The xibo nationalityCustoms and habitsXibo nationality festival information and clothing characteristics

Xibo is a minority within the territory of China, have a certain relationship with the ancient xianbei and modern manchu.There's a saying said Russia had to name to create a new places of north Siberia.Has a population of nearly 190000 people.Mainly distributed in xinjiang ili region qapqal xibe autonomous county and liaoning and jilin provinces.Xinjiang xibo nationality has a population of more than 40000 people (including check cloth, xibe nationality autonomous county for more than 20000 people), about 50000 people in shenyang, liaoning province, the rest is mainly scattered in the northern provinces and all over the country.

Xibo nationality history origin

Xibo has been one of the manchu eight banners, close to full - the tunguska languages full dialect belongs to the altai language family.After the founding of the national identification of xibo nationality, it is similar to hezhen.The hezhen nationality is savage nuzhen (donghai nuzhen) in Ming dynasty, after the founding, in accordance with the title "the hezhen nationality" this part is divided into a new nation.Actually xibe and hezhen nationality is one of the original nuzhen tribes, not a single nation.

Jurchen, of course, is the northern nomadic nationality and han ethnic group over thousands of years and civilized new national wisdom, after thousands of years of amalgamation, real has culture and the han nationality.

In recent years, xianbei said.Actually, xianbei and jurchen does not conflict.The word xianbei eastern Hu Zu department, the tunguska is the transliteration of donghu people.

Donghu tunguska read tonghus, donghu people to read.T and D regardless of in the altai language family, language at the end of the end ", ".So the minority ethnic groups in ancient China donghu people are the origin of the tunguska at the earliest.

Xibe ethnic festivals

Moving west section

Lunar calendar is April 18th xibe nationality's westward section, close call du for commercialisation of section.Before the 16th century, xibo ancients generations live in songnen plain and the hulunbuir prairie.The middle of the 18th century, the qing government from shengjing (shenyang) and characteristics of the xibo soldiers, 1018 people, together with their families, a total of 3275 people, led by the manchu officials, westward the ili region of xinjiang for reclamation.This year the lunar April 18th, moved west xinjiang xibe and northeast of xibo nationality, old and young, men and women who gathered in shengjing xibe family shrine, taiping temple, worshiping ancestors, dinner to say goodbye.Xibo soldiers and their families in the morning, and bid farewell to the fellows in hometown, went on a long journey westward.After five months of the year trek, to reach the ili region of xinjiang.Of qapqal xibe autonomous county is the compound, they had the xibe people there are their children and grandchildren, so the current part of the national scholars believe that there should be called "yuan festival" is more accurate.

More than two hundred years have passed, lunar April 18th on this day, people will be grand commemorative activities, and to this day as their own traditional festivals.

Moving west festival on this day, xibo men, women and children are dressed up, gather together, playing loud "Boolean" east, blowing g "ink", heartily jumped up, rhythm and lively dance energetic "belle".Girls "shaking the shoulder", boys of the step "duck", to express for hometown thoughts and dreams of the future a better life.

Moving west section is xibo people do not forget national traditional festival.

This festival activities focusing on the xibo bright long cultural tradition, national psychology, national emotion, folk beliefs, folk customs and all kinds of craft and song and dance art, has the rich cultural connotation and precious value.

Smear section

Smear section is another interesting xibo people, unique traditional festivals.Legend, the day of the first lunar month every year 16 day "god" of the grain to mundane, tour people to discredit her face each other, don't put the smut of is to pray for the grain is not spread to the world, make the wheat harvest, the people safe.So this day, people get up very early and the late smears prepared cloth (bottom of the pot with black ash) or ZhanPian take to the streets to discredit the object.When I do the youth groups banded from string to discredit a cause.Meet old people also don't pass, but you have to kneel ground upon inquire to the old man forehead with a small black dot, in order to show respect.Especially girl, few people can escape on the face is not a disgrace, at this time the girls also not afraid, use the same method to shame.

