The achangCustoms and habitsAchang holiday information and clothing characteristics

Achang typically monogamous family, premarital love freedom, popular "girls", but the marriage arranged by parents.Sharing is generally not the wedding in the past, but for a long time with the han, dai ethnic intermarriage is more common.Prevalence, brothers marriage transfer system.Widows remarried, but it can't take away the family property, also belong to the family support their children.

Achang young men and womenTo get marriedThe wedding banquet, the first thing to please the bride's uncle sat in the first place on a dish and using pig brain mixing of cold dishes, splendidly uncle to give the bride a treaty after 4.5 kg with pig tail, known as the family meat, raising the bride will never forget the bride's family said.

Achang eat custom

Achang live mainly in the area of yunnan province in southern China.Achang mainly engaged in agriculture, is famous for its growing rice.Living in the frontier of achang, food is given priority to with rice, mixed with potato, corn.

Achang rice is the staple food, also commonly used rice flour made from silk, rice noodle bait as a staple food.Only when the bait silk convenient and edible slightly pressed in the boiling water, remove with seasoning.If cover the stew, and fire (+) meat, food ingredients, can be made into all kinds of different bait silk;Rice vermicelli besides as bait silk hot food, can also be cold, or add a spoonful of rice noodle in hot dilute soybean meal (peas face and hydration cook), refueling chili sauce, mashed garlic, ginger, principle and so on, into a thin rice noodle flour sauce, spicy, tender, is achang after summer often eat snacks.Achang like to eat taro, ancient legend harvest festival, kill dogs and eat taro is indispensable.Achang metropolitan women do tofu, bean powder, commonly used pea jelly for food.Meat from pigs and cattle.Used to make pork like fire raw pork rice noodle, the pig slaughter after the pig skin burn with straw or straw yellow, clean, and then chopped mix with vinegar, garlic, pepper seasoning and so on, together with the rice noodle edible.Rice-fish is everydayEat fishMain source of food, and when the fish oil Fried or Fried, then add water and acid pepper cooked or steamed serve.The hot and sour GuHua fish (ZaiYang will fry into a field, the valley after the cooked fish, said GuHua fish.)The most characteristic.Pickled pickles, halogen corrosion, tempeh perennial essential, with each meal.Wine is a perennial bai people constantly drink, drinking rice wine, women often have full-bodied wine and sweet;Adult men and the elderly more than drink white wine.Most achang distillation in making shochu, hidden in the urn, for hospitality is section and when drinking.

Meat from pigs and cattle.Used to make pork like fire raw pork rice noodle, the pig slaughter after the pig skin burn with straw and straw yellow, clean, and then chopped mix with vinegar, garlic, pepper and other seasoning to eat along with rice noodle.

Rice-fish are the main source of daily to eat fish, eating more will fish oil Fried or Fried, then add water and acid pepper cooked or steamed serve.In hot and sour GuHua fish (the larvae in the fields, when ZaiYang valley cooked, remove the fish after said GuHua fish) is the most distinctive.Pickled pickles, halide rot, tempeh are necessary, all the year round at every meal.

Wine is the bai people drinking all the year round of drinks, drinking rice wine, women often accompanied by warm bouquet and sweet;Adults and the aged more than drink white wine.Most achang have made shochu distillation.

Achang people like eating sour food, mainly there are sour bamboo shoots, sour pickled cabbage, sour meat, this is the one big characteristic of achang diet culture.

Acid is an essential part of achang daily dishes, is a common acid food is acid and acid pickle.Season of pickled sour bamboo shoots in spring and autumn season, when the bamboo shoots, the about 30 cm tall, can cut off the roots, strip bamboo, cut into large or bamboo shoots, put in the pot, sprinkle with salt, in all, bake for days, acidity, namely can increases with the increasing food.Sour bamboo shoots to eat alone, also can and other fish, and vegetables cooked together to eat, taste delicious, every eater all praise.

The achang making rice noodle.The fire raw pork rice noodle., it is on the fire roast pork into medium, chopped finely chopped cut, with vinegar mix cooked, add chopped peanuts, pork liver, pig brain, pig oviduct condiments, such as garlic, ginger, chili, coriander, flour, etc., when to eat the rice noodle choke in the palm, add meat, mixing together to eat, so the name "making rice noodle".

The rice noodle is soft, smooth, not, not glue the hand, meat mixed with bottom go to, don't sink, hypoxia, is not evenly spread in the rice noodle, taste delicious, spicy and tasty, speck.

Achang three square meals a solar eclipse, like eating acidic food.In the past, young men and women have the habit of chewing tobacco and betel nut, teeth often been dyed black, so it has a "tooth black for beauty" ancient customs.

