Lusheng: The Lahu Family

Lahu girls

The endless stream of Lancang river fed the industrious and courageous Lahu nation.

In order to make a living and escape war, Lahu's ancestors from the far north "North Di Nan Di" and "Mu Bi Mi" must come to Myanmar "(the Lincang City)" and "Lancang" (today's Lincang City).

The Lahu nationality, known as "Lahu", is one of the peoples named after the tiger, also known as "Peng Ya Ya Ya", meaning the children of gourd, a typical mountain people.

Native villages, matriarchal families, and two family families remained in the late twentieth Century.

In 1953, the Lahu Autonomous County of Lancang was established. From 1990 to 1990, there were three ethnic autonomous counties such as Meng Lian, Shuang Jiang and Zhenyuan.

Among them, Lancang county is the only single Lahu Autonomous County in the country. It is the beautiful mountain village of Lahu, the paradise of the world and the famous Puer.

Legend has it that the supreme god of the earth created the sun and moon in the heaven and earth, and created the gourd seed that breeds human beings. The ancestor, Lahu and Nadia, came out of the gourd and multiplied human beings.

The Lahu nationality is a nation who expresses history in song and dance. "To say" come and go all the time, to open up the gourd people, "the Lahu clan was born from the gourd.

"Zi Di is the son of Ya Ya, Nadi is a girl of Sha ya, and Nadi is a gourd girl." the gourd is the mascot of Lahu.

"Lusheng sounded and sprang up and sang happily." Lahu's family could not live without Lusheng.

From the age of seven or eight, the boy began to learn to play Lusheng, and the folk proverb "millet yellow, Lahu Huan, mountain mountain ridge Lusheng crazy" is the true portrayal of Lahu's Lusheng singing and dancing grand occasion.

Traditionally, adult men have at least three gourds, one for water or wine, one for gunpowder and one for gourd.

In daily life, people use cucurbit seeds to preserve seeds, which means that grain is abundant; drinking cucurbit water means health and longevity; housing, production tools, clothes and so on have gourd symbols, which means good luck.

The euphemistic Lahu 5 voice scale also stems from the legend of Lu Sheng.

It has been said that in order to thank all of the five species who have created all kinds of human beings and give human seeds and cultivation, the brothers have united in their hearts, making the Lusheng with gratitude to the Euler by using gourd and five golden bamboo tubes.

Bamboo and bamboo have knots. Lahu also has days and months. The traditional grand year of "La khani" is not only a farewell to the old and new year, but also a festival of aesthetic education for the Lahu people to pray for grain harvest, prosperity and unity.

When the peach blossom year came, Li Hua year came.

Birds of a thousand birds gather on the honey tree, thousands of people gather in Kony Hani.

Men wear new clothes in the new year, women wear new clothes in the Spring Festival, blow up bamboo and gourd Sheng, and blow bubbles.

The brilliant gourd myths and Lusheng songs and dances create a Lahu nationality who can sing and dance.

During festivals and weddings and funerals, people often dance and dance all night long.

When you hear the theme song "marriage vow" of the famous Lusheng love song, you can feel the simplicity and sweetness of the true feelings of the world.

According to the needs of the development of Lahu's history and culture, the official Hulu Festival "arban alonI" of the people's Government of the Lancang Lahu Autonomous County in 1992 was a festival for all the Lahu people.

Lahu's gourd Festival and Lancang county and Shuang Jiang county's Lusheng dance have been included in the first batch of nonmaterial in Yunnan province.

The Lahu people use their own knowledge system to divide villages.

There are village gate, village god, Buddha Hall, God forest, grave hill, water source forest, arable land and so on.

In the early days of new China, extensive production of agricultural production retained the tradition of hunting, collecting and fishing.

The land is public, and it is customary that "Artemisia blossoms go with the race".

The main cultivated areas are dry land, buckwheat, corn and so on. Arable land is cultivated in 13 years.

Production tools are hoes, sickle, samarium knives and so on.

The Lahu nationality has a special social gender system. Women raise the elderly, inherit property and have a higher family status.

Village male leaders decide village public affairs.

After the reform and opening up, lots of villagers were contracted out.

The magic and orderly chopsticks are in pairs. Shun Tian Li is a harmonious man and woman. In the history, the management system of the head and some local knowledge of natural resources management have explained the harmonious concept of Lahu's people and people, people and society, and the harmony between man and nature.

Barbecue and pound food are the main contents of Lahu's catering culture. Barbecued chicken, leaf pack burning fresh fish, and chilled chili are loved by Lahu compatriots.

Lahu's love for barbecue is also integrated.

After the reform and opening up, Lahu lived a new life, the new life of Kun Tsung cottage, the development of Nuo Tso Du power station, the four sides of the rural highway, the running of the small car, and the opening of ten thousand mu of tea garden.

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