The customs of the Miao people include food and marriage, etc. The characteristic is that they pay attention to etiquette.

1. Customs of the Miao people

1. The food customs of the Miao people have their own characteristics. The Miao people in southeastern Guizhou, Xiangxi, Hainan Island, and Rongshui, Guangxi, eat rice as their staple food, as well as corn, sweet potatoes, millet and other miscellaneous grains; the Miao people in northwestern Guizhou, southern Sichuan, and northeastern Yunnan eat corn, potatoes, buckwheat, oats, etc. as their staple food . There are many types of non-staple food, including home-raised livestock, poultry and fish for meat, and beans, vegetables and melons for vegetables. In addition, they also collect wild vegetables and engage in fishing and hunting to supplement the food.

2. The marriage conclusion process of the Miao people is very complicated, and the wedding ceremony is also extremely complicated. In Bijie area and Pingbian, Yunnan, and other places, the bride usually walks to her husband's house when getting married, without visiting the church. But in Xiangxi, people ride in sedans, while in Weining, people ride in sedans or ride horses. When Xuan En's bride arrives at her husband's house, she must enter the bridal chamber through the side door, and the accompanying unmarried girl will serve the bride and groom a "cup of wine".

2. Characteristics of the Miao people

The Miao people pay attention to etiquette. On all occasions, the elders and younger ones are arranged in an orderly manner and the sizes are different. In the past, men in Miao families usually ate first and women last. Sometimes the mother could eat at the same table with her husband and son, but the daughter and daughter-in-law always ate last. If guests come to the house, male guests should be accompanied by men while female guests should be accompanied by women. If old and young eat at the same table, the old man should sit at the top, and the rest should sit separately.

Miao culture and art

1. Miao music is rich and colorful. There are folk song tunes, Lusheng tunes, Zuona tunes and Ceqin tunes, the most common of which are folk songs and Lusheng tunes, and Lusheng tunes are the most representative tunes in Miao music.

2. The Miao people’s folk crafts such as cross-stitching, embroidery, brocade, batik, and silver jewelry are magnificent and colorful. After using a wax knife dipped in wax to draw a pattern on the white cloth, dip it into the dye vat for dyeing, and then boil it with water to remove the yellow wax to reveal a blue background and white pattern. The batik process has a history of about thousands of years and is widely spread among the Miao people. .

3. The Miao folk oral literature is very developed. It is numerous in quantity, rich in content, diverse in form, and exquisite in art, including ancient songs, legends, folk stories, ballads, narrative poems, proverbs and aphorisms.