If cover the stew, and fire (+) meat, food ingredients, can be made into all kinds of different bait silk;Rice vermicelli besides as bait silk hot food, can also be cold, or add a spoonful of rice noodle in hot dilute soybean meal (peas face and hydration cook), refueling chili sauce, mashed garlic, ginger, principle and so on, into a thin rice noodle flour sauce, spicy, tender, is achang after summer often eat snacks.Achang like to eat taro, ancient legend harvest festival, kill dogs and eat taro is indispensable.Achang metropolitan women do tofu, bean powder, commonly used pea jelly for food.Meat from pigs and cattle.Used to make pork like fire raw pork rice noodle, the pig slaughter after the pig skin burn with straw or straw yellow, clean, and then chopped mix with vinegar, garlic, pepper and other seasoning to eat along with rice noodle.Rice-fish are the main source of daily to eat fish, eating more will fish oil Fried or Fried, then add water and acid pepper cooked or steamed serve.In hot and sour GuHua fish (ZaiYang will fry into the field, when the valley after the cooked fish, said GuHua fish) is the most distinctive.Pickled pickles, halogen corrosion, tempeh perennial essential, with each meal.Wine is a perennial bai people constantly drink, drinking rice wine, women often have full-bodied wine and sweet;Adults and the aged more than drink white wine.Most achang have made shochu distillation, hidden in the urn, for hospitality is section and when drinking.

Typical food mainly include: salad celery net weight, freezing, acid + ba (fire), making rice noodle.

Glutinous rice BaBa and making rice noodle is achang two kinds of flavor food.Glutinous rice BaBa is glutinous rice to wash after soaked with water for half a day or so, make in the retort after steamed sticky rice, on the wooden pounded thin reef, serve immediately.Glutinous rice BaBa soft and tender, taste very good.Redundant BaBa stall day on banana leaves, cool while eating, or Fried or baked, or boiled or burn, crispy delicious, can eat."Making rice noodle" is a long river huche achang flavor food, users and origin fine rice squeezed into rice noodle, burn pork, pork liver, pig brain, pig oviduct, peanut flour, sesame seeds, garlic, chili, coriander, salt, principle, etc., add flour sauce, vinegar, stir to mix well to make.Eat, wash clean hands, rice noodle in hand first, and then pour sauce, stir with chopsticks, to his mouth, a suction.Shaken the rice noodle taste delicious, nutritious, easy to digest, delicious.

Achang religious beliefs

Achang common area wax and hinayana Buddhism, every year regularly "into the hollow," "hollow";"White wood burning" and other religious festivals and activities.Ghosts and gods, achang lianghe region over the past many letters a year before the spring and autumn harvest to the three main "soil" (ghost), QuanZhai people would go to the field with chicken blood, feather, pray with the spirit to protect the crops.In addition, because of influenced by the han nationality, and ancestor worship.

Achang important festivals

In addition to the religious festivals, household wax and achang, larger several holiday a year, such as GanBai, nest, street, taste a fresh delicacy, water-sprinkling festival, into the hollow, out of the depression, etc., are the same as the neighboring dai.In addition to the torch festival, in yellow sheet, burning white wood, watering the flowers, Waterloo festival, festival activities, etc.With the torch festival and litter of ROM section size is larger, content more.

Nest ROM section

Nest section on lunar calendar January 4, to commemorate the legendary ancestor of achang, covered palmer hemp, covering the mi MaWeiMin pesticides, the benefit of future generations of merit, when people want to offering the best dishes, then kill the dog eat dog meat and taro, if the sacrifice can catch of the dayboa, is thought to be more lucky.

Lunar calendar January 4 to hold "o dew nest day", is the most grand festival achang.O first, prosperous people carefully connected "Waterloo station lane", about 1 m high, 4 meters square, the central stood around two stone memorial arch, with a ong ting stands at the top of the huge wooden bow full string attachment.This is achang god arrow symbol of the human ancestor palmer hemp zhisheng beelzebub, shoot down false DuYan scorching sun, restore order to the earth, everything back to life.Left arch top portray the radiant sun, arch at the top right map with her honey haired blue sky month;Design under the sun is a picture of a man holding color map, draw a woman dressed her honey haired month pattern it is below color map, respectively characterize the providence to mother - the first man hide handkerchief linen and meters hemp.Festival that day, far or near villages of achang flocking, pooling Yu Qingdian fovea luo fang around, singing and dancing, to celebrate the holiday.[1

Torch festival

Torch festival held every year the lunar June 24th, for praying for harvest, insecticide, being disasterKill pig, slaying oxen, and sacrifice, to cooked fire raw pork with rice noodle broken for you.After nightfall the ignition swimming around the village.

Water-sprinkling festival

Water-sprinkling festival of the dai nationality and local, achang water-sprinkling festival, during the water-splashing festival is a good opportunity for young people to mate, and often by miss house ready for the eight bowl dishes served to string of young man.The number of people attend the dinner, you can take the a seat.Young man to be in the case of other people don't perceive stole girl zito, such as the head of a dog than the tail of a lion up on girl, zito thieves fines, otherwise will fine girldrinking.If being caught TouZhe, should be punished not only, also be laugh at by the girls.Drunk guy according to some inspections, put money in the case of don't let the girl notice to the girl.

In addition, in the lianghe, (3) in achang also has in the habit of the lunar August 15 in changxin as tribute section, on the day of the festival of pulling a canopy seed to the field the most, most of the taro, cut down a tree and double ear of corn, bundle on a bamboo stick, placed in a corner, then the mixture is a new rice to cook, to bowl a dog after dinner cooked, finally the family dinner party.