The lahuCustoms and habitsLahu holiday information and clothing characteristics

Lahu originated from gansu, qinghai area of the ancient qiang people, early lived a nomadic life.Then gradually migrating south, eventually settled in lancang river basin.The nation are mainly distributed in the lancang river on both sides of simao, lincang two regions.78% distribution in the lancang river, west of lincang, gengma north, south to lxa Meng Lian.Founding nearly half a century, under the strong support of the party and the government, the lahu people's hard work, make the lahu village, the town's rapid development of social economy and culture, the lahu society and history is in the primary stage of socialism.Founded on April 7, 1953, lahu ethnic autonomous counties.On June 16, 1954 established Meng Lian dai lahu wa autonomous counties.

Lahu marriage

Lahu monogamous.Lahu is usually young men and women from the beginning of 15 or 16 can participate in social activities.Among them, the mountain work, holiday celebrations such as wedding, birthday, is a good chance to young men and women met dating.Men and women of different clans, have an affinity for as long as the similar age, the two sides can marry, is not restricted by seniority.Men and women of pre-marital social is very free, every night, or in the fields or in the village in the empty house, waiThe firePond, blowing "bawoo" or kouxian, each other to express love.If the person of different clan party, both sides politely.After both men and women, the man please matchmaker with 2 ~ 4 for squirrels dry and 1 kg of wine to her home to marry him.Such as her parents agree, the man to send dowry and traders engaged to each other and marry way (CongFu or from wives in).CongFu home ownership, the wedding day by the groom's home fete relatives and friends and sent (including the groom also) to meet the bride, the wife is pad man to groom's home, please.From a wife home ownership, by a woman's house for wine dinner, accompanied by the matchmaker to groom the woman's house that lived in the family, after the wedding time 1 year to 3, 5 years, also have to live for a long time, in the production of labor, the family enjoy son treatment without discrimination.According to the agreed time from the expiry of the wives in person, please relatives and friends a wine feast, couples said after some time, thanks to the old man man brings the wife or on his wife's home village in another portal.Married in either way, the first after marriageThe Spring Festival，Kill pigTo cut down one leg to brother-in-law, uncle in the three consecutive years will swine or prey items of neck and 4 pieces of glutinous rice BaBa to sister, sister gift return again after 6 kg of wine.Divorce is rare.After falling in love with the approval of the parents, no matter which side rescheduling will appear personally by the matchmaker penalty in 33 two silver to each other, common to use renminbi as the fines, bad feelings and proposed divorcee later, according to provisions of the foregoing the party put forward the same to pay the fine.Death with his wife remarried, but the original home to raise a claim 6 ~ 8 yuan worth half open, paid by the new husband;If you have children, the big must the long house, young mother go to, but we must pay a price new husband.

Lahu festival customs

Lahu festival of the year and the Spring Festival, expanding tower section,The Dragon Boat Festival, taste a fresh delicacy, torch festival, hanis living, ancestor worship, card la, bypass, hoist, etc.Lahu and don't other interesting amorous feelings, they are lahu culture continuance, the main carrier of dissemination, condensed the lahu cultural psychology, ethics and values.

Spring Festival, also called Chinese New Year, lexical said "expansion, hani.Time for the first lunar month to the ninth, with han Chinese Spring Festival time basically the same.However, lahu Chinese New Year holidays and off-year.Year from the first day to fifth day, also known as"A womanThe years of ";However from the 7th to the 9th day, also known as "man".Legend in the past only, no off-year.Years ago men always collective travel hunting and come back often missed the period.Women in order to treat long with men, are always again and again to caterers wine meat, give them to mend the New Year, which subsequently turned into lineage.Because it is for men and hydrates, therefore, is called the "off-year", "the man of years".In the original is referred to as the "year", "women's".About twice the custom of New Year, also some legends, ancient lexical people often suffer from foreigners.To smite enemies, to defend their homes, once the men left their expedition.When they return from kay turning, the year has been finished.But in order to celebrate the victory and gathering, long, people dance and sing, YiCi years again, and turned down, from now on until now.

