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Overview of the ethnic minority Buyei

The history of the ethnic minority Buyei a wide range of names, the ancient "Pu" or "official". "or" bureaucrats "and" people Duyun Tang Dynasty, known as "Southwesterners," Song, Yuan and other dynasties "Fan"," In the beautiful house", Yuan, Ming, Qing "8 times", "Zhongmiao" Green Ode "Ode House," "Meitu", "Zhongmin, New China", "Zhongmin, New China", "Zhongmiao, New China", "Zhongmiao, New China", "Zhongmiao, New China", "Zhongmiao, New China". "Zhongmin, after the establishment of new China, collectively known as the minority Buyei.

The minority Buyei ethnic group's early life in today's Guizhou region, originally in southeastern China on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Minority Buyi minority Zhuang homologous evolution of "bureaucracy" ancient "Baiyue", "Bai Pu tribe.

Minority Buyi around the Warring States period to the Western Han Dynasty experienced a long primitive society, slavery society stage. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the feudal lord economy began to rise to the title of its leaders, tie-up policy. By the Ming Dynasty, the Tusi system was perfected. To the end of Ming and early Qing Dynasty, the development of production forces, a large number of Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan Han, increasingly prosperous market rate, important cities such as Guiyang, Anshun, Duyun, Dushan, Xingyi and commercial trade centers.

According to the 1990 population of 254,505,059 people, mainly residing in the minority ethnic groups of the Buyi Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, Qiannan Minority Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Qianxinan Minority Buyi Anshun District and Guiyang City, Miao Minority, Minority Dong Autonomous Prefecture Minority Buyi Population Counties, Zunyi City, Tongren District, Bijie District, Liupanshui City, DC, and Luo Ping County, Yunnan Province, Ningnan, Haili, Sichuan Province, and the cities of Sichuan Province. The minority Buyei are also found in Ningnan and Huili in Sichuan Province.

The ethnic minority Buyi region has fertile land and a mild climate, suitable for agriculture, which is dominated by rice. Minority Buyi mostly live in the flat dam, river valley or yard, it is known as "Buyi water township", "water Buyi" reputation. The forestry of the minority Buyei is more developed and it is an important forestry area.

Minority Buyei language

Buyei language is the Sino-Tibetan language family, Zhuang-Dong language Zhuang-Dai language branch, the southern bank of the Hongshui River minority Zhuang northern dialect is more or less the same, part of the part of the Chinese language, the use of the Chinese language. The historical development of the Buyei language in the process of the formation of the three dialect areas, there is no text in the past, and in 1956 to create a text based on the Latin alphabet

Minority Religion Buyei

Minority Buyei beliefs in multiple gods. Mountain gods of the mountains, water gods of the water, the gods of the community each village build land temples. Ancient or exotic trees or stones, cliffs and caves are considered gods. Even the gods were cultivated in the rice fields, and some were also the gods of thunder, the gods of doors, the gods of stoves, the dragon-king queen, the explicit and self-evident, Buddhist, Taoist, and Catholic minorities of the Buyei area. The ethnic minority Buyi sacrifices and divination of the country "Pushan shaman presided over. Divination is divided into chicken bone gua bamboo gua gua egg, rice gua and so on. Spirit good or evil, good God blessing, blessing livestock prosperity, abundant harvest; on the contrary, pass on the love of the ill bogeyman, evil lowering. Belief in God, which is a large group, each group has a member. Weng", the emperor's command of the generals of the army, law enforcement judges, the minority Buyei ancestor worship and nature worship many levels of God, has its own name and functionality, functionality of the highest God in Taoism, Buddhism and Buddha is also worshipped.

