Traditional culture of the Buyi people in Lazhe Village, Lubuge Township
Lazhe Village is located in Lubuge Buyi and Miao Township, Luoping County, Qujing City. It is a Buyi village built in the Qing Dynasty. There are 108 households and 495 people in the village. The per capita cultivated land area is 0.2 mu, and the per capita income is 300 yuan (2003). The village is located in the subtropical river valley area, surrounded by high mountains, with an altitude of 800~980 meters, and the forest vegetation coverage rate is more than 96%. In the middle are rice fields and cultivated land, and the whole village is scattered among the green mountains and clear waters, reflecting the Buyi people's concept of advocating nature. Buyi women have learned weaving and embroidery since they were eleven or twelve years old. Almost every family has a homemade loom, which is mainly used to weave cloth and bed sheets with Buyi characteristics. Plants are used as dyes, and the dyed cloth is - color. The village preserves "old man's room" and other ancestor worship rooms and stilt-style residential buildings, which have strong Buyi village characteristics. The "Old Man's House" is a traditional stilt building of the Buyi people. It is the most important place for sacrificial activities in the village. Every year on the first rabbit day of the second lunar month, all the men in the village hold a grand "Old Man's House" sacrificial activity. The Buyi people believe in natural gods and usually offer sacrifices to mountains and water. The sacrificial activities are presided over by the grandfather. Old women usually wear traditional costumes, with blue and black cloth wrapped around their heads, wearing a blue collarless short coat, with wide sleeves and a lace along the seam of the collar. The corners of the clothes are also embroidered with various colorful piping. The patterns embroidered on the cuffs of the inner and outer clothes are bright and beautiful, and the colors exposed on the cuffs overlap harmoniously; the lower body is either dark blue or blue wide-leg pants, or a pleated skirt, mostly sewn with blue batik floral cloth with a white background. Nowadays, adult women's headscarves have been replaced by white towels, and their tops have been changed to collared or low-collared large-fronted clothes, with two or three colored laces inlaid on the lower part of the left lapel, and silver bubble buttons used as decoration on the front of the collar. The cuffs still retain the traditional style, and they only wear long pants. The clothing of unmarried women is basically similar to that of middle-aged women, but the patterns on the edges of their clothes are more numerous and brighter than those of married women. Women generally know how to weave and embroider. There are many festivals with rich contents, and there are festivals almost every month. They can be divided into commemorative, seasonal and sacrificial categories, including the Spring Festival, March 3, May Festival, June 24 and other festivals, among which the Spring Festival and March 3 are the most grand. They worship natural gods, and every March 3, they offer sacrifices to water, tree gods, and mountain gods, praying for a good harvest, peace, good fortune, health and happiness. The Buyi people have no written language, and folk literature is passed down orally. Folk songs are diverse in form, and can be divided into love songs, toasting songs, wedding songs, rice wine driving songs, and wedding songs. Most of the lyrics are passed down by predecessors, and the tunes are gentle and pleasant. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)