彝族大多居住在有树木和清泉的山上,他们一生与树木为伴,对树木有着特殊的感情。彝族人认为,地球上先有树木。然后才有人类和其它生物,人是树变的(彝语“如波俄格”即“杉树人”之意),因此他们十分崇拜树木。彝族传说说:远古的时候,洪水泛滥,很多动物和睡金床、银床的人都被洪水淹没了。而睡在一张木床上的彝族祖先居木惹略却幸免于难。他随河水漂浮了三七二十一天后,在麻地尔曲波(贡嘎山)获救。后来与他一起被洪水冲来的老鼠、青蛙、蜘蛛、蛇等动物都被他救出来了。当时,各种动物都会说话,一个 Most of the Yi people live in the mountains with trees and clear springs. Their life is associated with the trees and they have a special feeling for the trees. Yi people think there are trees on the earth. Then there are humans and other creatures. People are tree-transformed (Yi is “Pokége” meaning “cedar”), and therefore they are very much admired of trees. Yi legend: In ancient times, flooding, many animals and sleeping beds, silver beds were flooded. The ancestral home of the Yi people sleeping in a wooden bed was spared. He was rescued in Melody Qu Bo (Gongga Mountain) after floating with the river for thirty-seven days and twenty-one days. The mice, frogs, spiders, snakes and other animals rushed to flood with him later were rescued. At that time, all kinds of animals will speak, one