What are the customs of the Buyi people? The Buyi people eat rice and corn as their staple food, supplemented by wheat, sorghum, potato and beans. There are wooden pots, tripod pots for cooking rice, oil-stewed rice, Erhe rice (rice mixed with corn, also called rice), rice cakes, rice noodles, Erkuan cakes, pea flour, rice tofu and other varieties. Among them, glutinous rice dumplings, flowered rice and sesame oil dumplings are the most famous, and are mostly used to worship ancestors or entertain guests. Their meat mainly comes from livestock and poultry, and they also like to prey on squirrels, bamboo rats and bamboo insects. The cooking methods are mostly roasting, boiling, bursting, deep-frying, pickling, and freezing. Generally, raw food is not eaten. Wine plays an important role in the daily life of the Buyi people. After the autumn harvest every year, every family brews a large amount of rice wine and stores it for drinking all year round. The Buyi people like to entertain guests with wine. No matter how much the guests drink, as long as the guests arrive, wine is served first, which is called welcome wine. When drinking, use a bowl instead of a cup, and follow the rules of guessing and singing. The Buyi people have many traditional snacks, and they are good at making rice noodles, two pieces of cake, pea flour, rice tofu, etc. The Buyi people are generous and hospitable, and their characteristic is that they celebrate festivals grandly every year on February 2, March 3, April 8, Dragon Boat Festival, June 6, July half, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. in the lunar calendar every year. "8" Many Buyi people use various plant branches and leaves such as liquidambar leaves, yellow rice flowers, and dyed bamboo flowers to dye their glutinous rice into colorful colors, and make flower glutinous rice to entertain guests and distribute to relatives and friends.
Buyi What etiquette and taboos do the Buyi people have? You must have never been to Guizhou? The Buyi people there are so friendly! They treat guests, whether they know them or not, by offering them cigarettes and tea, and by killing chickens and ducks in hospitality. , the elders and guests sit at the top, and the younger ones sit at the bottom; when serving dishes and rice to the elders and guests, they should be served with both hands, and the guests should take them with both hands, otherwise it will be considered impolite if they meet the elders or guests head-on. Take the initiative to greet them and let them pass first. In terms of taboos, they prohibit foreign couples from staying together at home; hosts are not allowed to pass in front of guests and must go around from behind; in some places, it is taboo to move or step on the tripod on the "fire pit"
What are the customs and taboos of the Buyi people during the Spring Festival? As one of the fifty-six ethnic groups, the Buyi people have rich ethnic festivals and cultural traditions. Most of them live in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces and autonomous regions. As a member of the Buyi people in Guizhou, I have a deep understanding of many of the culture and living habits of the Buyi people. The Buyi people living in Guizhou have many traditional festivals, such as "March 3", "April 8" and "June 6". Apart from festivals, the Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Buyi people.
Here we are talking about how ordinary Buyi families in rural areas celebrate the New Year. Preparations for the New Year begin early, probably starting from the twelfth lunar month (the twelfth month of the lunar calendar). First of all, preparations start from the preparation of some foods to taboos on some activities, and as an ordinary person, these taboos are very particular. It is necessary for Buyi women to learn how to make rice wine. In the dialect, rice wine is called "biang 35dang jiu". The raw materials for making wine are crops produced by the Buyi people themselves, generally including: rice, corn, and sorghum (mainly rice). Rice wine looks no different from ordinary liquor, but it tastes very good and has a mellow taste that will make you salivate. In addition, during the brewing process, if a neighbor comes to visit, the newly brewed rice wine must be shared with the neighbor for good luck. People who drink wine usually say things like, "The wine you roasted today is too big to be filled when it comes out of the wine vat." The amount of wine you get at the same time can also imply the family's family luck, wealth, etc. in the coming year. Shunda, if more wine is brewed than expected, the family will go smoothly in the coming year, and everyone will be safe. The time and cycle of brewing are relatively long, and the preparation of tofu is usually done first (if there is no such thing). Before mechanical equipment, the Buyi people used traditional stone mills to grind it, and they had to push it manually), so they used to call it push tofu or grind tofu as a delicious dish on the New Year's Eve dinner. But most of the tofu made is salty tofu, which is smoked together with bacon to form "dry tofu" that can be stored for more than half a year. Dried tofu is also very simple to eat. Boiled in water, sliced ??and placed on the plate, the taste is fragrant and delicious. In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, we begin to make various snacks. Generally, there are rice cakes (rice cakes), glutinous rice cakes (raw material is waxy corn), glutinous rice cakes (made from glutinous rice) and rice noodles. Except for glutinous rice cakes and rice noodles, which are sent to nearby processing houses, rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes are made at home using traditional handicrafts. The hard-working Buyi people always prepare carefully for a long time for the arrival of the Spring Festival, not for anything else but as a reward for a year of hard work by farmers. We have already mentioned wine making before. How can we have wine without meat? As the Buyi people who live off the land, of course they don't buy meat like people in the city. They raise their own pigs and slaughter them before the New Year as a way to celebrate the New Year. Killing a New Year pig is something almost all Buyi people do. It usually starts in the twenties of the twelfth lunar month.
