Yunnan's unique folk culture

Yunnan is a living history museum with rich and colorful customs of various ethnic groups.

Every nation's clothing, food, shelter, transportation, marriage, funeral, health, festival, ceremony, language, writing, totem, religion, taboo and aesthetics are written into a distinct cultural chain;

Dongba culture of Naxi nationality, Bai culture of Dali, Beiye culture of Dai nationality and Ma Bei culture of Yi nationality are all unique, profound and far-reaching ... myths, epics, songs and dances, paintings, operas and ancient music.

18 Yunnan monster

Yunnan is located in a low latitude and high altitude area, which is influenced by latitude position and vertical height difference and has various climate types. The south is a valley basin formed in the tropical monsoon region, and the east is described as "colorful and never dying", with a warm winter and cool summer climate. Yunnan is also the province with the largest number of ethnic minorities in China. In addition to the Han nationality, there are 25 ethnic groups including Yi, Bai, Zhuang, Dai, Naxi, Tibetan and Yao, accounting for about one third of the total population of the province. It is precisely because of its unique geographical characteristics, special climatic conditions, colorful ethnic customs and peculiar customs that many strange phenomena different from other places have emerged. After tourists and passers-by from far away left this magical land for a short time, the anecdotes they heard and witnessed gradually spread, and they were often labeled as "strange", which led to the spread of "18 eccentrics in Yunnan" and "28 eccentrics in Yunnan"

Mosuo's wedding

In the northwest of Yunnan, there is a mysterious and ancient lake, surrounded by an ancient ethnic group-Mosuo, which still completely preserves the matriarchal family with female heads and female members, as well as the marriage form in which men don't marry women and both sides live in their parents' homes for life, commonly known as walking marriage.

Hani terrace

Hani Terrace in Honghe is a million acres of agricultural ecological wonders cultivated by people of all ethnic groups in Ailao Mountain range on the south bank of Honghe River. It is not only a human landscape, but also a natural landscape. It is a model that skillfully combines national culture with natural ecology by using the special geographical climate of "one mountain is divided into four seasons, and ten miles are very different" and "how high the mountain is, how high the water is".

Hani Terrace in Honghe has a long history, which is recorded in Chinese only 1300 years. Xu Guangqi, a great agronomist in China in Ming Dynasty, listed it as one of the seven major farmland systems in China's farming history. The Hani terraced fields in Honghe are large-scale and magnificent, spanning the four counties of Honghe, Yuanyang, Lvchun and Jinping on the south bank of Honghe. Yuanyang County, the core area of the World Heritage Site, has 6,543.8+0.7 million mu of terraces, of which 1 10,000 mu is concentrated, and there are more than 3,000 steps from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. The cultural connotation of Hani terraced fields in Honghe is profound, unique, scientific and complete. The Hani people, who are famous for their terraced fields, have a unique way of using water for farming and a deep worship of forests. The terraced fields are the core of festivals, life etiquette, costumes, songs and dances and literature, which embodies the characteristics of understanding nature, using nature, living in harmony with nature and being integrated. Hani people are equal and live in harmony with other ethnic groups. This characteristic of harmonious dating between people is also a beautiful scenery of Hani terraced fields in Honghe.

Honghe Hani Terrace is an outstanding representative of terraced fields in China and a miracle in the history of world farming civilization. It presents a benign agricultural ecosystem with four-dimensional isomorphism of forest-village-terrace-river and a unique terrace cultural landscape, which is incomparable to any terrace at home and abroad. It contains the ancient cultural characteristics of harmonious development between man and nature and harmonious coexistence between people, which is the spirit pursued by human beings in the 2 1 century. Today, with the acceleration of modern industrial civilization and the arrival of the information age, the Hani terraced fields in Honghe deserve world-class treasure and protection, and good sustainable development should be realized on the basis of protection.

Dai water-splashing festival

The Dai Water-splashing Festival is also called "Bathing Buddha Festival", the Dai language is called "Bimai" (meaning New Year), and the Dehong area in Xishuangbanna is called "Shanghan" and "Shangjian". Both names are derived from Sanskrit, meaning turnover, change and transfer, which means that the sun runs around the zodiac and begins to transition to the New Year. Achang, De 'ang, Bulang, Wa and other ethnic groups celebrate this festival. Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and other countries also celebrated the Songkran Festival.

The Songkran Festival originated in India and was a ceremony of ancient Brahmanism, which was later absorbed by Buddhism. 12 century to 13 century, it was introduced into the Dai area of China with Buddhism. With the deepening influence of Buddhism in Dai areas, the Water-splashing Festival has been circulated as a national custom for hundreds of years. During the spread of the Water-splashing Festival, the Dai people gradually combined it with their own myths and legends, giving the Water-splashing Festival more magical significance and national color.