What are the characteristics of the courtship customs of the Lisu people?

The basic form of marriage and family in the Lisu people is monogamy. In terms of form and process, it has more unique characteristics. Young men and women enjoy greater freedom of social interaction before marriage, and villages with large populations are accustomed to making use of newly built vacant houses or building shacks to facilitate the social activities of young men and women.

Young men and women are free to go to such rooms at night to play strings and sing tunes, and everyone lies around the fire late at night. Sometimes, this social activity can also be done in the shack where the crops are guarded. Girls are required to wear a skirt at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and after the dress is performed, they can participate in this social activity.

In the past, it was common for men and women to be betrothed to their parents at an early age, and some even married by fingers. The dowry is heavy. The right of first refusal of aunt and uncle marriage is also prevalent.

There is a saying among the Lisu people: "The largest tree is a fir tree, and the largest person is an uncle." Therefore, the habit of "asking the uncle first if there is a woman" was formed.

Today, young men and women of the Lisu nationality are free to marry and love, and marriage and family are built on the basis of free love. <>

The unique hijab of the Lisu bride in Dechang is very eye-catching. The hijab is made of black homespun cloth, and the hijab is large, some of which are extremely large, and the hijab makes the Lisu wedding full of mysterious atmosphere.

On the day of the wedding, the bride dresses up in her mother's house, and the bridesmaids wrap her in a headband, which is different from the usual headband, and the bride's headbands are very large and wrapped like wheels. The dowry of the Lisu people is very simple, just a few headscarves, a piece of clothing and a bed cover. The headkerchief is given by the relatives of the mother's family, and the headband sent by the mother's brother and uncle must be wrapped by the bride, so the headbands on the bride's head are generally four or five pieces of homespun cloth, each piece is one zhang two or one zhang five, and the cloth hangs down in the outermost layer when wrapping it, forming a strict and solid hijab.

The bride is much better now, and she doesn't wrap it very much; In the past, some brides had to wrap their headscarves in ten pieces of cloth, making their hijabs huge. Although the bride had a splitting headache from being hooped, she had to endure it silently.

The bridesmaid took off the hijab for the bride for the bride, leaving only the wheel-like headbands tightly tied to the headscarves, such as the headbands are too big and too heavy, you can take off one or two pieces of cloth to reduce the burden of the bride, and the bride who takes off the hijab is surrounded by all the women.

Before entering the man's house, he took a break, and then he had to cover the bride with a hijab, restore the original state, and the women who wanted to enter the house before opening the quilt on the bride's head to cover the bride, and only after being robbed of the cover by the man's house did they enter the house. After entering the house, the bride and groom sit side by side with the hijab, and after a complicated ceremony such as worshipping and naming, the bridesmaids remove the bride's hijab, and the bride's face is revealed. <>

The customs of the Lisu people are as follows:

1. The Lisu people have the custom of eating "hand pilaf" and drinking "concentric wine". "Drinking Tongxin wine and eating pilaf" is the highest etiquette of Lisu hospitality.

2. Eating customs: The Lisu people attach great importance to respecting the old and loving the young, generally the housewife serves meals to the elderly and children, and then serves meals to her husbands, and eats last. When eating, I also have to serve the elderly and children. If there are guests at home, serve them a meal first and take care of them patiently.

3. The marriage of the Lisu people is monogamous. At the time of the wedding, the song and dance troupe will be invited to perform, and the bride and the bride and the bride will start singing against each other after arriving at the South Courtyard.

4. The Lisu people are buried after death. After the death of an adult, the Lisu people in the whole village stopped production and labor for 2 to 3 days and held condolence activities. After entering the alkali, they stop in front of the door, and their relatives sing sacrificial songs and dance funeral dances.

When entering the tomb, the head is on a high place, facing east. The funerary goods were not buried in the ground, but hung on a stake in front of the grave. When the deceased was submerged, the villagers avoided eating chili peppers.

