What are the customs and habits of the Gelao people?

The traditional hospitality culture of the Gelao people.

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.

On the first day of the first lunar month, it is forbidden to sweep the floor, pour water outside the house, catch lice, and beat and scold children.

It is forbidden for the Gelao people to use ploughs and oxen to plough the land on the day of stinging.

It is forbidden for the Gelao people to go up the mountain to cut firewood on the two days of the spring equinox and the third day of the third month of March.

It is forbidden for the Gelao people to break ground on the fourth day of the third month and on the fifth day of the third month, so they do not plow and hoe on these two days.

It is forbidden for children to go out at night on the 15th day of July.

Brief introduction. Before 1949, the Gelao were mainly engaged in agriculture. The crops are mainly corn, but the yield per mu is low, and the yield per mu is only.

Eighty, ninety pounds. In addition, it also produces rice, small wheat, sweet potatoes, etc. There are no water conservancy projects, relying on rainwater for irrigation, and serious disasters such as water, drought, hail, insects, and beasts.

Collecting paulownia seeds, weaving bamboo, straw sandals and other sideline production occupy an important position in the economic life of the Gelao people. Due to the dumping of foreign yarn, the cottage industry of the Gelao people who originally weaved "iron flute cloth" gradually declined.

As early as the Qing Dynasty, there was a group of professional blacksmiths among the Gelao people, as it is said in the records, the Gelao people in Huangpingzhou and Liping Prefecture "multi-servant (do) ironworkers", Pingyuan Prefecture and Dading Prefecture part of the Gelao Tongxiang stove to "cast ploughs for the industry", Xiangxi Gelao craftsmen made shotguns, the range can reach more than 20 zhang away. Therefore, in the history books, the Gelao people in some places are called "iron fighters".

This kind of iron-striking technique is still preserved in some of the Gelao people, such as more than 10 households of the 26 Gelao tribes in Longzhi Village, Langdai County, Guizhou (now Liuzhi District). The iron products produced by the Gelao people are loved by the local people of all ethnic groups. However, with the emergence of a large number of high-quality and low-cost iron products on the market, there are very few people who are engaged in iron striking at present.

The stone carving craftsmen of the Gelao nationality are skilled, and most of the carved stone carvings are used for stone carving.