The origin of the buyi

Buyi claiming "buie", "elegant", "zhong", "cloth rao", "bauman", this could be the ancient "current" and "pretty", "ZhongJia", "current" and "slang" current, the source of the "current" title.In the wei jin southern and northern dynasties to the tang dynasty, buyi, zhuang are called "slang current", "current" or "current", after the five dynasties, buyi called "ZhongJia", song zhuang called a "boy"."Zhong" and "boy" is still the Chinese writing.

Buyi were the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern yunnan-guizhou plateau, early labor in here live in the Stone Age.Buyi and the ancient "current", "one more", "best which" have origin relations.History of the tang dynasty said "southwest", after the song and yuan said "sweet", "ZhongJia pretty", "zhong pretty", Ming and qing said after the founding of new China, generally referred to as the province.

Buyi and zhuang have homologous relationship, it is one of the more ancient.Now the buyi people still maintains some of the ancient yue peopleCustoms and habits, such as dry column home, tap on a bronze drum, etc.There are also people who believe that the yelang when the western han dynasty, and have the origin relations between this province.Part of the buyi people call themselves "buie", "more", part of the buyi people call themselves "buie", "bauman", after the founding of new China, according to the national common claims, unified with the name "buie" as a nation.

The buyi people since the song dynasty, who lived there are struggles against the feudal ruling class oppression exploitation of peasant uprising, in recent history, and against the foreign church, struggle against the Japanese imperialists and the kuomintang reactionaries, is a people have a glorious revolutionary tradition.

Buyi traditional festival

1. The white song festival

Check the white song festival is a traditional festival xingyi area in guizhou province, the feast on the 23rd day of the June 21 solstice every year.When there are more than 1 0 around the county and even the people of all nationalities of yunnan and guangxi tens of thousands of people attended, a grand scale.Ancient legends about the origin of the festival, is here to youth man called lang, a woman called Bai Mei, two people have the heart of love.One day, Bai Mei in the mountains cutting wood, endangered tiger attacks, lang shotThe tigerLove, two people set.Mountain officer covet Bai Mei looks as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, but coerced all failed, then kill lang, Bai Mei.Bai Mei set fire to the mountain official mansions, double suicide and fire.People in memory of them, the name of the local village called white village, instead the Bai Mei double suicide day holiday, put the check lang shooting tigers as a song.

First unpick and wash clothes by account, hung village before and after the symbol of the white clouds, taking the clean and clear.Holiday could, flocking, to check the white around the village.Young people dress cool and not only, and with the token of promise, itch to try, hope to get check lang and Bai Mei that kind of love of constancy.Festival activities is the main content of the song, song in the game during the day and night to resident house yard or sing, master supply "flower rice" (dyed the five-colored sticky rice), and "tea" (is, in fact, rice wine, booee used in the generation of tea hospitality).Endeavoured and friends, eat soup pot.Legend originated in eating stew soup pot lang shoot tigers, then is tiger bone soup, beef stew now to get more big pot of stew pork, dog meat instead.In recent years due to the development of commodity economy, people outside the holiday amusement, also increased the content of the tourism shopping.Is in high spirits, needs, and this year, and look forward to the coming year.

