What are the characteristics of Zhuang culture

The reason for a nation to become a nation, the most fundamental is that she formed its own unique culture, different cultural qualities, it becomes the main symbol of the difference between the nation. Ethnic culture is born with the ethnic **** source. The Zhuang people are the indigenous people of the Pearl River Basin. Because of their natural environment and specific mode of production, the ancestors of the Zhuang people, in the course of their long-term historical development, created a unique material and spiritual culture, showing the personality of the national culture and the characteristics of the regional culture.

(I) Cultural Formation and Characteristics of the Zhuang Ancestors in the Period of Autonomous Development

1. The national language and culture of the Zhuang 0[va6u:6] (Zhuang language) were formed into a self-contained system.

Language is not only a part of culture, but also a living carrier of national culture, an important link to maintain the existence of the nation, and one of the most obvious and commonly used symbols to distinguish between different nationalities. The Zhuang are an indigenous people, and the Zhuang language is the same source as the Zhuang culture***, and the cultural characteristics of the Zhuang people are to a large extent embodied in the language and writing of the nation.

2. A national cultural system centered on the culture of na2 (paddy field, i.e., rice cultivation) has been formed.

The ancestors of the Zhuang people adapted to the natural geographic environment and climatic characteristics of the south of the river, mainly in the Pearl River basin, and domesticated wild rice into cultivated rice, and were one of the earliest ethnic groups in China to create a civilization of paddy cultivation; the mode of production determines the type of civilization, and the Zhuang people are the paddy cultivation ethnic group.

3. Bronze culture represented by pharyngeal [en3] (bronze drums)

The bronze casting industry in the Zhuang region began in the Spring and Autumn Period, and had a greater development in the Warring States Period, casting artifacts in addition to early battle-axe, axe, arrowheads, upsetting, and knives, swords, spears, bells, drums, tripods, the head of the column, the shaped ware, and so on, the shape and decorative patterns and motifs are rich, and has a distinct local National characteristics, the most representative of the first copper drum.

4.Art and culture represented by Long Horn Miao [phja1la:i2] (Huashan cliff murals)

The artistic achievement of the paintings of the ancestors of the West Ou Luoyue in the pre-Qin period was mainly manifested in the cliff murals painted with color (i.e. ochre mineral pigment). Cliff mural painting corridor, its magnificent, known as the world's wonders, in the left river tributary of the Ming River, Yao Da Long Horn Lei, phja1la:i2] (Zhuang, meaning painted images of flowers in the mountains, translated as flowers, for the spectacular, and its crowd of portraits, images of the many, the scene of the big, in our country has been found in the cliff mural paintings of the premier, and foreign countries are also rare.

5. [Loduo] pau5lo4to6 (wisdom ancestral god) as the representative of the mythological culture

Ancient myths are the product of human childhood, is the imagination of primitive mankind will be the force of nature personified, with the imagination to illustrate the origin of everything in heaven and earth and the development of the causes and consequences of the imagination to overcome nature! Conquering nature and dominating it, showing their primitive worldview. So Bryan A, also known as Mou Bryan A, describes the reproductive behavior of the female main god and the origin of mankind, so Bryan A, the sound meaning of the Zhuang language: [me6] (mother) [lk8] (child) [kjap7] (merger), meaning mother and child merger, or / mother and child pregnancy, i.e., the grandmother god of conception, "she is a great goddess of fertility, pregnancy and creation of human beings, for the matrilineal tribal tribal age of the main god. Bulodu, the male main god, describes the achievements of the male main god in changing the sky, creating the earth and arranging the mountains and rivers. Bluto, the sound of the Zhuang language: [pau5] (Zugong) [lo4] (know) [to6] (enough, all), meaning that know the most of the Zugong, that is, the wisdom of the ancestors of God, "he is a know-it-all, omnipotent God of Creation, for the patriarchal clan tribal times of the main god.

6. The primitive religious culture represented by Nuo Ji 0, [du:k7kai5] (chicken bone divination) and麽[mo1](麽教)

In the clan society, people live under the domination of the concept of the animistic spirit, and all kinds of religious behaviors are in fact the manifestation of this ancient concept of faith, and divination is the oldest form of religious spells.

7. Simple philosophical thinking based on the concept of the universe, three cover 0[a:m1ka:i5] (three worlds) and everything, [po2me1] (male and female)

The ancestors of the Zhuang people, in the course of their long-term life and production, observed and understood the emergence and evolution of all things in heaven and earth and gradually developed simple philosophical concepts of thought. As can be seen from a large number of myths and legends handed down to us, the ancestors of the Zhuang people not only developed their own views on the origin of all things in heaven and earth and human beings, but also explained the changes in the movement of nature and the relationship between human beings and nature, forming the basic concepts of the primitive philosophy of the Zhuang people.

8. Song Culture Represented by Huan Dare, [f:n1ka:m3](Cave Song) and Huan Ya Gui, [f:n1ja6kve3](Frog Woman Song)

The Zhuang and their ancestors are known for their good songs. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the songs of the Ouluo ethnic group were famous for their unique forms, rhythms and styles.

9. Medicine culture characterized by reliance on [j1to3] (native medicine, native medicine)

The Zhuang and their ancestors summarized and formed a distinctive regional medicine system in their production, life and practical experience in the fight against diseases. The Zhuang people and their ancestors in the production of life and the practical experience of the fight against diseases, summarized the formation of a distinctive regional and traditional medicine system. The Zhuang language is known as Yitoa, [j1to3] Yitoa [j1] that is medicine, to, [to3] that is local. Indigenous, the meaning of the translation of the soil medicine, medicine from nature, its medical methods, especially needle therapy is known.