Xibo section "smear" according to legend, xibe people due to suffer from the danger of wheat smut developed this unique festival.The 16th day the sun rises every year, prepared in xibo people toward the face daub pot black ashes.Relatives and neighbors visit each other, not sons and nephews generation in the first place to the old man knelt down, in boiler ash at its point of forehead, then scribble between peers, until one by one all be black face.Only young women do not advocate shame.This custom purpose in prayed to god for mercy, don't let the wheat smut.

About the origin of discredit section, xibo circulated at many legends.According to legend a long time ago, aA womanPull the excrement is pancake, because children, she went between wipe a bottom with the bread to the children.The mistake broke the dogma, the jade emperor decided to 16 in the shape of the sun burned human and food.The decision to the land of god, a burst of benevolence, earth god secretly tell people, before the day will come, people all want to discredit her face, let the jade emperor mistakenly believe that the world has been ravaged by, to cancel the divine retribution.

Xibo eat custom

Xibo majority lives in counties of xinjiang, China, xibo people prefer riding archery.They sing, early xibo people from generation to generation to hunting, fishing, xibo believed god, and have faith of lamaism.Xibo is staple food, including wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, yellow rice, millet, etc., it has to do and the national form of production.

Xibo diet variety is rich, pasta with yeast cake, bread, GuoKui, death steamed bread, noodles, noodles, etc., filling eat steamed stuffed bun, dumplings, zygote, meat pies, such as rice rice rice, esthetic, rice, millet gruel.

Hair, cut points (yeast cake) is inseparable from the daily staple food every day, its practices: face and more soft, after appearing, dough fermentation will roll thin dough, stick on the bottom of the pot, three turn over nine cooked.Its size because of the size of the iron pan, generally about 30-40 cm in diameter, thickness is 1 cm.Flipping yeast cake, general use POTS, timing is the key to grasp the unfinished, flipping a yeast cake just tender, delicious.

Food source rely mainly on family breeding, mainly cattle, sheep, pork.DongXian xibo also often carry on hunting, wild boar, ducks, rabbits, antelope, etc are all winter the common game on the table.Xibo on eating pork, there is a special way.Whenever kill pig, stewed pork, chop suey are cut into pieces or fragments with enema after cooked pig blood mix together, at the same time transferred to seasoning, mashed garlic, chopped green onion, salt and so on, its taste delicious, fat meat doesn't feel greasy.This way, known as "pig meat with blood".

Xibo nationality have a distinctive flavour of pickles, call the muddy SuoJi vomit (pickle), also known as cauliflower.It is with leek (old) red, green pepper and celery, carrots, cabbages were made.Due to mix with salt in time and is filled into the tile cylinder, various vegetables original colors such as red, green, white and yellow very clear, in ice and snow of winter, have so a little summer vegetables on the table color flower cauliflower, will provoke

The strong appetite.

M shun is xibo nationality flavor with pasta sauce with national characteristics.Lunar calendar before the 18th April every year, every household will sprout wheat dozens of jin, just pour into boiling water pot boil after germination, sheng into the tile cylinder, follow on the hottest place to cover up, wait a few days fermentation could shape and has a sweet taste (not eat), sometimes by anaerobic fermentation process of botulinum toxin pollution, in the past, people don't know this truth and swallowed, as a result, many people, even the loss of life.

Through all kinds of jam, xibo nationality women are good at production of canned food.Every summer, the women make all kinds of sauce, tomato sauce and other canned food.Often do is apricot sauce, strawberry jam, peach, apple sauce, sugar watergrapesAnd fruit sugar water sea hall, etc.Vegetables canned tomato sauce, chilli tiger skin, grilled eggplant, etc.

Its practices, will be finished product is filled into the glass jar, with seal cap at the top, boiling water pot steamed half an hour, steamed immediately caps, so that it can be to have the sealing effect.Homemade canned is green food, not to put any additives, original, distinctive.

