Yi Girl's Adult Ceremony: "Changing Skirt" Ceremony

In the large and small Liangshan area, Yi girls have a mysterious "adult" when they are adults. Changing skirt "Ceremony", the Yi language is called "salad Luo", meaning to take off the skirt of childhood and replace the adult skirt. The Yi girls wore red and white before salolo. Children's skirt The comb is a single braid, and the ear is lined with ears. After the ceremony of "changing skirt", we will wear the three trailing masks with black and blue middle. Longuette The original single plait should be changed into double braid, and the embroidered head and the eardrop should be put on.

After the ceremony of "changing skirt", girls can freely go shopping, rush to the court, watch horse racing, play friends and fall in love. The time of changing skirts is determined according to the development of girls. Generally, they choose between 15~17 years old. Because in the local Yi People's view, two year old "changing skirt" will be a disaster, and it will not be lucky all one's life. As for the specific date of "changing skirt", we must ask the old man to make a good calculation, so that we can finally decide the lucky day.

Because "changing skirt" is a symbol of women from childhood to adulthood, as parents, they attach great importance to it. In particular, the mother, who is the daughter's intimate person, knows the physical condition of her daughter, and prepares for her daughter the black harp, the new skirt, the colored beads and the silver medal.