"Seize new water" and "lusheng dance", is an important and unique inner provinces during the Spring Festival holiday activities."Seize new water" refers to New Year's day, is the first day in the early morning the first lunar month first to mountain spring side to pick up the "new" water.This is a lexical people's top priority in the New Year are of the utmost importance.They believe that new water is the most holy, is the symbol of good fortune and happiness.Who received a new water first, whose grain, melon is ripe first, who will be blessed.The first day in the morning, the first lunar month every year, therefore, hear the cock crow, the representatives of back up water bamboo tube and bottle gourd, quickly ran to the spring, grab the new water.Fetch the new water laid the ancestors, and then wash a face to the elderly.

Between expansion section, the lahu people ceremonious traditional festival, the most lively and joy.Also known as lexical annual, held in first lunar month every year, time the feast, a total of nine days.First prepare the New Year's eve, every account inside and outside the village up refreshed.People kill pig, bubble meters, put the mixture is good BaBa LiZhang, machetes, hoes and other tools, says they are hard for a year, master should share the joy of the festival, people also put food for cattle cutting grass, as a gift.

"The new water" bath [custom in the evening, the family, the village to let three ring artillery, gun.Early the first day of the New Year, the villages of the young men and women are scrambling to rush toward the mountain spring edge "new water".Lexical people think that the start of a New Year, spring is the most pure, latest who get the new water first, who is the most happy man, according to the custom of lexical, the first day of no outsiders into the village, 2 to visit friends and relatives at the beginning of our each other New Year greetings.Holiday spree during the festival, girls and boys blowing lusheng. Jump colorful folk dance.Night, watching the people are gone, the slopes up the piles of a bonfire.Pairs of young couples in love together, immersed in the happiness and joy.

Torch festival, torch festival don't national interest, the pine as the meteor, qi burning torches, spectacular, young men and women in festival costumes and dance by the campfire, heartily singing, abnormal warm.

Changxin as tribute section changxin as tribute section is lahu festival celebrating the harvest in life, during changxin as tribute), QuanZhai kill pig cooking wine, all ages, sexes rest two days.First part will tricomi harvest home, first ancestor worship, and then officially begins harvesting.

Hospitality customs lahu is a very hospitable people.At the feast, invite dai, hani, brown and other people around to dining, drinking together for dinner.At this moment, QuanZhai big livestock slaughter, families are points section e. and scoops of blood, accompanied by salt, pepper and finely chopped raw."Chop raw meat" lahu said, is one of the best dishes to entertain.Feast, master with banana leaf package part "meat" distributed back to guests.Lahu have the habit of eclipse two meals in the past, local staple food production of rice and corn.Xi made with chicken or other ingredients increase rice or corn porridge, with vegetables, mushroom, blood, meat, etc. Various kinds of porridge, including chicken porridge for top grade, making corn meal, with difficult pounded into pieces, first to husks, after soaked with water overnight and pour mixture is fine after being dried, knead into small uniform particles, a bamboo steamer steamed cake shape, serve immediately.Can use chopsticks when eating, or use a knife cut into pieces, sometimes with sugar or honey, fine delicious sweet and delicious.Lahu daily food has the most like is to food, meat, and should add seasoning and in boiled water into a Duan Xian thin bamboo tube, both of the bamboo fragrance, and keep the smell of meat dishes.Lahu barbecue speck, mostly hunted wild animal meat, or roasted directly, or use the pale in to encase the meat into the fire, cooked the food.After roast crispy and tasty, with spicy condiment can appetizing.Bitter astute in the lahu people in hunting habits will be snared beast first prize for the first shot, the front leg to find prey, left the terrorist meat, a per capita.Bag of the water and chop suey, in situ, the fire in the bamboo tube inside the cooked food.When the dress cut open the belly, middle-aged people like to use hand drinking steaming "effort", it is said that the protection efforts of the prey strain of blood and eliminating the use of.Lahu will not only pickles, pickled meat, bean curd, wine.Among the people, men and women Jie drinking, and have the habit of on the wine and meat all one.Usually baked like drinking tea, baked tea is the tea into the pot roast until brown, after waiting for fragrance floating out slightly cooked ready-to-drink into the water.