Xibo religious beliefs

Xibo religion of Tibetan Buddhism (commonly known as lamaism), and the original and the phenomenon of shamanism faith.The above phenomenon, as a kind of cultural phenomenon, in a certain degree of folk still exist.In primitive belief, has the characteristics of both the hunting, fishing and hunting mode of production of agriculture and animal husbandry and trace.Such as natural worship, elves worship, worship of deities, soul worship, ancestor worship, etc.The xi Lin mother worship and worship of the god beast is the most typical phenomenon of primitive belief.

Xi Lin mother is a symbol for home safe and population boom of the gods.It is about 10 meters long of the wire rope, tied many small bows and arrows, back bone (stone), quiver, little hammock, copper, colorful cloth, boots, etc.Peacetime into a paper bag, hung on the indoor northwest corner of the room.Each year, out by the bag, from the northwest corner of suspension to the corner, parents with small incense kowtow for it.Until February 2 back into a paper bag, hang back.Xi Lin mother still have strict rules, all of the cloth, wire rope, smaller than stone, bows and arrows, hammock, etc must be more to the village population, BeiShu all seven home to ask for, and prosperous, and grandchildren, the oldest person in the family to make.To making this family of BeiShu pass for this, add a generation who went to xi Lin mother to add a back bone (stone), each gave birth to a son, add a small bow, indicated that he would be a striker, each gave birth to a female add a cloth or small hammock, indicated that she washed mended in the future, diligence to get rich, have children, and grandchildren.

Xibo nationality in the process of long engaged in hunting, farming and animal husbandry production, produced a lot of primitive belief and become a part of the spiritual life.

At the same time, in the worship of the gods above at the same time, also faith shamanism and Buddhism.

Xibe nationality's wedding

Xibe nationality's marriage is monogamy.Confined to the kin that exclusivity before, but this name is banned marriage.Antique marriage are: the stomach is marriage, to marry the age to marry, called egg marriage;After marriage, such as the young woman, family life is difficult, to transfer the girl's family upbringing, grew up to marry, that miss "marriage";Recruit endowment son-in-law, childless families for endowment in death, for, as his heir, the marriage needs should be borne by the bride's side, folk said more helper digging.This kind of marriage is not only exist in the past, now also exist;Men and women have been married, grew up in their parents' home, the most prepared by the groom's marriage needs.To get marriedBefore every year, son-in-law to bride's family to send fabric and other gifts (by) at ordinary times, women must be avoided, it is only the family to son-in-law after a pair of cloth shoes or other items.Xibo marriage, general four stages to complete.Which act as matchmaker, engagement endeavoured, procession (i.e., wedding).A wedding is a great event, ceremony trival, usually held in the wineries.Procession, men and women both parties are big banquets, first in the wife's family for two days.In the first day of the first family hiring relatives more prestige, and in-laws lover, and be good at language, at the same time mutually with the men and women of the same animal sign a representative and the matchmaker the man go to the bride price (shower, pigs, sheep, etc.) with the procession of xi cars to the bride's side, the groom made specially for the father-in-law mother-in-law give free two bottles of wine.The man's relatives and the old people to come to see me off, I wish everything goes well."He".The bride's side this day to the next day, barca Lin (large banquet),Kill pigSlaughter a sheep, and the invitation, and relatives came to help.This is the bride's side to open the first day of the feast, main is to accept family gift and xi van was laid.The second day of the wedding, the bride's side a large banquet, held "sarin," marry a hospitality the quartet guests.The third day of the wedding, the groom's family a big feast to entertain their relatives and friends, the wedding ceremony.The groom must before the dawn of the day greeting to the bride home, hold the wedding ceremony in a wide range of programs.After the liberation, along with the development of society, people the change of the ideological understanding, the custom has gone, now xibo espousals, generally adopts a new thing to do.