Hani ethnic customs
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2023-08-17 15:05:59
Hani ethnic customs
Hani ethnic customs
The Hani ethnic group has a long history and lived in Ning'er as early as the Tang Dynasty. There are Hani, Haoni, Biyue, Kado, and Amu who call themselves Hani. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, they were collectively referred to as the Hani ethnic group according to their national preferences. The main festivals of the Hani ethnic group are "October New Year" and "Torch Festival". The first Dragon Day of the 10th lunar month is designated as the beginning of the year and celebrated. Due to long-term interaction with the Han ethnic group, they also celebrate the Spring Festival with the Han ethnic group， sports fitness .
During the June Torch Festival (known as "Zhazha" in the Hani ethnic group of Ning'er), a village or family kills a cow to sacrifice to the "Autumn House". The beef is distributed to each household, cooked, and served to ancestors with green corn, shredded peanuts, cucumbers, Beijing beans, and glutinous rice. The offering time takes five days.
On the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, various households use pine firewood to make torches, use dried pine wood to grind and stir fry yellow to make fragrant noodles. The torches are lit, and fragrant noodles are sprinkled on the flames to make a noise. The torches burn every corner of the house and livestock stables, and some are even sprinkled on the edges and corners of the fields to show "exorcism and demonic". Afterwards, the whole village gathered together, singing and dancing under the flames of the torches, and indulged in a frenzy.
building
Housing is generally divided into a main room and an ear room, and some even have a basement, forming a courtyard. The main building is a wooden frame structure with a stone foundation and a soil foundation with walls. Cover the roof with thatch or shingles. Grain and vegetables are piled up upstairs, while housing is located downstairs. The left and right earbuds are both made of soil and hammered into a flat roof to serve as a sunbathing area, known as the soil palm room. If there are more children, live in the right ear room. The left ear room serves as the kitchen. Those who are on the same level as the main building are called the underground hall, which is usually a thatched building with firewood, grass, and agricultural tools stacked upstairs and livestock kept downstairs. Poor families usually only have one thatched building, with people living upstairs and storing food, melons, and vegetables, while livestock and firewood are stored downstairs. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, with the development of production and the improvement of living standards, most Hani people have lived in tiled houses with buildings and buildings.
taboo
The Hani people used to believe that fire was the life of the family and were in awe of it. They must protect the fire for a long time. Each family has several different fire ponds. The fire in a fire pit not only requires continuous fireworks, but also the purpose of each fire pit cannot be confused. The Hani ethnic group has many taboos, such as avoiding outsiders entering the room during childbirth; Do not wear clothes when entering the village; Do not use the tripod on the fire to dry wet shoes; It is prohibited to cut down "dragon trees" and throw filth under them.