History of the 4 ethnic minority Buyis

Clearly during the Jiaqing period, the lunar calendar of 2002 (1797) was the beginning of a major uprising of ethnic minority Buyi peasants that erupted in a large southern caged government in order to resist the heavy exploitation of the officialdom and to force the peasants to suppress the Miao people's revolt. For nearly a year the insurgent forces lasted for hundreds of miles and were led by the peasant revolts of the ethnic minority Buyi women Wang A Chong (1778-1797, Nang Xian) and Wei Chao Yuan (1768-1797, Guang Mei Cents, known as "The Seven Required Hair Locks"). In August of that year, the Qing court sent heavy forces to suppress the uprising and was outnumbered and defeated. Wang and Wei were captured, and the latter was sent to Beijing, where he was heroically executed; and under the influence of the advanced Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant revolutionary movement, Yang Yuanyuan Paul, the leader of the minority Buyi peasants in Dushan Prefecture, rose up for the first time in 1854, leading thousands of peasants and handicraftsmen of the minority Buyi minority, the minority Hmong, the minority Aquariums, the minority Han Chinese, and other ethnic minorities in the revolt. Attack on the southern gate of Dushan Prefecture, opened the prelude to the 1855, Zhenning Biantan Mountain outbreak Zeng Yu Hua led by a minority of the Buyi uprising on the river (the three minority ethnic groups of the Water People's Autonomous County Habitat for Humanity) minority led by the Buyi Luo Guangming of the Buyi, the water, the Han Guizhou ethnic groups peasant revolts; the people to participate in the peasant revolts; In addition, the majority of the minority Buyi peasants and the Miao, Han, Dong, the water and other nationalities Minority Miao Zhang Xiu Mei, pottery, New Year rock five and other peasants joined the revolutionary army led by peasant leaders. All these peasant uprisings struck to weaken the power of imperialism and the Qing Dynasty's rule in Guizhou. After the Opium War, the minority Buyei region several times set off the struggle against imperialist missionary cultural aggression, in 1906 Luo Fu led the minority Buyei people's anti-imperialist, anti-feudal armed struggle and in 1907 for the human nature of the Zhenning Pole Mountain region led the struggle against imperialism and feudalism, the war of liberation, the leadership of the **** Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou border areas are listed below Zhenning, Guanling, Anlong Xingren, Xingyi minority Buyei youth and 6, guerrillas (later adapted to the Compass Guerrilla Regional Detachment 7), and Xingyi guerrilla group in November 1949, "the People's Liberation Army into the minority Buyei areas of Guizhou, from March to May 1951, the PLA finally dug deep into the y entrenched Luodian, Mammu Xueheng, and other regions The remnants of the Kuomintang minority Buyei areas were fully liberated. 1953 unified minority Buyei family members said Qiannan minority Buyei minority Miao Autonomous Prefecture was established in 1956

5 Minority Buyei Literature

Minority Buyei colorful literature and art, with a wide range of subjects, beautiful mood, vivid language, imaginative and unique rhythms and rhymes. imaginative and unique rhyme and rhythm. Folk extensive oral literature, myths, stories, fairy tales, fables, proverbs, poems, biographies of the country's long history, praising the diligence and courage of the working people.

Myths: Myths and legends of the great tide of the sun, 12 sun "reported that the old man picked up the green stone to cover the sky said", "Sai Hu fine sister of human habitation, heralded the shooting of the sun", "Mangye Valley seed! ", "three brothers looking for water", etc., favorite works.

"Report, the old more mining lapis lazuli cap sky" in the newspaper described the old man, mining lapis lazuli cap became the story of the ground, paved with mud describing the ancient tidal wave day, the flood inundated the world's only brother, the two sat in a large gourd, water drifting, survived. And when the other rains stopped, but all the earthlings were flooded, the brother and sister went under the auspices of the gods and, after many twists and turns, eventually formed a couple. Later gave birth to a strange mass of flesh, they angrily cut into countless pieces, thrown to the four directions, unexpectedly, the next day these broken pieces of flesh a person. Then, reappeared on earth. "Mang ah seek seed corn planting food in the ancient world, experienced hardships seed corn youth Mang ah, finally found in a cave and brought back, and give you the seed. Long ago happened three brothers looking for water", describes a severe drought, crops withered. The three brothers of the family and lead the crowd to find water. These three demons world war, kill the sperm stone, won to overcome the water drought, won the harvest. These myths are the indomitable struggle of the ancestors of the minority Buyei people with the natural scenery.

"The legend of Huangguoshu Falls describes a beautiful, clever, famously adept at weaving white sisters, escaping a ringleader who kidnaps the white cloth and stops the pursuers with the brains of a German lover. The white cloth turns into a river, cutting off the path of the pursuers. The longer the white cloth shakes, the longer the river gets. The ringleaders are helpless and they tart bucket when the boat continues to run. At the critical moment, the white sister cut a piece of white cloth, instant perfect storm, the river falls, the pursuing people were sent into the pit and was drowned. The German brain, Sister White, escaped the disaster and they settled down under a rock opposite the falls. Since then, he called this waterfall Huangguoshu Waterfalls in the rhinoceros and good fairy weng help, and the yellow fruit and soft flooding of the sacred objects, it is below the pit is called the rhinoceros lake. This reflects the minority Buyei people are good, simple, resourceful and courageous, reflecting their love of the local desire for happiness. Similar legends, there are many, such as the "Legend of Huaxi", "March", "June 6 origin of the origin of the origin of the "instrument", "the origin of the bronze drum," "the origin of the Yueqin "Legend of the origin of the sisters flute. ", "the story of Leyu" and so on.