Taboo for Buyi people.
The New Year pig can only be killed on odd-numbered days (except on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, because the Kitchen God Bodhisattva will return to heaven to celebrate the New Year, so killing is considered illegal and taboo). Neighbors are asked to help when killing pigs, and relatives and friends are also invited to enjoy the delicious pig-killing wine and share the joy of this year's harvest.
Except for setting aside a part of the pork to be eaten during the Chinese New Year, most of the rest is used to season and marinate to make bacon. It is smoked over firewood for more than ten days, which extends the storage time. Bacon is not only used as a gift for friends, but when relatives and friends visit, cooking the fragrant old bacon has also become a fine dish for the Buyi people to entertain guests. In addition to preparing various New Year goods, the Buyi people have many taboos during the twelfth and first lunar months. If they are not followed, it will affect or even harm the people, things and things in the family. Starting from the twelfth lunar month, the home must be kept harmonious and quiet, especially no loud banging, as this will be considered as doing so to the ancestors on their way home for the New Year. Children should not cry during this period, as this is considered unlucky. The Buyi people call it "the head is tabooed in the first month and the tail is tabooed in the twelfth lunar month". And use this to wish peace and success in the coming year. During the first lunar month, usually from the first to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the processing room cannot start the machinery and equipment. Strong vibrations are considered to be disrespectful to the deceased. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, domestic water must be stored and cannot be dumped out. The garbage in the living room and bedroom cannot be swept. If you do not do this, it means dumping all the wealth for this year or... .>>
Do the Buyi people have any taboos? There is one in our class and I would like to know about it first. The Buyi people's taboos include not allowing outsiders to enter the village during the "village cleaning"; "Wu" and "Jiazhi" are not allowed to give birth and travel when hungry; no groundbreaking is allowed from the first to the third day of the first lunar month; no knives or work are allowed on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. 8. Oxen are not allowed to plow the fields; within a few days after the first thunder every year, the fields are not allowed to be cultivated; are these the mountain gods of Buyi villages?
What are the customs of the Buyi people? 1. Clothing
The Buyi people like to use three colors: green, blue and white.
Before liberation, young and middle-aged Buyi people wore mostly striped and pure blue headbands, and their clothes were double-breasted. Short coats and long-sleeved shirts, long trousers with longer legs. Older people often wear long-sleeved short coats and long shirts. There is a big difference in clothing between women in the (second) Tu-speaking area and (third) Tu-speaking area. Later, Buyi men mostly wore Han clothing. (3) Women's clothing in the Tu-speaking area is divided into two types: casual clothing and dressy clothing. Casual clothing: The clothes are mainly blue and cyan, with large skirts and short collars. The clothes are made of potted flowers and fastened with buttons. They wear an embroidered indigo apron on the chest and a bright belt (except for those who are married). The long skirt is covered with a turban. The turban has twelve layers, and the inner eight layers are edged with cotton floral threads. , the outer four layers are made of brocade on the upper and lower ends. Married women do not wear headscarves, but wear scarves made of green cloth and bamboo shells.
