What are the taboos and customs of Yi people?

Yi customs: 1. Young men and women can freely fall in love, but marriage must be approved by their parents, and they need to go through the process of matchmaking and drink "the wine of agreement" and "the wine of engagement". 2. People have the habit of "beating sheep" and "beating cattle" to welcome guests. Where there are tourists, they will kill animals and treat them with cows, sheep, pigs and chickens. According to the identity and closeness of the visitors. Before killing animals, bring live animals to guests, ask them to have a look, and then kill them to show respect. Taboo: avoid playing with your head; Avoid farting and swearing in public; Avoid whistling at night and so on.

Yi nationality is the sixth largest minority in China, and its national language is Yi language, which belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There are six dialects in North, East, South, Southeast, West and China, including five sub-dialects and twenty-five dialects.

Yi people are mainly distributed between the plateaus and coastal hills in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and mainly gather in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in China.

There are different views on the origin of the Yi people, mainly including the northern theory, the southern theory, the oriental theory and the Yunnan indigenous theory. The academic consensus is from the north. According to the historical records of Han and Yi languages, the ancestors of Yi people had close relations with the ancient Qiang people distributed in the west, and the Yi people mainly originated from the ancient Qiang people.