The benglongCustoms and habitsDeang holiday information and clothing characteristics

Benglong ethnic history

Deang is one of the most ancient ethnic southwest frontier, originates from the ancient PuRen.Tang and song dynasties was known as the "tree", "permanent", yuan and Ming dynasties, known as "gold", "pu".

As early as the 2nd century BC live on both sides of nu river is the earlier development of baoshan, dehong region.Historical records of the exploration of pretty tribe is the ancients deang, sui and tang dynasties when referred to as a "permanent", "jump", hope my son "pretty", they have surrender to han, jin dynasty and south called, Dali kingdom, and become a subject people of dai tusi after yuan.Most deang and jingbo, han, Su Su, dai ethnic group cross points village, mainly engaged in agricultural production.

History in the qing dynasty called "collapse dragon", after the founding of the nation was given the name recognition.According to the national people's will, on September 21, 1985 more called "deang".

Benglong ethnic customs

Deang formerly known as the "living in yunnan province.In 1985, officially changed its name to deang.Is China's southwest frontier of one of the oldest ethnic residents.They live in yunnan province.Mainly engaged in agriculture, planting rice, maize, qiao son, potato, etc., are good at kinds of tea.

Parts of deang most to rice is the staple food, mixed with corn and potato.All with steamed braised food, is good at making all kinds of food products, such as pea meal bean curd rice rice cakes BaBa dumplings, etc.

Deang diet is fastidious, with makings is more extensive.Good at cooking, stewing, mix, pounded techniques, such as hot and sour taste of sweet.There are many different kinds of vegetables, bamboo shoots is one of the perennial vegetables, in addition to fresh food, processed into sour bamboo shoots or dried bamboo shoots to eat more.

Other vegetables to eat, when are used to boil stew with sour bamboo shoots.Sour bamboo shoots application is very extensive, even in the stewed chicken Fried meat or fish and sour bamboo shoots taste.Influenced by the local han many han flavor of pickles preserved beancurd and deang table of dishes.The main specialties are: cold papaya, cold hand fish, bamboo tube dao, crispy wax gourd, le wave, etc.

Drink strong tea, this is deang adult men and older women's hobby.Legend has the custom since ancient time.Therefore, deang families are used to planting some tea tree near his own house or around the village, picking tea processing system and method, mainly for their own consumption, have a rest with market traded with other people.

In deang folk is not only a regular drink tea, also is one of the best gifts for family and friends.In daily life, deang leave the tea, weddings.To visit friends and relatives, with tea as a gift, "meaning to the" tea.

Such as a wedding, send a bandage cross the red tea;For the funeral, send a synthetic bamboo tea breeds contempt or middle tied bamboo hemp.Deang people for a visit, the hospitable host will be welcomed the guests on bamboo building, will hold out cups of grilled burnt strong tea to the guest's hand.

DeAng people addicted to tea addiction, they said a day, don't drink tea, mix all boring.Only drink a cup of thick hot tea, can mention spirit, also drink tea "acid", also known as wet tea, called valley tea or selling tea.Acidity, oneself can quench thirst.And have good clear heat, xiaoshi role.This tea is made and the fresh tea just is sealed in the bamboo tube is made after fermentation.

Acid tea may also directly to chew food, taste slightly sour, bitter and sweet aftertaste.DeAng people think this kind of tea can antipyretic scattered poison.Dry tea tea and acid on the local market can be bought, are usually sold by older DeAng women, they are for "dismiss", in DeAng language, this is the meaning of "tea mother".

Pickled tea generally in the rainy season, fresh leaves plucked immediately after put into plaster in cylinder, pressure so far, and then use the lid of the heavy pressure.After a few months to take out the tea, and other spices mix after edible.

Also useful ceramic cylinder pickled tea, back to the fresh tea wash, add pepper, salt, after mixing into the ceramic pressure in cylinder cover tightly, to store a few months later, become "pickled tea", namely remove when food to eat.It has used for snacks chewing.

Deang festivals

The unique "water-splashing festival"

Deang people generally believe in theravada Buddhism.Every year except the "depression" (closed), "the depression" (open), to celebrate the water-sprinkling festival.

