What are the customs and traditional cultures of Gaoshan people?

Gaoshan people generally have two major festivals every year, one is sowing festival and the other is harvest festival. The scale of the latter is particularly large, almost equal to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. At that time, all families would slaughter livestock, make wine and make cakes. Sacrificing ancestors and having fun generally lasts about 10 days. They especially worship their ancestors; Believe that the soul is immortal, that everything has a soul, and that the soul has good and evil.

Hang calamus on your chest when you go out, and draw ashes on your forehead at night to avoid evil spirits from approaching. If you are sick, touch the affected area with Ye Mao, eggs and animal teeth. They are also superstitious about signs and divination, and often decide what to do according to signs.

Such as solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, comet appearance, rooster crowing at night, dogs barking, snakes coming out of holes, birds crossing the road, people being stung, falling down, sneezing and so on. Are ominous signs. A child's head should not be touched casually. Shovel for women, kitchenware, loom, etc. Don't touch men's bows and arrows, farm tools, weapons, etc.

Exquisite clothes

The clothes of Gaoshan compatriots are the most eye-catching Their clothes are mainly made of linen and cotton, and the clothes in different regions are different. But most men have vests, jackets, shorts, headscarves, leggings and shawls. Women wear sleeveless or sleeveless dresses, aprons, trousers or skirts. Women also like to embroider exquisite patterns on skirts, sleeves, headscarves and aprons.

Gaoshan men and women like barefoot, and both men and women like to wear headdresses, earrings, bracelets, anklets and necklaces. Paiwan's male crowns are even more complicated and beautiful than women's crowns. Ami people like to put thin colored lace on the sleeves, collars and hem of clothes, and tie a half-waist skirt and black cloth around their waist, or make headdresses or earrings with leopard teeth, hair, shells, copper, silver and antlers to dress themselves up. Atayal and Xia Serb men often tattoo ink on the middle of their foreheads and under their lips to make blue records.

Tattoo ink is in the shape of longitudinal stripes, about the size of a little finger. A woman's face (with a needle, she pricks complicated patterns on her face) forms a "V" shape from the cheekbones on both sides of her face to the corners of her mouth. Traces of women, thin and wide lines, noble; Those with thick and narrow lines are ordinary civilians.