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Folk customs of Hekou Yao Autonomous County
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Eye-less pineapple in the estuary: Honghe Prefecture has a long history of planting pineapple and rich output, and is known as "there are bananas on the top and pineapples on the bottom". Eyeless pineapple is an excellent variety of pineapple, so it is named because it has few causal eyes and shallow eyes. Eyeless pineapple is also known as "Salava" and "Qianlihua".

Estuary Banana: Banana is a perennial evergreen herb tropical fruit tree of Musa of Musaceae. /kloc-introduced from Vietnam to Hekou county (now Hekou city) for planting in 0/958. It is one of the banana varieties cultivated in Yunnan since the 1960s. Mainly distributed in Hekou, Yuanyang, Jinping, Honghe, Xinping, Jinghong and other counties (cities). 1995, planting area 1600 hectares, output of 28,700 tons, accounting for 1 1.2% and 33.5% of banana planting area and output in the province respectively. Bananas in the estuary like high temperature and humidity, and are suitable for planting in areas with an altitude of 800- 1000 meters. These plants are tall and strong, with short, wide and thick leaves and dark green colors. The fruit shape is short and curved, and the apex is not full. High yield, average yield 15 kg. Strong adaptability and lodging resistance. The fruit is smooth, sweet and delicious. It can be eaten fresh, fried or made into pudding and pie. When it comes to maturity, the peel has small brown spots, so it is commonly known as sesame banana.

Grilled fish with citronella: The barbecue stalls in the estuary are generally not far from fish ponds. Fish is the fresh fish of the day, marinated with freshly picked citronella, wild coriander, onion ginger and soy sauce for 30 minutes, and baked on a shelf with oak charcoal fire until brown. Dip in the seasoning made of dried millet spicy and sour vinegar.

Vietnamese rolls: Vietnamese rolls are old rice soaked in soft pulp and filled with chopped green onion and fresh meat. Supplemented by millet spicy, soy sauce vinegar, coriander lemon. Delicious and smooth.

Hekou Roasted Pork: Hekou Roasted Pork is a local traditional food with crispy skin and tender meat, golden color and attractive aroma. Because of its good color, fragrance and taste, it is not only elegant, but also can be used as food for ordinary family members.

The technology of roast pork in Hekou comes from Guangdong and Guangxi. In the middle and late Qing dynasty, there was roast pork in the market of Hekou. After years of continuous improvement of baking technology and ingredients, the flavor and quality of Hekou barbecued pork are better than those of similar products in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Fried spring rolls: Spring rolls are a traditional rice food unique to Hekou. They are exquisitely made and have a unique flavor. Anyone who goes to Hekou should taste the unique flavor of spring rolls. It is said that an estuary is not an estuary unless it eats spring rolls.

Fried spring rolls are a famous banquet dish in Hekou. It is made of starch, covered with vermicelli, bean sprouts, minced meat, eggs, pepper powder, salt and monosodium glutamate, and stirred evenly. The starch coated skin of spring rolls is soaked in clear soy sauce water to soften it, and then placed flat on a large plate. Put a proper amount of vermicelli stuffing in the middle of the skin of the spring roll, wrap it into strips, put it in an oil pan and fry it until golden brown. When eating, cut the spring rolls into 2-3 sections, wrap the parsley, mint and a short section of spring rolls with a piece of lettuce leaf, and dip them in pepper, garlic vinegar and water to eat. It tastes crispy and delicious, oily but not greasy.

Vegetables with meat: Lai Bao with meat is a famous dish in Hekou. Mainly use a Beijing cabbage, minced meat, eggs, pepper powder and so on. When cooking, first clean the whole Beijing cabbage, soak it in boiling water to soften it, take it out to cool, peel off the leaves one by one, and remove the hard diameter of the leaves. Stir minced meat, eggs, salt and monosodium glutamate evenly. Finally, put the leaves of Chinese cabbage flat on a plate, put a proper amount of meat stuffing in the middle of the leaves, wrap them into a ball, put them in a pot, add a little clear soup and stew them with warm fire.

Sashimi: sashimi, sliced with fresh grass carp fish, dipped in water with lemon, millet, mint, coriander, shredded ginger and peanuts, and eaten after a few minutes. Fish is delicious. It tastes sour and spicy. Wang Pan Yao Festival

Wang Pan Festival, also known as "Returning the King's Wish" and "Jumping the King", is a grand festival for Yao people to sacrifice their ancestors Wang Pan (Pan Hu), and later it gradually developed into Wang Pan Festival. It is usually held in the slack season from autumn harvest to Spring Festival. Every festival, Yao men, women and children should wear their own national holiday costumes, get together to sing and dance, and celebrate Panwang Festival. Sing a music song with Song of King Pan, also known as Song of King Pan. Everyone dances with a long drum about 80 cm long, usually in pairs or in pairs. On May 20th, 2006, Wang Pan Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The main activities of Wang Pan Festival are as follows: Wang Pan Festival can be held by a family, or by people from joint family or the same family. But they all have to offer sacrifices and hold banquets for relatives and friends. Festivals generally last for three days and two nights, and some last for seven days and seven nights. During the festival, the Yao people slaughtered chickens and ducks, and men, women and children put on festive costumes and gathered together. First of all, they offered sacrifices to Pan Wang, sang Pan Wang's songs and danced with yellow mud, encouraged him for a long time, remembered the merits of their ancestors and praised their heroic struggle spirit. Secondly, celebrate the harvest and enjoy the king's pleasure. At the same time, young men and women carry out duet activities and seize the opportunity to choose the right person. Some places also need fireworks sticks, fireworks and theatrical troupes.

Du Jie Yao Man's Adult Ceremony

Abstinence ceremony is an important system of Taoist belief of Yao nationality, and it is also a unique adult ceremony of Yao nationality. All 13 to 20-year-old men must pass the abstinence ceremony. There is a strict ceremony presided over by the teacher. After being consecrated, the man said that he was an adult and qualified to participate in village activities, fall in love and get married.

The four branches of Hekou Landianyao, Baixianyao, Shayao and Hongtou Yao all have the custom of abstinence, but they are different in age, procedure and method of abstinence. There are two kinds: graduate teacher and graduation road. Teachers are divided into "Wutai Mountain background" and "walking in the shade".

Hekou Baixian Yao Wedding

The local Yao men and women are free to fall in love and live together for a period of time. When they want to get married, the man's family is responsible for presiding over the ceremony of proposing or recognizing relatives and getting married.

Accompanied by his relatives and others, the male host of the man's family brings some food to the woman's house to propose or recognize marriage, which is also called engagement ceremony. The purpose of this trip is to discuss with the parents of the woman's family or discuss the marriage of their children and other related matters. According to the local national marriage customs or rules, when a daughter marries a man's family, the man's family must give a certain gift to the woman's family (as agreed by both parents at the time of engagement). In addition, the man's family should give the woman at least two pieces of silver in order to collect the money for her daughter to eat her mother's milk. Each piece of silver weighs seven taels. If a brother in the daughter's family doesn't marry a daughter-in-law, he will receive another sum of cash, a towel, etc. The main intention is to collect money for washing your face. On the day of the woman's wedding, the man's family will also arrange for people to bring some food, such as pork and wine, until the woman's family picks up her daughter-in-law, and pay for the woman's family to invite matchmakers, in-laws and others.