What are the habits of the Miao people? What is the biggest difference between Miao people and Han people?

1. Habits

The Miao dietary customs have their own characteristics. Miao people in Qiandongnan, Xiangxi, Hainan Island and Rongshui of Guangxi, the staple food is rice, but also corn, sweet potatoes, millet and other miscellaneous grains; Miao people in Qiandongnan, Chuannan, and Northeast Yunnan, on the other hand, take corn, potatoes, buckwheat, oats and other staple food.

There are many kinds of side dishes, including meat, home-raised livestock, poultry and fish, and vegetables such as beans, vegetables and melons, in addition to collecting wild vegetables and engaging in fishing and hunting to supplement. Sour and spicy two flavors are indispensable in the life of the Miao people. In the past, due to the lack of salt in the mountainous areas, so many Miao people eat lightly all year round, can only be flavored with sour and spicy, and over time to form a habit.

2, the language is different

The Miao have their own language, the Miao language belongs to the Han-Tibetan language family Miao Yao language Miao language branch, divided into western Hunan, Qiandong and Sichuan-Qian-Yunnan three major dialects. Due to the long-term interaction between the Miao and the Han Chinese, some of the Miao are fluent in Chinese and use the Chinese language. The religious beliefs of the Miao are mainly nature worship and ancestor worship.

3, different costumes

Miao women generally wear narrow-sleeved, large collar, lapel short jacket, the lower wear pleated skirt. The dress or long enough to reach the foot, flowing and colorful, or shorter than the knee, graceful and moving. Casual wear is more in the head wrapped bandana, upper body lapel short jacket, lower body pants, embroidered lace, tie a picture of embroidered waist, plus a little delicate silver jewelry set off.

Hmong men's attire is relatively simple, the upper garment is mostly for the lapel short jacket or right over the long shirt, shoulder draped with geometric patterns of wool felt, head wrapped in green wrapped head, calves wrapped wrapped tied legs?

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Miao Religious Beliefs:

1. Nature Worship

The main objects of nature worship of the Miao people are the sky, the earth, the sun, the moon, boulders, large trees, bamboo, mountain rocks, bridges and so on. In the Yunnan Jinping Malipo and other places in some of the Miao, whenever the crops to sacrifice "heaven and earth", praying for heaven and earth to make a good crop, which is the remains of the Miao worship of heaven and earth.

2. Totem Worship

The ancestors of the Miao people had their own totem worship. Because of the many branches of the Miao, widely distributed, they worship a variety of totems. Such as the phoenix, maple wood, butterflies, the god dog (dishrag), dragons, birds, eagles, bamboo and so on. The Miao ancestors in Qiandongnan region worship maple as a totem, believing that their ancestors originated from maple;

Additionally, they also worship the butterfly as a totem, believing that their ancestor, Jiang Yang, was born of a "butterfly mother". The Hmong ancestors in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou also used the dish gourd as a totem, and many dish gourd temples and Xinnian palaces have been preserved in this area. The Miao in western Guizhou, on the other hand, take the bird as their totem.

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