Buyi people mainly live in Guizhou Province in the southwest of China. The rest are scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi provinces. Buyi people mainly focus on agriculture and have a long history of planting rice.
Buyi people have two meals a day when they are free and three meals a day when they are busy. The staple food is mainly rice and corn, supplemented by wheat, sorghum, potatoes and beans. Cooked in wooden pots and small pots, there are stewed rice, two-in-one rice (rice mixed with corn), tortillas, rice noodles, bait, pea powder, rice cakes and other varieties. Among them, glutinous rice dumplings, flower rice dumplings and sesame oil dumplings are the most famous, which are mostly used for ancestor worship or banquets.
Their meat mainly comes from livestock and poultry, and they also like to prey on squirrels, bamboo rats and bamboo worms. Cooking methods are mostly burning, boiling, frying, frying, salting and freezing, and generally do not eat raw food.
Buyi people are indifferent to dog meat, and there is a saying that "fat sheep are not worthy of thin dogs". It is a high courtesy for distinguished guests to come home to kill dogs and entertain them. Their criteria for picking dogs are "yellow head, two blackheads and three flowers, and white dog meat has the lightest taste". Roast stewed dog meat, dog enema and Huajiang dog meat are all famous. Buyi people in Guizhou like to use yellow cattle as food to prevent weddings and funerals.
Cold dishes, "moss frozen meat" and "bean jelly mixed with peas" are the favorite foods of Buyi people. Sauerkraut and sour soup are almost essential for every meal, especially for women. Buyi people are mostly good at making pickles, bacon and lobster sauce, and the unique folk pickle "hydrochloric acid" is well-known at home and abroad. There are also blood tofu, sausages, and flavored dishes made of dried fresh bamboo shoots and various insects. He is also good at processing bad spicy, spicy noodles and pickles, which are delicious, fresh, sour and spicy.
Wine plays an important role in the daily life of Buyi people. After the autumn harvest every year, every household will brew a lot of rice wine and store it for drinking all year round. Buyi people like to entertain guests with wine. No matter how much you drink, as long as you arrive, you always take the wine first. This is called "welcome wine". When drinking, use bowls instead of cups, guess fists and sing. There is a kind of tea in Buyi area, which not only has a unique taste, but also has a nice name. This is girl tea. On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day (a traditional festival of grave-sweeping in China), the girl went up the mountain to pick the tender taste of tea tips, kept a certain humidity after frying, then folded camellia oleifera abel. into a tube, dried it, and then processed it into a tube of girl tea. Girls' tea is not only beautiful in appearance, but also excellent in quality, which is a fine product in tea. This kind of tea is only for friends and relatives. When in love or engagement, a girl gives it to her lover. Girl tea, girl picking, girl making, this is the origin of the name of girl tea. ?
Dieting custom in 2008
Some festivals are similar to those of the Han nationality, while others are unique to this nationality, such as "Lunar New Year" (the last day of the first month), the third day of March (the Ground Silkworm Festival), the eighth day of April (the Ox King Festival), the sixth day of June (the Pangu Festival) and the Festival of Eating New Year's Goods. Among them, "cooking raw food" on the ninth day of the first month, "sesame oil rake" on the thirtieth day of the first month, "popcorn" on the third day of March, "four-color glutinous rice" on the eighth day of April and "boiled chicken" on the sixth day of June are mostly related to national legends and rural customs education.
Banquet and eating customs
Buyi people attach great importance to hospitality. When guests arrive, there must be six kinds of wine gifts, such as "wine at the door", "wine at the door", "wine at the corner", "thousand cups of wine" and "wine at the departure place". If you provide pork, you hope your guests will have a good harvest next year. If a chicken is presented, the head of the chicken is given to the first guest, symbolizing good luck, the chicken wings are given to the second guest, indicating soaring, and the drumsticks are given to three guests, implying down-to-earth. At the banquet, we will also sing "a toast song" and "a snack song". The former is about persuading people to drink, while the latter is about singing all the things and food on the table to show their minds and talents.
Buyi taboo
When visiting Buyi people's homes, you are not allowed to touch shrines and shrines, and the tripod next to the fireplace is not allowed to be trampled. Buyi people are used to drinking for their guests, who drink more or less. It is forbidden for anyone to touch and cut down the mountain god tree and the big arhat tree in Buyi village. Buyi ceremony must be even. When a child is sickly, his parents will find him a protector, michel platini and godmother. There are two ways to find michel platini and dopted mother: one is to wait at home one day, and the first person to come to the door within three days is the child's protector; Second, on an auspicious day, parents lead their children and wait for the first passerby on the road, which is the protector.