Some customs of the Bulang

The Bulang live in the frontier mountainous area between China and Burma. In a mountainous area, his villages are generally over 1.500 meters of altitude. Although in a remote past they were hunters and recollectors, already it has been several centuries since they practise the agriculture. His principal cultivation is the rice, corn, sweet potato, cotton and tea. In fact the Bulang produce the famous tea Puer.

Although in some places they cultivate even commercial cultivation, in others they still continue in a phase of agriculture of groove and fire. Or that deforestan a portion of the forest, they cultivate it for some years, and then they leave it that it recovers.

They have two types of housings, some of adobe and wood, and others of bamboo. The above mentioned of two apartments, the lower one for the animals, and of above for the persons.

Garment
The women dress a few blouses without neck, and a few black skirts with some red, white and black strip. Also they take a big turban. The women like chewing betel, and the teeth blackened for chewing him are considered to be beautiful.
The men dress a black or green blouse, with round neck, with a few long and wide pants. They usually take a white or black turban. The men tattoo the body with motives of flowers or animals, in legs, breast and arms.
The garment is very similar between the Bulang of the different areas, with very little differences.

After the death generally they realize burials in the ground, except those who die of violent death, which they are incinerated.

They have several games typical of his culture. Between those that that of the ball emphasizes. That stakes with a ball of approximately 15 cm, done with bamboo, that each one sends it up, and that between all must prevent from falling down to the soil.
Also they are keen of the roosters fights.

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