The marriage customs and etiquette of the Buyi people, and the marriage customs of the Buyi people

The Buyi can fall in love before they get married. The Buyi people advocate free love, young men and women fall in love freely before marriage, and unmarried young men and women everywhere like to take advantage of the opportunity of annual festivals, fairs and group gatherings.

Three or five people arrived.

Seven or eight people freely form a way to talk and laugh and sing in tune to confide or express each other's feelings.

The main gathering place of the Buyi Wuchong nationality is in Guizhou, where there are many customs, first of all, the national marriage customs, before the liberation, the Buyi nationality is still relatively feudal, there is polygamy, men and women with the same surname can intermarry, but the same surname and the same clan are absolutely not allowed to marry.

In the Buyi ethnic group, when a man falls in love with a certain girl, according to tradition, he must find a third party to judge him as a companion, and some are introduced by his sister and sister-in-law. If the woman has this intention, she can meet alone to a quiet place to sing further duets and express her affection, until the two parties exchange tokens, which means that they have sworn for life.

At the time of engagement, the man's parents will ask the matchmaker to go to the woman's house and bring gifts such as wine, meat, and rakes, because in the Buyi tribe, rakes are an indispensable gift for New Year's holidays, but if they are sent when they are not festivals, they are sent when there are happy events. <>

1. February 2.

The main thing is to worship the "land god", bless the peace of the whole village, kill chickens and respect ancestors, and eat two-color (white, black) glutinous rice. For the Buyi people in Yunnan Province, this festival lasts for three days and carries out sacrificial activities centered on the "old man's room".

2. June 6.

Sacrifice to the god of the field, the god of the land and the god of the mountain, and after the sacrifice, the blood of the chicken is stained with various colored paper flags, or the shape of a large bird is inserted in each field. At the same time, a "meeting of the hammer" was held to announce various hammer rules and regulations, and the hammer supervised the implementation of the hammer, so as to protect the safety of social property.

3. Eat the new festival.

It is also called the New Taste Festival. Because the rice ripens in different places, the festival date is different. Generally, when the rice is about to ripen, the man of the family goes to the field to pick a small number of ears of grain, puts them in the retort and steam them with glutinous rice, and then worships the ancestors.

Wangmo, Caiheng and other places, after taking the new glutinous grain, first cook and dry, scoop off the chaff, and then swell and steam it into glutinous rice with boiling water, which is called "root gold milli mold" in Buyi language.

The customs of the Buyi people: 1. On the second day of February, the main thing is to worship the "land god", bless the peace of the whole village, kill chickens and respect ancestors, and eat two-color (white and black) glutinous rice. 2. On June 6, the god of the field, the god of the land and the god of the mountain, after the sacrifice, the chicken blood is stained with various colored paper flags, or made into a big bird shape and inserted in each field.

Culture of the Buyi people: 1. Architecture, there are several kinds of buildings, half-floors and bungalows in the Buyi people's houses. The half-floor building generally adopts the architectural pattern of the back half is a bungalow, the front half is a building, or the left half is a bungalow, and the right half is a building.

2. Diet: The Buyi people take rice as the staple food, and also eat corn, high wheat, red barnyard and buckwheat. The Buyi people especially like glutinous food, and have a variety of production methods, such as making glutinous rice dumplings, round sugar cakes, ear pieces of rice dumplings, pillow dumplings and triangular rice dumplings.

During the New Year's holidays, glutinous rice must be eaten, and glutinous rice cakes are given to relatives and friends. During the festival, they also like to eat various "sticky rice" dyed with flower juice and leaf juice.

3. Costumes: Buyi costumes are mostly blue, blue, white and other colors. Buyi women pay attention to headdresses, braided hair before marriage, and wear embroidered headscarves; After marriage, it is necessary to use bamboo shoot shells as a special decoration for the "skeleton", which is called "more examination", which means to become a family.

4. Family: Buyi families practice patriarchal patriarchy. Parents have the power to control the economy and command the members of the family.

Male elders are respected, and those who are upright are more prestigious. Disputes between clans can be mediated by themselves, and there is no need to appeal to the government. The status of women is lower than that of men, and widows can inherit property, but not if they remarry.

The Buyi people are one of the most widely distributed ethnic groups in Guizhou Province, China, and their customs and culture have a long history and unique characteristics. Here are some typical Buyi customs and cultures:

1.Eat sour soup fish: Sour soup fish is one of the traditional dishes of Guizhou, and it is also a special dish of the Buyi people. It is an acidic dish made with ingredients such as Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers, fungus, tofu, etc., and is usually eaten with rice.

2.Sticky rice: Sticky rice is one of the traditional foods of Guizhou and one of the characteristics of the Buyi people. It is rice cooked with glutinous rice and clear water, and is usually eaten with ingredients such as meat, vegetables, or tofu.

3.Hot and sour noodles: Hot and sour noodles are one of the traditional snacks in Guizhou, and they are also the special food of the Buyi people. It is a noodle made with pea flour or mung bean flour and seasonings such as sauerkraut and chili peppers, and is usually served with chili oil, peanut butter, etc.

4.Drum Tower: The Drum Tower is one of the traditional buildings of the Buyi people and an important symbol of the Buyi culture. In many cities and villages in Guizhou, you can see the architectural style and traditional customs of the drum tower.

5.Toasting: Toasting is a traditional cultural practice of the Buyi people, usually used to celebrate weddings, birthdays, or other important occasions. During the toast, the Buyi people would pour the wine into a cup and then make a toast to the gods or guests, and Liang Bi would pray for blessings and happiness.

6.Festivals: The Buyi people have many traditional festivals and festivals, the most famous of which are the Miao Lusheng Festival and the Drum Tower Festival. These festivals often feature grand events such as dancing, singing, and food, attracting a large number of tourists.

7.Folklore Culture: The folk culture of the Buyi people is also very colorful, including traditional songs and dances, folk tales, traditional handicrafts and so on.

The most famous of these are the Miao reed sheng and the Buyi music box. The reed sheng is a traditional musical instrument of the Miao people, and the music box is a traditional handicraft of the Buyi people, both of which have very high artistic value and cultural connotation.

The above are some typical customs and cultures of the Buyi people, which are rich and colorful and an important part of the culture of Guizhou.