The buyiCustoms and habitsBuyi holiday information and clothing characteristics

Buie belongs to the sino-tibetan language strong zhuangdong these teams, not the national characters.In the 1950 s created a buie, but failed to common promotion, now more provinces.Buyi is given priority to with agriculture, rice is relatively long history.Enjoy the "rice".Hongshui river basin is one of the most important forest region in China.

The history of the buyi

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, called the buyi.

Buyi and zhuang have homologous relationship, it is one of the more ancient.Zhuang people live mainly in guangxi, booee live mainly in guizhou.Now the buyi people still kept some habits and customs of the ancient yue people 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 religious practices

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 dedicationeggsAnd pork offering god, offering bi QuanZhai people on-site dinners, desire to harvest, QuanZhai peace.

Buyi belief in god, nature and ancestor worship, there are a few Christian faith.Every year a lot of death, to the mountain god, god, and so on.For every room in the ancestral memorial tablet, at the feast the festival sacrifice.

Legend as "the cow king bodhisattva" birthday, the day to rest cattle.Some places with black glutinous rice flour or white glutinous rice flour with water after dark to mixing, the horns painted black, and then put a cow to the water, let the cow saw his own shadow, "know" plough work is coming to an end, the combined with effort you can have a rest.Lime instead of black wheat flour in some places the horns painted white.

Legend as "dragon king" sun dragon robe, the rich people take good clothes to dry outside.Generally the somebody else all do eat sticky rice or glutinous rice samples, the elderly drinking story, young people to the hillside on the grass to sing folk songs.

"And seedling jialing festival" cool for west township buyi holiday, and book time in a year and seedling (gu yu) after "(monkey).Each day with dumplings, meat, wine incense paper money to tanabe offerings for "bodhisattva", pray for good crop weather, destroy pests, the grain harvest.

Buyi in addition to the existing ancestor worship and nature worship, Taoism, Buddhism many gods and bodhisattva is worship.On old tung village found a "book can protect operators open places, of god, Buddha is the jade emperor, sanqing avenue up high the true god, fight mother empress ChiFeng solution, under the altar five cabin soldier gods, Venus jun, permit, GuanSheng sovereigns, Buddha Buddha, intensity of sound to, 18 arhats, tang's monk, sun wukong, mountain, land, kitchen god, the son tooth, etc.But in the village can't find onetempleAnd no professional members of the clergy.

Colorful culture and art of the buyi culture and art.Traditional dances include the copper encouraging, "weaving dance", "lion dance", "sugar packets dance" and so on.Traditional instruments are suona, yueqin, long, konoha, flute and so on.People love to play, lantern show is province of China.Great songs and little song is spread in trait with multi part structure of two kinds of singing form;Song, sing to ask each other, each other random strain q&a, astronomy geography and vegetation can into the song.The folk oral literature have myths, legends, stories, fables, proverbs and poetry, etc.By peasant themselves buie of textile cloth.Specializing in the production of the tapestry, batik and ethnic craft clothing enterprises have set up, the products are exported to southeast Asia, Japan and Europe and the United States and other places.QianXiNa region of the buyi music seated singing "eight" a "living fossil", "sounds of nature," said.

Buyi diet characteristics

Buyi mainly live in guizhou province in southwest China area.The rest of the diaspora in yunnan, sichuan, guangxi and other provinces.Buyi is given priority to with agriculture, rice is relatively long history.

Buie man two meals per day, when three meals when busy.With the main food of rice, corn, wheat, sorghum, potato, taro, and legumes is complementary.Have wood pot, pot pot for cooking rice, braised rice, becoming rice (rice mixed corn, also called Indian corn meal), corn, jialing, rice noodles, two pieces of samples, such as pea meal, rice tofu, breed of design and color.Among them, made of glutinous rice dumplings, rice and sesame oil samples are the most well-known, more than used for ancestor worship or parties.

Their meat comes mainly from livestock and poultry, still love hunting squirrels, bamboo bamboo rats and insects.Cooking method is to burn more, boil, blast, blast, pickled, frozen, generally do not eat raw food.