Poetry: folk poetry minority Buyei verse works, there are many kinds, can be summarized as labor songs, narrative poems, customs, songs, disc songs, love songs, bitter songs, children's songs kind of rice-planting songs "work songs," "cotton songs," "embroidery batik songs. Customized song "Brewery". Customized songs "Brewery", "Toast song", "Future relatives song", "Send to the relatives song. Love Song "Moon Song", "True Brothers" Children's Song "Little Frog", "Bashan Bean", "Yan Brother". "Brother Yan". Narrative poems of Hedong and Heshi, "Wang Shixian Valley", "South River Class.

6 Ethnic Minority Bouyei Drama

Play: performances on the plains, without a stage, the so-called theater. Minority Buyi speech and drama, folklore, understanding of other ethnic groups. Ethnic minority Buyei drama generated in front of a wider popularity. Mainly distributed in Guizhou Province, Guiyang City, Anshun area is the most popular. The main instruments are gongs, drums, etc. and are generally performed during the Spring Festival. For the concert play, the actors wear costumes and masks, the masks are worn on the forehead and hung on a blue cloth covering the face. Military plays are performed by the main backup plug-in surrounded by small order flags shielded by plug-in pheasant feathers, wearing a shirt and holding knives and guns as weapons. The theme of the Chinese concert is the story of a few Han Chinese. Traditional repertoire "Legend", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Seven, minority Buyi music

Colorful minority Buyi folk music. Performance content based on concert occasions, can be divided into songs, songs, major, minor, folk songs, suona tunes, bronze drum tunes. The range of instrument types bronze drums, gongs, hairpin, Leyou, penpipe, sister flute, mouth harp, Yueqin, suona, wooden leaves.

8 multi-ethnic Buyei dance

The minority Buyei dance is a group of dances, weaving dance, "marriage dance", "lion dance", "dragon dance", "dragon dance". Dragon Dance", "Bronze Drum Brush Dance" and "Flower Bun Dance, Transition Dance" and so on. Minority Buyei production life and customs of art, performance of various forms, vivid, love to the masses of the people's favorite.

IX Ethnic Minority Buyei Art

Batik Batik has a long and prestigious production history of more than a thousand years. The hometown of batik in the stone village of Zhenning Biantan Mountain in the western Guizhou Province is known as Batik. The production method is that the first copper wax knife dipped in wax drawn in white various geometric shapes, dyed with herbs with indigo solution, de-waxed into. The characteristic batik patterns, elegant and serene, are nice and very popular with the people. Decorations common prickly pear, flowers, flowers, water, wave, scroll, chain and so on.

Tapestry is also known as "Najin, called in the Buyi language," the most famous in Zhenning, Guizhou. Boko generally two kinds, using silk or silk width and cotton mixed weaving, many colorful tapestry "lambs to identify" fish brocade, "butterfly brocade", etc., its pattern diamonds, squares, triangles or back to the shape, and so on. Compact few Buyei brocade patterns, magnificent and colorful.

Embroidery has a long history of minority Buyi embroidery. Flower embroidery, in the southwest region of Guizhou Zhenning, Guanling region, known as Wangmu, Luodian area is known as Gou embroidery. Your independent velvet, you alone cake, your miscellaneous Mary's mother, dozens of expensive Shao Ping embroidery, crepe embroidery, wrap embroidery, pick embroidery, embroidery methods. Embroidered clothes, quilt covers, straps, shoe uppers, curtains, handkerchiefs

Wood carving: minority Buyei wood carving art is renowned, the most famous is Anshun County wood carving play, Nuo opera masks. Mask clove wood or poplar wood log half broken open, a semi-circular arc carved blanks, according to the nature of personalization, characteristics, just soft, thick, thin, yin and yang different knife carving.

Also, Libo, Dushan Cap, Tooth Boat Pottery, Huishui Maple Dyeing mat is also very famous.

