What kind of marriage customs do Bai people have when they get married?

The customs and habits of the Bai nationality include: face painting ceremony, Bugu dance, Yao Mountain waist drum, cucumber festival, and Ox King Festival.

1. Face painting ceremony.

The face is painted in four colors: red, black, white and yellow, and various patterns are painted on the face with colored clay or colored powder. These patterns represent different meanings, such as red for auspiciousness and happiness, black for solemnity and composure, and so on. The face-painting ceremony is an important part of the Bai folk culture, and it is also a manifestation of the pride of the Bai people.

Second, step valley dance.

Bugu dance represents the prosperity of life and the joy of harvest, and the song and dance are full of auspicious and beautiful meanings. In the Bugu dance, the dancer wears a specific costume, holds a white handkerchief, and dances to the accompaniment of **. The gorgeous hand dance pedals highlight the artistic atmosphere and aesthetic value of Bai culture.

3. Yao Mountainside Drum.

The Yao Mountainside Drum is generally played by 8 to 16 dancers, and the instruments used are mainly drums, pipes, yaoqin, etc. During the performance, the dancers dressed in specially made clothes and dance their bodies and hands to the beat of the drums, showing a variety of dynamic dance postures. The Yaoshan waist drum is the essence of Bai culture and **, which can arouse people's love and respect for the traditional culture of the Bai nationality.

Fourth, the cucumber festival.

Every year on this festival, various celebrations are held in the Bai villages, among which the "cucumber opera" is the main form of expression. In this drama, the actors disguise themselves as various characters, combined with Bai ** and dance, showing the traditional cultural connotation and human touch. In addition, the Bai people will also make a sumptuous cucumber feast at the cucumber festival as a festive meaning of harvest.

Fifth, the Ox King Festival.

In this festival, the Bai people will worship and sacrifice the local god, the Ox King. During the Ox King Festival, the Bai people will hold a variety of activities, such as lion dance, dragon dance, stilt walking, etc. People also make a variety of delicacies such as bait, glutinous rice cakes, tiger's mouth meat, etc., to celebrate this holy day.

The Ox King Festival is an important festival for the Bai people to express their respect and gratitude to the gods, and it is also a way to highlight the Bai culture.

The above content refers to Encyclopedia - Bai nationality.

1. Clothing. The Bai costumes are refreshing and generous. Most of the men wore white cardigans and black collared coats. Women's clothing is different, and the age of the dress can be seen as well as whether they are married or not, and regional differences. The Bai people advocate white and take white clothes as their honor.

Men in the Dali area mostly wear white cardigans and black collared coats. Men of the Bai nationality in eastern Erhai wear suede collar gowns, or leather and satin collar gowns, with embroidered waistbands around the waist and blue or black trousers underneath.

Women's clothing varies from place to place. Dali mostly wears white tops, red shoulders, or light blue tops, coats and black velvet collar gowns, and hangs "three whiskers" and "five whiskers" silver ornaments at the right lining buttons, and wears embroidered short waists around the waist, and wears blue wide pants and embroidered shoes.

2. Diet. The Bai people eat rice and wheat as their staple food, while the mountainous areas eat corn and buckwheat as their staple food. Likes to eat sour and spicy, carp, bowfish, crucian carp of Erhai Lake are people's favorite dishes, and "casserole fish" is a famous delicacy in Dali.

Good at marinating ham, bacon, sausages, fried chicken, snail sauce, etc.

3. Architecture. The architectural art of the Bai nationality is unique. In the alpine mountainous areas, there are mostly single rooms or two connected "stacked wooden houses" or "bamboo fence houses"; In the dam area, there are many tiled houses with civil engineering structures.

Located at the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake, Dali Xizhou is the essence of Bai people's dwellings. A dignified Bai dwelling is mainly composed of a courtyard wall, a gate, a wall, a main house, and a left and right ear room.