Taboos and customs of the Li people in daily life

For every region and every ethnic group, there are customs and taboos that we cannot destroy at will. Otherwise, it will be disrespectful and cause unhappiness. Today, let's learn about the taboos and taboos of the Li people in their daily life through the World Customs Network.

The Li family believed in the worship of polytheism that all things had a spirit, so there were many taboos in production, life, reproduction, religion, hunting, funeral, etc.

Taboos

production: First, don't use cattle to produce on the "Ox Day", otherwise the cattle will die or get plague or their feet will rot and become thin; on the insect day, you can't work because of it, otherwise the harvest will be bad; Second, when harvesting new grain, don't talk to others on the way to the field, otherwise, the grain field will be ruined by mountain pigs or the harvest will fail; When eating new rice, don't let outsiders enter the house and give the new rice to outsiders, otherwise, the crops will fail or be ruined by wild beasts; Third, on the day when the family died, the eldest son avoided working in the fields and was not allowed to go out to work in production for five days, otherwise the crops would fail; Fourth, on the day when cutting down big trees on the mountain, the family was not allowed to spin, sleep, comb their hair or quarrel, otherwise, the person who cut down the mountain would fall off the trees; Fifth, the Li people in the mu system area avoided working in the fields from the first day to the fifth day of the New Year. On cattle day, insect day, chicken day, etc., the people on the acres were not allowed to go to the fields to cultivate, saying that they were afraid of the seedlings being invaded by birds and beasts.

Taboos

life: First, from the first to the fifth day of the New Year, you must not use obscene words to hurt people or sweep the floor. Otherwise, not only will the six livestock in the family be uneasy and the production will be poor, but it will also affect others. It will be unlucky to avoid outsiders entering the house when he asks for ghosts, and all snacks must be avoided. Otherwise, the disease will not recover, and the symptoms will turn worse; Third, if children pay New Year greetings, if they do not give red seals, it will be unlucky that year; Eating the pig's beak and the liver and internal organs of wild pigs will cause snake bites; Fourth, avoid sleeping with your head facing the door, which is a symbol of a dead person; fifth, you cannot get married in March, May, and September, otherwise it will cause the bride to get sick and it will be difficult for future generations to reproduce; sixth, you must choose an auspicious day to move into the new house, otherwise production will be sluggish and people and livestock will be uneasy; seventh, you should avoid tying a knife bag to the waist at the door of a person's house, which is a symbol of a coffin in a person's house; Eighth, we must choose auspicious days such as Dragon Day, Horse Day, and Rabbit Day to cut mountain fences. At the same time, Mutou cannot sleep during the day, otherwise the crops will not withstand the wind and rain; Ninth, on March 8, during the Cattle Festival, it is forbidden to kill cattle, and cattle must be given a wine soaked in cow soul stone to ensure a bumper harvest next year; Tenth, people are not allowed to step over the stove, step on, chop with a knife, etc. If prohibited, it is said that the "Kitchen God" will be angry and cause family illness; Eleventh, it is usually taboo for others to mention the names of their ancestors in person; twelfth, cats are prohibited in some areas.

Taboos

drinking: Different dialects of the Li people have different taboos on drinking. The Li people are divided into Kazakh dialect, Mobil dialect, Qi dialect, and Hemu system according to dialect. When visiting the homes of the Li people in Kazakh dialect and Mobil dialect, they will bring meat to the guests 'mouths when toasting guests, and make the guests drunk, showing hospitality and no malice. On the other hand, Qi dialect is relatively milder, filling bowls with wine, and holding bowls with both hands to respect guests; the Li people in Hemu areas have even more special taboos on drinking. Drinking alcohol does not just stop at the table, but has extended to customs and habits. When someone in the village or at home dies, adults are forbidden to eat rice to use alcohol to cure the funeral. Usually during drinking, you should ask for the name of the deceased, and at the same time, pour the wine in the bowl into the ground to express good luck.

Marriage taboos stipulate that when a man and a woman are engaged, they should not use white chickens, thinking that white chickens will cause discord between the couple.

Taboos: First, pregnant women should not see dead people, otherwise it will cause fetal death; Second, pregnant women who have not given birth for 3 days and have not eaten mugwort should not eat other foods, otherwise they will suffer abdominal pain; Third, if the baby falls to the ground for less than four days, strangers enter the house will cause the baby to get sick; Fourth, if the pregnant woman is under 12 days, if it eats meat, oils and green vegetables, she will definitely lose her large intestine; Fifth, if a pregnant woman eats sweet plums on the ground, she will die or have miscarriage.