Minority Buyei and entertainment

Lost flower bags: fixed venue and rules. The show is divided into flat bubble, off the bulb, pumping the bubble. Doubles, singles two teams of chaperones. Ethnic minority Buyei young men and women are very traditional favorite sporting events and recreational activities, popular in Qiannan and Qianxinan ethnic minority Buyei slums. It is held every year during the Spring Festival. Rice bran, red beans, cotton seeds, shapes similar to fennel, mandarin oranges are spent on the contents of the package. In the past, it was generally stipulated that the flower bag thrown over the shoulder could not be picked up, and if there was no shoulder when he did not receive it, then both men and women should give each other a gift, such as collars, bracelets, rings and other ornaments. Now, the throwing of the flower bag as the game is generally open-ended, peers - to - peers, usually mixed men and women, but there are also men's personal and women's personal penalties. The lost flower bag to choose a place near the village before the flat and wide, young men and women each other began to throw the flower bag on the song, secretly looking for "rivals. Then each stood in a row, about 78 meters away, their hands Tisheng flower bags left and right to throw away their own Ruyi Lang after the receipt of flower bags, back when the girl threw his beloved girl, throw catch, throw, flower bags shuttle bus, to express your love for young men and women. Therefore, a way to express love flower bag loss minority Buyi youth.

Dancing Flower Stick: Popular in Huizhou Province, Hui-Hui-Hui-Tang. Holding a bamboo or wooden tool, bamboo or wood inlaid dancers dancers dance to the body parts of the knocking bamboo sticks, ancient coins, has issued rhythmic sounds. Dance can be divided into line progress Banji step, turn a step. Steps to the main double-ranked round square formation shuttle cross formation, constantly changing.

11 minority Buyei clothing

The minority Buyei traditional clothing styles are more complex. Differ from region to region, the formation of several typical ethnic costumes. Ethnic minorities along the Zhenning Buyei clothing for both men and women prefer to use blue, green and white cloth sewing. The style of men's clothing is basically the same. Young adults wear head scarves, short shirts with lapels (or long shirts with large lapels) and long pants. Older people wear large-breasted tops or dresses. Many types of women's clothing, women in the Bianzhanshan area and Zhenning Chengguan, and in some parts of Anxi wear large-breasted tops with batik pleated skirts underneath and lace corsets. The coat is on a black background, with brocade and batik motifs on the cuffs, dress and feet, and two lapel hems. Neckline and ADS shoulder seals made of flowers. No buttons on the dress, the belt she is on the right side. The unmarried girl is wearing a square brocade hanky, wig and black hair with a tightly woven twisted hanky on the head, on the right side of the flower bar hangs a magician needs, and inserted with a variety of tiny flowers. Married to his head, wearing a bamboo shell "fake shell. Improvement of labor and Ganglong District women wear green tight Xie Jin batik pleated skirt, white shirt under the small blue flowers, skirt length to the heel. Colorful brocade embroidered flower pattern blue cloth apron. After getting married, the hair is worn in a vertical bun in the shape of an arch and then blocked from front to back in the Yinzan. After marriage, change Yinzan silver bowl. An old New York hair into an arched bridge bun", but none of the girls with the brocade head, leaving a long braid. Ornaments. Chengguan District mountain, crossing the river Long Guanshan Ma Liu District music discipline of women wearing a large-breasted robes, draped in diffuse shoulders, under long pants, the waist with a white headband, and then tied a short green periwinkle cloth, cuffs, pant legs and aprons, which are embroidered with a variety of motifs. Tail fiber girl before the wedding, after the wedding hair bun with hair clips. Rokma district, raising the field of labor? Shah, Niuxi women wear a large-breasted right-over-oblique blouse and wide-legged pants underneath. Circuit red, green short apron, feet wear white round mouth shoes or embroidered shoes. Bada Tonghe District, Luoping County, elderly women, still retaining the traditional ethnic minority Buyei clothing, sporting goods dressed in green collarless lapel blouse blue and black cloth bag, body large-sleeved wide-necked dress inserted along the right junction of the joints with a two-inch wide edge around the edges of the lower corners of the jacket is also embroidered with a variety of colorful decorations. In a blue and black pleated skirt. Bunheads, middle-aged women have switched to a white towel instead, shirt's have to wear a one-collar or short-necked large-breasted dress knotted at the front of the neck like to the use of purse buttons for decoration, and in the future wear pants. Unmarried young women's clothing in addition to largely similar to that of middle-aged women, but also prefer very bright head cloth embroidered motifs inlaid at the end. Women who celebrate grand festivals or banquets, wear a variety of earrings, rings, collars, hairpins bracelets silver.

