Miao people's living habits

1, Miao dietary practices have their own characteristics. Southeast Guizhou, western Hunan, Hainan Island and Guangxi Rongshui Miao, the staple food for rice, but also corn, sweet potatoes, millet and other miscellaneous grains; northwest Guizhou, southern Sichuan, northeast Yunnan Miao, corn, potatoes, buckwheat, oats and other staple foods.

2, some Miao areas, avoid scrubbing anytime drinking cauldrons, rice bags, rice pots, can only be washed when eating new rice, to show that the old rice to meet the new rice. Scrubbing at any time will wash away the family wealth, rice is not enough to eat. Drinking raw water in the mountains, avoid drinking directly, must first hit the grass mark, to show that kills the sick ghosts.

3, in many Miao areas, the form of the Hammer still exists, the Hammer Statute was replaced with content compatible with modern social life, and has become an effective complement to the government's administrative organization and laws and decrees, and has played a very important role in social production and the maintenance of social stability.

4, friends and relatives visit, festivals, red and white celebrations, must be wine hospitality, long formed a set of drinking traditional customs and etiquette, many places in the Miao feast and toast, and the custom of singing wine songs.

The Miao people in the border areas of Hunan, Guizhou and Guizhou are also popular for drinking oil tea, which is not only an essential dietary delicacy for the Miao family when treating guests, but also a special drink before and after meals, and in some places even eat oil tea with rice.

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Miao people in Qianxinan: colorful ethnic customs

Miao people in Qianxinan can sing and dance well, and there are many kinds of songs and dances. As far as songs are concerned, they can be divided into ancient songs, love songs, wine songs, disk songs, flying songs and children's songs. The 12-road ancient song, which is popular among the central-dialect Miao, and "We want to swim to the sky to find the root system," which is popular among the western-dialect Miao, are typical representatives of the Miao's ancient songs.

All the folk songs, with different tunes and different emotional colors in singing, fully reflect the wishes of the Miao people to love life, praise it and actively pursue a better future.

The representative dances are the bench dance, the Lusheng dance, the copper drum dance and the burnt spirit dance, etc. The bench dance and the copper drum dance are group dances. The Bench Dance and Copper Drum Dance are collective dances, in which a few people **** dance, dozens or even hundreds or thousands of people dance together;

The Lusheng Dance is a kind of dance in which people dance while blowing the Lusheng, which can be danced by a single person, a pair of people and many people, and it can be a mixture of some people who blow the Lusheng and some people who don't blow the Lusheng; and the Burning Dance is a kind of ceremonial dance which is mainly performed during the time of sacrifices.

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