2. The buyi annual birth

Hard work for a year of buyi people after the autumn harvest began to prepare for the festival.In the bottom of the lunar calendar lunar, every family is busyKill pig, bacon, sausage, women roasting, BaBa do delicious food, rice flower, sewing clothes _ new handkerchief to family members.Working in the field of men and young women are married to get home and family reunions.December 23 evening, buyi national minority compatriots made of glutinous rice malt sugar and other fruit at home "kitchen god", please it to '" the jade emperor "leave.Multi-tube people say something nice, bless the earth.After send foci, people prepare incense, candles and other offerings to god supplies, please write their "Sir", not only the front gate, and even a side door, the window should be labeled as "animals thrive in the first-class in. In order to show people to sign a good happy life yearning and even in addition, a lot of people, then he will fight on the front gate god on the wall of the house covered with all kinds of festive New Year pictures.Thirty is the most busy day in the evening.Buyi from 30 to the new moon is not mutual visits.People.At home burn up a roaring fire of coals, old and young, the family sat around the fire.They use first thing such as wine meat offering the fathers heaven and earth, bless each other, and then the family reunion dinner happily.Day also is very exquisite, the people at home in the north all kinds of lights, and late eight kinds of lights toghter lit, hung on the gate, foil out of a thriving festival atmosphere.On the first day, people began to visit New Year,The childThe child must be each to worship, both table bearing their respect for their elders, and be able to get the old age people to pressure iron buyi people can watch dancing is the nation that every festival, young men and women meet the 3322 to "catch a table", the affections of the show was bombed by singing, or gather together in the suona. Appearance, root drought, sister xiao, tonggu instrument rendition of jump "pack flowers", "tonggu just put" happy dance, etc. On the day of the ninth "nine";According to the local customs, to this day to "cook", namely first lit incense and raw meat for fathers, then born, born from cooked chicken, put them before the incense table for time away to enjoy.Some of the fifteenth day of the buyi area over the years, but the 30 day school "off-year".

3. On

Can say is the "old person room" as the center of national sacrifice activities.Before liberation, all have the distribution of the buyi areas, almost every material village built for ancestor worship "old person room".Some things god CARDS, fragrance or hang with leather drum, bronze drum, forbid to people in and out at ordinary times, earlier when there is someone waiting for you.Prior to this festival every year, shall be borne by the village take turns offering socket head, went to collect the demands of the offering or donations, before it gets dark, the sacrifice (including chicken, pork, variety of cooked, and fruits) sent to the "old person room", then the socket head of household is responsible for the offering.The finish, at the old person room Shared by offering these offerings.But in the process of offering or eating, there is a traditional taboo must be strictly observed, it is forbid to anyone in this occasion to talk, laugh and no fart more.It is said that if someone make noise in the offering, will cause the failure of the ancestors to watch all kinds of wild animals, the villages of poultry, livestock will suffer from wildlife sneak attack and bite to eat.Like the an affront this pathway, you must cover the cost of all heavy sacrifices.In some villages, and on that day, abuse is to put a on the dooreggsAnd respect in the face of the "old house" direction, in the middle of the night separately by offering to retrieve in each house.In the process, can't send out any still sound.The old person room after two days, generally are not allowed to do farm work, young men and women can also offer to switch field won singing play outside the village.Whether neighborhoods or miscellaneous < the people in this province, to build old person room and engaged in the offering, as inherent in this race culture, there are inseparable, has the "common psychological quality" of the traditional performance.

The 3rd 4.

The festival is a traditional ethnic festivals.Different regions.The content of the festival are also different.In guiyang city in guizhou province of local area, the annual lunar festival called "prefectural party committee will" section.Old man speaking, according to the province after spring silkworm harm crops, crops such as eating package GuMiao.So, on March 3, they will be cooked corn is taken to the slope of the silkworm.They in the hills above ate corn flower sang folk songs, it is said that it would be "obsessed" prefectural party committee, blocked their mouth, so that they can't bite seeds and the movie.Some areas will be the day the day of god, the god as the club.Clubs of village god or nearby village build a few clubs, buy pigs, cattle slaughter for offering temporary financing. For the home, the day of outsiders to ban into the village.On this day, in the hope of the buyi of desert to eat three color sticky rice, composition region qingming samples to do, the people of the western region in guizhou province to grave.Sing the day rally, some region social activities.

There is a three close sister to marry in a stockade, life is very good.One day, grandpa to see grandson, three grandchildren hear after all the grandpa go to your house.Grandpa said, on March 3, you bring yourself to do the best delicious food to stockaded village road, see who tastes good to I will go to their house.One day, the eldest daughter home Fried oil group, the second daughter home dozen zi ba, three daughters home made, five-colored sticky rice grandpa came to the village, open on see, what three five-color glutinous rice of bright color, taste fragrance, his favorite, and then the third daughter go to the home.After this, every lunar march third, buyi every family to do spend sticky rice to entertain the relatives and friends, over time, formed the annual festival in March.

