Of the blang nationalityCustoms and habitsInformation and dress characteristic of the blang nationality festival

The blang nationality national history

The blang nationality is an ancient nation, according to the historical documents, ancient yongchang area is "PuRen" living areas, the numerous tribes, distribution is very wide, long activity across the lancang river and the nujiang river basin.One of the "PuRen" is probably now the blang nationality ancestors.Since the western han dynasty set the profit county in yunnan province, has precious little tang (baoshan), not wei () south of baoshan county, PuRen activity areas are incorporated into the scope of the county of the western han dynasty.In the western jin dynasty, the part of the yongchang PuRen migrated to kang, phoenix city, south area in the storehouse.Tang dynasty, known as the "tastes", yuan, Ming and qing when referred to as the "pu".After sui and tang dynasties, the literature has the so-called "PuRen", "save", "tree", "robot", "pu", "pu", such as name, its distribution is more wide, tang and song dynasties, the "save" the nanzhao and Dali regime;Shun ning mansion, the Ming dynasty to the philips head who acted as local.Later the original in the southern part of the rush of people development, yunnan province, as now the blang nationality.

After the founding of new China, according to the national will, collectively known as the blang nationality.Before liberation the blang nationality of the people living in brown mountain still retains the primitive commune residual of different level;Life of the blang nationality people in PingBa region, due to the relatively fast economic and cultural development of the han nationality, the influence of the dai people, has entered the stage of feudal landlord economy development.The blang nationality people living area of the mild climate, rich products.They mainly engaged in agricultural production, good plant tea tree, is the home of the famous puer tea.Brown people with the blang nationality and even the name of the mountain.The childWas born three days tied line named, connect the mother's name after the name of the child.

The customs of marriage in the blang nationality

The blang nationality marriage outside the clan, marriage and monogamy, pure feeling of love and marriage are free, boys and girls but there are also parents interference phenomenon.

Adults'

The blang nationality boys and girls to 14 or 15 years of age to "paint" bar mitzvah ceremony.When young men and women gather together together, cooked in an iron piece red hair black smoke tree, for the opposite sex with each other to dye.Dye teeth means an adult, can open to participate in social activities in the village.

Fall in love

"String of girls" is the blang nationality traditional way of dating.The blang nationality youth in love and marriage is very free, is supported by the family and society.When the moon rises, the boys put on new clothes, with three, came to the girl under the bamboo house together, competing with a witty language and enthusiastic music to touch the heart of the selected girl.Grooming the girls also lit fireplace early and opened the door, please guys come in, with a song, a cigarette, tea and other clever ways to express yourself for love of lover.Brown mountains string girl can group to visit, night alone.Young men and women is thought, culture, the common form of emotional communication.

To marry him

The love of men and women both parties DuShen by feelings, man to woman popped the question.Brown mountain in many places to marry him with flowers for the media.Lad to mining from the mountain back to flower girl, when the girl to confirm this young man is truly love her, just pick the most beautiful flower in the bouquet to wear on the head, thereby agreed to marriage.

The wedding

Brown also unusual wedding, a couple of wedding to repeat for 2 to 3 times.For the first time after engagement, the girl is from the man's house to line the ritual ceremony.Then the bride and groom back to their homes, while the groom every night will nest LaoZhang somebody else, but labor day still to go back to his home life.Until held a second wedding, the bride not formally marry to daughter-in-law when the in-laws.The third wedding tend to run inbabyAfter birth, it must beKill pigSlaying oxen, and the banquet, keep a whole villages of relatives and friends.

The blang nationality food customs

The blang nationality mainly live in xishuangbanna dai autonomous prefecture in western area of yunnan province in southwest China.Mainly engaged in agriculture, with planting rice is given priority to, the good kind of tea.

The blang nationality diet does not have national characteristics, is an important component of the blang nationality material culture, especially like eating acidic food, sour food, also often salted fish meat, bamboo shoots, such as acid acid acid, such as producing method is the same with other ethnic groups, such as local dai, but when the blang nationality in pickled sour pickled cabbage on the top put a layer of rice.Xishuangbanna brown people also like eating meat.

The blang nationality like drinking, and homemade mostly.Of which the most famous jade wine.The wine in the wine with a call "suspension hook" filtered the plant's leaves green, like the color of jade, hence the name of the blang nationality people generous personality, between friends have "drunk wine will drink, drinking will" of the customs.

