Some of the compositions about the New Year of the Yi people are as follows:
The New Year is approaching, and the children are counting the days with their fingers, hoping that the New Year will arrive soon. The New Year is the end of the year. It is the beginning of a new year and the boundary between the old and new years. We bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, celebrate a year of good harvest and happiness, and look forward to the future. I wish you good weather, abundant harvests, prosperous livestock, purity and peace in the new year. I wish you happiness and happiness every year.
If there are misfortunes or illnesses in the old year, people can get great spiritual support and comfort through the New Year. In the season when old and new times alternate, fortunes change, and congratulations on the coming of the new year. Taking the New Year time as the definition, everything starts anew. As long as you make a good start, your fortune will be prosperous. Based on the New Year time, you can prevent bad luck in the passing year.
If the New Year is over and the year is not good, there will be many disasters and plagues, people will have to celebrate the New Year again. Let the children hold sticks as weapons and attack a symbolic magic palace built at the entrance of the village. It seems to be a battle with evil spirits. In the end, the children will destroy the magic palace. Through this move, people can gain new spiritual sustenance.
The Yi people’s “Kuhi History” has a long history. According to records in Yi folk literature: “The New Year celebrations of the Yi people were started by a man named Obukosa.” Due to the long history, a whole set of customs and habits has been formed, such as There are many rich contents such as worshiping ancestors, stacking firewood, watching the New Year, dusting, drinking and having fun, and paying New Year greetings.
The Yi people will lay a layer of grass on the floor during the New Year. Choose the grass on the rocks to cut. The grass there is pure grass, clean grass, grass that has not been touched by the sheep's mouth, grass that has not been trodden by the hooves of animals, rich grass, and lush grass. The fragrant grass is flourishing, the pavement is verdant, and the green grass is as velvety as green carpet, symbolizing the prosperity and wealth of future generations.
When the Yi people celebrate the New Year, pine needles are spread under the ancestral spirits. The pine trees are green, symbolizing evergreen. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the green pine trees are still green despite heavy snowfall; the green pine trees are persevering, symbolizing the bravery and strength of all descendants. The green pine has a thick surface and thick bark, and there is fragrant rosin in the heart of the tree, which symbolizes that people should have a kind heart like the green pine. The Yi people have a particularly high regard for pine trees.