1, marriage customs

In Baijia, the son separated from his parents after marriage. Bai people share the same surname and do not marry. Young men and women of Bai nationality are relatively free in love activities. They usually use labor, fairs, festivals and temple fairs to fall in love, test each other through folk songs, express their feelings and find their own Mr Right. Backmarriage is a popular marriage custom in the Bai area of Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. At every intersection, fork in the road or crowded place, the guests who accompany him will stop and code the dowry into two piles, so that the groom can wrap the "8" around the dowry with the bride on his back.

2, daily etiquette

Bai people's hospitality, courtesy before guests is the etiquette of Bai people. The guests came home and entertained each other with wine and tea. The famous "three teas" are the hospitality of the Bai people. Bai people generally only pour half a cup of tea, but they need a full cup of wine. They think that wine is full of respect and tea is full of deception. When you are warmly received by the Bai people, you should say "thank you" to show your gratitude and gratitude.

3. Eating habits

Bai people attach importance to festivals, and almost every festival has one or several kinds of food. For example, eating Tintin Sugar, making rice tea, and eating rice in Jiangzhai during the Spring Festival; Eat steamed cakes and noodles in March Street; Tomb-Sweeping Day eats assorted cold dishes and "Zhai Xiang Yan" (fried crispy meat); Eat zongzi and realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival; Eat new beans, tender melons, old grain mixed with new rice in the new year; Eat sweets and all kinds of sweets on Torch Festival; Eating morels, checking fish and meat without restraint; Eat white cakes and drunken cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival; Eat fat sheep on the Double Ninth Festival; A farm that eats fried grains and mutton on the solstice in winter.

Bai people also have dietary taboos, mainly because they don't use iron knives on New Year's Day. Housewives should cook quietly, not blowing fire, and must go to the well to "fetch water". Cooking at home is all about stir-frying and stir-frying. You can't use red, you can't make red packets of vegetables into twists, and the elders sit on the younger generation to serve.

4. Housing form

In the housing form of Bai people, the dam area is mostly "three long houses", with huts with kitchens, barns and yards on both sides, or tile houses with "one front and two ears", "three squares and one wall" and "four entrances and five patios". The bedroom, kitchen and barn are separated. Most of the mountainous areas are straw houses, "flash houses", bamboo baskets or "wooden cribs" with stables upstairs and downstairs, and cooking and sleeping places are often connected.

5. clothes

Most Dali men wear white double-breasted clothes and black collars. Bai men in the east of Erhai Lake wear suede collars, or leather and satin collars, embroidered bellies and blue or black trousers at the waist.

Women's wear varies from place to place. In Dali, people often wear white coats and red vests, or light blue coats and coats with black velvet collars. On the right, three whiskers and five whiskers are hung with silver ornaments, embroidered short waist, blue wide pants and embroidered shoes.