The drungCustoms and habitsDrung holiday information and clothing characteristics

Drung ethnic history

Drung is our country is still preserved the patriarchal clan commune late primitive society characteristic of one of the ethnic minorities.Despite the collapse in the general development trend has been towards the road, but in the productivity, land form, social organizations and the marriage system still has the obvious characteristics of the patriarchal clan commune.Derung tribe called the beginning in the big yuan YiTongZhi lijiang road custom article, referred to as "lever".When Ming and qing dynasty called "Qiu" or "song".After the founding of new China, according to the national will, its claim to be alone the dragon as a national title.Before the founding of new China in the 1940 s, due to the blocking of mountains and rivers and generations of the reactionary rule of oppression exploitation, drung characteristics in the development of social productivity is: slash-and-burn agriculture dominate, original acquisition and fishing and hunting are still represents a significant proportion;Production tools is very simple, no transition from hoeing to plough;Social division of labor is not obvious, only the natural division of labor between men and women;Exchange is still in the primitive barter stage;Drung people's life is very poor, no Commodity Exchange, used for tying knots in ropes, carved wood before iron tools not heir dulong region, drung people generally use the branches of the natural hook made of curved part digging small wooden hoe.Small wooden hoe pointed such as cranes, dulong language called "pull", drung is first used in hoeing the primitive tools of agriculture.It was not until after the founding of new China completely changed the landscape.

Drung festival

Drung past believed that all things have spirit, worship of natural objects, do.Think of wind, rain, electricity, ray, mountains, waters, stones, strange trees are a ghost.Ghost will curse at people, so people praying in order to avoid disaster, then do not hesitate to spend a lot of the livestock food to the ghost.Drung demons by witches, wizards have two kinds, one is called "wood", worship, DaGua presided over, and another called "take wood", specializing in spirits, "wood" position is higher.

Drung only festival is New Year's day, in the twelfth lunar month, has no fixed date, long in proportion of short-term food festival, the festival name for "card finches wow" section.

Drung traditional festival - the dragon

Drung people call "card finches wow".Is the only holiday drung year.They in December 29, for the New Year's eve, 30, for the New Year.

According to legend a long time ago, on the Banks of country life with the two brothers.They have been lost parents, with mountains as the home, with a crossbow hunt, bitter time.One day, two brothers with a long knife, with hard hand crossbows, come to bear force hunting card snow-capped mountains will pull on the barrel.The day the sky clouded over, beast is not out of the nest.Until the afternoon, to see a little blue sheep.Two brothers, separately.Brother lost its way, and put into a peaks of TV, stand out of the dangerous rock mountain ravines.

When the night over the mountains, the younger brother to some good place waiting for in advance.But, ah, etc., such as a curved moon hung up the pinnacles of gaoligong mountains, no brother, younger brother with a heart of anxiety, drilling deep valleys, to find his only living relative.I do not know over how many hills, swept through many a jet, looking for the whole nine years 01 months and 29 days.On December 30th day, my brother suddenly come back.Meet the brothers, mingled, brother sorrowfully to brother said: "I am not good brother, brother bear to leave you, since we separated brothers, I was a demon trapped in the deep end.Devil see you eager to find brother, since today, let me come back every year December 30th to meet you."Brother said, "is the day we meet in the tail and head of the first, just call it a New Year's day."Brother to celebrate his brother lost after the reunion, specially for brother made of a variety of exotic dishes and made of various kinds of grain of rice.Eat dinner, and my brother to meet brother thrilled, nobelium strikes gong, use torches, mountain please ZhaiLi elder brother, tell you the good news, let elder brother and fellow villagers together singing and dancing.Since then, brothers, to meet the day becomes drung people alone dragon.

Festival, each clan and tribal collective hunting of wildlife;Kill pigSheep, prey for the families.Tribal housewife will years times for each family.They referred to as the "broken".In the past, in the New Year's eve dinner must wait for every member of the tribe to qi, the lack of a person, is not boiled.In the morning, at early dawn, the stronghold nobelium gongs rang out from.To welcome the New Year.After breakfast, people with the nobelium gong sounded, all came to the stronghold of the opening, use simple and unsophisticated customs, celebrating the New Year.People regardless of age, gender, family, everybody hand in hand, jumped up the nation's traditional dance.The elders with exquisite dulong cane implement, the delicious dishes, in the traditional way for everyone to eat.At that time, singing sound, cheers, dance intertwined.

