The origin of the jingpo people

The jingpo people, one of China's ethnic minorities.Has a population of 119209 people.Mainly distributed in yunnan dehong dai and jingpo autonomous prefecture (county, luxi city, ruili, yingjiang and lianghe county, a few scattered in other counties.The jingpo people gathered in China up to the most concentrated place is long chuan county dehong prefecture in yunnan province, long chuan county is known as "China's rural mesh nao ZongGe".

The jingpo people mainly engaged in agriculture, planting crops of rice, maize and dry valley.Have their own language and characters.Jingpo has a reputation for hard work, is famous for its hospitality, the most formidable national character.They have other household idiom: "like as brave as a lion."They use industrious hands to conquer the nature, with long knives to fight evil forces.Historically, many strong resisting foreign invasion, to defend the motherland territory has the merit.

Most of the jingpo people lived in 1500-2000 meters above sea level mountain.The mild climate, abundant rainfall, fertile land, rich in specialty.In addition to the dry valley, corn, rice, and a variety of bamboo is rich in valuable mahogany, nanmu, and rubber, tung, coffee, tea, roasted and other economic crops, and tropical and subtropical fruits such as pineapple, mango, banana, pineapple honey.Live in the mountains with various exotics.Underground mines is also very rich.

Jingpo oral literature developed, especially in integrating poem, song, dance creation epic "le BaoZhai Eva", contains the people to the understanding of the nature and all aspects of human society, influenced by the national people's favorite, is also a rarity in the motherland of folk literature.

In addition to the long narrative, jingpo other folk song is also very rich.Folk song is divided into loudly sing "straight" and "straight" sung quietly.Thrash rice song namely labor songs, jingpo referred to as the "month", the load is known as the "valley of duty" or "straight" valley, more than one singer, one sang, the formation of chorus.Customs in the song "la grinding system" to the most characteristic.

Jingpo ethnic traditional festival

1. The nao section

"Eye nao ZongGe", jingpo semantic for "everyone dancing".Jingpo's biggest traditional holiday, generally on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, choose nine days after the two-day held feasts three to five days.MuNao as a large public song and dance activities, it has a long history, the history, every abundance, war, kay turning, major events such as marriage marry, ghosts and gods worship offering, all should jump "MuNao".

Jingpo people originally living in the Tibetan plateau, is part of the di qiang group, after several big migration before settling in to live today.Jingpo people "nao" is formed in the long process of social and historical reflection of the history of our nation cultural phenomenon, cultural and religious customs.To erect the eye nao square "poem" (signs) of Yin and Yang (male), is drawn among jingpo people reflect the migration routes and other production, the pattern of life.The festival held a big "nao" should be first festivals "wood" (sun), one of the reasons, "mu nao" dance from the sun palace;Another, it is said that the ancestors of the jingpo people once to marry the woman, jingpo people were the children of the sun, "wood" with the jingpo people.Officer (mountain) therefore, jingpo noble families generally festivals "wood"."Dong" (priest) to be "eye" nao lent the tile, in the form of specific accounts and the words of heaven and earth to form, the birth of the universe, the origin and development of jingpo people vicissitudes, such as content.These activities, plays a record one thousand years of history, the role of cultural inheritance.

2. Withdraw section and section changxin as tribute

Sow section or changxin as tribute section, dehong dai and jingpo autonomous prefecture, yunnan province is yingjiang achang, lianghe, gansu county people's traditional festival, lunar calendar March 10 and held August 15th.

According to legend in ancient times, achang people have an old old woman, in every season in mid-august, she can always get a bother will carefully all kinds of grain seeds to select and remain down.Sent to all the people of the village. Due to help us improve the farming technology, she has been deep love and respect. In August, a year old woman suddenly gone before harvest.In order to make up for the failure of the old man to wear new, taste a fresh delicacy away one of the biggest regret, the people in her LingQian laid a delicious food and new clothes.Later, August 15, achang every family cooking new harvest of grain, vegetables, melons and fruits, forming section changxin as tribute.The people in the spring and will leave a seed into the ground, she formed a year removed from a section of March 15.

3. The hanis living

Hanis living jingpo interesting harvest festival holiday.Every year the lunar September, when the fieldriceMature, families are also "hanis living".

