Bai folk customs

Bai are advocating white men and women, with white and honor.

Bai PingBa region to rice, wheat is the staple food;Mountain bai more corn, potato, buckwheat as staple food.Staple food is given priority to with steamed.For fresh vegetables that bai people like eating fresh vegetables and all kinds of pickled vegetables every meal.Bai women are good for pickles, many different kinds of pickles, except for fresh vegetables, bean sauce, lobster sauce, pasta sauce also do;JianChuan, bai heqing often gather erhai lake sea cauliflower, processed into various dishes to cook.Give priority to with pork meat, in addition to the use of fresh pork in a variety of cooking, also like pickled swine, processed into ham, salami, sausage, pork liver, liver and exquisite flavor foods such as rice bowel.In winter, bai like big pot of beef soup.A canal in bai, good at fresh water to cook.

Bai like drinking, mostly due to the materials and methods, many different kinds of wine, wine made with more than 40 herbs could, often made from all kinds of liquor, wine and dry wine with kiln for traditional wines.

A lot of traditional festivals bai, for thousands of years of history "march street" is the most grand festival, bai annual is now termed as "point" in March.Another "torch festival" (also known as star back to section) and so on national holiday

[bai architectural features]

Located in the sun at the foot, the bank of erhai lake Dali xizhou, is the quintessence of bai people architecture.Xizhou local-style dwelling houses building are independent closed house, a bit like the siheyun of Beijing.A dignified residential compound is mainly composed of walls, doors, zhaobi, first, the left and right wing.The general architectural form is: "fannie and Freddie a ear";"Three room and one screen wall", a few rich man live "five patio mixture", namely the high room, wing, one eye open well, four eyes small patio.In addition, there are both connected to the "spring" six contract;Upstairs and downstairs from the corridor through entirely "when turning the attic", etc., are eclectic, like a maze.Old yet expensive but this magnificent house has not adopted by the local bai people.Now is a one courtyard buildings on the second floor.But still has oodles sculpture, coloured drawing or pattern, and development.The bai local-style dwelling houses tend to focus, zhaobi buildings and side doors and Windows carved and facade wall decoration.A gate is the essence of the construction parts.A gate level of architectural art, can be its master's economic status indeed, is also a kind of expression.It usually use clay figurine, marble shiping, stone carving, wood carving, coloured drawing or pattern, convex tile and the blue brick flies in the material composition and a string of Angle in the eaves, fang light, overlap, exquisitely carved stone building a stable, strong comprehensive art.Bai gate house construction is not only rich national characteristics, but also unique style in construction techniques.In some places the gate house without a nails or other iron, and they had a strong connection, decades of wind and rain, to mount two more black wooden door, the thickness of the iron is very solemn majesty.Bai residents doors and Windows woodcarving, nowhere not flashed JianChuan carpenter superb craftsmanship.General transparent and relief methods, layer upon layer carved with mythology and auspicious happiness crane crane pine, lotus, eagles, chrysanthemum, peacock yulan, and geometric patterns.On the surface of the doors and Windows are painted with ChuHongSe paint, appears smooth and bright, of primitive simplicity and elegant.Of indoor clean, tidy, or so for the bedroom, for the living room, with Mosaic decorated marble mahogany desks and screen.Is bai zhaobi integral parts of a residential building, courtyard have zhaobi, gate have zhaobi, before the village also have zhaobi, the role and importance of visible zhaobi.Zhaobi clay tile brick stone.Positive about "luck", "sabingga sukdun dergici jimbi", "tiger lie male strongholds" auspicious expression, etc.Zhaobi front have large flower bed, different shapes, flower bed of flowers and trees wide variety, all the year round, scent.