Dress: Wear a slant-breasted short coat with green shoulders. , use various colored floral threads to embroider small squares on both sides into semicircles on the shoulders. The right side of the collar is made of brocade. The sleeves are divided into three sections, with brocade in the middle and two sections of batik on the upper and lower parts. The lower part of the dress has a one-inch wide brocade border. Wear an embroidered apron and a light-colored belt, and wear a batik pleated skirt that reaches the instep. The costumes are only worn on grand festivals. The embroidered brocade patterns of the costumes are mainly geometric. It takes three to five years to complete a fine costume. There is another type of pleated skirt, called "Penling" in Buyi language. The upper pattern is the same as the batik skirt, but the skirt is made of crimson self-dyed fabric. It is simple, elegant and solemn, and is mostly loved by elderly women. Weared on festive and solemn occasions. (2) Women in Tu-speaking areas wear large-breasted clothes and trousers with blue bars and lace on the edges and embroidered aprons.
Young Buyi women like to wear silver. Insect, fish, flower, bird headdresses and silver or jade bracelets
2. Food
Rice is the staple food of the Buyi people in the county, and some villages with more fields and less rice. Baogu is the staple food. People like to steam glutinous rice or make glutinous rice cakes during festivals. They like to drink and brew homemade rice wine and Baogu wine, which is usually around 30 degrees and can be brewed in the twelfth lunar month. Make glutinous rice liqueur and glutinous rice pear wine in preparation for entertaining guests or eating by yourself. When guests arrive, they must drink wine first and entertain the guests. Generally, male guests are accompanied by men, and female guests are accompanied by women. The elders sit with the host and guests, drinking and eating. The elders take the lead. In addition, the Buyi people also like to eat dog meat and beef.
3. Living
Most of the Buyi people in the county live near mountains and rivers, with dozens to several households. Hundreds of households gather together to form a village, and even a small village has more than a dozen households, with no single family living alone.
Most of the buildings are built according to local conditions, using slopes to build buildings, with people living on the upper floors and livestock on the lower floors, or the front half. The second half of the building is a bungalow, and the bottom of the building is still used as a livestock pen. A few absorbed Han architectural forms and built bungalows. The structures of houses are mostly made of "wood inside and stone outside". The stigmas are mostly made of fir, catalpa tree or Chinese toon. The roofs are covered with tiles or slates. The daily necessities of the house include stone pestles, stone mills, stone bowls, stone troughs and stone jars. Many villages have The village walls are made of stone, and there are many stone villages on the nearby mountains, forming a relatively typical group of stone buildings.
In Buyi houses, there is a shrine in the main room. There are kitchens, bedrooms, and guest rooms on the left and right sides of the main room. There is a fire pond indoors for warming up in winter. Each village has a land temple built in or next to the village to worship the mountain god. , is also a place for gatherings.
4. Family
Buyi families are patriarchal. As the head of the family, the father has the power to control the family economy and control family members. After the parent dies in old age, the eldest son inherits the family. There is a traditional concept of "the elder brother is the father and the elder brother and sister-in-law are the mother". When the husband dies, the wife can inherit and use the husband's property during his lifetime.
If a wife remarries, she loses the right to control property.
The Buyi family structure includes small families with two generations, as well as large families with three or four generations living under one roof. When children grow up and separate families, the elders of the family will take charge of it. Except for the "old age land" left to the parents and the "girl land" for unmarried daughters, the remaining fields and houses are equally divided among the sons. The eldest son chooses the land and the house. Chosen by the younger son. The property of a childless family is inherited by his relatives, and a married daughter has no right to inherit property. After the separation, the parents mostly lived with their youngest son.