Buie man cool dog lovers, there are more hurt than "sheep dogs".Guests to home, kill dogs hospitality is a kind of high treatment.They pick the dog "is the standard header Huang Er three flowers, black, white dog meat flavour is the most insipid".Roast stewed dog meat, dog enema, huajiang dog ChiYu side.If encounter weddings in guizhou province, xi cuisine scalpers.

Cold dish, "moss frozen meat", "mix pea jelly", etc., is a buie people like the food.Sauerkraut and sour soup with most meals, especially in women most like to eat.Most of the buyi making pickles, bacon and tempeh, folk characteristic of pickles "hydrochloride were known at home and abroad.And blood tofu, sausage and with dry, fresh bamboo shoot and insects making flavor dishes.Modulation are also good at bad hot, spicy and pickles, fresh hot and sour to sweet.

Wine in the buyi occupies very important position in daily life.The autumn harvest after a year, every family to make a lot of rice wine storage, for drinking all the year round.Buyi like to wine hospitality, no matter how visitors drink, as long as the guest to, first with wine, known as the "welcome wine".When drinking bowl, instead of a cup and drinking games mora, singing.

Buyi area there is a tea not only taste unique, name is also very good to listen, this is the girl of tea.Qingming festival (Chinese traditional ritual, tomb sweeping festival) on the eve of the girl up the hill back tea picking tender flavour, maintain humidity after hyped, tea and then take a slice of a fold into a cone, dried, and then after processing, the girl a cone made a roll of a roll of tea.Girl, tea is not only beautiful shape, and the quality is excellent, is the high-quality goods in tea.This kind of tea only a gift friends and relatives.In a relationship or a betrothal, the girl gave the lover.Tea girl, girl, girl, this is the origin of tea girl name.

The staple food

Staple food is given priority to with rice.Folk like to use a special cooking utensils "ZengZi" steamed into the rice in rice.Buyi generally like eating rice, and often as a better life or spice up the staple food.Cold dish, "moss frozen meat", "mix pea jelly", etc., is a buie people like the food.Buie people addicted to hot and sour, sour pickled cabbage, sour soup and chili with most meals, especially in the women's most like to eat.There is blood tofu, sausage, fresh bamboo shoots and insects making flavor dishes.

pickles

Most of the buyi making pickles, bacon and tempeh, folk characteristic of pickles "hydrochloride were known at home and abroad.Meat, dog meat, dog enema and beef soup pot for food.(part of the branch of buyi people don't eat dog meat, because dogs have saved the ancestors) in pig slaughter buyi habit basin to put more salt in the blood, then stir with pig blood, prevent pig blood coagulation, put the chopped green onion and seasoning, add minced meat soup water, soup cool to room temperature, mixing with pig blood dilution, deposit until set, serve, known as the "life blood" or "blood", as the best dishes to entertain.If encounter weddings in guizhou province, like to cook dishes with cattle.

Wine to welcome

Wine in the buyi occupies very important position in daily life.The autumn harvest after a year, every family to make a lot of rice wine (lunch) storage, for drinking all the year round.Buyi like to wine hospitality, no matter how tourists drink, as long as the guest to, first with wine, known as the "welcome wine".When drinking bowl, instead of a cup and drinking games mora, singing.

Traditional snacks

Buyi a lot of traditional snacks, especially living in yunnan province, good do rice noodles, two piece of jialing, pea meal, rice tofu, etc.Buyi generous hospitality, characterized by lunar calendar "on", "SAN yue SAN", "seiqnyied bat", dragon boat, "guests", "July", the Mid-Autumn festival grand feast, many buyi seiqnyied bat "with maple bay leaves, yellow rice flowers all sorts of plants such as leaves, express to glutinous rice dyed colors do spend entertaining sticky rice and distributed to friends and relatives.

