1, Jingpo clothing
Jingpo men like to wear white or black double-breasted round neck shirts, with lace patterns and colored beads on the Baotou cloth, and often wear waist knives and tube handkerchief when going out.
2. Jingpo New Rice Festival
In autumn, when the rice is ripe, farmers of Jingpo nationality pound the first bundle of cut rice into rice and invite men, women and children in the neighborhood to taste new rice to celebrate the New Rice Festival.
3. The houses of Jingpo nationality
The houses of Jingpo people are made of bamboo and thatch. Divided into two floors, people live upstairs and pigs and chickens are raised downstairs. The bamboo building is divided into two halves by the roof, half of which is the place where the host family lives and cooks, and the inner end is the upper part, which is the place where the elders live; The outer end is below, where the younger generation lives. The other half is used to entertain guests and pile up sundries.
General situation of Jingpo nationality
Jingpo nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China, and it has its own language and writing. The language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and its five branches belong to Jingpo language branch and Burman language branch respectively. There are Jingpo and Zawa languages, both of which are phonography based on Latin alphabet.
The origin of Jingpo nationality is related to the ancient Lisu and Qiang nationalities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There are five branches: Jingpo, Zawa, Le Chi, Langge and Bora. They mainly live in the mountainous areas of Dehong Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and a few live in the border area between Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and Kachin State in Myanmar. Most Kachin branches in Myanmar also have deep roots with Jingpo and Lisu people in China.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jingpo Nationality