Aini Cottage

When you arrive at the Aiqiang Village, you can dance bamboo rafts with the Aiqiang men and women there. At the top of the forest park, there is a Yi garden with a splashing square. After the ethnic performance, you can change into Yi clothes and go to the pool to experience the biggest festival of the Yi people. Sprinkling Festival is the most solemn festival of the Yi people, equivalent to our Han people's Spring Festival. Every April 13-15 Day is the Songkran Festival. The first two days are the temple fair. The day of the real splashing is the 15th. In the eyes of the Yi people, the water is a symbol of holiness, beauty and light. The water is a form of mutual blessing. Each village has a Buddhist temple, under the ancient and huge Bodhi tree, the solemn and exquisite Buddhist temple, golden and shining, the curtains are floating. With the fragrance of flowers, the Buddhist temple and the bamboo building, green bamboo, ancient wood are intersected, a sacred scene. This is a typical Haojia hanging building, because Xishuangbanna is located in a wet tropical area, so the houses here are all on the first floor and the second floor are occupied, and the pillars that bear the role of square are square, because there are many tropical snakes and insects, in order to prevent them from entangled and climbing. When you step into this bamboo building, green, fence ring, village road like a bowel, it seems to step into another world, Xu is the reason for the villagers' greed for tranquility, from ancient times to the present, they have always maintained a distance from the outside world, money in the fields, grass, Guolin...they even walk carefully, afraid to disturb this fertile land mysterious dream. Speaking of the mystery of the Yi people, it is their marriage custom that has to be mentioned. The Yi family, is not many matrilineal societies in existence, here, girls are called "sao qili", boys are called "cat qili", women are married to men. If you have a daughter, happy, feast for three days and three nights, on the contrary, born a boy, it is sad. The boy born is directly called "lose money", because to prepare rubber trees for him, create silver jewelry as a dowry, wait until "cats" grow up, there is a favorite "sao", have to go to "sao" family to work for three years, get "sao" family satisfaction, Only after approval can we marry.

Menglian has a love garden. The love Yi is a branch of the Hani people, also known as the love Yi people. In Xishuangbanna's 12 world-residence ethnic minorities, the Yi people are the main ethnic group, and the love Yi people are the second, with a population of about 200,000. Most of the Hani people in Yunnan Province live in Honghe Hani Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and some of the Hani people who now live in Xishuangbanna call themselves Love Yiren Love Yiren, although they have no writing, but they have a very rich oral literature. The men of Aiqi are collectively called Ali, and the women are called Abu, a nation that still uses the father-son tying system, and the last word in the father's name, for the son's surname, is very characteristic, it is said to keep their family lineage pure.

After a small overpass to the Aiqi Mountain Village, there are people living in Aiqi. Everything is very primitive tea picking, tea making and baking process is displayed here. The Yi nationality cottage contains many original artisanal, manufacturing and folk art things, and the culture of weaving clothing is also very interesting. The corn under the beams, the Yi people and the local Yi people live on the second floor of the house. On the one hand, the local area is really humid. Living on the second floor is moisture-proof. On the other hand, living on the second floor can prevent beasts, especially the square pillars can prevent snakes from entering the second floor of the house. It is very safe. The walls are hung with historical photos of the nation. Every nation has a starry culture and intriguing stories, vicissitudes of old. I saw these outside the window. The big, big jackfruit .... carefully smashed the head. The girl who loves the Yi will build a stage to greet the guests. They will sing some very ethnic mountain songs. Sitting here can avoid the heat, because the temperature outside is already about 35 degrees. It's a bit hot. And ethnic music is really good.