5. Marriage
Marriage among the Buyi people in the county is monogamous, and people of the same clan and surname do not intermarry. Before liberation, it was a custom for wealthy families to take concubines. When a marriage is concluded, the man first asks a matchmaker to propose marriage to the woman's family. After the woman's family agrees, the man's family invites someone to bring gifts such as chicken, wine, sugar, etc. to the woman's family to match her birthday, which is called "open marriage" or "engagement." After the engagement, when sending the betrothal gift to the woman before the marriage, in addition to the betrothal gift of about 100 yuan (must be an even number), the groom's family must also bring a bunch of firecrackers, a pair of wedding candles, two bottles of wine, and several envelopes of sugar. .....>>
The name and characteristics of the Buyi ethnic group 20 Distribution of the Yi ethnic group - Introduction
The Buyi ethnic group has more than 2.545 million people and is a relatively large group in southwest China. large ethnic minorities. More than 95% of them live in the two autonomous prefectures of southern Guizhou and southwestern Guizhou, the autonomous counties of Zhenning, Guanling and Ziyun, and the three regions (prefectures) of Bijie, Zunyi and southeastern Guizhou. There are also a small number of Buyi people living in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and other provinces (regions), but they all migrated from Guizhou in history.
The mountainous area where the Buyi people live has beautiful mountains and clear waters, beautiful scenery, rich natural resources and many places of interest. The 17-kilometer "Huaxi" in the southern suburbs of Guiyang City is a pearl on the Guizhou Plateau. The environment there is fresh, the water is sweet, the air is clean, the mountains and flowers are blooming along the way, and the scenery is picturesque. It is a famous tourist area. The Huchao Village of the Buyi people is located in the upper reaches of Huaxi. There is a gold and silver pool next to it. The culture and art of the Buyi people are colorful. Traditional dances include "Bronze Drum Dance", "Weaving Dance", "Lion Dance", "Sugar Packet Dance", etc. Traditional musical instruments include suona, yueqin, dongxiao, wooden leaf, flute, etc. Earth opera and lantern opera are favorite operas of the Buyi people. The Buyi people mainly focus on agriculture, mainly growing rice. The Buyi homespun cloth woven by the farmers themselves has long been famous. In recent years, enterprises specializing in the production of Buyi brocade, batik cloth and ethnic craft clothing have been established one after another, and their products are exported to Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe and the United States.
Buyi Nationality - History
The Buyi Nationality has the same origin as the Zhuang Nationality and is a branch of the ancient Baiyue people. Today, the Buyi people still retain some of the customs and habits of the ancient Yue people, such as living in stilt houses and beating bronze drums. Some people also believe that the Yelang Kingdom in the Western Han Dynasty is related to the Buyi people today. Some Buyi people call themselves "Buyi" and "Buyue", and some Buyi people call themselves "Buyi" and "Buman". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they called themselves "Buyi" according to their own ethnic identity. name. The Buyi area has many river valleys and flat dams, with beautiful mountains and clear waters. The world-famous and spectacular Huangguoshu Waterfall is located in the area where the Buyi people live together. Cultural relics unearthed in the Buyi area show that the Buyi people are an ancient agricultural nation that grows rice. The Buyi people are ingenious and the batik cloth they produce has a long history and beautiful patterns. It is a well-known handicraft and collectible at home and abroad.
Buyi people - Etiquette
The Buyi people are hospitable, enthusiastic, generous and sincere. Anyone who comes to the village, whether relatives, friends, old friends or strangers, will be treated with wine. Buyi people are very polite and do not welcome guests who are foul-mouthed or rude.
Buyi Nationality--Festivals
In addition to the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional festivals of the Buyi Nationality include "February 2", "March 3", and "April". "Eight", "Ox King Festival", etc., the most solemn festival is "June 6" of the lunar calendar.
