LITERATURE BULANG

The Gumiya legend is his most important myth, in which he narrates as the world is created and the humanity arises. But in parallel with this one there is an endless number of collateral legends, in which there appear changes of the myths of the creation and of the origin of the different things on the ground. By what possibly there could be planned influences of other nearby peoples.

There is another good number of myths that explain the peculiarities of the different animals, as well as the relation that they have with the persons Bulang. As the rat of bamboo, which according to his legend "The seed of cereals and the rat of bamboo" was the one that provided the grain to the Bulang and that's why they produce homage every year.

The stories of Aizhanglai are a good sample of the present popular literature in the peoples of the South-west of China. In them, Aizhanglai, the rascal, the ingenious one, manages to make fun continuously of the rich ones and the self-seekers.

Although the Bulang reach the biggest mastery in the ambience of the romantic songs, since between them all the young people needs to be able to sing. Since the whole process of courtship and infatuation is realized across songs accompanied also by the musician of the sanxian (a typical instrument of three ropes of his region). In addition to the sanxian they use the drum of paw elephant and the cymbals

His most typical dance is the "Dance of the knives".

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