Do you know what special customs the Gelao people have?

As we all know, in ancient times, if you didn't get pregnant for a long time, women in ancient times would go to the temple to ask for a "child Niangniang" and pray for an heir. What everyone doesn't know is that in the Gelao people, people don't go to the temple to ask for "sending a son". There is a custom in the Gelao people called "sending children", which is of great significance in the Gelao culture.

When the melons are ripe in August of the ancient calendar, some people in the countryside advocate the custom of stealing melons and sending seeds. Because there is a husband and wife who have not been pregnant for a long time, or lack of children, people are sympathetic, so several people meet to express their intention to give melons to them, and the couple is naturally very happy. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people first go to the fields to steal melons.

No matter who has a ripe strip of pumpkins growing in the field, as the saying goes, "bucket melon" can choose one. When they take it back, some deliberately remove the guati, pour water into the melon, and then cover it tightly with a piece of "bud Gu Huhu (corn cob) to indicate that a boy is sent; Some do not take the stem and irrigate it. Immediately, a red cloth was used, wrapped around a bucket of melons, and a boy of five or six years who was one generation lower than the couple was carried on his back and sent to the melon home together.

When they were about to arrive at the house, the people learned the baby's cry, and the main house hurriedly opened the door to greet them. Entering the house, the husband and wife greeted everyone while holding the child carrying the melon, and shouted infinitely: "Ah, cub, are you here!"

Someone took the melon off, sent it directly to the bed in the bedroom, covered it with a quilt and said, "Congratulations on giving birth to a big fat boy in your family." Someone pretended to go and secretly pumped out the "bud valley huhu" at the guati, the water in the melon flowed out, the bed was wet, and he deliberately exclaimed, "Ah, the fat man pees!"

People laughed. The husband and wife will laugh heartily, too. The next day, the couple boiled pumpkin and ate it, and they couldn't lose it at all, even the skin of the melon.

Since then, they have always loved the boy who sent the melon as if he were their own children. After that, if a boy is born, it becomes a great joy. When the husband goes to "report the good news", he first goes to report to the head of the family who sent the melon, and calls the head of the person and his wife "Ga Gong" and "Ga Po"; Then report the good news to his own Gagong and Ga Po.

When doing "toasting rice wine", the head of the family sends "toasting rice" like a pro-Ga woman - preparing clothes, hats, skirts, back girths and other things for children. The adult also has to give the child a milk name, and many of them are named "melon two", "gourd", "Fuzi", "Fusheng" and so on. Since then, the family of children has always regarded the head of the family as a foreign family.

The allusion to its vulgarity comes from the "Poetry Daya" said: "The melon is the first birth of the people." "The folk have also been passed down from generation to generation:

The ancestors of mankind, Fuxi and Nuwa, all came out of the "gourd". <>

During the Spring Festival Lantern Festival, the head of the lantern festival in the countryside who plays with the dragon lantern is also for the family in the above situation, with the consent of the owner, when he visits the lantern, he goes to his home and quietly sends a dragon treasure. The housewife had to take the back coat in her pocket. Why do you send it quietly?

I was afraid that there would be more people who knew, so I rushed away from the "aura". Then the family tied the dragon treasure to hang it in the middle of the hall, and made a vow to "give birth to a child and pay the treasure". Every year, when playing with lanterns, the family has to warmly receive and offer incense and candles to the treasure lamp team.

Another family who wants to have a child, when no one sends the treasure, they make up their minds to "steal". When the dragon lantern came to celebrate the New Year, the people who entertained the lantern team went to have supper, and the woman quietly took the treasure from the dragon's mouth; Some women's women didn't dare to probe their mouths to get treasures, so they untied a red cloth under the dragon's horns. It is said that the "stolen" treasure or red cloth is still very "aura", and it is also "made a wish".

After that, if you have a child, you will first report the good news to the leader of the lantern team. The head people often give its milk names: "Dragon Sheng", "Dragon Dog", "Bao Wa", "Bao Zi" and so on.

