Yunnan Zhuang and Guangxi Zhuang are of the same origin and have a long history in China. As early as the third century BC, the Zhuang people living in Guangxi and Yunnan today had close contacts with the people of the Central Plains at that time. Historically, Zhuang people are good at planting rice with abundant water resources, while women are good at weaving and embroidery. The woven Zhuang cloth and brocade are famous for their exquisite patterns and bright colors, and the unique "batik" is also praised by people. In terms of clothing, there is not much difference between men and Han nationality, while women are colorful. They especially like to embroider patterns, figures, birds, animals and flowers on shoes, hats and chest bags with colorful silk threads.
Zhuang people are also famous for singing folk songs, which are euphemistic, rhyming and infectious. Folk songs include ancient songs telling history, "production songs" teaching life skills, "wine songs" and "love songs". Folk songs are mainly "bitter songs", such as "long-term workers' songs" and "women's bitter love songs" Zhuang people are also good at dancing, with a long history of "bronze drum dance", distinctive rhythm and vigorous dance steps. The traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality mainly include "Long Duan" (Zhuang language, meaning to drive the dam). According to legend, this festival has a history of more than 700 years. It was originally to commemorate the story of the national hero Nong (Zhuang) who rose up against the Song Dynasty in April 1052. Now, Longduan Street has developed into a traditional festival for people of Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Yi and Han nationalities in Funing County to exchange materials and celebrate together. Other festivals of Zhuang nationality are the same as those of Han nationality.
Zhuang people
Ethnic minorities in China. Mainly distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces. Guangxi has the most. 1990 population15.48 million. The use of Zhuang language belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There were folk characters composed of square characters in the Southern Song Dynasty. But it is not widely used, and it is mostly used for writing place names, compiling folk songs and taking notes. 1955 created and popularized Zhuang language based on Latin letters, and 1982 made some revisions.
Zhuang nationality is an indigenous ethnic group in Lingnan with a long history. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was a branch of Baiyue, which was called Tongren and Dingding in the Southern Song Dynasty. Ming and Qing dynasties are equal to soil, and attachment is equal to sand. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it was unified as "Tong". 1965, according to the initiative of and the approval of the State Council, "Tong" was changed to "Zhuang".
Limestone is widely distributed in Zhuang area, which is a world-famous karst area. Rocky Mountains have caves and underground rivers. This kind of terrain constitutes a scenic spot of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world and Yangshuo's landscape is the best in the world". This coast is rich in all kinds of precious seafood, especially Nanzhu. Zhuang area has mild climate and abundant rainfall. Agriculture-oriented, planting rice, corn and potatoes. Fruit is also very rich, and the forest area is wide, rich in Liuzhou fir, silver fir, camphor wood and other precious wood. Notoginseng, gecko and fennel oil, which are well-known at home and abroad, are well-known specialties in Zhuang areas.
Zhuang people are good at singing, and the annual folk song will be called Gewei. The third day of the third lunar month is the most grand. More than 10,000 people attended the large-scale song concert. Liu Sanjie, known as a singing fairy, is a typical representative of Zhuang singers. During the song festival, men and women held recreational activities such as throwing hydrangeas, touching eggs, eating five-color glutinous rice, singing Zhuang opera and holding material exchange. I wish you a bumper harvest. The Zhuang people had dances in the Tang Dynasty. On the cliffs of Ningming and Longzhou in Guangxi, there are many rock paintings painted by Zhuang ancestors. Zhuang people have been casting and using bronze drums for more than 2000 years. Zhuang brocade is a famous textile handicraft.
The marriage of Zhuang people used to be arranged by their parents, but they were free to fall in love before marriage. Staying at home or "sitting at home" is popular now, and it is still practiced in some places. The house is the same as that of the local Han people in Otawa. In some areas, residents live on the second floor, people live upstairs and livestock are piled downstairs. In recent years, it has changed, and people and animals are separated. Most of the costumes are the same as those of the Han nationality, but there are still many places that still retain the characteristics of their own national costumes, and they are different from place to place. Men often wear Tang suits. Cloth used to be homemade. There used to be a custom of tattooing, but now it has changed. Diet, like to eat pickled sour food, sashimi as a delicacy. The staple food is rice and corn. On New Year's Day, rice is used to make various Zhuang women's powder cakes. Women have the custom of chewing betel nut. Be sure to send betel nuts when you get married. In addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors, there are also natural worship, such as offering sacrifices to mountain gods, water gods and sun gods. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism were first introduced into the Zhuang area. Modern missionaries went to Zhuang towns to establish Christianity and Catholicism, but the influence was not great.
In Zhuang people's houses, when people meet old people on the road, they must take the initiative to greet them and step back to the side of the road to let them pass first. When the old man enters the room, he should be asked to sit in his seat. If someone sits cross-legged in front of the old man, it is considered disrespectful to the old man and will be condemned by everyone.
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