Deang the water-sprinkling festival held in Gregorian calendar around mid-april, generally 3 to 5 days.Holidays approach, people are busy making new clothes, make rice samples, making good water tools such as hoses, buckets.Older believers gathered the buddhist temple, built water-sprinkling festival as a statue of the Buddha of welcome cabin and hoses.Holiday in the morning, people dressed in costumes, to the buddhist temple worship Buddha, Buddha to chant buddhist scripture.And pile of sand around the buddhist temple tower, and then put the Buddha carried to the temple to welcome him in the cabin, held a welcome ceremony for Buddha.Believers will be the cleanest water in the tap, water flows from longkou, shun bamboo sink flow between longkou and cabin of Buddha, but the Buddha body.Then, by the venerable elders with flowers, gently sprinkled with water to the people around, blessings to you and congratulations to the beginning of the New Year.At this time, people started to get excited, in succession to congratulate the New Year with each other.In the elephant-foot drum music and singing, the young people will tank held high above his head, spilled the water droplets in the hands of old people, wish them happy and healthy life.Old people are stretched out hands, holding in their hands, the water right, joy and blessing for the young.After the ceremony, people in the elephant-foot drum as the leading, lined up, to the spring, river, singing, dancing, chasing each other, and water.From head to toe, drenched.This is auspicious water, the blessing of water, people heartily splashed heartily watering, splashed water or be on whether, abnormal happy, to laugh.

Water-sprinkling festival is a deang people celebrate the New Year ceremony, and young men and women love, looking for a good time to sweetheart.But unlike the dai "packet loss", deang popular a kind of custom gift basket.Before the festival, the young man want to quietly weaving a few beautiful bamboo basket, and take a bunch of girls at dead of night, send basket, respectively, to their own favorite girl.The only, that is the most beautiful will be sent to your favorite girl, to express their love, testing each other's reaction.Therefore, every girl often received several baskets, however, the girl who really passionate about?It depends on the water-sprinkling festival who is that girl back to send her the bamboo basket.On this day, girls in the back of everyone a delicate and beautiful bamboo basket, but who is really?This bottom can be busy bad boys, they opened his eyes, and watch the girls on the bamboo basket, carefully identify the sweetheart is back by himself gave her the bamboo basket.For lovers meet, heartily splashed water to each other and play, in order to express his feeling of excitement, joy.

Closing section and section to open the door

Deang religious festival "into depression" (closed), is one of the largest, the devout buddhists BaZhai festival, from September 15th, dai calendar in the temple of the Buddha, closed out a net to chant buddhist scripture, people with food, flowers and money worship Buddha, every small for seven days, the pious old believers, live in big buddhist temple to listen to the Buddha preached, until the dai calendar December 15th (open section) to do this, open the door, monks can go out.

White wood burning section

Burning white wood to this day, to kill the chicken for wine, meal QuanZhai copolymerization, also produce all kinds of glutinous rice cakes, wrapped in banana leaves, steamed and carry them wherever you go each other gifts, taste the flavor of each other, take sugar in rice cakes to the newly-married couple around the people and their elders to worship in the home.

Benglong ethnic marriage funeral custom

Deang youth have certain autonomy in marriage.Children are more respect for parents.

According to the customs and habits of deang deang young men and women once mature love.The man's house to please the matchmaker, propose to the family.At that time, also want to please a matchmaker to sit with the family.When spoken, groom the matchmaker of a banana, a packet of tea, two dry salted fish open to parents for the family.If the woman's parents agreed to the marriage, the man's house and carry the same gift for the girl even the heads of the fathers of the home village, the elder, in order to obtain patriarch, the consent of the elders.

Moreover, deangTo get marriedDowry is only a few symbolic gifts, pick up the bride's back she is filled with people about more than a kilogram of tobacco, four bowls of rice, and the matchmaker with eight yuan, six yuan for the orphan, two yuan for in law, even more, even if only to a few cents per person ask family also can't again for more.The marriage dowry is probably the least.When dowry, just can marry the bride.Wedding, the groom in the company of the best man, the matchmaker down to meet the bride, entered the bride village, firing number ring, said wed have to.