"Tree Worship Day" is a traditional festival of the Gelao people and an important part of the Gelao culture. Many people mistakenly think that the "Tree Worship Day" is any tree, but in fact, the "Tree Worship Day" of the Gelao people does not worship all trees, and the Gelao people only worship the green steel tree, because the green steel tree is the ancestral tree of the Gelao people. The time of the Gelao people's tree worship festival is the 14th day of the first lunar month every year.

Before the festival, six families are responsible for collecting money to buy sacrifices, and one person pushes the stone mill to idle three times, indicating that the mountain god is informed, and shouts "long chop knife" (that is, sacrifice to the mountain god) from village to village. In the interval, on the mountain, tie a hut with a height of 1 meter and a width of 1 meter with birch branches, place it under the tree of the great god, insert a small triangular colored flag, lead chickens, pigs, sheep around the tree three times to slaughter and sacrifice, burn incense, candles, paper, please sit down and sacrifice to the mountain god, the ghost master recites a word, the whole clan kneels and worships, in order to pray for the blessing of the gods, and the five grains are abundant. As a result of this festival, many Gelao villages still have thousand-year-old trees.

On the day of the Arbor Festival, every household brings wine, meat, glutinous rice, and firecrackers, and takes turns to go to the trees in front of the house, behind the house and on the mountain to "worship the tree" ceremony, wishing the forest to be vigorous and the fruit trees to harvest, and to cut off the weeds around the roots, cultivate the soil, and choose a tall tree on the distant mountain as a "representative" to worship. After the Tree Festival, the whole village spontaneously carried out afforestation activities and formed a custom. <>

The customs of the Gelao people: living on the ground, taboo closing the door, washing feet on Chinese New Year's Eve, the elderly taboo young men and women singing mountain songs at home, and the elderly taboo children eating pig's trotters. The ethnic language is the Gelao language, which belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and there is no script of its own nationality, and the common Chinese language is used.

Both men and women wear barrel skirts. The skirt is woven with dyed wool thread, or a piece of fabric is made by connecting the ends horizontally or horizontally with two pieces. There are no folds at the waist of the skirt, and the skirt runs through the head when worn, so it is also called "through the skirt".

Men wear short jackets, and those who live in alpine mountains often wear a piece of felt. Women's clothes are generally long and short skirts, which are more elaborate and beautiful.

1. Diet: The Gelao people take the bread grain as the staple food, grind the bread grain with a stone mill, sieve and peel it, sprinkle water in the dustpan and mix it, and put it into the retort.

Steam, pour into the dustpan and then sprinkle water and mix well, until it does not stick to each other, and then retort and steam until it is cooked thoroughly. Festivals or visits from relatives and friends.

2. Clothing: Both men and women of the Gelao people wear barrel skirts. The skirt is woven with dyed wool thread, or a piece of fabric is connected horizontally to both ends.

It is done with two horizontal strokes. There are no folds at the waist of the skirt, and the skirt runs through the head when worn, so it is also called "through the skirt".

3. Marriage and love: The family marriage relationship of the Gelao people is strong, most of them are monogamous, and they are rarely divorced. The Gelao people are allowed to "recruit money."

married". Generally, it is because there are "no children under the knees", or because they are young even though they have children. The son-in-law who entered the family changed his surname to the woman's surname and was born.

The children also take the woman's surname.

4. Funeral: When the old man who gets along with him day and night is gone, the living people are deeply saddened and must always hold a pious and grand funeral.

In order to express sorrow, so as to form a funeral etiquette and tomb culture with strong national characteristics.

5. Festivals: Sacrificing mountains, eating new, and celebrating the New Year are the three major festivals commonly celebrated by the Gelao people in various places.

There are also three terraces, which are divided into tea banquets, wine banquets and rice banquets.

Hospitality customs and etiquette of the Gelao people.

The Gelao are a hospitable minority. The Gelao people have always been known for their warm and civilized treatment of outsiders. Hospitality is also a very important part of the Gelao culture.

