The origin of the mulao

Mulao is by the ancient "current" development, evolved from JinRen Chang Qu HuaYangGong volunteers. The volunteers in the south, that is about "current" in the yunnan-guizhou Gao Yuanyun south along the ridge mountains region.After tang and song dynasty, the ridge outside generation ", "creek pretty plexus smile" and so on through the "current", "1" have been found in the account of community."Tianhe county annals", "qing YiTongZhi" said: "mummer aka current, the common man", visible MuLao and current chief, has a close relationship between origin.Academic thought, mulam from current, is separated from the music form of a single nation, its time about in the song dynasty.

According to historical records, song MAO treasure five years (972), in guangxi state to leave LuoCheng County hole, first transferred to melt state, is a celebration after the house.As far as the mastery of the material know, mulam until late in the yuan dynasty or Ming already living in the town area.

Inheritance system of song, yuan, Ming dynasty in the town, tianhe, appropriate mountain areas of mulam officer, set up flow in the society at the grass-roots level to set up.At the same time under the county magistrate, adding soil inspection department, town and village fort etc, using the local person, combine with officer and soil have ruled.People must pay the summer and fall to the law.

Qing dynasty could be divided into "in" mulam areas below the county, in the "in" has "the winter".Around ten per "winter", "winter", which shall be elected by all, responsible for raising food gathering.Originally "winter" pay LiangKuan divided basic unit of society, because most of mulam namesake race, so under the "winter" and "room", in fact, under the feudal patriarchal system and name, organization.

1912 years later, to set up the group total, dong, a long, use the original "winter" for cover, a long, rule mulam people.After 1933, along with the nationalist forces, the establishment of a district, township and village baojia, head of the local militia captain and elementary school principal, a so-called "trinity", "five even protect" the reactionary rule.Some "XiangLao" and "heads" in the mulao tend to pass on government, listed under the strength, the left and right sides of colluding with the bandits forcing people to abide by the "conventions", "ZuGui", make every effort to safeguard the feudal patriarchal system.Together with other ethnic brothers, mulam people several times the struggle against feudal rule.During the anti-japaneseThe warAnd the liberation war, a number of advanced mulam youth attended the leadership of the communist party of China and willow willow north the anti-japanese advance team north of the people's liberation team.LuoCheng County liberation got the mulao the strong cooperation of the people.

The mulao is a traditional festival

1.The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is one year the longest holiday of a day, and the activity of the New Year's eve etc.New Year's eve is the end of the previous year's festival, is also the prelude to the beginning of another year festival - the Spring Festival.In the two relations, therefore, they are the same two part of the festival, the boundaries of time to put them into the New Year with old two and a half.Festival activities have many similar to the han nationality, but each have each exquisite, they are the first in the morning the whole family round draft, all the day to eat vegetarian, and early use incense paper worship the god of wealth, to participate in sports activities.During the Spring Festival is also sing CaiDiao show of the season, the fifteenth day of the night to someone's home garden to pick a few leaves come back, no vegetables, grass will catch one, known as the "green".Folk believes that will bring home clean and safe, the fifteenth day of the yuanxiao, the dragon, the festival is over.

2. The spring club in February

Families on February spring club pounded zi ba, kill chickens, ancestor worship, to meet new wife back home.The village to carry on the Spring Festival, families pooled their money to buy a pig, carried to the club king temple slaughter, each appoint a representative to participate in, worship the club win the pork into several portions, bamboo together, a string of a string to hang on a bamboo pole, put in club king temple on both sides.Offering the club king, every man will be brought home a bunch of pork, if this year spring club before the vernal equinox, folk think was good, any more than left, the delegates to eat a meal, bring back the rest of the string of meat and then distributed to every man.If the spring club after the vernal equinox the bad harvest, everyone want to pinch and scrape, points first, then eat, eat pork all into families, boil chrysanthemum (shrub), boiled yellow sticky rice for god, the whole family to eat, folk thought, can reduce the danger of small white ants.

3. The tomb-sweeping day in March

In march,The qingming festival, the whole villageKill pigThe "king of shiva, then each family grave.The day families for them to kill chicken, do BaBa, insert two willow at the door.

In some places in the march third offering shiva (also called hua-po), wang said "beautiful woman's day".

4. Birthday

Seiqnyied bat lunar calendar is a birthday, every household cleaning the stall, the cow wash clean, to eat good material, it do not use the cattle, and to the ox holiday rest, the day also kill chickens slaughtered ducks, wine meat "stall" god worship, with maple leaf juice steaming black sticky rice pilgrimage.Black waxy rice please cattle eat first, then eat.The maple tree leaf is inserted in the door, in order to drive the flies.

5. Offering zhenwu

Fifth lunar month this day, every package of reed, the door hang calamus, YiZhi;Realgar wine, sprinkle the house in order;Put realgar water tanks and used to wipe hand;Sprinkle with limewater outside walls, pick up tianluo cook eat, folk believes that will cure sore furuncle.Please mage in red shirt in our village to the Tian Dong insecticide BaoMiao, "to" the word is inserted in tanabe triangle bunting.Two people carrying a paper boat, after the mage with paper, swim Tian Dong put a paper boat in the river to burn, will burn when thrown into the river.Fifth lunar month, is silver surname MuLao festival people worship the true god.On this day, families kill chickens slaughtered ducks, to the true worship guanque tower, from morning till night, drink smoke constantly.

6. Other festivals

"June" is MuLao people pray for yourself from pests, drought, grain harvest, the business is thriving.Before 1911, but also for the locust gods and locust BaoMiao displacement.

Double seventh MuLao are the ancestors of the day, the day kill ducks, ancestor worship, ancestral home, July 14, again kill ducks, ancestor worship, the ancestor.The seven days, every household incense table incense in the morning and evening, for the wine meat, ancestor worship before dinner.Double seventh day, and sacrifice to the homeless, wild ghost without descendants, that night the leftover food be sprinkled on the side of the road.

Mulao custom taboo

Mulao folk taboo is not much, important festival of the taboo.

1, avoid didn't get up until the morning.On the first day to the morning get up, otherwise the year of land will collapse.

2, avoid breaking things and dial the fire, otherwise the sewing needle breakage hoeing hoe.

3, avoid is sweeping the floor.On the first day shall not sweep the floor, otherwise the money will be swept out, will not be lucky.

4, avoid to eat green vegetables.On the first day not to eat green vegetables, or birds and animals will eat the fields planted corn dig, no harvest this year.

5, don't eat meat.On the first day not to eat meat, or livestock will be sick, blast.

6, avoid is washing clothes.On the first day shall not wash clothes, or blessing will wash off, the poor, such as washing.

7, avoid hitting, call names.On the first day is hitting send own strength to others, making others strong body, your body is so weak.Swear send his luck to other people, be will scold luck, call names will be out of luck.

8, avoid is chopping wood.Day may not be split (force) wood (wealth), otherwise, god of fortune after he was such a scared no longer boarding house.

9, avoid is early to open the door.On the first day can't open the door early in the morning, after sunrise fog dispersed to open the door;Into a house or pathogens will come, all not thriving.Early in the morning before sunrise from the back door or the side door to enter.

10, avoid selling dry wood.Green wood, on the first day only sell buy both sides have good color, seller for wood (goods) for sale, that family rich;The buyer can raw wood (wealth).

11, avoid Fried beans.On the first Fried beans, at homeThe childSores, boils.