Flower Dance Party: The Buyi people’s flower dance party is held every year from the first day to the twenty-first day of the first lunar month. Every festival, the little girls wear gorgeous lace clothes with very beautiful flower buttons, and the boys wear cardigans and bearded belts, blowing the leaves, and their faces are full of spring breeze. The enthusiastic girls led the young men's horses from five villages and eight villages, from the invisible mountainside to the flower dance party venue, which was a large flat grassland with a crystal clear river next to it. To the north is a tung tree forest full of buds. There were people shouting and neighing, laughing and shouting everywhere, at least a few thousand people. The thunderous sound of the cowhide drum shakes the empty valley, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes rising and falling, coupled with the clanging cymbals, it is intoxicating! On the field, young men and women were dancing in groups here and there, singing ancient songs with beautiful voices and light dance steps. They sat on the bank of the river and played "Leyou", Yueqin, blowing wood leaves, and talked about love. The young people, with their bright and affectionate eyes like rivers, expressed their passionate love to each other, and the reflections shook, adding another flavor. There is a platform set up next to the tung forest. There is a wonderful Buyi opera performed there, which is rich and colorful, and the whole lawn is filled with a cheerful and joyful atmosphere. They sang and danced, and before they knew it, the sun set on the back of the slope, and the sunset fell on the buds of the tung forest. People reluctantly mounted their horses and left the lawn one after another.
The Flower Dance Party is also a bridge-building party for young guys and girls. They sow love on the grass dam. On the last day of the festival, the 21st (called "union"), they announce the year The flower dance party was over. The 22nd is the day of "leading the sheep", which means an engagement. Young people take the "sheep" home (bring the girl back for a blind date) to see the man's family situation to decide his life-long events. On this day, many young men went to Caoba to discuss their future... >>
Is there any difference in vaginal discharge between Buyi women? Do Han Chinese and her have sexual disorders? It’s inexplicable! Chinese, white and black people can get married, haven’t you heard? How about you ask her to open her vagina and show you?
Customs and habits of ethnic minority taboos Taboos of the Yi people: no meat from dogs, horses, bears and other animals; no fresh vegetables to enter the house within three days of the New Year, otherwise it will be the greatest disrespect to the ancestors; no food for women to cause childbirth It is forbidden to grind the meat of dead domestic animals within seven days of the New Year, otherwise the family will be impoverished; it is forbidden to put the spoon on the edge of the bowl after eating, because this is a way to offer food to the dead. It is taboo for a woman to step over a man's clothing, let alone a man's body or head. It is taboo for female guests to go upstairs. It is taboo for women to give their jewelry and clothes to others, otherwise it will affect fertility and the smooth growth of their children. Taboos of the Dai people: It is taboo for outsiders to ride horses, drive cattle, carry burdens, and enter the village with disheveled hair; when entering a Dai bamboo house, you must take off your shoes outside the door and walk lightly inside the house; you are not allowed to sit on or across the fire pit. , cannot enter the master's inner room, cannot sit on the threshold; cannot move the tripod on the fire pit, and cannot use feet to step on the fire; it is taboo to whistle or cut nails at home; it is not allowed to use clothes as pillows or to sit on pillows; when drying clothes, the tops must be worn Sunbathe in a high place, while pants and skirts should be sunbathed in a low place; you must take off your shoes when entering a Buddhist temple, and it is taboo to touch a series of Buddhist sacred objects such as the head of a young monk, Buddha statues, spears, flags and flags. Taboos of the Wa people: You are not allowed to enter the village on horseback and must dismount at the entrance of the village; you are prohibited from touching your head and ears; you are prohibited from giving chili peppers and eggs to others; you are prohibited from entering the wooden drum room at will; you are prohibited from giving decorations to young girls; you are prohibited from having guests sit on women’s seats at home. Drumming a pillar or counting banknotes; if a wooden pole is placed in front of the door, it means there is a patient at home and outsiders are prohibited from entering. Women are not allowed to grab men's hair casually, and men are