Vincent Township in northern Shan Yi County, north latitude 23 °, longitude 104 °, 10 公里 Township People's Government of the resident fork dam from the county, the new Yan Wen highway passing through, the obvious advantages. Total land area of 128.30 square kilometers township, township jurisdiction shortage Village, South Forestry, palms, forward four village committees, 43 villages, 64 villagers. Domestic average elevation of 1,600 meters, the annual average temperature of 15.7 ℃, annual rainfall of 1000 ml. 2252 year-end total of 10,147 people, is home to the Yi, Miao, Han and Zhuang four ethnic groups, which accounted for 72.40% of Yi, is one of five minority Township Wenshan County. The township has 15,006 acres of farmland, mountain, stone, dry much less plains, is a typical karst topography. Food crops to corn, wheat, the main cash crops are tobacco, sugar cane, peppers, etc., of which the most suitable for planting flue-cured tobacco, has become a pillar industry Prosperity Dongshan Township. Mineral resources are mainly zinc sulfide, copper oxide, etc., area of over 1,000 acres, has proven reserves of metal ore 4000 tons, the existing Ampang Wenshan a private mining company. The forest coverage rate reached 15.60%, there Yunnan pine and other timber and peach, plum orchard. In 2005, the total income of 31.59 million yuan of rural economy, food production 3.942 million kg, 400 kg per capita and food farmers; fiscal revenue 2.71 million yuan, of which 1.86 million yuan flue-cured tobacco taxes; township enterprises in the total income of 3.42 million yuan, a tax 400,000 Yuan; rural per capita net income reached 1,348 yuan. The natural population growth rate was 6.5 ‰. End of township cadres of workers 65 people, including ethnic minorities accounted for 59.70%, college degree or above accounted for 55%.
History establishment and national traditional culture
Dongshan Township was originally part of the Yi (district) of Panzhihua Club, 1950 into two administrative villages, draw five townships in 1952 when the land reform, land reform and the end of the two townships, 1958 for the two management zones Red Commune 1963 is the Panzhihua district, two small commune, in 1966 it was established by the Panzhihua divided commune, named advancing the people's communes, brigades designated as 8, 1968 and is a four brigades, 1982 by the commune to district , in 1985 changed its name to Dongshan District (it is located in the east face of the dragon mountain culture, and Nishiyama symmetrical named), in April 1987 by the district rural reform, Yi is now Dongshan Township.
Traditional Culture
Yi is a territory of more ancient peoples, are Sino-Tibetan language, the Department of Tibeto-Burman Yi branch, people of all nationalities living in Dongshan, in the development of border of the motherland, the development of local economy and culture have all made their contribution to the long-term common labor and common struggle, because of their common destiny and common interests, formed a flesh-like brotherhood, established ethnic relations of equality and mutual assistance.
Yi is the main ethnic Shan living in the territory, has its own language, no text, the main use of learning Chinese, Yi to "Azar" branch of the top, "Azar" is the nation's self-proclaimed, first seen in the Qing Emperor Kangxi to Jiaqing and the official language of the inscription, saying "Ah we", but since Qianlong annals to a later chronicles are named "black servant pull" or "Ah Cheng" and so on. As the living environment for the mountains, to the types of dry land, production of corn, much wheat, beans and a little Valley, the staple food varieties, corn-based, rather monotonous life, the vast majority of farmers are generally two-day meals, three meals a day and a few farmers, the method is crushed corn noodles, cooking food together tide water transfer, this approach has been followed so far, the rest of the way rare.
Yi costumes (Azar branch)
Men: appearance and wearing a small group of yarn Pa, wearing a _set_ of seven to toggle breasted suits, wearing thigh width ratio more than twice the twist gear pants, wearing sandals, legs tied cloth belt; pants, adults generally only wear one, regardless of head size and height, thigh crotch to more than twice the length of the foot to foot trousers Lo Shui. Colors are green color.
Women: head wrap flower veil, wearing a face shoulder clothes, wearing big pants, wearing a cor_set_ chest, neck chain collapse buttons, small straps tied at the waist. Wearing big Huaxie.
