What are the characteristics and customs of the Yao people respectively?

Characteristics of the Yao people: large dispersed, small settlements, simple and kind people.

Customs:

1, Chashan Yao young man in search of love, the popular "climbing" custom, unique ethnic flavor. Chashan Yao villages are generally based on the mountains and the water, large and centralized, their homes are two-story wooden buildings.

The facade and the hanging part of the building, carved dragons and phoenixes, painted with oil and color, like a sedan chair hanging in the mountains. The quiet hanging building is a place for adult girls to socialize. Walking into the door of the hanging floor building, you will find the Yao compatriots living in the Dayao Mountains in Guangxi, by the influence of the region where they live, basically maintain the traditional customs in marriage. Here live the Chashan Yao in the Dayao Mountains.

2, the Yao people like to use cinnamon, mountain ginger and other decoction of tea, that this tea has a refreshing, clear fatigue effect. Many areas of the Yao people like to play oil tea, not only their own daily diet, but also with oil tea to entertain guests. When the Qingming Festival, every family will do dyeing flower rice to eat.

3, Yao traditional festivals are many, almost every month there are small festivals, all over the world is not the same. The big festivals are Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Social Festival, Panwang Festival, "Zhu Zhu Festival", "Juggling Festival", etc. During the Spring Festival, the Yao people hold a series of festivals. During the Spring Festival, the Yao people hold cultural and sports activities rich in national characteristics, such as singing songs, playing copper drums, racing gyros, shooting crossbows, hunting, throwing embroidered balls, fighting with painted eyebrows, and so on.

Extended information:

The ancestors of the Yao people were the Three Princesses, the daughters of Pan Gou and Di ?i ?i.

The Yao are the most widely distributed ethnic minority in South China and are one of the longest-lived ethnic groups in China.

The Yao are widely distributed in Asia, Europe, the United States, Australia and other continents, the main body of the ethnic group in China, distributed in more than 130 counties in the five provinces (regions) of Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiangxi, of which Guangxi is the most numerous.