12. Minority Buyei eat

The staple food of minority Buyei is mainly rice and corn, wheat, grain, sorghum, sweet potatoes and so the Buyei people like to drink the most, especially on festivals, weddings and other happy days. Dishes salt and sour dishes, spicy fermented bean curd, black beans, pickles, a few are inseparable from the wine brewing more than rice, sorghum, wheat, potatoes and other raw materials for wine varieties of ethnic minority Buyi including Huaxi Prickly Pear Wine the home of the famous ethnic minority Buyi, the men, women and children every day and the tea, tea the most common in their lives as a basic and necessary beverage. BR p> "Girl's Tea": The Buyi masses are picking and tea, whose ingredients include plants such as honeysuckle. The tea made by the Buyi people is a very valuable, "girl tea. Tea for girls is an ethnic minority of the Buyi did not marry the girl crafted tea, made a good tea is not for sale, but only as a gift to friends and family, or love or engagement, as a girl's Valentine's Day tokens up. The tea symbolizes the purity and delicacy of the girl's chastity and pure love.

Salt and sour dishes: salt and sour initially called altar acid, later renamed salt and sour, the minority Buyi famous food. Dushan salt and sour vegetables are the most famous. The vegetables are washed, cut into strips, mixed with rum, garlic, chili powder, rock sugar, salt mixture, served on the altar. The vegetables have a sweet, slightly bitter, salty-sour flavor.

Sticky rice food: food with glutinous rice sticky rice and glutinous rice cake. Chinese New Year's cake, "the pillow wrapped dumplings," March 3, "April 8 colorful flowers sticky rice, Dragon Boat Festival, June 6," triangle dumplings, July half hinge cake. Dumplings of glutinous rice, flowers, rice and sesame oil group DCB's most famous, and more ancestor banquets.

Meat: Ethnic minority Buyei meat of livestock and poultry, as well as predatory squirrels, bamboo rats, and bamboo worms. Cooking methods to broil, boil, explode, stir-fry, marinated. Processed meat bacon, blood tofu, sausage. "Moss frozen vegetables mixed with good liver, glutinous rice sausage sautéed snails mantis meat braised bamboo shoots "Sour plantain tree heart", "Toon tadpole children", "Pan-fried bamboo worms ", "Soft Fried Sabah Bugs", "Blood of the Pig, Blood of the Rice", "Blood", "Bacon". ", "Pickled Chicken. Buyi people like to eat dog meat, guests at the door, every "March 3", "June 6" festival, kill the dog. "Sheep is not worth the skinny dog, said they pick the yellow dog's head two black flower class, white dog meat is the most bland" standard. Roasted dog stew, dog enema, Hana River dog meat, set of friends party.

73, life

Buyi minority ethnic minority Buyei residential building house, there are three main forms, on stilts, villas, residential, wood structure, wood and stone structure and slate house.

Slate house: prevalent in Zhenning, Anshun, Guiyang Huaxi, especially Zhenning Biantan Mountain slate house is the most typical. It is characterized by horizontal purlins with wood outside, the rest of the square stone or stone masonry all covered with slate above the roof, even the house window pane decorated with stone carvings. This house, cool in summer and warm in winter, moisture-proof, fire-proof and badly lit.

The hammock is a variant of the dry-structure. Built in steeper areas of the terrain. There are two, three, floors up and down at the bottom with two front lows and two back highs, a difference of five or six feet. Through one side of the hillside cottage, in the first half of the year, the infrastructure stood at a new level. Phase between the house and half a level of support. Generally in front of the door during the day with bamboo into an easy terrace to dry clothes, you can rest in the evening to cool off.

Bungalow civil or wood and stone structure of the bungalow infiltration is a minority of Han architecture and minority Buyei architectural culture mingled. Generally three bay, five, seven. The main room in the center, the main room behind the old man's bedroom or storage room. The main room is outside the mouth of the swallow. Bedrooms, rooms and kitchens on both sides of the main room. The roof is in the shape of a zigzag, which facilitates flooding. Cool in summer, warm in winter, comfortable living, and also easy to build, this house is the most popular form of residential area of the minority Buyei.

14. Ethnic minority Buyi love and marriage

Series: Ethnic minority Buyi and the father's family has a rich color. The state of fewer women than men, widows can inherit property, but if you want to remarry, are not eligible. Family structures range from small families to extended families of three or four generations.