Buyi wedding

Marriage to marriage.Ridiculous to song, commonly known as the sister song.The bride to the groom's home in the evening, pouch to sing and to the activities of the pouch, has "the night pouch night song".Traditional festivals have 31 March, seiqnyied bat, guests, and a new section, in July and a half."SAN yue SAN" is a traditional buyi national minority grand festival, the lunar grade rice farming began in March, to sacrifice the god, the land god and ancestors and rice in the soul, production may flower sticky rice sacrifice;Qianxinan, young men and women to gather in "check" white song play mountain song, participants thousands of supremacy of ten thousand people.Many unmarried young men and women by blowing konoha, song, get to know each other, love each other, for life.

Before liberation, buyi existence of individual polygamy.Sharing can marry, but sharing and ties of it is strictly prohibited to intermarry.Also has "GuJiu table marriage" brother and brother and the transfer of customs.After the liberation, like most people, abolishing the polygamy.Buyi advocate free love, young men and women before marriage love freedom, unmarried young men and women everywhere like using section in common, the timing of the market and the collective party, with three, five to seven, eight, free combination way switch through chat talking and laughing and singing, or to express the feelings of each other.When a man have a crush on a girl, according to tradition, must find a third party company, others by two sister-in-law to introduce myself.If the woman have this meaning, can meet alone to a quiet place further singing folk songs, to express affection, until both sides give each other a token, suggests they have been establishing the lifelong.

Engagement, the groom's parents send media to the bride's side, and send some wine, meat, rake harrow type of gifts (BaBa is essential in the present, if traditional festivals and local family see province "dozen BaBa", shows the family are in the process of wedding ready to marry the woman).If the other party agreed to, the second time the matchmaker, to men and women both parties of the "eight words" are "efficacy", as long as the "eight" is consistent, can chooseTo get marriedThe date.This area to send the amount of the dowry, especially pay attention to "6" or "double", is said to be the "six" that lu of harmonics, to marriage, says both lu there will be a blessing.When they get married, the groom is not set, please only a few greeted with good young men and women to.The bride is usually carries an umbrella to walk to the family, individual and ride a horse, sit sedan.Wedding day couples to different room, the next day to return home.District of buyi retains "not fall in-laws" or "sit" custom.Some two or three years even five or six years before permanent in-laws.Rub the buyi has most forsake the custom.

Guizhou DouYun in teasing the newlyweds, the province has a custom of "pouch".Sing the song "pouch" first commonly, a pair of, a sing, a right to have them.Must sing with 12 "pouch" song to get a pouch.Generally installed in his pockets with gingko nuts such as peanuts, taking the early birth, caused by the "seeing the bridegroom off woman" of the family.

Buyi traditional festival

Buyi traditional festival in addition to the annual (The Spring Festival), DuanYangJie,The Mid-Autumn festivalBasic is the same with the han nationality, has "on", "SAN yue SAN", "seiqnyied bat", "guests", "June 24" and "cow group" rich national characteristic holiday.The most solemn holiday is the lunar "guests".Individual places have "sa seedling jialing festival", "off-year", "December 29," "the twenty-seventh day" and "SAN yue SAN", also the han Chinese festivals.

The biggest festival in a year is a great year (Spring Festival).From New Year's eve to 15.New Year's eve to kill before swine, and ground glutinous rice BaBa, for all kinds of vegetables.Yunnan province is the first to the third vegetarian habits;In a year or the first New Year's eve in sichuan province must eat chicken porridge, folk say blood rice porridge.Every name has a different before the ceremony, who both sides before the ceremony must be completely consistent.Also held many entertainment activities during the festival.

Dance show

The first lunar month every year to the 21st."Jump flowers" is the social life of the young men and women, grand scale, thousands of participants, many unmarried young men and women by blowing konoha, song for life.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!

The 3rd

Is the buyi people's traditional festival, legend has it 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.

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, every year harvest, then he married the daughter of the dragon king, gave birth to a son, named 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, and from every June 6, pangu died that day,Kill pigSlaughtered 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.

White song festival

Xingyi area in guizhou province is a traditional festival, festival on the 23rd day of the June 21 solstice every year.When there are more than 10 surrounding counties and even the people of all nationalities of yunnan and guangxi tens of thousands of people attended, a grand scale.