The origin of the yi nationality

Before liberation, yi is known as "Luo Luo" or "people" and so on the many kinds of call, the liberation is referred to as "YiZu".Yi's claim to be "Luo", "luo" in the yi (sound) means tiger, "Luo (sound) means" dragon, in two represents power and mysterious animal who relentlessly, mean yi is brave and powerful nation, reflect the yi more sense for your national pride, but the lack of communication between all nationalities in the old society said artificial yi "lo-lo as living" has some offensive.

After liberation, the state council to develop the various minority name determine work, chairman MAO zedong and zhou enlai met with yi's representatives in Beijing, we've discussed in the meeting mentioned before yi's name is not unified, among them "YiZu", "lo-lo as living" are derogatory meaning, "YiZu" is not good, because of reduced intent is foreign, people think China is a big family composed of ethnic brothers, everyone should be equal love, more should not be reduced within, "yi" is not conducive to national unity.

Chairman MAO proposed changing the word "yi" to "yi", he thinks ding yi is put things in the palace, there are "m" and is below the house and eat wear, on behalf of the rich, everybody listened to very satisfied, unanimously agreed.From now on "yi" was formally as yi said the unity of the each branch.

Yi's traditional festival

Section 1. The difference:

Development section spread in hill north county, held on the eighth day of the 2nd lunar month every year, lasted three days.During the festival, yi stockade village young men and women are together,Kill pigChicken slaughter, caterers wine meat food, to worship the gods, to please the old man with the best wine flesh eat first, and then the crowd round and round round, to propose a toast to each other, eating of meat.After dinner, he went to the village head walled tail, with ink, pot soot face each other, has been to see a full face with black, laugh tired enough is enough.Development section, namely, hence the name.Works, in addition to the young men and women to put each other, the rest of the people according to the theory of age, generational to each other, also believe that the more black, the more people, only agree that year, human and animal peace, good harvest.During the festival, the villagers are not labor, not spring reef, mare go.

2. The torch festival:

Torch festival is yi's grand holiday, besides white Luo funing county wood epicenter area people, from yi, celebrated, and even spread to the han nationality.According to yi solar, lunar June 24, is the most positive in orbit the sun one day, when the sun shoot to people who can't see his shadow, so to this day as the day of the festival.June isriceEaring, and forget those, all kinds of crops to mature season, is also a variety of pests damage crops, so in this festival torches lit in addition to the insect pest control, in order to protect the harvest.This day, men and women, old and young, in festival costumes gather to a specified field, bull fighting, horse racing, the singing and dancing;Night lit torches, men and women to chase each other, with cordial and auspicious, also said to each other's demons with fire.In addition, forThe fireAround the tour around the house, the fields to extermination, pesticides, and crowds of people enjoy singing and dancing around the campfire, burning it.

Each branch activity form and the meaning is different.Aza from lunar June 24th afternoon to 26th over 2 and a half days, in addition to offering fathers in the morning and evening, day 1 offering "black dragon", the second day god "room", third day crops and "god", some even offered to the field "thor," pray for.First each cut, pine, and wedge A wedge dried, made A torch, lit every night meal offering fathers.After dinner, young men and women open stoping, play the torches, string, string dance, spirit.Torch touch sound, happy laughter, the village was transported with joy.Young people in more and more high, the middle of the night."Room" extremely serious.Dais at the house, the family and offering XianWu a small basket of corn, 1.65 m put sackcloth, bracelets, rings or white cloth;Add 1 bowl of rice, put oneeggs;Basket front one bowl of water, three glasses.The section 16.5 cm 3 pine, fir, pine and flax chestnut branch with red, white, green, blue, green 5 good cloth pieces, with several chicken hair plugged into the wall.To kill the cock on the table, the table on the right to kill the hen some blood burn tribute.During the torch festival, legend has it the ancient 1 couple for protectionThe child, with dark room catch a child's evil battling injuries, is respect for god.Whenever the descendants revered grateful, torch festival will kill chickens and sacrifice in the house they were.Yesterday is a simplified, killing cows ate a festival day.The evening boil sticky rice, according to the number of children boiled eggs, on the ground.Parents dustpan pat read word devils, after their torches sprinkled with rosin grain of robot spray fire flooding ghosts and mosquitoes, flies, etc.Then each child eat a hard-boiled egg, said within 1 year not sick, all the best.In recent years to protect forests and preventfire, no longer play a torch, the remaining activities are the same.

Section 3. The grass horses:

Grass spread horse festival in the lineage.Aza respect with their ancestors pathfinding trek migration work horse, and protect the crops, the annual lunar AugustBelong to the horseorBelong to the ratA grass, horse section.Neighboring villages don't choose the same day, easy to leave each other dearly qi, extended holiday greetings to each other.All day the straw and horse, with all kinds of wild flowers, dressed as a colorful horse;Made the horse pumpkin leaves basket, stove ash and grass seeds.That night to kill chicken first ancestor, and chicken and vegetables into the horse's mouth, eat dinner in the village, the grass in the west.The second day will be flowers on both sides of the road, let they visit, learn from the winners.Afternoon the village houses offer a grass, men and women, old and young to have lunch outside, see who eat well, guest, get the praise and auspicious words.After dinner at bullfighting, evaluation of zhuang cattle champion, is a lively scene.Holiday village men, women and immigrants free to play, especially at night, singing songs, playing bamboo flute and string dance, lively into the middle of the night or early morning the next day beginning.