The hospitality of the Gelao people is also a custom unique to the Gelao people. Yaotai is deeply loved by the people of the Gelao people, and the grinding book has become a beautiful scenery guessing line.

The first is the coffee table, which is called "Welcome". There are nine ** fruits and cakes on the table: one is crispy food with milky white flavor; 2. Red, yellow, green glutinous rice and star rice baked cakes; The third type is a variety of flower cakes, which are made with dried glutinous rice cakes of various colors cut into various petals, fried in hot sand, and then dyed with flowers of various colors.

The crispy skin will melt when exposed to water, making it suitable for the elderly and children. The fourth type is the red hat cake, which is a cone-shaped cake with a handful of red rice topped with tofu, meat, dates, and other nuts. This is the Wumei Mole Bubble Cake.

It has to be spicy to be delicious. Six to nine are walnuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, persimmon flowers. In addition to this, each person also has a bowl of golden and transparent Truudet tea.

People all over the world are drinking tea, eating cakes, and chatting. After more than an hour, the owner had prepared the second set and took the first.

The second is a banquet called "Eight Immortals Drunk". When the master sets the nine plates of wine and the table on the table, he performs rituals, lights incense and changes the paper, and respectfully invites the ancestors and various gods to sit on the table of the eight immortals under the incense shrine, which means that the gods and mortals enjoy happiness together. After three glasses of wine, the guests are in their places.

The second type of pickles is usually pickles and cold vegetables, such as sausages, lean meat, pickled pork offal, pickled chicken feet, rabbit jerky, preserved eggs, salted eggs, pickled beef, shredded radish, etc.

This wine is a self-brewed bone-keeping wine, with a mellow fragrance. During the feast, whoever serves one cup must drink three cups, and those who do not serve it must replace the wine with tea. The first glass is a toast to the guests, and the host will say something welcoming and humble.

The second glass is a blessing wine, which is blessed by the guests. The third cup is filial piety wine. The representatives of the younger generation wished their elders all the best.

Three cups of belly, good drinkers sing "Ten Cups of Wine" and other folk songs to persuade wine, guests sing "Song of Thanks" in return, and those who do not drink win. People who don't drink alcohol will never find it difficult for others. Those who drink well can enjoy it.

The atmosphere was harmonious, warm and civilized. A little more than an hour later, the second platform was dismantled and the third was launched.

Please eat slowly and be sure to eat well. "The third dish is a big dish, divided into nine bowls, generally made of pork, such as pig's trotters, cherry meat, fried pork, sand meat, bacon head, glutinous rice balls, fried mushroom blind mushroom slices, sweet and sour fish, sour tofu and sauerkraut soup. A table full of steaming dishes with good colors and aromas, plus hot "gold and silver rice", everyone will eat several bowls.

When the guests left the table, all three tables were finished.

The Bai people are an ancient people with a long history and splendid culture, and their ancestors have been extensively active since ancient times.

It belongs to the southwest region, leaving behind the immortal achievements of opening up the land, and then gradually divided and reorganized, and some of them gradually formed a single ethnic group. Their characteristics are:

1.Traditional Culture: Culture is the soul of a nation.

As a nation with a long history, the traditional culture of the Gelao people is thick and rich. The Gelao people advocate education, have a very deep origin in Chinese culture education, and relatively completely retain the "living fossils" in the drama of Nu opera and Nu culture. In addition, there are unique folk medicine culture, traditional handicrafts and unique traditional sports activities, such as "bamboo hydrangea", high platform lion dance, etc., which have been preserved to this day and have been well inherited and carried forward.

2.Customs: "Tea, three wines, four cigarettes and eight rods", showing the simplicity and hospitality of the Gelao people.

The ancient funeral customs of the Gelao people are very rich and profound, and they are very representative. Unique wedding customs, such as tooth beating and crying, have also often attracted widespread attention. Of course, many ancient traditional customs no longer exist, such as the custom of beating teeth and ancient burial customs, which have become the precious cultural memory of the Gelao people and are sealed in history.