Taboos during pregnancy stipulate: ① Pregnant women are not allowed to cross animal carcasses, otherwise they will carry stillbirth;② Pregnant women are not allowed to eat snake meat or monkey meat, otherwise they will give birth to freaks;③ During pregnancy, husbands and outsiders are not allowed to insult pregnant women as "stillbirth woman". If scolded, it will cause stillbirth or abortion;④ Husbands are not allowed to install knife handles, hoe handles, or plough harrows handles, otherwise it will cause difficult labor to his wife.③ When women give birth, they must hang leaves at the door of their homes and prohibit outsiders from entering the house to avoid bringing ghosts and gods in; ④ Within 2-3 days after childbirth, the pregnant woman is not allowed to go out, wash her body, and talk to outsiders; ③ Within one month or 100 days after childbirth, the pregnant woman can only eat dried rice with ginger and Tianji grass (Gonggen grass) as dishes, supplemented with herbal medicines such as cow dali and thousand-layer blood grass, and are forbidden to eat fish and eggs. It is believed that eating fish will "chill" the body, and eating eggs will cause the uterus to sag; During pregnancy, women should avoid eating dog meat, otherwise they will think that dystocia or miscarriage will occur.

Taboos in daily life: People usually avoid mentioning the names of their ancestors in person; in some areas, cats are prohibited from being killed and eaten.

The funeral taboos of thestipulate: 1. If someone dies in the home, the family members of the deceased cannot wear the front clothes, but should wear the clothes upside down;2. You cannot wash your hair and wash your body;3. You cannot beat gongs and drums;4. You cannot set off firecrackers;5. You cannot sing or play musical instruments;6. You cannot go to the fields to work;7. No one can eat pork porridge, beef porridge, chicken porridge and rice in the deceased's home; 8. Therefore, if you are not buried, your wife and husband should not enter other people's homes, otherwise it will cause bad news to others. At the same time, widowed wives and husbands should avoid having meals with their children, otherwise it will affect the children's widowed in the future; 9. When going out to the funeral, anyone who carries the coffin can only use his left shoulder to carry it, and cannot change his shoulders, otherwise people will die;10. Wear clothes for a month after burial, and during this period no singing or eating glutinous rice cakes. From now on, no house will be built on the anniversary of my father's death. In Saili, Baoting County, after the death of her husband, the wife must go back to her mother's house to eat some belly rice before going back to her husband's house to eat with her family, otherwise she will think that her daughter-in-law will become widowed in the future;11. When the wife dies, the husband also goes to another house to eat some belly rice before going home to eat together, otherwise his son will also be widowed;12. When burying a dead person, avoid burying it in front of other people's graves and covering up other people's graves, otherwise it will cause bad news for others;13. Before the deceased person is buried, the eldest son should never enter other people's houses, otherwise it will also cause bad news for others.

is religious taboos: First, avoid flipping around items that worship God, otherwise you will have headaches and hand pain; Second, dog meat cannot be served in any house with ancestral tablets, otherwise it will deliberately defile the rent god's throne, which will cause disease; Third, outsiders cannot break into the house of the god and ghost hunting house with green leaves, otherwise it will aggravate the patient's illness or cause death; Fourth, using manure to desecrate the "land god" will cause headache and abdominal pain; Fifth, don't tamper with the bones of cattle used as sacrifices to ghosts and gods. Otherwise, the family who put the bones will be disturbed. You will have to kill cattle, slaughter pigs and sacrifice ghosts to eliminate the disaster and be safe.

Taboo rules for ghosting: ① When going out to "ghost", you must go through the back door. Close the front and back doors tightly after going out. During the "ghost" period, avoid outsiders breaking in. Otherwise,"being a ghost" will not be effective;② When "being a ghost", avoid holding the fire outside the house that day. Otherwise,"being a ghost" will not be effective;③ Every time the deceased Mutou died, no one on the acre is allowed to go out to cultivate until the 6th anniversary of the death;④ If a family has just driven away the "mountain ghost" for 4 days, outsiders are not allowed to break into the ghost driver's house, and the sick are not allowed to go out; ④ After praying for God or driving away the "mountain ghost" for 4 days, outsiders are not allowed to break in, so as not to aggravate the patient's condition or cause death; ④ All things in the family that worship gods and ghosts are not allowed to move. Otherwise, you will have pain in your hands and headaches; ③ Don't touch anything that has been made into ghosts, such as cow bones, or it will make the family who put the bones sick; ③ Don't use manure to pollute the temple, which will cause abdominal pain and headache; ③ Don't bring dog meat into the houses of Dao Gong, Mother Mother, and Ancestral God tablets, so as not to pollute the Taoist Gong, Mother, and Ancestral God positions and cause diseases.