The cattle are folk folk

Poets in the tang dynasty to yuan "with" poem: "whip cattle outside the county, soil cover silkworm."First "whip" and then "race", is an ancient determination to welcome spring breeze saying two songs.

Whip tuniou ChunNiu is also called whip, and the origin of the earlier.The rites · enveloped ":" unearthed from cows to send cold."Later have been preserved, but the change in the spring, sheng in the tang and song dynasties, especially the movable promulgated after the tuniou via whip tuniou custom spread more widely, and become the important content of folk culture.

At the age of kangxi, "jinan" : "every spring the day before, and the rulers rate sergeants, ChunNiu, mountain god, winter jasmine in the eastern suburb.Five XinPan, common name for a spring plate, drink spring liquor, hairpin spring flowers.People, in the line of door play for the plow the drama, for the spring floor, and city, qu children, colorful clothes, wearing ghost face, dancing, also the ancient township nuo also.Spring day, officials in each colour, hit three tuniou, refers to the scourge of spring, to persuade farmers meaning.For small ChunNiu, send several home, bai tolled drum music in order to offer, who send spring."Whip ChunNiu sense, not limited to send cold, promoting the plowing, also has a certain meaning of witchcraft.Shandong folk to smash tuniou, everyone for ChunNiu soil, who rob spring, a cow to grab for geely.In zhejiang winter jasmine cattle, is the feature of winter jasmine cattle, in order to ChunNiu kowtow, worship, a cradle, and the people will ChunNiu cracking, then grab ChunNiu mud home and in the bullpen.Thus, whip ChunNiu witchcraft or kind of reproduction, namely after winter jasmine ChunNiu soil, and can contribute to the breeding of cattle in the bullpen.

The custom of ethnic minorities in China also have sympathy cattle, known as "an ox king".Guizhou litchi, luodian, enron, buyi, cattle in order for April 8th lunar month.Is, to take a day off, let the cattle eat sticky rice.Kelao cattle group is also called the "bull god festival", "worship the cow king bodhisattva festival", "the group", on the lunar month of October every year.That day, people will no longer let labor, and use good glutinous rice do two zi ba, points on the horn, then a cow to the water to look after the shadow, in this way for birthday.In guizhou rongjiang, dongjiang area of dong, every summer people washed cow festival held in June, when the spring is over, people put the cow to the riverTake a showerAnd near stall chicken-feather duck feather and inserted a few root, said listen respectfully dust for cattle, cattle safe and robust.

Funeral in buyi life custom, is a grand project, its ceremony is to turn the ending, and the ending cut cattle is an important content in the ceremony.Approachable Dong Zhenzao in "in guizhou miao by such records:" close to death, choose one or several head, relatives and friends with chicken offerings, around the cow and drink the (generation before death, will eat the meat, today to cow instead).Drink, slaughtering cattle broken and scattered."Popular in the mountains of central yunnan, lijiang naxi nationality have a jump yaks to funeral customs.The old man died, cremation took bone, host to rekindle the fire in the home, surrounded by visitors, the funeral dance, dancers sang a dirge.Singing and dancing, and they, in turn, bow down to ashes.Then led to a cow, filed a crowned, put into a bowl of milk.If consumption NiuYang hoof jumping, is a good sign;If not jump, filled a bowl again, is that the dead don't this cattle, to the other in a head again to fill, and then tied up cattle hooves, both parents strong man slaughter cattle, please.Usually take beef heart first, and then peel points meat, offer, beef cattle heart before bone bag, called "life".Offering again after cooked meat, known as the "practice", the bi buried in the grave.

In han Chinese communication customs, "" cattle wealth kiss", popular in hunan area.At the local, a cow with several houses are called knot cattle fortune, and as a relative, the ownership of the cattle once someone else, the relations between "relatives" to this end in shaanxi county and other places of left dam king "cow", is for the old man hold a birthday party, because the cow plow plow, active in people, and row in the forefront of the zodiac, by the name of birthday to old people, in order to show respect.(Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/)

Miao have rob niuniu tail marriage customs, popular in guizhou northwest area.Men and women after engagement, the woman to feed a head of cattle, to wedding day to cow to the site, the degree of rope with two z letter bracket.Then the bride a knife cut down the ox tail, the groom will go up at once rob oxtail, if can win the ox tail before the arrival of her parents, you can marry her immediately, otherwise the marriage fell apart.