The customs of Linzhi

Eating Habits The Ministry of Industry, like other Tibetan areas, celebrates the New Year on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar. In the 7th century, during the Tubo period, Linzhi was invaded by Beitang people. Cloth has a unique custom in the new year. Every New Year's Eve, every household should "cook" New Year's Eve (a sacrifice made of rice cakes), fried fruit, beef and mutton, ghee, milk residue, ginseng fruit, brown sugar, dried peaches and apples.

On New Year's Day, people bring offerings and highland barley wine to worship the goddess of harvest in their own crops. We set up a long pole in the ground, with prayer flags hanging at the top and wheat straw tied at the bottom. We set up an altar in front of the telephone pole, then simmered mulberries, sang and danced, and prayed to the goddess of harvest to bless the harvest of crops in the coming year.

There are many recreational activities in the New Year. Since the second day of junior high school, men have been shooting arrows at horse races. The arrows in the Ministry of Industry are whistling arrows, and the arrows are wooden cones with many holes drilled in them. After the arrow leaves the string, dance and drink around the bonfire.

Folk festivals

The Bear Fighting Festival in Bomi Xiba Village, Linzhi area is a famous folk festival. On May 15th of the Tibetan calendar, people in the village put on festive costumes and went to Doumu Mountain to stew mulberry, praying for the mountain gods and God to bless the smooth sailing. The Eagle Festival on the mountain is more religious.

Local competition

Linzhi is located in the mountainous area, and there are many customs of the mountain people. For example, villagers in the Ministry of Industry love archery and are good at archery. No matter what traditional festivals, there are archery competitions. At this time, the shooter shoots arrows in the court, and the singer and audience are singing and dancing on the sidelines.

Barrow folkway

Barrow ethnic group is composed of more than 20 tribes, including Misimba tribe, MiCuba tribe and Daem tribe, living in the Grand Canyon area. According to records, the Barrow people said that it originated from the Tibetan customary address for people living in Luo Yu, meaning "southerner".

As an ancient nation, Barrow has many strange customs: reproductive worship, eating roasted mouse meat and drinking, the mysterious witch of "I am brave", taboos for thousands of years, marriage customs and funerals.

Barrow people believe in animism. Their food, clothing, housing and transportation, weddings and funerals are all related to animism, such as offering sacrifices to gods, gods, ghosts and demons. , called "my courage" by Barrow people.

There are two kinds of wizards: the soothsayer Jimmy and the soothsayer Niu Bu. "Rice agent" kills the chicken to get the liver. From the signs of the liver, such as color, light and shade, concave and convex, flat, straight lines, bending direction, starting and ending points, we can judge good or bad, rich or poor, clutch, life fate, honor or disgrace, rich or sorry, what ghosts and gods have been violated and what kind of sacrifices are needed. "Niu Bu" not only has the function of "rice medicine", but also uses prayers, spells, simulated actions, sacrifices and divination to seek safety and avoid disasters.

It is forbidden for others to touch distiller's yeast and wine grain, and it is forbidden for the husband to go out to work after the umbilical cord falls off after the wife gives birth to the child; After the wife is pregnant for two or three months, it is forbidden for her husband to join in binding corpses and pigs and cows to kill.

The weddings and funerals of the Barrow people are also very strange. In addition to buying and selling marriages and arranged marriages, they also have a trial marriage system. In addition to burial, there is also tree burial, that is, the body of the deceased is placed in a rattan basket used by the deceased before his death, hung on the branches at the head of the village, and covered with a straw shed to shelter from the rain and sun.