How much do you know about the cultural customs of the Yao people?

There are 56 ethnic groups in China, in addition to the Han nationality, there are many ethnic minorities, the Yao nationality is one of them, they mostly live in the mountainous areas, mainly distributed in the mountainous areas of several provinces and regions in southern China, and most of them are mainly engaged in agriculture. As for the cultural customs of the Yao people, I only know a little bit about them.

1. Eating habits.

The main food of the Yao residents is rice, corn and sweet potato, the daily dishes are pumpkin, pepper and poultry and livestock, the northern region of Guizhou is prevalent in the "oil tea", fried tea leaves with oil, plus ginger, chili, salt seasoning, brewing fried rice, fried beans with drinking, unique flavor. The Yao people also like to use sencha such as cinnamon bark and ginger, which they believe can refresh the mind and relieve fatigue.

2. Architectural style.

Because most of the Yao people live in mountainous areas, their architectural styles vary from place to place, for example, in places with large slopes, hanging buildings are used in Jiaobad; In the plains and hilly areas, most of them are civil or mud structures. Housing is generally a building with three rooms, in our words living room, bedroom and kitchen.

3. Marriage culture.

Yao nationality as one of the largest number of migrations in our country one of the ethnic minorities, their marriage culture has a very strange color, its marriage has two ways, marrying a girl and recruiting a man, and both ways have a fixed etiquette procedure, when marrying a woman, the suitor must bring an umbrella to the woman's house on the right side of the door of the woman's house, if the woman agrees to marry, the woman's family will take the umbrella into the house, and then the man should prepare clothes, deposits, silver medals, silver rings to the woman. Before getting married, there is also a wedding (to a relative's house to announce the good news, say goodbye), a symposium (similar to a single farewell party). The bride has her uncle to go out on her back, and the mother and daughter have to hug their heads and cry, and when they arrive at the place to welcome the relatives, they have to go around the bride three times with the band.

When you arrive at the groom's house, you have to wait for the groom to fetch water to wash his feet and change into chicken shoes. And Zhaolang, that is, what we call the door-to-door son-in-law, the man can live in two families in turn in order to take care of the life of the two families, and the first child is born with the mother's surname, the second child with the father's surname, and so on.

In short, each ethnic group has its own cultural practices, and although many have changed now, they are still somewhat different.

Not much is understood. But I know that they mainly eat corn and sweet potatoes as a staple food, and they will also have local specialties. Their architecture varies from place to place, and the appearance is very peculiar, and it is all made of local materials.

The people of the Yao people worship nature. There are also places where Taoism is practiced.

There is still a lot to know, and the people in this place have unique clothing, and the food culture is completely different, and then the main things to eat are corn, rice, sweet potatoes, and there are many festivals, such as including Panwang Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Danu Festival, Spring Festival and so on.

Not much is understood, this is an ethnic minority, but also a multi-talented people, they are mainly farming, and they are good at picking and fishing, hunting.

If you don't know about it, you don't know about this people, and you haven't learned about the customs and culture of this area before.

Yunnan Yao folk customs.

With a long history and splendid national culture, there are more than 10,000 Yao people who can sing and dance, and are industrious and brave, and the Yao people have lived in the mountainous areas of Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hainan and other provinces and regions in the south of the motherland for generations, and are a relatively typical mountain ethnic group in southern China. It has abundant rainfall, lush forests, and abundant natural resources, including plants, animals, and minerals. For example, Jianghua Yao Mountain, known as the "green treasure house", and Jinxiu Dayao Mountain, known as the largest natural plant kingdom in Guangxi and the "hometown of Chinese fir", ......

The Yao people have their own language, and the Yao language belongs to the Yao branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, but the situation is more complicated, more than half of the people speak "Mian", which belongs to the Yao branch of the Miao Yao language family; Two-fifths of the people speak the "Bunu" language, which belongs to the Miao branch; Some people in Guangxi speak the "Lajia" language, which belongs to the Zhuang-Dong language family. Multi-fluent Chinese, Zhuang language, no native language, generally common Chinese. Oral literature is extremely rich.

There are 63 kinds of self-proclaimed Yao people, such as Mian, Men, and Min, and he claims that there are 390 species, such as Pan Yao, Blue Indigo Yao, and Red Head Yao. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were collectively known as the Yao people.

Due to the geographical restrictions of residence, most of the Yao people still retain their primitive hunting, fishing and farming culture, as well as exquisite Yao brocade and Yao costumes, ancient legends, beautiful Yao songs, beautiful dances, unique marriage customs and religious beliefs. Yao women are good at weaving, dyeing, embroidery, and the patterns of their clothing are exquisite and varied. Most of the branch titles are determined by clothing, such as those supported by plates in the headdress, called the top plate Yao; Those who wear indigo clothes are called blue indigo.

The Yao language has a complex branch, with a variety of dialects, no written language, and common Chinese. In order to commemorate the ancestors, the Yao people on October 16 of the lunar calendar are designated as the "Panwang Festival" The Yao people mainly believe in primitive religion, worship the god of the village, the god of the family, the god of the mountain, the god of the wind, etc., and also divinate the auspicious day and sacrifice to the gods in the activities of life and production. The religious beliefs of the Yao people are complex, and the religions of Wiccanism, Taoism, and primitive religion vary from place to place.