5. According to the traditional habits of the Lisu people, the construction of a house must be completed within one day, otherwise it is considered unlucky. In order to ensure that the house was built within a day, the owner had to rely on the cooperation of family members, friends and neighbors, a form known in the Sugo language as "tile claw".

A few days before the house was built, the owner of the house informed relatives and friends. After gathering all the building materials in advance, the wizard was asked to choose an auspicious day, when all the invited relatives, friends, and neighbors worked together to complete it in one day. The owner of the house treats friends and relatives who help him according to his financial conditions.

In some places, the houses are relatively simple, and they are basically small bamboo buildings. Upstairs residents, generally separated by bamboo fences into two grids, two rooms ** are set up with a fire pit, with a tripod, for cooking rice and roasting fire. At night, the whole family sleeps around the fire pit, which is lit all year round.

When a guest comes, the host will let the guests stay by the fire pit. The bamboo floor is generally used for raising cattle, pigs and other livestock, and the bamboo building is surrounded by a garden, planted with melons, fruits, vegetables and the like.

6. Both men and women of the Lisu nationality have the custom of chewing tobacco and drinking. When the guests come, they want to give tobacco; Men and women seeking a partner should throw away the cigarette box as a token. It can be seen the position of tobacco in the life of the Lisu people.

When chewing tobacco, put the shredded tobacco in your mouth, then add a black gelatinous substance made from betel nut root, plum bark, chestnut leaves, and hydrated lime and chew slowly.

7. In the past, animistic nature worship was prevalent among the people of the Lisu people, and all traditional festivals were closely related to religious rituals. The Lisu people determine the solar terms by observing phenological changes. The largest folk festival is the annual Kosh Festival (New Year's Festival).

The New Year's Day is also eaten, eaten and brewed water and wine, in order to pray for a good harvest.

8. "Burying Lovers in Jiangsha" is the most distinctive traditional festival and courtship activity of Lisu youth in Fugong County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. At the beginning of the first month of each year.

It will be held around the fifth day of the fourth and fifth lunar month. At that time, young men and women gathered on the banks of the Nu River, singing and dancing. With the help of his companions, he dug a sand pit on the beach, carried the person he intended to be "buried", and pretended to be very sad and weeping, singing mourning songs and dancing funeral dances.

1. The Lisu people have the custom of eating "hand pilaf" and drinking "concentric wine". "Drinking Tongxin wine and eating pilaf" is the highest etiquette of Lisu hospitality. 2. Except for the murderous dead and those who died outside the cremation, the rest of the Lisu people are cremated.

The Lisu people are very affectionate and sympathetic to the deceased, and when anyone dies, their relatives and people from the village go to pay their respects, cry for them, dance funeral dances, and keep their spirits. 3. The Lisu people taboo guests go straight from the front door to the back door, thinking that the dead are funeral like this. It is forbidden to enter the house with a cane, and it is only used when dancing to mourn the deceased.

Introduction to the Lisu people

The houses of the Lisu people mainly include thousand-foot floor-to-ceiling houses (i.e., bamboo strip houses), wooden houses and tiled houses with civil engineering structures. The Lisu people are an ethnic group formed by the fusion of the ancient Qiang and ancient Di people who went south from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and some indigenous people of the Yunnan Plateau, and are also one of the unique ethnic minorities in Yunnan, China. The Lisu people have their own language and script, and the Lisu language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

The Lisu language is spoken in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, and due to the scattered residence, the language is also divided into several dialect areas.

1.The Lisu people have the custom of eating "hand pilaf" and drinking "concentric wine". "Drinking Tongxin wine and eating pilaf" is the highest etiquette of Lisu hospitality.

2.The Lisu people cremated those who were killed, and the rest were buried. The Lisu people are very emotional and sympathetic to the dead. If someone dies, relatives and people in the stockade go to mourn, mourn, dance and wake for him.

3.The Lisu people taboo guests to walk directly from the front door to the back door to imitate the cong, in order to prepare for the funeral of the dead man. It is forbidden to bring crutches into the house, as they are only used when mourning the dead and dancing.