Comb the bride dressed out away from the bride's family, the aunt, sisters and the village unmarried young people off, and her parents him clothes, hoe and sickle dowry, and the woman gave the man the parents' clothes and so on into the family.The bride to the groom's family, the ladder on bamboo building, feet must step on the special stones placed at the foot of the stairs, said their marriage like a rock solid for a long time.Spilled her mother-in-law to give her GuHua new wife went upstairs, and the ceremony, the bride step on the roof terrace, behind her mother-in-law into the bridal chamber.The man please beforehand good "long" Ann Mr (culture) immediately in all presided over the wedding ceremony, and Ann long prayers and pray to the Buddha give happiness.I wish the couple in one hundred.Wedding thousand bi, began to diners, at the same time the bride respectively meet the man elder relatives, glutinous rice samples and the bride usually made with color such as red, green, yellow pompon small bag gift, such as the elderly after the worship to reciprocate, when using a copper is 50, with half-opened (silver) in yunnan is for one to two, after the liberation is generally one or two yuan.At night, young men and women gathered in the bride's family in the village of wing song, singing tune, often going to sing to the crow scattered.The next day, the bridegroom accompanies the bride back, send to family to her parents, brothers and sisters clothes, etc.If the bride is the village people, also can return to her hunsband's family day.

Deang family, because of the different location and social and economic conditions and some differences, but are basically two types, one is for small family type of dehong dai and jingpo autonomous prefecture area;The residence is a lincang area of kang, gengma county has a big family to the small family transition characteristics such as type.Dehong prefecture in the patriarchal family, my father is a long, host family affairs, women's subordinate status.The family is the basic unit of social and economic life, more than three generations, for parents, couple, children are usually the eldest son married, that is around the home to choose a proper place to another to build a new house, establish a small family.Another portal's eldest son, the second son, parents according to the family's economic situation, to the part of pigs, cattle and other property as production pad, do not have the habit of average distribution property, rely mainly on small family to operate independently.Son to stay home, support their parents, inherit property.To the family and family transition type of family is in the patriarchal family and patriarchal family (also known as the family, commune) coexist.On economic namely is independent nuclear families, it is not immediately leave the parent to establish single-family homes, family, the residence is still common in a big house, keep the relationship of the mutual cooperation between each other.

Funeral have their own XiGu deang, in addition to the Buddha (buddhist monks) cremated, ordinary people are buried.The villages have public cemetery, as long as it is normal victim can be buried in the same village.No surname boundaries, and all the heads and the people, but their grave to different from other people, not to shun mountain, hengshan to bury.According to the habit of deang, people will die to make preparation of good one coin into the mouth, and means for the souls of the dead to the underworld across the river on the ferry.People once gave up the ghost, the family that is outside the door to the vacant let off three times, to the relatives and friends and neighbors indigoeyes.

At this moment, close relatives, family and village after neighbors WenXun, have rushed to the home to help at the funeral, and relatives and friends brought some rice and vegetables such as, some still carrying meat, carry the sod.Women first help carry water, cooking, men are busy preparing the coffin for the dead.Coffins generally according to the family's economic situation, economic situation better, the han nationality or national master carpenters, please do the coffin of a han Chinese type, almost family economic conditions, by friends and relatives to help cut down a tree, a take off the root, into a large, two and a half younger, pivot middle empty, make a simple coffin.There's a more simple is to cut a few strains of dendrocalamus giganteus, cutting into bamboo weaving a bambooThe coffin.In the preparation of the coffin at the same time, some people with a particular leaves dipped in water washingThe body, put on clothes, and then into the coffin.After the coffin please comment (monk) pick an auspicious day day buried, dead in the home is generally not more than three days, during this period the daily must please comment recite sutras, pray the souls of the dead into the western heaven.

A funeral, coffin little head forward, after the up side (namelyThe deadFoot forward, after the head), means to go dead, can't fall back, funeral procession from stockaded village public cemetery until the mountain, along the continuous firing, notify the land god.Have the soul of the dead.After the burial, the elders say prayers, show the dead and the living of two roads, the dead to hades to find home to return to, live a good home, after elders say prayer, blows, each one with a branch said eliminate pathogens, can be turned back to the stockade, return can not turn backward.The families of the dead, buried after seven days, please comment read it again, they thought it would be over the dead reincarnation incarnation as early as possible, and they are charged him the afterlife.

Deang religious practices

Deang hinayana Buddhism.CunCunZhaiZhai everywhere is a buddhist temple and the pagoda, stupa modelling and dai pagoda is slightly different.Also have aThe little boyTo the buddhist temple when the monk's traditional for a period of time.

Deang and the family hall, village god, to gods, dragons, gu niang sacrifice custom, of which the dragon is the most interest.Generally choose in the spring, at the appointed timeKill pig, kill chickens, by the priests paper dragon, they worship, and then with the picnic, beating each other after drunk, out at ordinary times each other.Here is not allowed to dissuade others, until both sides fight to the exhausted the next day to apologize to each other.