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Yi
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Yi
minority is widely distributed in Yunnan,
Sichuan and Guizhou and Guangxi. The Yi minority
has up to 6 different dialects. They create
their own written words; there are around
1000 characters in common uses among the Yi
minority. Yi minority is engaged in agriculture
and animals husbandry, they are also good
at arts and crafts including lacquer painting,
embroidery, silverworks, carving etc. |
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Clothing:
Yi minority has many different branches; everywhere
has their specific clothing features. Yi women
in general wear embroidered clothes, matched
with black head cloth, earrings and some silverworks.
Except the Yi from Liangshan Mountain area,
most of the others wear long pants instead
of skirts. In Yunnan, single girls can be
defined from their colorful, cockscomb-shaped
hat bordered with large amount of silver ornaments.
During the past, the Yis who lived in the
mountain area, no matter boys and girls, they
all used to wear the knee-length sheepskin
cape. Yi girls who are below 15 have to comb
their hair as one single braid. After girls
are over 15, they hold a ceremony to announce
themselves officially to be an adult. One
of the customs is to change their single braid
into two, wear the colorful embroidered head
cloth and twinkling silver eardrops. |
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Almost
all of the Yi women are proficient in embroidery.
They learn all kinds of embroidery, cross-stitch
and applique skills from mothers since their
childhood. Seniors of Yi minority usually
pay great attentions on the girls’ embroidery
craftsmanship. As long as the girl didn’t
make a good job of the embroidery, no matter
how pretty she is, it’s still difficult
for her to find husband. That’s probably
one of the reasons why their clothing is embroidered
with various patterns and each of those is
almost like a piece of exquisite art. |
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Festivals:
There are many different traditional festivals
happened in Yi minority. Some of the main
festivals include “Year of the tenth
month”, Torch festival and some other
regional festivals and activities for sacrifice
to Gods and ancestors. “Year of the
tenth month” hold at the most auspicious
day within the first ten-day period of every
tenth lunar month. It last around 5-6 days
and followed the customs the Yi minority people
have to offer pigs, lambs, or cattle for sacrifices.
At that moment, Yi people dress up their best
costumes for the party, visit and present
some gifts to their relatives and friends.
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The
Torch festival is the most ceremonious festival
for the Yi minority people. It happened on
the 24th to 25th in every sixth lunar month.
People gather together to worship gods and
ancestors by sacrifice cattle or lambs. During
the feast, they all bless to have the best
harvest in the future. The Torch festival
last for 3 days, on the first day all the
family members gather for the celebration,
while the last 2 days they join the public
activities include wrestling, horse-racing,
bull-fighting, dragon-boat racing and tug
of war etc. then conclude with the grand bonfire
evening party. |
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sacrificial the Dragon is another important
event for the Yi minority. Yi people choose
the one of the “Dragon day” in
every second to forth lunar month to do the
celebration. Villagers gather and bring their
own rice and salt then sit down under the
dragon tree to make a collective worship.
In Yunnan, the Yi minority in general choose
the first “Dragon day” in the
first lunar month to be the ceremony. After
the celebration, everybody sit on the floor
and share their food to conclude the ceremony.
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