Miao customs

The Miao people's custom is mainly to eat camellia oleifera and wear traditional costumes.

1, eat

Eat Camellia oleifera: Camellia oleifera is a kind of hospitality tea, which is made by frying popcorn rice and adding water. Eating Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (lizard, collectively referred to as quadruped snake): Add a small amount of rice flour to the processed Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and pickle it in a jar to entertain guests. Eat green vegetables: I like to eat green vegetables during the New Year, and generally don't chop them up.

Step 2 wear

Miao costumes vary from region to region. Male, the average old man wears a collarless cardigan, belt, trouser legs and leggings. Cardigans worn by middle-aged people and young people are short and small, and the fabrics are mostly homemade "home machine clothes". Women's clothes are different in style, wearing collarless embroidered clothes with petals inserted in the middle and wide-leg pants with edges, embroidery or gauze. Eye-catching female headscarves are generally more than a foot long, all blue in color, and some are wrapped in black and white squares.

Miao traditional festivals

Ganmiaochang

This is a traditional Miao festival. Popular in Xuyong and Gu Lin. It is held twice a year on February 13 and July 3 of the lunar calendar. According to legend, the origin of Miaochang was formed by the Miao people after an uprising failed. The government won't let them be together. People secretly contacted each other in the name of playing Lusheng on the dam, and later it gradually evolved into a fixed festival.

Ribbon Festival

Popular in Dongxia, xuyong county. It is held on the fifth day of the second lunar month every year. At that time, dozens of young men and women in Fiona Fang. If both parties like it, they can send ribbons to each other as engagement gifts. Those who repent afterwards can claim back their belts and dissolve the relationship.