The living customs of the Hani people, the characteristics and customs of the Hani people

The Hani people believe that all things have spirits and that people's souls are immortal, so nature worship and ancestor worship prevail. There is a wealth of oral literature and folk dances. Men, women, and children like to carry musical instruments such as bau and flutes with them.

Beginning with the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the traditional festivals are mainly "Zalet" (October year, i.e. New Year) and "Ganzhaza" (May Festival).

The Hani people eat two meals a day, mainly rice, supplemented by corn, like to eat dry rice, baba, rice noodles, roll noodles and pea jelly, and also chop the lean meat finely, and boil porridge with rice, ginger, star anise, and grass fruit. They love to eat glutinous rice baba, wrapped in plantain leaves and eaten with cured meat. They also use purple glutinous rice to make purple rice, purple rice cake, purple rice porridge, purple rice flour, purple rice as treasure rice, purple rice steamed chicken, purple rice sweet wine boiled eggs, purple rice medicinal sugar porridge, etc., forming a complete medicinal diet series.

These medicinal diets have the effects of nourishing blood and qi, warming the spleen and stopping deficiency, strengthening the brain and kidneys, and strengthening the uterus and body.

The Hani people also have a strange dish called"Bai Wang"It is chopped with pig blood, sheep blood, and dog blood, and is called by the Aini people of the Hani tribe"A pressure horse pinch"。It is made by using the blood of freshly slaughtered pigs, sheep and dogs as the main raw material, or then chopped and fried lean meat, liver, loin, etc., sprinkled with chili powder, star anise noodles, wild pepper noodles and other condiments, and quickly stirred without losing the opportunity. This dish looks scared, eats fragrant, mellow taste, spicy and delicious, is listed as an indispensable famous dish during the slaughter of pigs and sheep, and is also the delicacy of Hani people's warm hospitality.

The Hani people in the area of the Red River, on the first dragon day of the seventh lunar month, have the custom of "eating new grains". On the day of eating new grain, according to the old rules, each family should go to their own paddy field to pull back a small bundle of rice with roots and ears when the fish belly is just white in the east. When pulling rice, you should choose the rice hole with a single number of plants, and do not greet any raw or acquaintance when you turn it back, otherwise you will think it is unlucky.

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The characteristics and customs of the Hani people are as follows:

1. The Hani people have a long history, and lived in Ning'er long before the Tang Dynasty, with Hani, Haoni, Biyo, Kado, and Amu calling themselves. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were collectively referred to as the Hani ethnic group according to their ethnic voluntariness. The main festivals of the Hani people are "October Year" and "Torch Festival".

Every year, the first day of the tenth lunar month is celebrated as the first day of the year.

2. Due to long-term contacts with the Han people, Chennai also spent the Spring Festival with the Han people. In June, the Hengchang Spring Torch Festival (the Hani people of Ning'er are called "Zhanzha"), a village or a family kills a cow to sacrifice "Qiufang", the beef is distributed to each household, after cooking, add green corn, female silk peanuts, cucumbers, Beijing beans, glutinous rice to offer to the ancestors, and the offering time takes five days.

3. On the 24th day of June in the lunar calendar, each household uses pine wood to tie a torch, uses dry pine wood to grind the end and fry the yellow to make fragrant noodles, lights the torch, sprinkles the fragrant noodles on the flame to make a sound, bakes the houses and stables at home, and some also sprinkle them to the corner of the field to show "exorcism of ghosts and demons". After that, the whole village gathered together to sing and dance under the flame of the torches, and enjoyed the carnival.

4. The Hani people generally respect their elders. When eating, the good dishes are placed on the side of the old man and let the old man taste it first. The sons and daughters shall pour wine and food for the elderly, and hold them in both hands.

Drink water during labor breaks in the mountains, let the older ones drink first, and if there are many people, drink them in order of age. When they return from work, the younger generation will serve tea and hookah to the elderly.

The Hani people are one of the ethnic minorities in China, most of them live on the mountainside, and the villages are built according to the mountain. So what are the customs and habits of the Hani people?

The first is the marriage aspect. The basic marriage system of the Hani people is monogamous, in which young men and women are free to associate before marriage, and marriage requires the consent of both parents.

Then there's the costumes. Most of the cloth worn by the Hani people is self-spinning and self-dyeing, and the homespun cloth they weave is tight and firm. The Hani people generally like to make clothes from the navy blue homespun cloth they have woven and dyed.

Finally, there is the liturgical aspect. The Hani people generally respect their elders. When eating, the good dishes are placed on the side of the old man and let the old man taste it first. The sons and daughters are to pour wine and food for the elderly, and they are to hold them in their hands. When they return from labor, the younger generation will serve tea to the elderly.