The Year of the Tiger says Tiger
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Tigers are mighty and powerful, like tigers
Lively Tiger, Happy "Tiger"
The tiger is a symbol of strength and might
It is also a beast that represents auspiciousness and peace
Yunnan has long had a totem worship of "tigers"
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The "tiger culture" around Yunnan people
Some of the Yi consider themselves tigers. In their surname, the common Luo indicates that they are descendants of tigers. Men call themselves Loropo or Ropo, which means male tiger; women call themselves Loropo or Rama, which means female tiger.
Tiger totem on Ethnic Architecture in Yunnan
In Yunnan, where some Yi people live, there are many hills, rivers and villages called "Luo", because the place where the tiger people live and live should be named after the tiger.
"Tiger Sheng" consists of four parts: receiving the tiger god, dancing the tiger, exorcising evil spirits and sending the tiger, in order to pray for the wind and rain to be smooth, and the grain is abundant. The "three sheng" culture of the Shuangbai Yi people, represented by "Tiger Sheng", uses its unique interpretation method to condense the essence of the primitive totem worship in the Yi culture, embodies the philosophy of life created by the Yi people in the original production and life, and shows their industrious and courageous qualities and creative wisdom.
Tiger harvest in the Tiger Dance
Since 2007, every year from the eighth to the tenth day of the first month of the second lunar month, Shuangbai County will hold a grand and grand "China Shuangbai Yi Tiger Cultural Festival". During the festival, wonderful activities such as the Tiger Festival, the "Three Shengs" performance, the Yi ethnic style bonfire evening, the Yi family cuisine and the local specialty trading street showed the unique and rich ethnic customs of Shuangbai to all sectors of society.
The bull and tiger bronze case is a ritual vessel made of bronze materials from the ancient Dian and Warring States periods, shaped like a tiger biting the back of a cow, and under the belly of the cow, there stands a safe calf, implying that the big cow sacrificed its protection of the calf.
This year's Alipay "Set Five Blessings" activity, the Yunnan Provincial Museum "NiuHu Copper Case" online to send blessings to the whole country.
The Niuhu copper case not only conveys the great maternal love, but also conveys the cruel competition between the weak and the strong. China has been paying attention to reproduction since ancient times, and the meticulous care of parents for their children reflects the need for reproduction, even if they are in danger, they must sacrifice themselves to let their children live well. Through the Niuhu Copper Case, it is not difficult for us to feel the prosperity of ancient sacrifices, the wisdom and advanced production technology of the ancient Dian people, and the understanding of life and society by the people of the ancient Dian state during the Warring States period.
Tiger Leaping Gorge is famous for its "danger", which is one of the deepest canyons in China and even the world. Here, you can hear the roar of the roaring waves, magnificent and thunderous, and you can also see the rock walls on both sides of the river, and the magnificent scenery of the river passing through the dense reef. You can not only enjoy the scene of the Jinsha River girl singing and dancing, turning three times and nine times, and the pleasure of rushing through the stone gate and singing away; you can also look at the scenery of Haba Snow Mountain and Yulong Snow Mountain.
Yunnan tiger culture and tiger worship are rich and vivid
thereinto
The Yi tiger culture has a long history
The tiger cosmology in its folk epic Meg
It records the systematic content of the tiger's evolution into all things
The tiger in the ancient texts of the Yi people
According to the Yi folk epic "Mei Ge", the god of heaven sent his five sons to create heaven at the beginning of creation.
After the sky was built, he used thunder and lightning to test the sky, and the result was that the sky cracked, so what was used to make up for the sky? The gods thought that the tigers in the world were the most powerful, so the gods sent five sons to subdue the tiger, and then they used one of the tiger's large bones as a pillar of heaven, so that the sky would be stable.
They also used the tiger's head to make the heavenly head, the tiger's tail to do the earth's tail, the tiger's nose to do the heavenly nose, the tiger's ear to do the heavenly ear, the left eye to do the sun, the right eye to do the moon, the tiger's whiskers to do the sun, the tiger's teeth to do the stars, the tiger oil to do the clouds, the tiger's gas to do the fog, the tiger's heart to do the heavenly heart, the tiger's belly to do the sea, the tiger's blood to make the seawater, the large intestine to make the river, the small intestine to make the river, the tiger ribs to do the road, the tiger skin to do the ground, the hard hair to do the woods, the soft hair to do the grass, the fine hair to make the rank seedlings... Thus there is everything in the world today.
Humen in the dense forest of the Yi people in the stone forest
In fact
Almost all ethnic groups in Yunnan, including the Han Chinese
Both have customs and cultures associated with tigers
There are myths and legends related to tigers and animal stories
There are great similarities in these animal stories
Reflects the history of the peoples
The situation of mutual exchange and intermingling
Wa
The Wa believe that the souls of tigers and leopards can drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters, guard the gates of the village, clean the cottage, and have strong abilities. Therefore, once the Wa people hunted the tiger and leopard, they had to hold a solemn sacrifice, and there was a "tiger and leopard forest" outside the village, and the garbage removed from the village was dumped in the "tiger and leopard forest", and the tiger and leopard souls suppressed them and did not let them harm people and animals. In Wa customs, there are also a series of rituals for tigers and leopards, as well as scriptures for sacrifice.
Lisu
The Lisu "The Origin of the Tiger Clan" has such a legend: In the past, there were scattered people living on the mountains along the Nu River, and tigers often appeared on the mountains. A girl lived alone in a wooden room, and one day, when she went up the hill to cut firewood, she suddenly saw a tiger coming at her, and she turned and fled. Running under a big tree, she couldn't run anymore, and when she looked back, she was not chased by a big tiger, but a handsome young man. Later, the girl became related to this young man who changed from a tiger, and the descendants of the children were called the tiger clan.
Bai
According to the legend of the Bai Tiger Clan, after the flood, only AbuTi and Ayoti brothers and sisters were left in the world, who married and gave birth to 5 daughters with the permission of the gods, but no sons. Their eldest daughter married the old bear, the second daughter married the tiger, the third daughter married the snake, the fourth daughter married the rat, and the fifth daughter married the caterpillar.
The Achan people
In the legend of the Tiger Clan of the Achang Clan, it is told that an official lord gave birth to a daughter and was rejected because he was blind. After the girl grew up, the official put her on the bamboo raft, drifting down the river, the bamboo raft was blocked, the girl's eyes could not see and did not dare to go ashore, there was a white tiger living in the cave on the shore, it came to the edge of the bamboo raft, knowing that the girl could not see, he went to the mountain to find medicine to give the girl eyes, after the eyes were healed, the girl married the white tiger. The girl gave birth to three sons, and the sons knew that their father was a white tiger, found their father, and knew the reason for the incident. Later, these descendants became the Tiger Clan of the Achan clan.
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Yi embroidered tiger motif
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