Customs of the Hani

The Hani are one of the peoples of the south of China with a more developed agriculture. In some areas, his cultivation of rice, practised during hundreds of years, spreads following the outline of the mountains up to his top, forming one of the most impressive sceneries created by the human action. The erection of these works has supposed many years of intense work and a careful use of the ground. In some places the patios go so far as to have hundreds of levels.

His villages are the political and social center of the life hani. They are usually constructed in the skirt of the mountains. There are also the ritual and religious unit concerning which the most important holidays of the Hani are celebrated.

His housings usually have two apartments, one below for the animals and other arrives for the persons, although in some regions they go so far as to have three apartments.

His clothes are of a big coloring. And like some other peoples of the area, in the women it indicates the age group to which it belongs and his marital state. There exists a big difference between the clothes of the women of a few branches and others, The hairdos that take the head are usually very elaborated.

They have reputation of being very hospitable with the travelers, whom at once they offer wine and tea.

Formerly they were incinerating the dead persons, although it does already some generations who bury them. When an elder dies, the Dance of the Elders is realized. During the same one there him sacrifice themselves oxen and goats, which according to the experts it is a memory of when they were taking a nomadic existence, and sing crying while the ceremony lasts.

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