not allowed to touch women's feet; it is taboo for others to touch their heads and ears. Taboo of the Miao people: You cannot eat chicken heads when you are a guest. Guests are generally not allowed to serve chicken livers, chicken offal and chicken legs. Chicken livers and offal are reserved for elderly women, while chicken legs are reserved for children. Avoid crossing the child's head, otherwise the child will not grow taller. It is forbidden for women to sit on the same bench as their elders. Do not kill or beat dogs, or eat dog meat; do not sit on the Miao ancestors' shrines, and do not step on the tripod on the fire bed with your feet; do not whistle at home or at night; do not eat the ashes of the fire-roasted glutinous rice rake; when playing, Don't tie up seedlings with family members; don't enter the house when there are straw hats or tree branches hanging on the door or on weddings and funerals; don't walk through the newlyweds when you meet them on the road, etc. Kazakh taboos: Young people are not allowed to drink in front of the elderly, and they are not allowed to touch food with their hands; they are absolutely not allowed to step over or step on the tablecloth, and they are not allowed to sit on boxes or other utensils containing food. It is taboo to count the livestock of the owner in front of the owner; you are not allowed to cross the ropes tied to the livestock, nor to ride horses into the sheep; it is taboo to have others praise your children in front of them, especially not to say "fat", as this will bring misfortune to the children; it is taboo to have guests at home Dismount at the door or ride a fast horse to the door of the house; avoid eating pork, dog meat, donkey meat, mule meat, the meat of dead livestock and poultry, and the blood of animals. Taboos of the Yao family: avoid using your feet to support the stove; avoid burning paper with writing on it in the stove; avoid wearing white shoes and white hats when entering the Yao house, because they symbolize mourning; avoid sitting on the threshold; avoid going upstairs while wearing straw sandals; When sitting on the stool where the housewife is lighting the fire; when going to the raft, avoid using the word "umbrella". When talking about "umbrella", say "rain cover", because "umbrella" is a homophone for "scatter"; when meeting someone cutting wood, avoid using the word "eating meat". , "death" and other ominous words, etc. Most of the Yao people do not eat cat meat and snake meat. The Yao people avoid using dog, snake, cat, and frog meat when offering sacrifices to their gods. Taboos of the Qiang people: When women give birth, they hang yoke sheets or backpacks outside the door to prevent outsiders from entering; when there are patients at home, they hang red notes on the door to prevent outsiders from visiting; they are not allowed to step across the fire pond or step on a tripod, nor are they allowed to stand on a tripod. Do not bake shoes, socks and clothing; avoid sitting on doorsteps and stairs; do not place chopsticks across the bowl after meals, and do not tip wine glasses upside down. Taboos of the Buyi people: When visiting Buyi people's homes, you are not allowed to touch the shrines and altar tables. It is taboo to step on the tripods by the fire pit. Buyi people are accustomed to toasting guests with wine, and guests should drink more or less. It is forbidden for anyone to touch or cut down the mountain sacred trees and big arhat trees in Buyi villages. The Buyi people must give even numbers when giving gifts. Taboos of the Gaoshan ethnic group: Women are forbidden to use knives and axes after pregnancy, and are forbidden to eat ape meat, lynx meat, pangolin meat, and pedicle fruits; men are not allowed to touch the looms used by women.
Customs of the Buyi ethnic group in Guizhou Buyi Autonomous Prefecture The Buyi ethnic group developed from the Luo Yue branch of the ancient Baiyue ethnic group. According to records in Guizhou's "Qianxi Prefecture Chronicles" and "Dushan County Chronicles" and ancient songs sung by elderly people in their 70s and 80s today, it is said that the Buyi people are the "indigenous people" in the Hongshui River and Nan and Beipan River basins of Guizhou. . Bu is still called "Zhongjia" or "Zhongmiao". The Qiaotou area of ??Hekou County in Honghe Prefecture calls itself "Dongmiao" or "Duyun people". The "Maguan County Chronicle" of the Republic of China said: "The species comes from Duyun, Qian Province, so they are also called 'Duyun people'
1. Marriage
Marriage of the Buyi people is based on private property. Monogamy is based on family economics. People of the same clan and surname are strictly prohibited from intermarriage, and there are many intermarriages with Han and Zhuang people.
Before 1949, marriages between uncles and cousins ??and transfer marriages between brothers and sisters were popular.
