What are the national cultures of the Yi people among the ethnic minorities in China?
The characteristics of Yi culture are tiger worship, black worship, fire worship and love of martial arts. In particular, the worship of tigers directly inherited the totem concept of the original frontier strongman. In the famous Yi epic "Meige", there is a record of taking the tiger as the totem, "supporting the heavenly heart with the back of the tiger and supporting the four sides with the legs of the tiger"; "Tiger doesn't want to divide, tiger is the sky, tiger doesn't want to divide, tiger is the ground, tiger nose doesn't want to divide, and tiger nose is the sky. Don't divide the tiger's ears, the tiger's ears are the ears of heaven. Don't divide the tiger's eyes. The left eye is the sun and the right eye is the moon. The tiger must be divided, and the tiger must be sunny. Don't split up, they are stars ... ". The tiger has become a sacred object that supports heaven and earth and creates everything.