凉山州北部地区尔苏藏族文化概述

凉山州北部地区的藏族自称“尔苏”。居住在甘洛越西两个县的尔苏藏族约6800人。尔苏人没有严格意义的文字，有极少量的原始宗教传人“萨巴”使用萨巴文字，是比东巴文化还要古老的图画文字。尔苏藏族喜欢狩猎。所有的尔苏藏族民居几乎都有“三锅庄”，“三锅庄”是尔苏藏人由游牧民族过度到农耕民族留下的痕迹。脚犁、背架子、倍尔和连枷是尔苏人比较独特的劳动工具，其中，脚犁是凉北地区尔苏藏人独有的构思巧妙的劳动工具。尔苏藏人服饰独特，服装色调鲜亮，刺绣水平高超，尔苏人男女都要裹头帕。尔苏人实行火葬，有专门的坟山焚烧尸体。现在尔苏人的婚姻，实行一夫一妻制。

An Overview of the Ersu Tibetan Culture in the Northern Region of Liang Shan Area

The Tibetan, who live in the northern region of Liang Shan area, call themselves ＂Ersu＂, the Ersu Tibetan. They have a population of more than 6800, they live in the Gan Luo county and Yue Xi county. The Ersu Tibetan don＇ t have ordinary sense of the words, only a very small number of primitive religion disseminators called ＂Saba＂ are using the Saba words. The pictographic writing is older than the Dongba culture. The Ersu Tibetan like hunting. All of the Ersu Tibetan residents almost have ＂Three pot village＂. It stands for the trace that Ersu Tibetan are changing from the nomad people into the farming people. The foot plow, back shelf, Bei Er and Lian Jia are special labor tools for them. Among the tools, the foot plow is the unique designed labor tool of the Ersu Tibetan in northern region of Liang Shan area. Ersu people＇ s dress is unique, and the color is bright. Their embroidery level is excellent. Both the men and women wrap the hood. Now Ersu people use the cremation, and there is a special graves mountain for burning corpses. Now Ersu people have the policy of polygamy