Young men and women are free to fall in love before marriage. During festivals or street seasons, groups of three or five meet in open fields to sing to each other. Confessing love to each other and asking about family background is called "catch up with the watch" (called "Yangdou Yangshao" in Buyi language). The venue for "going to the table" must face the sun, and men and women must be two or three meters apart. Regardless of age, they must call each other "brother" and "sister". They are not allowed to say obscene words, let alone touch. leave. If those who like each other have to mediate through a third party (sister-in-law or sister), they can sing alone and give each other tokens. Usually, the man uses a silver bracelet and the woman exchanges flower shoes or belts embroidered by herself. After informing the parents, the man will ask a matchmaker to propose marriage. However, the mutual support and restraint between the parents' destiny and the horoscope is very important. Often, infatuated men and women will have lifelong regrets due to their parents' disapproval and the horoscope discrepancy.
After the engagement, the man presents wine, meat, cakes and silver as gifts to the woman. Whether the betrothal gift is money or things, it must be preceded by six, such as sixty, sixteen, three hundred and six, etc., symbolizing The clothes and wealth are always there. After the fortune teller chooses an auspicious day, the matchmaker will notify the woman's family. The locals call it "Chuang Pulang". When getting married, the groom does not welcome the bride, but the couple goes to the bride's house to greet the bride. When the bride sets off, her brother must carry the horse from the house (regardless of the distance of the journey), and the younger brother will lead the horse to take care of the bride. The groom's matchmaker will send a "red envelope" (containing 3.6 yuan or 6 yuan) to the bride's brother on behalf of the groom. yuan) to express gratitude. The bride rides on a horse, wearing a flower headscarf and a flower umbrella to cover her shame. After the bride arrives at the groom's house, she is sent to the new house after a worship ceremony. The ceremony is the same as that of the Han people, but the girl needs to cut the glutinous rice cake brought from her natal family into several small pieces and distribute them to relatives and friends who come to attend the wedding banquet. On the wedding night, couples are not allowed to have the same room. The bride is accompanied by a female escort, while the groom drinks all night long with relatives and friends. The next day, the groom accompanies the bride to her father-in-law's house to recognize her relatives, which is called "returning home". On the same day, the groom goes home alone, while the girl still stays at her parents' house to "sit at home". However, during festivals or when farming is busy, her husband-in-law takes her back to live with her. a few days. The time for "sitting at home" used to last as long as seven or eight years. Although it is still followed now, the time is greatly shortened. Generally, the time for "sitting at home" lasts three to five months or even a month to live with the husband and parents-in-law.
2. Family
The feudal patriarchal patrilineal small family is the basic social and economic unit of the Buyi people. In the family, the father is the decision-maker in charge of production and distribution, and the mother is the host of housework. Children must absolutely obey their father's will. Women's status is lower than that of men. They are still not allowed to participate in village sacrifices. Before liberation, they did not even have the right to study. The uncle enjoys privileges in the nephew's family. For marriages, marriages, building a house, family division and litigation, settlement and relocation, etc., the uncle's consent must be obtained and a share of "uncle money" must be obtained. A girl in the family was mourned, and her uncle was not there to bury her.
3. Festivals
In addition to the same festivals as the Han people, the Buyi people also have some special festivals:
February 2nd. Sacrifice to the dragon, that is, sacrifice to the village's patron god and ancestors of the same clan, takes place in the woods near the village. In the past, pigs had to be killed as sacrifices. After liberation, some villages have simplified it to offering chickens and various cooked vegetables and fruits. The highest-ranking male elder in the village serves as the host for the sacrifice, and the Taoist priest is invited to recite sutras and pray. No one is allowed to joke, joke or fart in the festival grounds, and women and men with pregnant or postpartum women at home are not allowed to participate. The festival lasts for three days. On the first two days, all agricultural activities are stopped. Young men and women dress up and gather in the fields to sing folk songs. The sacrifice ceremony was officially held on the third day. In addition to one portion of the sacrifice according to the village's household registration, the rest will be picnicked on the spot by the participants. The officiant announces the new year's rural rules and regulations.
March 3rd. Every family steams and dyes red eggs and flower boards for their children, dresses them up, and lets them play to their heart's content. For three consecutive days, young men and women traveled to the mountains and sang to each other. Many young people took this opportunity to look for someone they liked.
They clean the inside and outside of the village, drive away fire demons and send Tai Sui to pray for the safety of people and animals, and every family goes to add earth to their ancestors' graves... >>