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Monba Nationality

   

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Monba means people living at Menyu. They dwell on south Tibet, and Tibet language is currency.


They mainly dress in red long pulu gown ( a kind of haircloth). The hat has a brown tip and yellow edges. Black yak fur terai can also been seen. Long upper shoes are made of cow skin, matched with red and black pulu. A woman wraps white apron and likes to wear bracelets, red and white bands of beans, earrings and rings. In Motuo area, they have long or short jackets. Women like to have flowery skirt with strips. Men gird knives.

They live in two or three storied-buildings with wood, bamboo or hay roof. Walls are made of stones, wood board or bamboo fence. The upper floors are for people's living, and the down floors are for livestock. They sleep on carpet bed or fur bed.

They mainly engage in agriculture, and hunting also plays some certain role in economic life to exchange living necessity. The capture will preferentially be given double shares for the hunters who hit the target, and then the other people can get one.

If a family has a guest, they will not pass through in front of the him, but make round back of him. The masters will sleep until the guest has done. A branch of stings will be hanged on the gate to refuse visitors when a family member is ill. They are ahimsa people, especially on cattle. They think it is cruel to kill cattle because a cattle has worked for all its life and provided people milk. Three days before hunting, a family will stop cooking wine and guests should stop their steps.

On the wedding day, the bride will be sent under escort by the relatives when she dresses up. Before their journey, the daughter will express her feeling to the parents to show how she love them. The parents give her bracelets, rings, headgears and waistband as gifts. Sometimes, working tools are also the presents. The bridegroom has sent people to wait his new wife on the way. They bring wine in bamboo tube to invite the bride to drink three times. When they get to the new husband's family, a sumptuous meal is waiting for all. An uncle of the bride will stand as representative of the wife's family, he will criticize the meal and assail if it is that the girl looks bad, and so on. When he speaks a sentence, he hits the table strongly as if he were angry. The bridegroom's family perform to apologize, present Hada and add dishes and wine until the angry uncle is satisfied. In this way, the new husband is tested. It is a big time for them.

Water burial and inhumation are carried on. Fire burial and natural burial are the same as what the Tibet do.

The festivals are the same as those of Tibets'.

The staple-food are paddy, corn, buckwheat and chicken paddy. They like to drink ghee tea and eat chilli. Particularly, the buckwheat fried on a bluestone is a kind of popular food.

They believe in Lama Buddha.

The Monba nationality is a versatility minority. The bamboo hat, the vine baskets and other basketwork are taste and durable, especially wood bowls, are their very traditional handicraft, which gets high appraisement.



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