1, right brother

Chanting songs is a traditional way for many minority youths in Yunnan, and it is also a way to celebrate festivals.

For example, Miao people's "traveling", Yao people's "singing romance", Buyi people's "whistling to catch their watches", Lahu people's, Hani people's and Bai people's singing, and Tibetan people's singing folk songs are all ways and means for young men and women of ethnic minorities to exchange feelings, find lovers and choose spouses through singing.

2. Crying to get married

Weeping marriage is the marriage custom of Zhuang, Yi, Hani and Tibetan nationalities. Usually a few days before the wedding or on the wedding day. The bride's mother and female relatives in her family accompanied her to cry, showing her sadness at her teenage death, repaying her parents' kindness, being attached to her family's departure, and complaining about her dissatisfaction with marriage.

Step 3 rob relatives

In Yunnan, Yi, Dai, Bai, Achang, Lisu, Jingpo, Yao and other ethnic groups all have the custom of robbing marriage, which generally occurs when the free love and marriage between men and women are blocked. With the woman's prior acquiescence, the man's partner pretends to rob the bride or the partner takes the girl who has been secretly selected. Even if girls want to, they should pretend to resist.

4. Packet loss

Every year, during the Songkran Festival, young Dai men and women should wear festive costumes and line up in two rows. The woman threw the flower bag at the boy she liked. If the man is interested, he pretends not to pick up the flower bag, gives up happily, gives the gift to the girl, and both of them leave the scene to talk about things. I lost my bag and sang, danced and had a picnic.

5. Marriage in xia

In the ancient marriage custom of Mosuo people in Ninglang, Yunnan, "xia" is Mosuo language, meaning "friend". Both men and women are called "xia", not husband and wife. As long as men and women are congenial, they can occasionally live together after exchanging tokens.

Among them, visiting marriage is the most peculiar. Visiting marriage means that a man goes to the woman's house at night and returns to his home at dawn the next day. They don't eat different jobs and have no family economic ties. The child born is a woman, and both men and women can have the same relationship with others. This kind of marriage is a remnant of the matriarchal social system.

6. Niu Piao celebrates a bumper harvest

Dulong people celebrate the harvest festival. Every autumn, one day is chosen as the harvest day of Qingfeng-xiangguang fracture, and a cattle hunting ceremony is held in the village square, presided over by the family patriarch, and the cattle are tied to the wooden pillars of the square.

A young woman hung a string of lotus flowers on her trumpet. After a short ceremony, a girl put hemp fabric on the back of the cow. Finally, a young man with both parents threw a sharp bamboo spear into the cow. Everyone is in high spirits, cutting meat. Then people cheered and danced a happy pot dance to celebrate the festival.

step foot on the moon

Making friends and falling in love is a custom of Miao youth, also called going to the village. Every moonlit night, boys play the Qin Yue in groups of three and five, play the flute in the village to find the right girl, sing while playing, talk and laugh, get to know each other through "stepping on the moon", establish friendship and even fall in love for life.

8. Leaf letters

The popular "physical letter" of Jingpo and Lisu people uses leaves to express feelings and convey information, and each leaf represents a different meaning.

For example, men use two tender leaves and other things to express their love for women; If the woman is interested, she will give back tobacco, reeds and so on. If she refuses, she will turn the two leaves back to back and return them to the man. Relatives who are far away will know that someone has died when they receive a piece of skinless beef two fingers wide.

Extended data:

Yunnan, referred to as Yun (Yunnan) for short, is located in the southwest border of China. The Tropic of Cancer runs through the southern part of Yunnan Province, belonging to low latitude inland areas, bordering Guizhou and Guangxi in the east, Sichuan in the north, Tibet in the northwest, Myanmar in the west and Laos and Vietnam in the south. There are 25 border counties in Yunnan bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, with a border of 4,060 kilometers.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Miao style