What is the second most populous ethnic group in China ?

The Zhuang, also the most populous ethnic group in China, showed 16,926,381 people in the sixth census, and the national language is Zhuang.

Strong, Bu Strong, was originally the self-proclaimed name of the Zhuang. In the Chinese historical books, it is translated as "撞", "徸", etc., and pronounced "壮", which was first seen in the Song Dynasty literature. After the founding of New China, it was written as "boy".

Guangxi is the Zhuang's main settlement, the local people's style is tough, the Zhuang soldiers strong combat ability, coupled with the region's many mountains and forests, especially good at guerrilla warfare. In modern Chinese history, whether it is a period of warlords and warlords, or a period of national war of resistance, the Gui system in the country are famous for their strong combat ability, so they are known as the Wolf Soldiers.

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p>The Customs of the Zhuang People

1. Festivals

The festivals of the Zhuang people are mostly the same as those of the local Han people, such as the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Spring and Autumn Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival, and New Year's Eve, and other traditional Han folk festivals, as well as the annual festivals of the Zhuang people. The more characteristic festivals of the Zhuang people are the "March 3" Song Festival, the "Cow Soul Festival", the "Mid-Yuan Festival" and so on.

2. Marriage

The Zhuang have many monogamous families. In the past, "women marrying men and husbands living with their wives" used to be more prevalent, but later the transition was made to "living with their husbands", with patrilineal families predominating.

3. Funeral and Burial

The traditional funeral and burial practices of the Zhuang people include two main methods of burial, i.e., earth burial and cremation. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, earth burial became the main burial method. The earth burial of the Zhuang people, with the "second burial" as the main burial style. The second burial, also known as picking up bones, picking up bones, the Zhuang people called "golden burial", "golden bell burial" and so on.

The burial method is: after the death of a relative, the relative is buried in a thin coffin near the grave, starting a "long grave"; after three to five years of decaying flesh and sinews, the grave is dug up and the coffin is opened again to pick up the bones to be loaded into the ceramic "Golden Tomb", and then the burial is done in a feng shui location, starting a "Round Tomb". The "Round Tomb". The aforementioned cremation of the Zhuang people, also with "gold" storage of ashes, and then choose a place to be buried, also belongs to the second burial style.

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