What are the taboos of Hani people?

The Hani nationality has a long history and has formed many taboos. Next, let's learn about the taboos of the Hani people. Welcome to reading.

1, Hani housing, generally there is a big room in the middle of the main room as a hall. In Xishuangbanna, there is a parents' bedroom in the hall, and there is a place to worship ancestors in the bedroom, and outsiders are not allowed to enter without authorization. The fire pit is the core of the Hani nationality. Remember not to step on the pot stone or tripod in the fire pit, not to spit in the fire pit, not to scrape the firewood in the fire pit with your feet, and not to cross the fire pit. The threshold of Hani nationality is forbidden to stand, sit or cut with a knife.

2. Hani people are very hospitable. When guests come home, the host always puts homemade tobacco into the cigarette holder and stands in front of the guests with the cigarette holder. Guests should politely refuse not to smoke. It is the traditional etiquette of Hani people to respect the elderly and treat guests politely.

3. Old people in Lu Yu should kindly call themselves "Shiva" and "Pi" (grandparents) and take the initiative to let the old people go first. You should give up your seat when you see an old man come in. Give cigarettes, wine and tea to the elderly with both hands and bow as a gift. Hold the lower end of the chimney when handing it to the old man. Don't cross your legs, whistle or talk in front of the old people. You can't walk in front of the old man, you should bypass him. When you kill a chicken, you should present the chicken head and liver to the elderly. Of course, when there are guests at home, in order to show respect for the guests, the host often gives them the head of a chicken. At this time, the guests should take the chicken head with both hands and give it to the elderly or elders present.

4. When attending a sacrificial banquet of the Hani nationality or going to eat at the Hani nationality's home, wait for the old man to say a few words of blessing, and then move chopsticks after the old man eats the first bite. When drinking with Hani friends at the dinner table, we should pay attention to the order of toasting: first, start with the oldest person, pour one by one counterclockwise, and finally pour a little more in the cup of the oldest person to show that everyone is round and round.

5, every round of pouring wine should be like this, even if it is a symbolic drop. The Hani people worship many gods, and regard a dense forest near the village as the shelter of the village god "Anmatu" to bless the village with a developed population, prosperous livestock and bumper crops. Therefore, it is absolutely forbidden to cut trees and graze in the forest. Every year in early spring, the whole village will hold sacrificial activities. On the day of the sacrificial ceremony, you can't speak the language of other nationalities other than your own. Those who are allowed to enter the sacred forest area should be solemn, not laughing, and never cross the sacred stone in front of the sacred forest and the pot stone used to cook food in the jungle.

Hani ethnic group

Hani nationality, known as Akka nationality in Southeast Asia, whose national language is hani language, belongs to Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. Modern Hani people use newly created phonetic symbols based on Latin letters.

Hani people are mainly distributed between Yuanjiang and Lancang River in China, living in counties such as Honghe, Jiangcheng, Mojiang, Xinping and Zhenyuan, and in the northern mountainous areas of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.

According to the statistics of the sixth national census in 20 10, the total population of Hani nationality in China is 1660932.