Drung eat custom

Drung love drinking wine, tea, smoke cigarette.Dulong people brew of peculiar way.Dig a crypt in the ground, with banana trees around all around, put the cooked corn or rice mix could well, into the cellar, cover with a layer of banana leaves, with mud sealing, aboveThe fireHeating, three to five days later, will pit drill a small hole, if you have strong alcohol, then made a success, pull open the sealing mud, put the corn or rice out, in the basin of kneading, filter out the juice, is the consumption of wine.Whether drinkingHave a mealAnd eating meat, drung family by internal housewife broken.Guests also score a country.Generally every family has a fireplace, each of the childrenTo get marriedAfter adding a fireplace, cooking borne by which each in turn.Drung folk invited each other way is very unique, usually with a piece of wood as invite each other's invitation, send wood to invite a guest house, on the wood with a few gap fete ceremony is held in a few days later.The invited guests to carry a variety of food to show appreciation.Guests enter the village gate, want to drink a barrel of wine with the host first, and then sit down for dinner, and watch the singing and dancing.After nightfall man at alldrinkingRight, then the wine bowl   bamboo frame on the fireplace, to bowl for good omen.Drung honest character, even if the road meet, also want to buy wine, don't think a meal for the guests to eat, no dark guests, is a kind of gross.

The customs of marriage in drung

Drung line outside marriage, the family of monogamy individual family, love freedom, drung young men and women in love, both will give each other a thing.Girl gave the young man a blanket of his finely woven dulong, the young man gave the girl a hoe or his basket.

It is spoken, the young man will please a talkative man said to the woman.When you say, married people to want to bring on a teapot, with tea, cigarettes and tea urn in the bag.

To discover, regardless of each other attitude, said the wedding will at the fastest speed, will be filled with water, the teapot himself walked to the fireplace will fire big, put the teapot.Then from the backpack tea and tea urn, to discover the come out of the bowl in the cupboard, prepared to make tea.Discover the people no matter you agree or disagree with the following statement, can only wait at all.An open water, said marriage immediately make good tea in the tea urn, then pour into a bowl.In order to respect her parents first, and then is the girl's brothers and sisters, and at last the girl herself.Next, began to say marriage, said that is how good, young man, how people like in the home girl, etc.

Say to a certain time, discover the man said nothing, but only the girl's father or mother will gulp of tea, the girl and the others followed the tea drink, this marriage even if done.If late into the night, tea, or no one to drink, come again the next night.After three nights is still not a cup of tea, that girl don't agree to marriage.If you still want to say, you need to come again next year.

Drung wedding is simple, at the ceremony, both the male and the female parents want to introduce you to his son, daughter, encourage new people to care about each other, one side in the future of the hands, feet broken or blind separation.Then a new couple drink together, everybody dance dragon dance alone, then calculate the ceremony.

Drung wedding taboo

1, strictly abide by the marriage system, forbidden marriage within marriage.Between the old, the family and marriage fixed group.2, engagement or marry avoid is no dowry.3, avoid divorce.If wife QiFu, has a younger sister, in the home by his wife younger sister to arrive, or to return all the dowry.ReFu abandoned his wife and his wife home can be refund or not refund less dowry.4, ban intermarry with Tibetan.Old, drung the intermarry with Tibetan, but has now changed.

Drung religious practices

A quarter of existing drung Catholic faith.

Drung people's worship of natural objects, believe all things have spirit, they put all of natural and man-made disasters, disease etc. As there is a supernatural god's power at work, so from mountains, rivers, trees, stones, etc., have become an object of admiration for the people.Hosting sacrifice or DaGua wizard, drung called "wood" or "take wood", mostly is natural form, by the chairman of the family, they are not engaged in religious activities, usually also took part in Labour.Some existing drung Christian faith.