The clanCustoms and habitsClan holiday information and dress

Clan is one of China's population less, use, and more national languages.Mainly distributed in nujiang Su Su clan autonomous prefecture (hereinafter referred to as first) gongshan drung clan autonomous counties (hereinafter referred to as gongshan county), fugong, lushui county and orchid bai pumi autonomous counties (hereinafter referred to as LanPing County).In addition in weixi county the diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture, yunnan and Tibet zayu county also has a small amount of clan distribution.Clan is the race itself, in addition to "nu su", "anger" and "Aaron" who, after a general designation for the clan.

The history of the clan

Clan areas since the eighth century, be subject to the jurisdiction of the regime of nanzhao and Dali in yunnan province, yuan, Ming after the lijiang naxi wood's tusi rule.From the beginning of the 17th century, the clan in addition to the lijiang naxi wooden's local belongs to d xikang thousand combined soil thousand leaf branch President Washington's soil, and soil dry combined examine walloon Tibetan lama temple and orchid Tu I bai luo toast.In addition, in nujiang area Su Su I began seizing clan land, the family even robbing clan people as slaves.After the revolution, in 1913 set up in the camp of the LanPing County street nu Qiu electronic administration, successively set calamus casks (gongshan) administrative committee office and palmer) a (good fortune gong, child luo (river) 2 colonial office;In 1918, to the administrative committee office.In 1933, the kuomintang government and three office instead, a towering, good fortune gong jiang three mongols bureau, has been to before the founding of new China.

Clan festival

Clan tradition festival festival, flowers festival and the valley, the mountain god, of which the most festive with New Year, both grand and primitive simplicity.Each to the end of the twelfth month, every family to cleaning the yard, remove all those ashes in the fireplace, cosmetic, and pine on the ground and cookers, tableware, all kinds of vessels covered with a layer of green pine MAO (leaves), symbol to the old orientation.Family reunion dinner on New Year's eve, every family want to eat.The first in the morning, young man to beat auspicious to well water, inquire and give your elders, elders to take out wine, camellia, twist, etc. To serve.To burn a good first meal to the ox and a dog gives off a bread and soup, for cattle do not eat meat, he will break the cow by hand mouth poured in.During the Chinese New Year,Kill pigSlaughtered sheep, give gifts to each other, village invited friends and relatives, dinner together, dining tables, interest is full.

The annual lunar March 15, towering clan people to celebrate the grand traditional festival, flowers festival (also known as "the fairy festival").

About the origin of flower festival, there is an interesting legend: "nu house hold, long time ago there was a hardworking, smart and beautiful girl, chopped, she spares no hardships, split the gaoligong mountains, from the spring, the perennial drought and barren anger more fake got water, on both sides of the rock turned into fertile soil, barren hills became a wizard, but she was hateful person burned to death in the cave of gaoligong mountains.This day is lunar calendar March 15, the day of march, nujiang river on both sides of the flowers in full bloom, the clan people to commemorate the chopped, as a flower festival this day, in order to commemorate their devotion, love, chopped.

First, choose a few first stalactite cave as fairy cave.Holiday early in the morning, clan people dressed up, sacrifices and take already prepared picnic, bundles of flowers in hand, to the cave village near each chooses to worship, worship their heroes, "fairy", chopped, and held a dinner party and all kinds of recreational activities.The people ate and drank, and sing, the whole valley is immersed in the of primitive simplicity and ceremonious festival atmosphere.

The religious beliefs of clan

Chinese clan inherent in religion.The family of about 23000 people (1982), situated in yunnan nujiang Su Su clan autonomous prefecture, gongshan county, a blue river, good fortune gong otherwise a small live in weixi county, diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture.Religious beliefs besides native natural religion advocate primitive worship, there are a few converted to Tibetan Buddhism, Catholicism and protestantism.Every clan names are named after animals, and in the origin of the clan, legend, see the animal as the clan ancestors, or as a special relationship and worshipped them, with the colour of totem worship.Such as brigitte jiang county huo "fight" clan, also known as "don't", meaning "bee clan," legend of the ancestors and "charge", a group of bees came from heaven to becomeA womanBorn."Da huo clan", also known as "pull", meaning "tiger clan", the legend is their ancestorsThe tiger.Old mother's residential garden county and zyprexa, child luo clan, legend has six clan ancestors were bee, monkeys, bears, rats, snakes and birds.