The blang nationality women living in xishuangbanna brown mountain, especiallypregnancyMind you, women's local red clay, it is said that the red clay anti-nausea and divide xing, refreshing effect.

The blang nationality people have the habit of eating rats and ant eggs.The blang nationality people like to eat rats, regardless of the rats, mice, and bamboo rat are food delicacies.Burns will capture the mouse hair, skin and internal organs, clean after cooking.Brown has a black ant, one per litter ant king, can spawn thousands, brown people often digging ant eggs.

The blang nationality who is good at kinds of tea tea, also like drinking tea.After the girls pluck fresh tea, made loose tea, also called "big leaf tea".They can also make a with the national characteristics of the bamboo cheese tea ".Is first cut into thick bamboo bamboo tube, the newly picked tea and stir-fry until done. Strike into bamboo tube plug tightly, sealed in reed leaves and tied with a cane, in all baking, remove its moisture, when the bamboo epidermis sear, is made from bamboo tea, storage years will not stale.This tea tastes very strong fragrance, the blang nationality people commonly used for gift.

The blang nationality people also very exquisite tea, baked tea and tea two kinds.Tea is brewed in boiling water, but roast tea is in a special small POTS, put some tea in all baking, when emitted fragrance then pour boiling water, after the water boiled down into small handless small, referred to as the "strong".Brown people like sour tea, the tea is made by sauerkraut know-how for acid tea, put in mouth chew and swallow, can help digestion.

Besides chewing tea, brown people have hobby of chewing tobacco.Chewing tobacco's approach is to betel leaves a little grass on packages of tobacco, add sand, LuZi, areca nut, a piece of the mouth slowly chewing, such as red lime can chew more than 20 minutes each time, the tobacco residue in Burgundy, brown people chewing tobacco, for a long time, even the teeth had been dyed black.

The blang nationality folk festivals

Many traditional festivals are related to religious activities.One of the most characteristic section of death are: festival, the village god, wash ox feet, etc.

The blang nationality other festival custom, and dai same, such as "New Year", "depression", "depression" and so on.In dai calendar January 15 day "赕 palmer" (prayer), August 15th "赕 temple"."赕" for the lauguage, refers to the worldly beings to monks or ancestral outlaw tribute, commonly known as "give" or "alms" of Buddhism.The blang nationality legend, their relationship with the dai are brothers, the blang nationality is elder brother, in the mountainous area of mountains, the dai's younger brother, live 2 kind of paddy field.Therefore, every time the blang nationality "赕佛" to please comment up the hill, dai dai "赕佛 also please the blang nationality comment down the mountain.

Than Michael GuoNianJie: the blang nationality with lauguage is "Beijing", is by far the most grand festival, brown people this day, every household to eat brown sugar BaBa, glutinous rice and wrapped in banana leaves two copies of each article on a pair of wax, two flower, stay home than the President home: a long into the family bed of hanging above the "tire honk roll" ghost (family), as a sacrifice to the home of god;Another is dedicated to "high roll ga (family).Families male parents all want to take off his turban, to as a representative of the whole roll "honk" (family) family row new kowtow rites.Water and symbolically for family long baptism, from head to foot, for long life, peace and prosperity for the coming year.Family long also bless the people: "the whole family's children, at the feast to the blessing, this is handed down from ancestors GuLi, do not forget.Old days passed, and a New Year coming, best wishes all the children and grandchildren to take leave, you are blessed.I wish you the crops flourish, people and prosperity."To finish, long for family "tire honk roll" (god) family socks? · generation socks that prayer god worship.Village as a family as the unit to the sunset direction, for the drop of ceremony.

Close quarter: the blang nationality is the same as the dai called "hao clay sand".Members of the family of the day as usual to send a flower to the family long article, a pair of wax, go to the "roll", and run a long for family to hold hand washing, wash feet, said.Family of all ages, sexes and to the door, stair and furniture sundry ghost spirit "Su Ma" kowtow), respectively in two pairs of wax as an offering, pray for the people and the coming year.

The blang nationality religion

Most of the blang nationality of southern theravada Buddhism, ancestor worship.There are many buddhist activities during the festival.People in addition to meet the sun ceremony, but also the collective to the buddhist temple "Open Day", "closed day", "赕佛", "sand", "Buddha", "water" and other activities.