Zhuang folklore writing more than 3,000 words

The Zhuang is a hospitable people, in the past to the Zhuang village of any one of the guests are considered to be the guests of the whole village, often several take turns to please eat, sometimes a meal to eat five, six. Usually that is the habit of mutual hospitality, such as a pig, must invite the village households to each family to a person, **** eat a meal. Entertaining guests at the table must be prepared to wine, Fangzhuang grand. Toast the custom of "drinking cup", in fact, do not use the cup, but with a white porcelain spoon spoon up a spoon, double to the best food and accommodation, the guests in

Respect for the elderly and love for the young is the traditional virtues of the Zhuang people. Road to meet the elderly to take the initiative to greet, make way, in front of the elderly do not stilt or "mother-in-law"; meet guests or heavy, to take the initiative to make way, if you meet the heavy elderly counterparts, to take the initiative to help and sent to the breakup.

Taboo content

Strong people taboo on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to kill animals; some areas of the young women avoid eating beef and dog meat; women give birth to a child in the first three days (some of the first seven days) taboo outsiders into the house; taboo child birth has not yet been full of months of women to the home string. When climbing up the bamboo buildings of Zhuang homes, you generally have to take off your shoes. Zhuang taboo wearing a hat and carrying a hoe or other agricultural tools into their own homes, so to the Zhuang outside the door to put down the agricultural tools, take off the hat, hat. The fire pond and stove pond are the most sacred places of the Zhuang family, and it is forbidden to step on the tripod on the fire pond as well as the stove platform with your feet. It is taboo for pregnant women to participate in the marriage of Zhuang youths, and pregnant women in particular are not allowed to see the bride. In particular, pregnant women are not allowed to enter the home of a woman in labor. If a family has a woman in labor, they should hang a sleeve branch or insert a knife on the door to show that it is forbidden. Those who inadvertently intrude into the house of a woman in labor must give the baby a name and a set of clothes. A chicken or a corresponding gift to be the child's godfather or godmother.

The Zhuang people are rice farmers, very much in love with frogs, some parts of the Zhuang people have a special "honor frog ceremony", so to the Zhuang region, it is strictly prohibited to kill frogs, and do not eat frog meat. Whenever there are floods or other major disasters, the Zhuang will hold the Anlong Ancestor Sacrifice to beg the divine dragon for disaster relief. After the ceremony, a monument is erected at the entrance of the village to prevent outsiders from entering the village.

Culture and Art

The Zhuang people are good at singing, which is known as "Huan" along the Right River, "Poetry" along the Left River, and "Bi" and "Huan" along the northern part of Gui. "Huan" means singing mountain songs. There are regularly held singing songs, known as song dike. Song dike date varies from place to place. To the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar for the most grand. Dashan song dike has more than ten thousand people to participate. The content of the song, please song, song, exciting song, song, polite song, push song, disk song, point more song, parting song, love song, send song and so on. Known as the "song fairy" Liu Sanjie is a typical representative of the singer. During the song dike, also held between men and women throwing embroidered balls, "touch eggs" and other recreational activities. During this period, every family eats five-color glutinous rice. The Wenshan area in Yunnan Province also sings Zhuang opera and organizes material exchange meetings. In the past, the Zhuang people planted rice for one year (i.e., one season), and the third day of the third month was the time to prepare for plowing, and the Song Wei was to make material and spiritual preparations for the spring plowing and agricultural work. Eating five-color rice and five-color eggs is to wish for a good harvest.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang people already had dances, such as the pounding dance with the content of pounding rice, accompanied by pounding sounds. In the Song Dynasty, there were dances such as the Flat Stretch Dance, the Tea Picking Dance, the Shrimp Dance, and the Spring Cow Dance. The male dancers were robust and powerful, while the female dancers were graceful and elegant. This dance has been handed down to this day. Under the influence of Han Chinese theater, around the Qing Dynasty, the Zhuang began to appear in theater. One kind is the Zhuang Opera, Shigong Opera and Puppet Opera sung in the Zhuang language; the other is the Song and Dance Opera developed on the basis of folk songs and dances. The Zhuang opera was divided into the "North Road Zhuang Opera" popular in Tianlin, Xilin and Baise, which was formed under the influence of Dian Opera and on the basis of the folk rap opera "Bench Opera", absorbing the cantata of Dian Opera, and accompanied by the musical instruments of the Zhuang people such as the horsebone hu, gourd hu, wooden leaf, and the Han people's flute, flute, and wooden leaf, and the Han people's flute, flute, and wooden leaf. The accompanying instruments include the horse bone hu, gourd hu, wooden leaf of the Zhuang nationality and the flute, three strings and erhu of the Han nationality. The "South Road Zhuang Opera", which is popular in Qingxi and Debo generation, is formed on the basis of Ma'ai Tu Opera and influenced by Yi Opera to form the form of singing opera, accompanied by musical instruments other than the national horse bone hu], hulu hu, but also using the Yi Opera's gongs, gongs, cymbals, small cymbals, erhu, sanxian, flute, drums, clappers.