Marriage: the minority Buyei monogamous. ***The same ancestors did not marry and different generations could not intermarry. Before liberation, minority Buyi generally do not intermarry with foreigners. The father minority Buyi family has absolute power. Ethnic minority Buyi young men and women are looking for partners in the general rush. If you are in the mountains singing to each other satisfied. The minority Buyi people call it "wave whistle." Wave whistle to meet friends means. Social activities for unmarried men and women are not limited to eight marriages can also participate. This minority Buyei old marriage system, because early marriage "does not fall husband's home," in fact, just to participate. Wave whistle", is the first love of unmarried young people to participate in the activities "already married, if his (her) parents arranged the satisfaction of marriage, which is just to show off singing in contrast to the resistance of arranged marriage. Bosnia and Herzegovina whistle" in addition to singing love songs, singing songs of bitterness, songs of denunciation and songs of escape from marriage, some young men and women in the past years of song, fell in love, so fled home to settle in a distant net of some escape from the feudal system, and they are all out of sentimentalism.

Rather elaborate, generally through the "spouse", "participation", "character", "marriage "four links. Minority Buyi young men and women married process, whether free spouse or matchmaker, marriage must be held engagement ceremony. The marriage has been negotiated, the man immediately fix a date to invite two or three carry gifts to go to the woman's home to hold an engagement ceremony, known as "eating engagement wine. At the beginning of the liberation period, the minority Buyei "do not fall husband's home to wear a false shell of custom, after marriage, the bride back to her mother's home to live long, some live in 2012 or 2035, some as long as 10 years every year in the busy season, back to her husband's side, so go back and forth before they settle down her husband until his wife is pregnant, or grow up to adulthood. Wearing a fake shell "husband" does not fall on the woman, her husband "a way to end life early. A set of base shaped, bamboo shoot shells, lined with a green cloth hat worn to his wife's head, if the wife is a false shell, can be addressed to her husband. This marriage custom, which exists mainly in the Bianzhanshan.

45, minority funeral Buyei

Minority Buyei implementation of wooden coffin burial after death, funeral home ately friends and family obituaries, wide-open speech, immediately there are three hair powder gun. Should ask the state to choose auspicious Pu friction "Mr. held a funeral. Some of the more prominent place uncle right, if the person is a female pro depending on the coffin can only be buried must save the scene. Depending on the size of the funeral on the family economy. Stopping the bier brought by friends and relatives in the family vegetarian funeral, the funeral is buried before the non-vegetarian. The first two days, come to offer condolences on the third day after the funeral, to the grave sweeping. Then, worship, pigs, chickens, tofu, charred items body um paper horse is called "complex mountain. The funeral, which will come to an end. In the future, every year, families prepare the tomb of the Qingming Festival to sweep the mouth.

16 Ethnic Minority Buyi Festivals

Chinese New Year: In the past, the ethnic minority Buyi in November or December, the beginning of the year, and then gradually change the beginning of the first month of the year. At the end of each year, families are busy brewing wine, making glutinous rice cakes, curing preserved meat, making blood tofu or sewing new clothes. On New Year's Eve sumptuous food and wine are served to honor the ancestors, firecrackers are set off, and the family keeps vigil until dawn. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, just as dawn breaks, the girls compete by first picking dan "New Year water to go home," known as "smart water," and the boys rush to the land temple next to a small piece of stone with a rope to pull the animal pens, which means "six animals are thriving. During the Spring Festival, young people from the neighborhood passed out waves of whistles "New Year's congratulations to each other's middle-aged and old people, in order to *** with the drinking until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, working in the field. Drums and suona, dances, kicking the chicken shuttlecock, playing gyros, throwing stones, and such competitions in which thousands of people participate to dozens are held. Some places play dragons, play lions will jump and fight, singing lanterns entertainment.

March: Sacrificial festivals of gods and mountain gods. The society of the gods is a village or several neighboring hamlets to establish a social temple worship, there are also some funds, funds or temporary collection of money to buy pigs, cows slaughtered on the date of the sacrifice of the festival, are not allowed to enter the village. On this day, some local ethnic minorities of the Buyi eat three-color glutinous rice. On the same day or the next day, the western ethnic minority Buyei home decoration festival. Luodian Festival of the God of March, may also be held on the 13th. On March 3, July 15 is held the festival of the God, the only ancestor worship of Ziyun. Huishui Nine Dragons, ethnic minority Buyi youth sing funny wrestling matches on this day. Pan County, such as young men and women, this day is a day of their social activities, the whole village should rest, rest for three days, in some areas. The holiday in the southern part of Ceheng County also means that the busy season has come, with inputs for agricultural production. Wangmu, Ceheng County, in some places, the day you want to kill a dog, the butcher treatment.

April 8: It is also known as "