5. Seiqnyied bat

This day is the birthday of NiuYu legend, so also known as the "cattle.Group ", "boy's day".QianXi region is also known as "plants" festival ", "seedling door open"., libo of guizhou area on the program to do the black sticky rice worship "ox king";Want to eat at the creek county.Four color sticky rice;In some areas is not only to be sticky rice also kill chickens for ancestor worship, and grass wrapped sticky rice to feed cattle, to the oxTake a shower, to rest in the day, said people's love and rewards for cattle;Individual regions also held a bullfight, horse racing, and other entertainment activities, rice flower festival CaiHuaJie is also called "sections, is the gansu province wen haze cardiac give area Tibetan people's traditional festival.Mouth lotus cheese clever clever girl, the industrious and intelligent.She teaches reclamation grain, spin cloth, and adopt to grass bouquet for the people, in addition to disease, unfortunately on May duanyang in flowers on the way the martyrdom of distress.In order to commemorate her, people May 4 would be a "CaiHuaJie".Tibetan girls, accompanied by her brother, have into the flowers.May the spring breeze, sprouted, cuckoo, peony, compose the, plum, fritillaria, could the flower cup yan, flower, such as the sea, song, relaxed and fear of god.The girls wore a smell color colourful flower ring, hand bouquet.Around the campfire and song and dance, burning it.At dawn, the girls dressed beautifully dressed, walking and dancing, to say goodbye to lotus cheese girl.Flowers team into the village, the old folks warmly welcome and hospitality.The girls give you a gift gift.Evening, QuanZhai and flower girls and boys together, please respect wine, wish health, good luck.

Check song festival white QianXiNa xingyi area of buyi folk festival.Time for the lunar calendar on 21 June.Legend, buyi check lang and Bai Mei love each other, the rich man robbed Bai Mei, kill lang.Bai Mei indignation, the lunar June 21 set fire to the rich man's compound.Double suicide and jump in the fire.People later in order to commemorate the couple, put the check lang victim named as "white", put the younger sister of double suicide day "song festival".For many years, whenever the lunar June 21, song festival "white" "young men and women gathered from all directions, the province held a grand singing festival in the place.

6. Guests

"Guests" is a traditional festival of the buyi people, because the area is different, the holidays are not unified, the date of June in areas where people of for the feast, known as the guests;On June 16, in some areas or the lunar New Year's day, June 26 June called bridge street or June.The buyi people attach great importance to this holiday, had "off-year".Festival is coming, each village to kill chickens slaughtered pigs, made the flag of the triangle, white paper on steroids or pig blood, in the field, in so doing, the legend "tianma" (locusts) wouldn't have to eat the crops.Holiday morning, by the village several respected old man, led by young adults held the traditional basin ancient, village catch the "ghost" activities.Except at the sacrifice, the rest of the men and women, old and young, according to the habit of buyi, all want to wear national costume, with sticky rice, chickens, ducks, fish and drink outside the village hillside "hide mountain" (referred to as the local han people catch June).Sacrifice, the priest who led us to sweep each village drive "ghost", and "hide mountain" people outside the village said that ancient singing now, and there are various recreational activities.

When the sun goes oblique to the west."Hide" mountain people a year to sit on the floor, uncovered the rice basket, take out the delicious wine and food, invited to visit each other.Wait until the mountain god ring "points of meat!Meat!", the cries of people to choose a strong man, is divided into four groups, to the mountain god carried back to four bracket, the rest of the people, get back home, then each sent people to ZhaiLi beef collect the mountain god.Holiday entertainment activities to throw flowers package is most interesting.Flower bag is shaped like a pillow, with a variety of colored cloth made in rice bran, adzuki bean or cotton seed.Spend package edge with lace and "play".Lost package, young men and women, while every several meters apart, throwing each other.The method has the right side of the roll, top on the left side of the roll and roll, and but are not allowed to cross rolls.Request to jilt far, throw fast, fast.Flower bags flying in the air, it.If the young man will take package to his beloved people throwing, no shoulder, package will be born, a girl by sending a gift to each other, such as necklaces, rings, bracelets and so on, have send, was seen as a token of his love, the guy will be long-term preservation.

