Recently, because a hotel refused to allow Yi people to stay, it was widely circulated on the Internet, so the topic of Yi people has become hot. Lao Yan was born at the end of the Daliang Mountains in southwest Sichuan, and his hometown is a place where the Han and Yi ethnic groups live together. There is a group in Lao Yan's village that is of the Yi nationality and has had contacts since childhood, so he has a deep understanding of the Yi people.
The Yi people have three major characteristics that make the Han people look down on them. The first is that they don't take a bath all their lives, and of course they don't wash their feet. In those years, the material life was very poor, as long as it was not a particularly cold day, and it was not a particularly easy environment to hurt the feet, both the Han and Yi people were barefoot. However, the Han people must wash their feet with hot water before going to bed, while the Yi people do not have this habit, no matter how dirty it is, they fall into bed and go to sleep.
Of course, their quilts and sheets were also largely unwashed. In fact, many of them don't have quilts. The so-called quilt is the kind of felt shirt they wear with them. There are two types of felt shirts, one is woven from a rope twisted from wool, and the other is made directly from wool. Felt shirts made of wool are softer and are used to make mattresses. Felt shirts woven with thread are used to make quilts and cover the body. But many times it is not covered.
Because they like to mingle with each other. When I arrived, I slept at someone's house when it got dark. So often there are five or six people or even seven or eight people sleeping in the same house. Guests and young hosts often sleep in the same bed, regardless of gender, and no matter how many people are stacked on the same bed, sometimes they are squeezed and have difficulty breathing.
Not only do you not take a bath, but you don't wear **. Yi women all wear skirts, no matter where they go, they want to defecate, as soon as the skirt is scattered, people squat down, and the hem of the skirt is in line with the ground, just blocking it. So sometimes you can see people pooping on the street.
The Yi people are all addicted to alcohol. Lao Yan wrote in a previous article that when I was a student, I saw several Yi women with children drinking and sitting on the side of the street, passing the wine themselves, and at the same time dipping the wine on their fingers and licking it for their children, so as to cultivate the habit of drinking from an early age.
If it is a farm slack or a holiday, the biggest program of the Yi people is drinking. Everyone sat in a circle, and there was no food to accompany the drink, and the wine was passed and drunk in a bowl. Generally, it is common to drink one pound of wine or two pounds of wine a day. Sleep wherever you get drunk. Sometimes because it was too cold, I got drunk and slept on the side of the road, and I never woke up. Lao Yan has also encountered such a thing personally.
Although this behavior is dangerous, and the Yi people themselves know the danger, they still drink alcohol as usual and do not get drunk. On the one hand, this may be due to alcohol addiction, and on the other hand, it is also related to their outlook on life and death. The Yi people are not afraid of death and do not value their lives so much. Lao Yan once had a friend of the Yi nationality and wrote a poem about the national character of the Yi people who are not afraid of death.
Many of these shortcomings are unacceptable to the Han Chinese. Therefore, even though some people are friends with the Yi people, they do not stay overnight. Or even if they stay overnight, they won't let them sleep in bed. It's often a random platform. Of course, the Yi people who were guests were not angry.
In addition to this, there are all kinds of habits that make people feel incredible. For example, he likes to sit cross-legged on the ground. I remember that there was a news two years ago, saying that a certain place in Liangshan Prefecture issued a document prohibiting sitting cross-legged when eating. This very poorly executed order became a laughing stock later.
Even the Yi people, who have been deeply sinicized, still maintain the habit of being regarded as bad habits by the Han people. In Lao Yan's community, there was a family that planted cotton in the XPCC, and that year they found a group of Yi workers, and they had to drive them away in less than a month. I asked why. She said a lot: unhygienic, drinking**, open defecation, blah blah blah. Why such a custom was formed, Lao Yan has never figured it out.
Looking at the relevant information, the history of the Yi people is very deep. And they may have lived in the area of Daliang Mountain and on both sides of the Jinsha River for six or seven thousand years. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the social conditions of six or seven thousand years ago are recorded, and the social structure at that time was very different from the present, and even people today dare not believe it. That is, there was a class in society at that time that was called God.
Although it is said to be miraculous, according to Lao Yan's analysis, the gods at that time were just some silicon-based creatures, and their IQ and ability far surpassed that of humans, so they ruled over human beings. The key point is that these gods are silicon-based creatures. In the story of Nuwa's creation of man from clay, the so-called people made of clay were actually the gods of the time.
In other words, those gods are intimately connected to the land. In fact, the living habits of the Yi people are closely related to the land in the final analysis. Whether it's sitting cross-legged close to the soil, burying yourself in the soil after death, or not washing the stains on your body, in fact, keeping the dirt on your body.
So Lao Yan has this idea: Will these deep-rooted national customs of the Yi people, which we consider to be shortcomings, be related to those gods six or seven thousand years ago? Of course, this is just an immature assumption, and it is far from being a judgment.
The Yi script is very ancient, and it is said that the oldest is six or seven thousand years old. But that refers to the ancient Yi script. Lao Yan once entered a WeChat group with experts on ancient Yi languages, but from his academic works, he still couldn't find the relationship between the Yi people and the gods. It is also impossible to find the ultimate ** of these customs of the Yi people.
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