First, clothing.
Early clothes for men and women were made of cotton. Older men often wear double-breasted jackets, big-breasted dresses and big pants. Wearing a small hat with melon skin. Wear cloth round tiger head shoes or lotus leaf embroidered shoes. Young men often wear blue and white double-breasted clothes, black jackets with silver buttons, black and blue trousers, melon hats or Baotou felt hats. Fasten your belt. Those who wear cloth shoes or embroidery on their feet are called bottom leather. By the early years of the Republic of China, young women had changed into clothes, wearing all kinds of big sister skirts and red, purple and black robes, embroidered with all kinds of flower patterns and used all kinds of wide and narrow lace. The silver piece is fixed on the sleeve skirt. Pants come in black, blue and water red. Middle-aged and elderly women also have lace pants. Girls wear black and blue cloth or embroidered waist. Wear embroidered shoes made of all kinds of cloth. I like wearing silver, jade earrings and wicker earrings. Bracelets have sliding labels, twisted wires, flat silver, jade bracelets and more gold and silver rings.
Married women tie their hair in a bun, and there are red rope, silver hairpin and jade hairpin on the bun, and some of them are put in the net pocket. There is also a black cloth strip 4 inches wide and 1 inch long around the bun and the top. After more than 50 years old, the pattern of clothes gradually decreases, and more people wear short and wide clothes with large rows of buttons and big cuffs and knees. The coat is covered with a full-rolled black jacket, with a black and blue waist, ordinary pants and boat-shaped shoes with nose tips. Earrings and bracelets are only worn on holidays and as guests.
Second, marriage.
1, matchmaking: after the man's parents found out about the girl, they entrusted the media to propose marriage to the woman's family. After the woman's parents agree, they will inform the man of the girl's birthday, and the man will ask someone to "match the eight characters". If the marriage is combined, it means that the marriage is settled.
2. Engagement: After marriage, the man chooses auspicious day to "drink some wine", and the date is mostly on the second and sixteenth day of the first month.
3. Marriage: The date is mostly in December or February, and it is divided into three days: lottery (killing pigs), formal marriage (being a guest) and returning to the door (thanking money).
4, wedding: commonly known as begging for a wife. In the past, I used to ride a horse or sit in a sedan chair and play suona to meet my relatives.
5, recognize relatives: go back to the door to recognize relatives on the third day, which is the first day after marriage.
Third, happy events.
1, full moon wine: This is a treat for the first-born baby after marriage. At that time, aunts, aunts and nuns of both men and women will each send 20 eggs, brown sugar 1 kg, rice 1 l, and cloth 3 feet. Congratulations to this man.
2. Good news: This is the third day after a woman gives birth. The husband should bring a bottle of wine to give good news to his parents-in-law.
3, wearing a hundred locks: children over one year old, to the main temple shrine. Parents who are married and have many children are invited to wear long live locks for their children, wishing them healthy growth and prosperous career.
4. Building a new house: foundation selection and foundation excavation must be decided by the local branch. On this day, wooden beams will be called great success and new couplets will be posted. Friends and relatives will give gifts and set off firecrackers to congratulate, and the host will kill pigs to sacrifice to the land god, ancestors and Lu Ban for a day.
5, birthday: the old man lived to 60, and invited people to celebrate their birthdays.
Children often kill a chicken and put some cakes on their annual birthday.
Fourth, festival activities.
1, Spring Festival: From the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 6th day of the first lunar month, it is a traditional festival of Bai people, commonly known as Chinese New Year.
2. Next year: Lantern Festival.
3. During Tomb-Sweeping Day and winter solstice, you should go to Fenshan to worship your ancestors.
4, Duanyang Festival: adults and children should wear five-color lines and drink calamus realgar wine to eliminate difficulties.
5. Torch Festival: On the evening of June 25th of the lunar calendar, chickens are killed to worship ancestors. After dinner, when it gets dark, light a handle, cut off the five-color thread worn by the whole family during the Dragon Boat Festival and put it in a torch to burn.
6. Mid-Autumn Festival: Also called "July 30th", it is the "ancestor worship festival" of the Bai people.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival: Also called "Reunion Festival".
Verb (abbreviation of verb) taboo
1, Deadlines: Avoid visiting on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and avoid blowing fire. Women should avoid washing clothes and combing their hair. Build a house for a happy event, and avoid parents' years, months and days. Don't pay a lot of money to worship Buddha at funeral. On the day of beginning of autumn, don't do farm work, use knives, saws, axes, sickles and hoes.
2, avoid people: die outside, do not carry into the village into the home, can only be buried outside the village. Don't go into the ancestral grave if you die abnormally. Within a week after the "An Cai Gate", no outsiders are allowed to enter. Women less than one month old are forbidden to enter his house. The dutiful son can't go into other people's homes until the old man is buried.
3, taboo: women avoid crying barefoot with long hair and go to other people's homes. Don't cry in other people's homes. Don't step on the threshold when you leave home. Livestock are not allowed to enter other people's homes.
4, no food: the pheasant killed on New Year's Eve, outsiders can't eat.
Intransitive verb funeral
1, put a coffin to wake: in the late old age, funerals are usually happy events. Choose a good day, chant Buddhist scripture, and after relatives and friends come for a drink offering, you can go out for burial. Children should stay awake day and night while parking at home. During the crossing, there should be wine and meat, and friends and relatives should be invited for dinner.
2. Funeral: At the funeral, neighbors bring their own lifting tools to help carry the coffin. Leading the way for the dead to chant Buddhist scripture, filial piety man walks in front of the coffin with crutches, and filial piety woman walks behind the coffin. The coffin was carried around the coffin and placed on a high stool, and a ceremony was held around the coffin by Mr. chanting. I read The Sutra Around the Coffin and called it "Crossing the Bridge". When crossing the bridge, filial piety kneels on the bridge, and the coffin is lifted from the body, which is called "carrying the coffin".
Bai people in Pingba area mainly eat rice and wheat. In mountainous areas, corn and buckwheat are the main crops. Non-staple food includes all kinds of vegetables, wild vegetables and all kinds of mountain and river specialties.
Bai people like to eat sour, cold, spicy and other flavors, and are good at pickling delicious dishes such as ham, bow fish, snail sauce, oil chicken fir and pig liver. Bai people like to drink roasted tea. When baking tea, bake the tea with a small pottery teapot and pour it into boiling water. Suddenly, the heat billowed and the fragrance overflowed. Guests will bring barbecue tea home, only half a cup at a time. After drinking, the fragrance stays in your mouth and your thirst is reduced. Bai people in Dali and other central areas also like to eat a kind of "raw meat" (or "raw skin") with unique flavor, that is, roast pork until it is half cooked, then cut it into pieces or shredded pork, and add ginger, onion, vinegar and pepper to entertain guests. In addition, there are white wine made of glutinous rice, "Xue Mei" made by Cangshan Xuemei with sugar, and "milk fan" made by Deng Chuan are also delicious.