The gourd festival gourd festival is a traditional festival of the lahu, lexical say friends Aaron, "o".Lunar calendar October 15 to 17, 3 days for the lahu friends Aaron, "o".Every at this point, the lahu ethnic autonomous counties, and kunming Meng Lian lahu wa dai autonomous county, lahu people held a grand celebration.During the festival, held to traditional sports event gyro, penetrating crossbow, swing, etc.Swing dance, lusheng dance, three step on the foot and other traditional dance and all, including friends Aaron, "o" lahu large festival show.

Lahu diet

Lahu are mainly distributed in the south of yunnan province in southern China.The word "lexical" is one of the national language vocabulary, and "pull" for the tiger, the meaning of "Hu" to bake the meat sweet.Therefore, lahu in history known as the "tiger hunting nationality".

Himself in the diets of the lahu ethnic features and unique diet.Lahu rice as the staple food, time for corn, potato, beans, qiao son, etc.Three meals a day, food shortage season reduced to two meals.Up and thrash rice every day in the morning, we are pounded brewed.Cooking pot out of the clay or wood retort.Vegetables are carrots, vegetables, melons, beans, like to eat chili.Xi made with chicken or other ingredients increase rice or corn porridge, there are vegetables, mushroom species, blood, meat, etc. Various kinds of porridge, including chicken porridge for top grade.No matter the adultThe child, are used to drink mountain spring.

Lahu everyday like the food, meat and seasoning and in boiled water into a Duan Xian thin bamboo tube, both of the bamboo fragrance, and keep the smell of meat dishes.

Lahu barbecue speck, mostly hunted wild animal meat, or roasted directly, or use the banana to encase the meat into the fire, cooked the food.After roast crispy and tasty, with spicy condiment can appetizing.Bag of the water and chop suey, in situ, the fire in the bamboo tube inside the cooked food.When the dress cut open the belly, middle-aged people like to use hand drinking steaming "effort", it is said that the protection efforts of the prey strain of blood and eliminating the use of.

Lahu will not only pickles, pickled meat, bean curd, wine.Among the people, men and women are addicted to alcohol, and regardless of the habit of each other on the wine and meat.At ordinary times is like drinking tea.Baked tea is the tea into the pot roast until brown, after waiting for fragrance floating out slightly cooked ready-to-drink into the water.

Lahu people like indicated in chili peppers.There is a proverb: "lexical hot pepper, Chinese oil", meaning to entertain no chili, like han Chinese cooking does not drain.Have a meal, parents rice bowl first, followed by the guests, other family members according to their age, taking women served lunch, or holding the children can't take back and, for the honored guests, the host to kill chicken, boiled chicken porridge to entertain.However, if the host home entertaining white chicken cooked porridge, that is dear John said.

Specialty food

Bamboo cooking: living in ailaoshan lahu bitter astute of virgin forest, no POTS and ZengZi mostly, usually with a thin bamboo cooking cooking.Put our good corn or rice in the thin bamboo tube inside, add water, with leaves put TongKou tightly, again the pieces to spill on the fire to burn, after cooked, can eat to break to spill.Vegetables also use bamboo cooking meat, but not adding water.

Barbecue: lahu people used to eat barbecue, the lean meat cut into thin strips, mix with grounded on the surface of the meat, seasoning and so on to have a very hot pepper noodles, noodles, mashed garlic, thin bamboo clips meat, ribbon on the fireplace frame barbecue.After cooked to bamboo, serve for hospitality delicacies.

Lahu religious beliefs

Lahu that nature has a respectable elves dominated the mystery of the terrible, they call this elf "inside", exists in the heavens and the earth, moon, stars, mountains and within the human body, the weather, the grain harvest, corning or not is related to the "inside".With the formation of the concept of "inside", has produced a so-called "inside", to "inside" of "bi mo", divination and sacrifice ceremony.