"Guests" festival has a long history.Its origins, across different legend, one of the theory is that in the ancient conceptions of s, buyi people "pangu", accumulated the experience of cultivated rice in labor, harvest year after year, then he and his dragon king's daughterTo get marriedAnd gave birth to a son, a new cross.A son offended, dragon lady, return to the dragon palace, don't come back."Pangu" no way, so we have to marry again, a year of pangu died on June 6, a new horizontal stepmother abuse from then on, almost killed.He unbearable, then god accuse the stepmother, cultivation of rice seedlings, and vowed to destroy her stepmother after know, very regret, finally made peace with the new cross, on June 6, and in a year, pangu died that day, kill pig kill ducks, do BaBa, for offering pangu, the buyi people held each year on June 6th the pangu, therefore, for the activities of the ancestors, to show his sons continued, the grain harvest, year after year, has formed the national holiday.

Section 7. MAO fir trees

Living in QianXiNa enron county of buyi people's traditional festival, also known as "catch hair fir trees".Between magdalena and the cotton, there is a piece of the small hill ten mu square, local call it "MAO fir trees".Every year from the lunar march third after the first "a day", brought together panjiang on both sides of the buyi, miao and other ethnic groups of young men and women from singing festival for three days."A day" on the first day, we have extended holiday greetings to the five-colored sticky rice.At the first light on the second day is "horse day", people would get hair fir for a variety of traditional cultural activities, young men and women in the evening song. Through the song to find the ideal mates.Is the "sheep field day" on the third day, the distance of the guest to be on the road, the guest to say goodbye to the host, wish each other.Story about "MAO fir section" there is a legend, a buyi village nanpan river edge, stockade in a later called shan lang, neighboring village village younger sister, a girl named two people met in the work, love each other in the work.The moment they want to marry, the younger sister's Wolf stole tree on the hill.Shan lang war Wolf, sister finally saved the tree.But the magic Wolf turned into so many "day Fried" (locusts) to mar the crops.Tree younger sister to protect the crops, a gift of the songs of 27 days, pest disappeared with the song.Village sister tired is ill, but in March the third "field day" leave the room.The third day, shan lang also died of grief.In Chinese fir, and soon a long out of the fir tree sister grave.The local people call these trees "MAO fir trees".On the grade of the third singing festival commemorate their buyi people were held.

8. Dance show

First lunar month every year to 20 held the buyi jump flower show.During festivals, the little girl dressed in gorgeous lace, locked very nice plate buttons, boys wear double-breasted unlined upper garment, fasten the beards of belt, blowing konoha, one by one all smiles.Eager for boys holding horse a-mei, from five eight village, the village from the unseen mountainside, get to dance show, that's a big flat grasslands, next to a crystal clear river, the north is full of buds tung Lin.And there is a person called neigh, laughter, least thousands of people.Cowhide drum thunder miraculously ring hollow, when fast slow, shi Yang, plus I rao cymbals, intoxicating!Field, a group of young men and women at this moment, there is a heap, dancing, singing the old songs, sings, light-footed, sitting on the riverbank w "friend", blowing bomb yueqin, blowing konoha, love of youth, make the river bright affectionate eyes, says the passionate love to each other and reflection to shake, and the flavor.Next to the mangrove forest, set on a table.There within the buie drama performances, rich and colorful, the lawn is filled with joy, and the joyful atmosphere.They sing ah jump ah, imperceptible to slope back to the sun, sunset sprinkled on tung Lin bracts, people ride a horse, and reluctantly left the lawn after another.

