What are the daily customs of the Wa people?

In the history of Wa nationality, men wore black shorts and wide-mouth pants; Women wear hooded dresses and short skirts with stripes. Their decorations include collars, necklaces, bracelets, belts and anklets. Most of them are made of silverware or bamboo and rattan products, or painted with natural pigments or depending on natural colors, which are almost loved by men, women and children. With the development of society, the Wa people's clothing has also begun to change, with the appearance of long skirts, tube skirts and some costumes and decorations with a sense of the times. However, the areas where the Wa people live in compact communities still maintain the traditional national characteristics. Most of the clothes are made of self-produced cotton and linen, which are self-woven into cloth in its traditional way, and the patterns are like peacock, silver pheasant and other feathers.

Most Wa villages are built on hillsides or hilltops. Some villages in Ximeng area have a history of hundreds of years and have gathered into hundreds of villages. Wa people like to live in bamboo houses, and some live in adobe bungalows, which is a new form of living that changed later. This bamboo building can be divided into two floors, with people living on the upper floor and people living on the lower floor. The indoor furnishings are simple and bright, and it is essential to have fire pits for people to use and fire pits for offering sacrifices or heating sacrifices and livestock feed. Before the appearance of iron pots, Wa people used bamboo tubes to cook. When eating, housewives divide the dishes according to the number of people and divide them evenly at a time. I like to chew betel nut and drink. There is a saying that "no wine is a gift, and words don't count." Shuijiu is fermented from little red rice, and most of it is put in a big bamboo tube with a thin bamboo tube inserted to suck it. Wa people also have the custom of drinking strong tea, and eating Chili is the common hobby of men, women and children. Wa nationality is a monogamous family, most of the property is inherited by the youngest son, and the daughter has no inheritance right. When naming the Wa nationality, the inverse father-son naming system is adopted to trace back their ancestors. All the names of the earliest generation inferred by the Wa people are called "Sigang", which means gourd or cave, and it is a worship of maternal rights.