Hanis living on the day before, his owner began to prepare.They carried the basket with flowers, and then picked up a bundle of mature waxy valley, back home, in the door., send a warm invitation to each, then ask them to visit the next day.The next day, men, women and children and the Lord came to the host family, gladly host to take out the liquor to greet visitors.Guest greeted each other and are ready to hanis living meals.Women and girl Fried millet, ground flat meters, do BaBa new rice, cooking, mountain wild vegetables.Boys singing together, down the riverTo catch fish.The jingpo people according to the traditional rules, hanis living this day cannot kill chickens slaughtered pigs.?Before you begin, attached master line to prayers.He put the BaBa, flat rice, liquor, dried fish, dryThe mouseGood QiZhu, say to the ghost, look forward to human and animal peace, good crop weather, in addition to remove disaster.In the future, if you can get, must kill for offering.

In a ceremony of hanis living, by year Gao Dechong elders about the source of the millet.It is said that in a long time ago, jingpo planting millet, but on the day, spirit valley millet grow well, on the ground bark dog looked at day and night, finally called the valley of the soul to the floor, from then on, the jingpo planting millet foothills of healthy and strong.

Therefore, the jingpo people regard sb with special respect or new views to the dog.Hanis living this day, to give the dogHave a meal, followed by the cow, then eat to old people.Hanis living this day, people drink and at the same time, and the main summary of farming, discuss the proper time to sow.Bubble is the use of sounds.ZaiYang skills, dryland seeding method and time limit, the design of the forest.Rotation of learning and so on.Hanis living is a celebration of the harvest festival, is also a festival promoting agricultural technical exchanges.

4. CaiHuaJie

Said the jingpo language "thought and fresh" or "jeddah", "play" and so on, is in commonlyThe Spring FestivalDuring the period.Then, with the village or neighboring village of young men and women meet together, with BaBa silk, rice,eggsSuch as food, together up the hill to find a suitable place to play, everyone singing and dancing, laughing and frolicking, held "his plate" and other games.Lovers love affairs, gifts, the rest of the men and women, old and young, are each person gives some wine meat food, such as cooking together.Old man singing to young people, the words are the language of geely.After dinner, we sing and dance, have fun together.Young men and women meet each other in the evening, sang sang in public house and other places, recreation, late into the night.

5. Can fairy festival

The jingpo young men and women is give priority to the party, singing and dancing festival.Generally held in lunar February 10th every year.As nor this season, all things grow, the pains of young men and women use this in a year of good time, in accordance with the traditional can fairy festival held in flat areas of the mountain.The festival, young men and women in festival costumes, wear all sorts of adornment, together, to folk songs, shooting and playing slingshot, sword dance, etc.

Jingpo ethnic customs and taboos

Many of the jingpo people taboo, the main contents are: the ride into the village after village, dismount must walk.To others home, to the location specified in the master seat, shall not set up for a long time not to sit.Shall not literally in and out of the ghost gate, whistling in the room.Don't leave, can't musical chair or stool;If is seriously ill at home, cannot speak to say goodbye, don't accuse and don't.

1, jingpo is a simple, straightforward, enthusiastic and hospitable people, their famous saying: "only a dozen dog stick, did not make the guests of reason."No matter to which a guest, you cook rice pot increase your share.When you eat, but will politely say "eat" for me, please.Wine barrel, cigarette packets are transmitted to you, to show respect for the guests.You want to taste one by one, and return as soon as possible, regardless of each other.When you leave the host family, must leave politely.If you don't say 1, left, the somebody else will say you have no moral, lack of education.

2, in the case of weddings or home relatives and full, jingpo people like up the hill to broadleaf, for all to eat and drink as dishes, so that both health and economy.But in the diet, the leaves must not use, otherwise will be eyed as an enemy.

3, jingpo people when you arrive home, don't long standing in the room, should promptly according to the sitting position.If someone leave, can not take place or boards.

4, at ordinary times the woman does not sit on chin, lamented on chin and sit.

5, women sitting, do not cross your legs.

6, young people are not allowed in front of their parents long hair, beards.

7, it is strictly prohibited in the room to whistle.

Eight, to the elders in baotou, prohibit disorderly unrest.

9, never joking, in front of elders do strange action.

10, are not allowed to take tight skirt cylinder cover the sleepingThe child, and in so doing jingbo people think that children will never wake up.

11, jingpo people and long dao and cylinder is every man's personal thing in the world, but these two things can't hang on the wall, at ordinary times that someone has died, his family said mourning.

12, long dao, both weapons and production tools, jingpo people moment not depart from it.But in all the fire, cannot draw the knife from the flame past work or passed on to others.