1. The Bai people like to eat sour, cold, spicy and other flavors, and are good at curing ham, bowfin, screw sauce, oil chicken fir, pig liver blessing and other delicious dishes. Dali and other central areas of the Bai people, but also like to eat a unique flavor of the "raw meat" (or "raw skin"), that is, the pork roasted into a half-cooked, and then cut into slices or shredded meat, accompanied by ginger, green onions, vinegar, chili peppers, in order to entertain guests.

2. Bai wedding banquet customary "Xizhou soil eight bowls" hospitality, consisting of eight hot dishes: add red currant rice red stewed meat; hanging egg batter deep-fried crispy meat; add soy sauce, dry pickles buckle steamed five-flower three-line pork thousand sheets; with the addition of sweet potatoes or potatoes steamed meat; pig head, liver, pork brined dry incense.

White lentils covered with minced meat, egg crumbs; fungus, tofu, underwater, shredded egg, vegetable stalks blanched minced; with the addition of fried pork strips of bamboo shoots. In addition, a packet of betel coconuts per guest is hearty without being extravagant.

3. Bai dining is very ceremonial, dining elders to sit on, the younger generation in order to sit on both sides or across the table, the younger generation should be added to the elders at any time to add vegetables and soup.

4. The Bai people like to drink tea. General drinking roasted tea, with a small ceramic tea canister will be baked yellow tea leaves, washed with boiling water, suddenly hot and fragrant. Roasted tea is generally washed water three ways, while simmering baked side of the tea: the first drink felt its taste slightly bitter, and then taste is sweet and mellow, the last one more feel its sweet taste, the more taste more beautiful, full of teeth, people more than just a reminiscent of. This is called "the first bitter, two sweet, three aftertaste."

Some places in the second tea, but also to the tea into the walnut kernel slice, brown sugar, milk fan, etc., the third tea to add a few peppercorns or cinnamon, a distinctive flavor.

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Bai Clothing

Dali area with embroidered cloth or colorful towels wrapped around the head, wearing a white blouse, red shoulders, or light blue blouse, jacket, black velvet neckcoat, the right lining of the knots and buttons to hang the "three beards", The right shirt is decorated with silver ornaments of "three beards" and "five beards", the waist is tied with a short embroidered waistband, wide blue pants are worn underneath, and embroidered shoes are stirred on the feet. Married people pull bun, unmarried people hanging braids in the back or coiled braids in the head, are wrapped in embroidered, printed or colorful towels of the head.

In the headdress of the Bai girls, contains a very familiar words, it is: wind and flowers. Explanation: the hat of a Bai girl, the drooping Huizi is the wind of Xiaguan; the colorful flower decoration is the flower of Shangguan; the white top of the hat is the snow of Cangshan; the curved shape is the moon of Erhai.

Women's headdresses are even more colorful: Dali unmarried women around the area combing a single braid and coiled outside the flower head, then wrapped with flower ribbons, etc., the left side of the bunch of white tapestries hanging spikes; after marriage, the braid was changed to a bun, coiled on the top of the head, wrapped in a tie-dyed or batik blue cloth, wrapped with a plain cloth.

Feng Yu, Dengchuan, Eryuan girls like to wear "Phoenix Pa"; in some places, the head wrapped in a flower towel or only the braid coiled on the head, and then wrapped in a bunch of red headband; some places, headdress for the "a piece of tile"; some places, the head of the head with a number of pieces of headcloth stacked over each other, the outermost piece of cloth embroidered with a piece of cloth. In some places, the headdress is "a piece of tile"; in some places, the head is covered with several pieces of headcloths stacked on top of each other, and the outermost piece of cloth is embroidered with the favorite patterns of the Bai people. And then wrapped around a variety of colors of the head rope, especially beautiful.

Women like to wear jade or silver bracelets, drop earrings. Townspeople wear Han Chinese clothing, young people love fashion.

Shoes: Eryuan County, Yunnan Province, Feng Yu Dam, Bai girls, daughter-in-law, since childhood, the custom of learning to do life shoes. Women who do not know how to make birthday shoes are often laughed at as incompetent.

Shoes of longevity, made of large red satin or fabric. The toe of the shoe is spelled with a pattern of the character for longevity, and under the pattern is embroidered with a plain coniferous pine in blue silk thread; the heel of the upper is a symmetrical right-angled triangle pattern; and the sole of the shoe has a three-layer bottom. Wearing longevity shoes signifies that a person has entered his senior years and is blessed with good fortune. Talents usually start wearing their first pair of birthday shoes on their 60th birthday.

References:

Bai People's Food Customs - People's Government of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture