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What are the cultures of Miao people?
Miao culture

Miao people have created colorful and unique folk literature and art. Folk literature mainly includes poems and legends, most of which have been passed down to this day by oral legends. Poetry is generally five-character style, with seven-character style or free style in the middle, and most of them only talk about tunes without rhyme. Generally, the tunes are simple, with little change, not strict rhythm and unlimited length, including ancient songs, logical words, witch songs, bitter songs, anti-tune, love songs and children's songs. For example, The Old Man Opens Heaven and Earth, Ninety-nine suns and Ninety-nine moons are all ancient songs that tell the history of the Miao people and reflect the struggle between the ancient Miao people and nature. Miao poetry and ancient legends not only provide rich national folk literature materials, but also are important reference materials for studying Miao history.

Miao nationality is a people who love singing and dancing. Music, dance and Miao drama have a long history. There are already records in the history books that men play lusheng and women ring bells. The Miao people's "flying songs" are very famous, and now they all perform stage singing or composing music. Instrumental music can be divided into percussion instruments and orchestral music, with wooden drums, leather drums, bronze drums and lusheng being the most famous. In addition, there are mangoes, lutes, harpsichords, konoha leaves and various flutes. Dances include Lusheng Dance, Bench Dance and Monkey Encouragement, among which Lusheng Dance is the most common and highly skilled, and is deeply appreciated at home and abroad.

Miao people's arts and crafts such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade, batik, paper cutting and jewelry making are colorful. The batik technology of Miao nationality has a history of thousands of years. After liberation, it has developed to be able to dye colorful patterns and export them abroad. There are many kinds of traditional silver ornaments of Miao nationality, including bracelets, collars, headdresses, chest ornaments and silver clothes. They are also famous for their exquisite carving patterns.

Miao people have established their own medicine, which divides human diseases into 36 diseases in internal medicine, 72 diseases in surgery and more than 20 treatments. Mr. Shi Qigui is the author of Miao Medicine Prescription and Animal Medicine Guide. Lu Kemin is the author of Miao Medicine Collection. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, Long, the first-time doctor of Songtaotang, took out the stillbirth for pregnant women by caesarean section. Treating fracture, snake wound, poisoned arrow wound, knife and gun wound, Miao doctor has quick effect. Miao medicine mostly uses crude drugs and has been used now.