Clan think mountains and trees, wind and rain lightning and other natural objects and natural phenomena are the gods.Descend from ghosts and gods.Worship in different areas of the object and the specific content is not the same.Brigitte ghost "door", jiang clan worship days my alter ego, water ghost "meters away from" drug "alone".Fugong worship "wide red mountain", the ares "buried", plague ghost ", "Lord, offend the ghost" chu la ", heaven and earth ghost "frozen", etc.Gongshan county believed in my alter ego "yushania blah," water "the blah", road demon "wood hu blah," tree "poor that cloth", etc.Someone is sick in the home, want to please wizard RangXie, evocation.Village theft cannot discern occurs, the owner and the suspicion to wizards host "god", please.Convicted method are: (1) roll soup out of stone.In POTS filled with "trine" water (well water, river water, river water), into the rocks, a fire to cook.Be YiZhe as men, wood nine bundle;Women have the seven bundle of wood.Wizard to pray, and vowed to both sides.Then stretched out his hand into the pot, each get a rock.If not blister canker in three days, is the innocent;If very hot bad, namely for the criminals;(2) the fire pile.Sets up the pillars of about two feet long, half buried.Pile of firewood in the stone beside burning (wood number above).After prayer, vowed, hands pulled stone, hand injuries for innocence, the injured for criminals.They believe that "god" is a matter of clan reputation, ceremony is very serious.Both friends and family are to be present.Innocent rehabilitated and cattle bulls.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, along with the social democracy and the rule of law, this law has abandoned.

Wizards have different appellation around, brigitte jiang said "floor" or "ancient su yu";Good fortune "nima", "da shi";Towering "Dong Mu Mr" or "that wood sand".Presided over the main religious activities is sacrifice and "tong god ghost" and divination.

The clan marriage customs

Clan marriage for monogamy, clan family also has its national characteristics.

Young men and women before marriage have social freedom.But formal marriage by man please matchmaker to bring wine to the woman home to act as matchmaker.Marriage finally decided by parents.

Yunnan clan young girls love blow kouxian, often in the river, on the hillside, groups the kouxian with small and exquisite, communicate emotion, pour out for love of lover.

Boy and girl love each other, the two sides back the abba, lady, your elders, with his mouth twang dating each other, and pledge are given.Boy to girl homemade kouxian, since the girls are sent to a beloved embroidered cloth pipe smoke.On the kouxian and pipe with known said the two sides are sincere love each other, never forgets.Feelings deep young men and women in particular, also cut a bunch of each to each other, to show life and death together.

Clan men in the wedding, the wedding was very lively, youth to blow the kouxian, pipa, pipa dance or heishui dance, old people are singing songs to blessing newlyweds wedding.Wedding banquet is the largest in all manners of banquets.Before marriage the groom to take the content such as pork, rice to his father-in-law's house to help cut and arable land, and then you can hold the wedding feast, when the wedding feast wine meat must not only delicious, venue will decorate new.When the bride and groom to drink to marriage, to the girls they spilled flour, said good lucky for you.

Man married, then in his parents' home near the other built new homes, living with parents, but the small family on the production and living with her parents and the whole family remain common farming and the obligation to help each other.Gongshan clan has a man from a wife living custom.

Clan diet

Clan are used to eat two meals.For the most part the staple food is given priority to with corn.Corn to eat it from gradually to cook braised glug popcorn rice (similar to corn thick paste), corn porridge, Indian corn BaBa, SLATE BaBa most distinctive.A few 1 clan also eat ghee zanba.

Common vegetables are vegetables, Chinese cabbage, radish, bean, chili, etc.May and June need to mountain every year gathering wild vegetables.Used by the bamboo shoots, wild lily, all kinds of the root class and ferns, and flavored with ginger, Onions, Chinese prickly ash, etc.Content of starch plants when food or made into powder BaBa and food.

Source of meat by breeding cattle, pigs, chicken, dog, sheep, often fishing and hunting.Clan men's adult began fishing and hunting, with often hunt wildlife have bison, wild boar, deer dressed deer, blue sheep and chickens, etc.Clan eating dog meat is not common.Children need to fasting, bear, tiger, jackal meat, fasting, chicken feet, chicken blood.

Don't eat before cardiopulmonary women over 40 years old.A good wine.In gongshan clan's most distinctive glug wine.When drinking, for honey, fresh sweet, appetizing and tasty.Both men and women, can binge drinking, and drinking songs, every drink will be drunk.Clan generic Tibetan tea is tea and oil-tea production of paint.Often can be used as maternal or infirm food supplements.

Typical food mainly include: paint braised chicken, burn morels, camellia, glug wine, etc.