4. February 8

On the eighth day of the 2nd lunar month every year is WeiShan yi people's festival, festival grand and warm.Every village to hold activities, including "gate road", "the secret away" is a common activity.This day, every village to cut some branches into the villages of every intersection grid and sealed, no outsiders into the village.The withered activities held in this nation, and no women to join.Activities in the process, said yi's words, don't speak Chinese.Activity first call "ley" the "secret away", then sacrifices withered activities, again by bi (yi people's religious personnel) and the lad and secrecy QingZhuang man dead three days and three nights, and da content is an essential part of the village activity.

Yi people's why to this day on lunar February 8 so grand, warm activities?Legend of the past WeiShan yi village, the old man there is a kind and helpful, named withered, lives in a miles away from the stockade shack.At noon one year February 8 QingZhuang labor to fields, with only a few women, children and the elderly in the stockade, dense withered suddenly found two tiger came to the stockade now, old man, the child is in danger.At this juncture, withered old man regardless of their own risk, mouth and Shouting "children run!"Side with a machete to the side of the road branch, ba cut pile of gate road, on the way to delayThe tigerInto the village, when exhausted, do not hesitate to meet the tiger standing under the big green tree will be hungry tiger to yourself.People came from all directions, the tiger was shot to death, people in the village were saved, but dense withered old man fall in a pool of blood.People with painful mood will close withered old bones buried under the big green tree.Since then, the yi called the big green tree "dense trees", "secret or fruit" has become the embodiment of dead old man.Yi "in" custom has been passed down from one generation to another.Lunar month on March 27, 2007 (9th), was held in WeiShan four "yunnan region guangxi provinces (area) yi language ancient books the 12th collaboration", the meeting on the eighth day of the 2nd lunar month every year to determine the cell of yi nationality common worship nanzhao soil priest day of the Lord.

5. Close section

James is god.April 8th lunar calendar day, the whole village to kill a pig laid in return.Pray god blessed to eliminate evil, bless the whole village people and prosperity, good harvest.

6. The sand than section

"Sand than family" as the WeiShan yi, meaning "taste a fresh delicacy", time in the lunar calendar in mid-april.Festival that day, families with new wheat flour and glutinous rice pounded Ci rake, dipped in honey promotions, please taste a fresh delicacy, relatives and friends celebrate doing harvest.On this day, married daughter take Ci visiting relatives back rake and gifts.

Section 7. Soil emperor

Soil emperor festival time for the mid to late September, WeiShan yi choose the animal sign, do not belong to the family night send soil imperial ceremony.This day, people want to use stove ash from the main room of the interior to the surface, draw a line to ring room, hospital heart intersection line as the midpoint, draw the circle, the four angles of form five directions, north and south, east and west, planted a pine and chestnut branch respectively, central has three branches, some sweet tea, rice, wine, salt, such as food, and the cock under each arm, hand knock ploughshares, mouth read "east wood, party a and party b west heptyl XinJin, southern BingDing fire, northern nonyl decyl water, central e has soil, my home in tribute and month soil emperor".Then kill a chicken, in five directions with the chicken's tail, roast chicken tail hair around five directions, after being cooked chicken laid again, whole family proffering flaming, read "the emperor sent soil, save kang, yasuda, protect foundation" geely.Finally sent all the branches and incense to house the roadside, and then the family dinner party.

Section 8. I drink play

"I drink play" WeiShan yi changxin as tribute rice, time in the day of the lunar October every year.This day, people put the harvest of the new valley pounded into tricomi, called back to get married daughter and the door son and relatives and friends, taste a fresh delicacy chicken rice.Changxin as tribute rice when the first ancestor worship, respect people again.Have a meal, by an old old man speech "I have play, play the play, ChiNi wheat, khan, the sea to wheat is more".To taste a fresh delicacy meters, tastes ah, this year's harvest, pray for a harvest next year.Some Yi Village still put the new m pounded into a variety of bait, the colored, distributed to friends and family and the village old man taste.

Yi nationality customs and taboos

Don't play head;Front swear;Yi home sick person said avoid casualties and so on;Avoid said "swine", and to say "stop swine" or "swine";Avoid tobabyWith the "fat", "beautiful" and "heavy" praise;Avoid whistled at night;Cream with primates (such as bear, dog, monkey, cat) meat into his room and also avoiding the meat;Both men and women, avoid the fireplace.

Ban on women across a man;Avoid weddings day slaughter goats;Avoid to chopsticks and hitting with the sour straw;Avoid from seat to burn Qiao samples;Fire buckwheat samples from the inflammation pond, avoid immediately turn and with sticks through;Fast horses, mules, dog, monkey, crow, snake, frog meat;Avoid away to leave meat;Avoid food served to master;Avoid hoe and axe together;Avoid inside will hoe or axe to find in the shoulders;Pregnant women brush their hair cream to the bride, avoid to the bride marry outfit.

Taboo women over the age of seventeen upstairs yi area, such as violation, home to "xiao" supplement to curse, remove the noxious gas and not auspicious;Taboo stranger, brother, father, uncle, uncles, brothers, daughter-in-law to upper right heishui stone to host a "wood".If there is any violation in the past, daughter-in-law back to the bride's family.

Bride's family to return money and compensation for lost gift;Parent, brother, uncle, etc, to buy wine to host a gift.When they move in after completion of bridal chamber, avoid the host goeth before, and otherwise disadvantageous development certificates in the home.WeiShan yi areas in yunnan is the whistle in the home, singing folk songs, swear words;Mechanically forbidden band sticks, rope, and a sword into a room and a kitchen.