Foot five with a cloth veil, which the head with powder blue, red each three inches, cut into four Ah funny rope and sewn with cotton thread, the whole surrounded by green with a cloth or black cloth piece silk embroidered veil four surrounding follow tie, the width of the veil embroidered red, white, yellow, green, blue, etc. Rainbow silk, embroidered six to eight of an inch wide, to lay the silk tassels on the four to six on each. On re-_set_ each on a silver, seven silver on the middle have booked, totaling more than nine hundred. Order by western Pa head first three series Sesame bell, every four to five inches long strings, in addition to the tail _set_ with silk handkerchief made of foam on the outside, but also provides twenty-four to twenty-six five inches long silk flower ball .
Six feet with a cloth apron, where apron hearts and four weeks to four feet five inches, the belt should foot five inches, with silk embroidered dragon and phoenix patterns and flowers, belt length to the legs bend. Waist circumference with a single, double-stranded, double-stranded formulated four to six cents silver bell hanging on sesame.
Small strap. Cloth five feet, all with blue or black colors, sewing is simple, featureless, neither embroidery, nor silver, fastened at the waist, mainly the Ministry of antifreeze and back cover FIRE child.
Big Hua Xie, cotton cloth, twine Chaldeans, upper with silk embroidery, normally not willing to wear, general holidays and festive days in order to see.
Yi women dressed stress than men, especially young women wear new clothes, wrapped in a new veil, bring apron, so wear seventy-eight silver finger ring, then talent in general has become a beautiful, good it is icing on the cake. With the popularity of social change and technology, multi-style clothing has developed, especially the younger generation has a Chinese-style, modern direction.
Marriage: Yi marriage, have long monogamous, married children after their own. Smoke marriage customs of the old society, the vast majority of parents arranged, the media _set_ to go pro. But many villages talk of free love by jumping into the string is not uncommon. Azar old society marriage, fourteen-year-old young men and women in general betrothal, sixteen-year-old to get married, to go through the media, to burn incense, betel pass, the next of kin four processes, marriage betrothal to take two to three years.
1, take the media: the man my parents like a girl as a self-daughter, matchmaker required of one to two woman home to act as a matchmaker.
2, burning incense: the man when it comes to his wife, happy and proud, to build momentum and expand its influence, good-hearted people want to support this marriage, warning bad heart who dare to destroy the marriage.
3, pass betel: man gifts of money and part of the gift to the bride's family, decided to get married the day of deliberations.
4, the next of kin: parents make arrangements for marriage and children, to choose a wife for his son and family were unlucky six to eight months in advance to inform the woman's home, so the woman's family has a long schedule and purchase sewing daughter a dowry. Since liberation, some villages have been evolved for these four processes, most with free love married life companion.
Religion
Yi people living Dongshan no specific beliefs, but almost every village have built a mountain temple. Spring first day to eighth, also spread some of the old traditional beliefs practices, such as offering dragon, offering fathers, and offered land, plug green branches, offering mountain, mountains, and other ceremonies call dragon, actually a kind of faith.
National Festival
Yi Xi dance love dance, music, Butoh is the nation's unique style and rich flavor of life. They dance hi good dance, song, dance and music tone many traditional Butoh dance has harp (three steps chord), rattle and so on. Yi festival, Azar identical except for the Han, the festival has always attached great importance to the nation, to do too warm, thriving. Twelve months throughout the year, except for the final, the twelfth lunar month to the next of kin wedding, but at least there is a festive month, plus doing so, offering the dragon, festival even more. Among the many festivals, especially the Spring Festival, the most solemn Torch Festival, active. Followed by the Dragon Boat Festival, cattle king will. In the festival, men and women are dressed in costumes, singing, dancing, blowing shells, carnival dance move. Yi Torch Festival is the most important festival, the annual Lunar June 24 this day, Yi compatriots village here _set_ in their villages to celebrate the traditional ethnic festivals. On this day, people are Revellers warm to celebrate, after dinner, young men and women gathered in an empty field, still torches jump chord step, the fire lit up the night sky, illuminating the colorful costumes girls, young men and women shiny red face, twang, torches playing touch sound, cheers come together, the village cheered, people increasingly high spirits, who do not rest, do not want to go home late at night, night, night and day. |