What is the Spring Festival food of Yi people?

The first thing: kill pigs and eat pig-killing rice.

No matter how many pigs are prepared, there must always be a white or black male castrated pig. In the first year of Chinese New Year, I chose it, saying, "This is the pig for Chinese New Year", but I asked the Bodhisattva to bless the healthy growth of the pig for Chinese New Year. It is very grand for Yi people to kill pigs in the New Year.

First of all, you must determine when your family will kill pigs in the twelfth lunar month, and then determine a specific day during this period. It is a solemn custom for the Yi people to kill pigs, and they can't do it at will.

You must invite people to kill pigs, commonly known as "eating and killing pigs", ranging from two or three tables to more than a dozen tables. The invited guests are basically old people, relatives and friends in the village. A few days before the pig was killed, the host family would invite guests, relatives and friends at home and say, "One day, at some time, our family will kill the pig, and then the whole family will give birth to a liver pillar."

When killing pigs, you should drink "pig-killing wine" first, and every strong man who takes part in killing pigs should take a sip. Then put the red-hot stones, golden bamboos and clear water into a wooden ladle or bowl, and purify them with pure steam to remove all evil spirits from the pigs last year, indicating sincere worship to ancestors and gods.

To kill a pig, two bowls of rice are essential. First, old fat, without this dish, what is killing pig rice? Second, the liver is born. Tap the pork liver with the back of a knife to extract the essence, stir it with wine, pepper, pepper, tsaoko, star anise and other ingredients, cook it with pork loin, tear it apart, stir it carefully, then slowly bake it in a small pot until it is crispy and delicious, then pour in all the ingredients such as pork liver and stir it evenly, and add ingredients such as onion and ginger to make it mellow. Eating another meal the next morning is the end of killing pigs.

In pig killing activities, Yi people have special requirements:

A new rope about 6 meters long must be prepared for trapping and lifting pigs.

Prepare a handful of dried fern and chicken grass for cooking pigs. Yi people like to cook meat with fern grass in the mountains, because fern grass is auspicious, flammable and delicious. Burn pig hair with fern grass, roast yellow pig skin, smear pork with charcoal ash and water, and scrape it clean. This kind of pork has no moisture, and it is tender and delicious.

Pork can't be packed in old utensils. Before the Chinese New Year, 6-8 new baskets of different sizes were woven with fresh bamboo sticks to hold pork, viscera and tofu. It is also necessary to weave a bamboo basket with a length of 2× 1.5 meters with wide bamboo strips to dissect pigs. When using bamboo basketry, you should distinguish between head and tail, front and back, head up and front up to avoid inversion.

Besides killing pigs, the Yi people also have some customs during the Spring Festival:

The most important thing is to prepare dry fine wood and dry bamboo poles, so that cooking during the New Year is fast and convenient. In addition, prepare a few big bags of firewood, which will burn day and night in the hall fire kang during the Chinese New Year, and must not be put out.

Prepare rice, dried noodles, buckwheat noodles, oat noodles, eggs and wine before the Chinese New Year. These must be prepared, and the number is unlimited, according to the needs of each family. With the improvement of material life, new year's goods are more colorful.

Prepare several bamboo brooms, large and small. The big broom is used to sweep the inside and outside of the house, and the small broom is used to scrub pots and pans.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, all knives must be sharpened.

Every Yi family should make tofu during the New Year, and make tofu 1-2 days in advance, depending on the needs of each family. In the process of making tofu, outsiders are not allowed to come in when ordering alkali. The hardness of tofu indicates good luck and peace in the coming year, otherwise it will be the opposite.

65438+ 0-2 days before the Chinese New Year, every household should clean the roof, eaves, indoor and outdoor, garden dams, furniture, bedding, kitchen utensils and so on. , to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

During the Spring Festival, women are exempted from all housework on the first day of the Lunar New Year to show their gratitude for their hard work in the past year.

On New Year's Eve, a pine tree will be erected in front of every house, meaning to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, avoiding disasters and eliminating disasters; The first floor is covered with a thick layer of pine needles to sit on for dinner.

On New Year's Eve, adult men must stay up all night. At the vigil, several men got together, talked about family history while drinking, and now some people play poker. The purpose of vigil is mainly to show respect for ancestors, but also to get back the first load of water before dawn and prepare meals so that you can eat it once before dawn.