Jump DaQiaoHui flowers and young boys and girls, they planted on the fascine dam love, the last day of the holiday is 21 (called "combination"), announced the annual dance show is over.22 is "holding the sheep", means engagement about, young people went to fetch the "sheep" (to bring back the girlA blind date), see the man's family circumstances, to determine their own life.On this day, many young men to fascine dam bring future wife to village.However, shy girls refused into threshold of the house of the object?Just behind the stockade mountain, jungle, secretly see objects located where, after the 22nd, is about to do work, spring began, people in the busy spring production, to seize the grain, cotton, sugar, the harvest of next year, for the construction of mountainous area, a new fight!

9. The old person room

Buyi past beliefs primitive natural worship, every year festival to worship activities, including the old person room (village) god is the most grand, in February lunar choose open the rabbit day or tiger, families to offer sacrifice to god of eggs and pork, the bi QuanZhai people on-site dinners, desire to harvest, QuanZhai peace.

Buyi national minority customs and taboos

Buyi major taboo

In this in a wide range of various taboos, and its main taboos are divided into "farming taboo, holiday taboo, marriage taboo, funeral taboos, daily life taboo" five categories.For these taboos, although some of the buyi gradually played down its meaning, but became a kind of life in our daily life and work rules, naturally reflects the buyi people's way of life.

Farming taboo

From seedling time avoid snort stupid, "shalt changbai miao, dies.Before the beginning of autumn with thatched knot inserted in the fields, can avoid the crops from the autumn wind;The autumn harvest season, avoid sitting chop down by the door, lest hinder ZhiMa carry the valley into the house;Spring heart for the first time, eat "block ray samples", to be struck by lightning.

Holiday taboos

Homonym for avoid is sweeping the floor, that will sweep away my money;The new moon to grade avoid digging;Before the fifteenth day of the no conspicuous place clothes around the house, think the clothes will recruit winds;The Spring FestivalAvoid is used a point of tung oil lamp (the house of god on the point of light), are not allowed to put the goods tung oil on a fetish.

Marriage taboo

The day of engagement and wedding avoid thunder;Yingqin avoid meet up on the roadThe dead;Avoid stepping on the same day married bride footprints;Women sit on, men are not allowed to into the delivery room, avoidA pregnant womanEntered the room, if a pregnant woman go, you must drink water switch to leave, so as not to putbabyThe milk away;Avoid the mother elephantTo have a child;Married couples to avoid in the bride's family or friends knew;Between men and women are not allowed to adultery;

Maiden girl died, not from the front door funeral, don't stand for;His wife can't live upstairs.Daughter-in-law, not with my father-in-law deskmateHave a mealBedroom, father-in-law forbid into the daughter-in-law;Married women avoid squatting on the stove;Sacrifices to gods, the woman can't attend;Open its door or drive ghosts, after the door hung a sieve, introduction to avoid woman in three days.

The funeral taboos

Don't carry cold corpse into the village;Men and women over the age of fifty, avoid visiting age patients or the dead, afraid to die.

Daily life taboo

Young people are not allowed to in front of the old man become warped feet;Red cream, white handkerchief in white;Newly married daughter-in-law avoid wash feet in front of her father-in-law and uncle;Avoid cooking snake meat to eat at home;Children avoid eating chicken feet, chicken stomach, in order to avoid writing hand trembling, head stupid;Go out to do business, avoid is broken bowls and eyelid jump to go out, go out after avoid see women brush their hair, avoid meet women carry empty barrels, think that these are harbingers of defeat, if encounter carry wood or hear the magpies, is considered to be auspicious, one million;

A nest of avoid sows two seed, dog butyl viviparous son alone;Avoid YouShi when the cock crow, our cattle bei, think these will be brought disaster to people or animals or loss;Avoid blowing hot food eating, think that food in the home will fly away.Along with the development of society, these taboos have increasingly indifference.