What is the history of the Zhuang folk story "Hundred Birds Clothing"?

In Zhuang culture, the oral literature of working people is very rich, just like a colorful picture scroll, which vividly and truly shows the historical development of Zhuang society. It shows the struggle history and social life of the Zhuang nationality, and reflects the joys, sorrows, hopes and expectations of the Zhuang people. The story of Hundred Birds' Clothing is a popular story among Zhuang people in Guangxi, which has the most national characteristics of Baiyue. By describing a pair of indomitable young people's love stories, the story reflects the sufferings and joys in the life of the Zhuang people, their struggle against the oppressors and their desire for a better life. As early as the Song Dynasty, the story of Hundred Birds Clothing was widely circulated among the Zhuang people in Xiaoyi Town, Hengxian County, Guangxi and its surrounding areas, and was passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the Zhuang people, and was deeply loved by the Zhuang people.

"Hundred Birds Clothing" is a Zhuang folk story circulating around the school chairs in Hengxian County. Full of fantasy and myth, it has been circulating for a long time. The spread of stories is enriched with the development of history.

The story is about a young man from Zhang Yayuan, whose family is poor. His unborn father was exhausted by the heavy work of baking bread. He lived with his mother since childhood, mainly relying on hard work to bake bread and firewood to cook. Zhang Yayuan went up the mountain to collect firewood and hunt since he was a child, and he developed a good skill and a strong body. One day, on the way home to collect firewood, a big cock jumped on his flat frame to collect firewood, and he took it home. After raising a chicken for half a year, she became a beautiful girl and married him. Zhang Yayuan is brave and capable, and his wife is hardworking. She lived a wonderful life after marriage. These were known by the toast, and they always destroyed them in every way, especially for the beauty of Yayuan's wife, and tried their best to rob the girl to be a concubine. So toast made trouble everywhere, but it was defeated by the wisdom of the original wife.

In desperation, the toast forcibly took away Yayuan's wife. Before leaving, his wife said to Yayuan, "Go to the mountain and shoot a hundred birds and make a down jacket. Wear hundreds of bird clothes and see you at the yamen in a hundred days. " My wife was robbed, my mother was angry and my family was broken. Elegant garden with hatred and sadness, with hope into the mountains to shoot birds. The girl was robbed into the yamen, and there was no laughter, only sadness and haggard day by day.

In order to get the girl's smile, the toaster is willing to pay 300 silver dollars, but such a guy, selling plasters, talking and laughing, can't make the girl smile. In order to save his wife, Yayuan went through hardships, crossed 99 rivers, climbed 99 mountains and shot down 100 birds. On the hundredth day, Yayuan made a "bird suit" and put it on the body as his wife said, and came to the yamen. A girl with a sad face usually smiles when she sees Yayuan dancing "Hundred Birds' Clothing". The toast was insatiable about the "clothes of a hundred birds". In order to please her, he took off his official robe and changed into Yayuan. Yayuan killed the toast while helping him wear a "bird suit". And they also took the opportunity to escape from the yamen, and the two of them flew away together and lived a good life.