, the boat stretches for more than ten miles, more than 10,000 viewers. Other unique festivals of the Bai people are "Shibaoshan Song Festival", "Benjamin Festival" and the Bai people's own "Torch Festival" and many other festivals.
Question 9: The annual Water Festival is the most important festival of the Bai people is not the most important festival of the Bai people is still the Spring Festival
Bai traditional festivals
Torch Festival to grab the bucket
March Street, also known as the "City of Guanyin," is the Bai people's grand festivals and good times. Lunar March 15 to 20 at the foot of Dancang Mountain, west of Dali City. Initially, it is with religious activities, and later gradually become a grand exchange of materials.
Torch Festival, held on the 25th day of the 6th lunar month in the Bai Tuenzhai.
The Three Spirits Festival is held in the second half of April on the lunar calendar and lasts for three or four days.
Shibaoshan Song Festival, held for three days in Shibaoshan Shizhong Temple at the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar;
Jianchuan Mule and Horse Festival
Benzhong Festival
Butterfly Festival
Torch Festival
Commonwealth Gromwell Lake Song Festival
Haixi Sea Song Festival
Chaojijie Festival, held from the beginning of the first month of the first month of the lunar year to the fifteenth in Jizushan of Binchuan;
Juggling with the Sea, held on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar in Dali Caitun;
Ge Ge will be held on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the Dali Three Pagodas Temple.