Etiquette and custom of Zhuang nationality

Zhuang nationality is a hospitable nation. Guests who visit any family in Zhuang village are regarded as guests of the whole village. Often several families take turns to invite them to dinner, and sometimes five or six families have a meal. Usually, we have the habit of visiting each other. For example, if a family kills pigs, we will invite everyone in the village to have a meal. Be sure to prepare wine for the guests at the table, which will be very grand.

2, clothing customs:

Most of Zhuang people's costumes are the same as those of Han people, but in Xixiang village, Guangxi, especially middle-aged and elderly women, they still retain the characteristics of their own national costumes.

For example, middle-aged and elderly Zhuang women in northwest Guangxi wear collarless, left-collared, embroidered clothes, wide-footed trousers, embroidered waist, pleated skirt and embroidered shoes, and like to wear silver ornaments. Zhuang women in Longzhou and Pingxiang in southwest Guangxi still wear collarless black shirts with left collars, square black handkerchiefs on their heads and black wide-leg pants on their lower bodies.

3. Funeral customs

There are mainly two burial methods in the traditional funeral customs of Zhuang nationality: earth burial and cremation. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, burial became the main way of burial. The main burial method of Zhuang nationality is "secondary burial". The second burial is also called deboning burial and deboning burial, and the Zhuang people call it "Jintan burial" and "Admiralty burial".

4. Festival customs

Most festivals of Zhuang nationality are the same as those of local Han nationality. Traditional folk festivals of Han nationality, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Spring and Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve, are also festivals of Zhuang nationality. The festivals with national characteristics of Zhuang nationality include "March 3" Song Festival, "Niu Soul Festival" and "Central Plains Festival".

There are several regular folk song gatherings of Zhuang nationality every year, among which "March 3rd" is the most grand. 1984, the people's government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially designated the third day of the third lunar month as the "March 3" song meeting of the Zhuang nationality.

The "Cow Soul Festival" is also called "Cow King Festival" and "Seedling Opening Festival". Most of them are carried out on the second day after spring ploughing, and some areas are fixed on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, because it is said that this day is the birthday of Niu Wang. On this day, every household should wash and dress the cows, trim the cowshed, bring a basket of five-colored glutinous rice and a bunch of fresh grass to the cowshed to sacrifice the cow's soul, and then give half of the grain and fresh grass to each farm cow.

5. Religious customs

Zhuang people have no unified religious belief. There are many gods that the Zhuang people believe in, such as God, Thor, Earth God, Boulder God, Tree God, Frog God, Flower God and Ancestor God.

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