What are the characteristics of the Zhuang people? The kind that can be expressed on paper. I want to make a tabloid.

The Zhuang is a nation with a long history and splendid culture. It is generally recognized in modern ethnology and history that the Zhuang developed from a branch of the Yue people in the south of Lingnan in ancient China. It has a close relationship with the Xiou and Luo Yue of the Zhou Feng period, the Beng, Slang and Wu Hu of the Han and Tang dynasties, and the Boys (Bang, Hornbillies), Jiu (Wolves), and the Tu people of the Song Dynasty onwards. The Zhuang and the Xiu and Luo Yue of the Hundred Yue are in the same lineage. From the Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang area continuously accepted the Han language and culture actively or passively, and some big surnames "male in the countryside" appeared in the Zhuang area nowadays, such as Lv Clan of Panyu, Xian Clan of Gao Liang and Hepu, and Ning Clan of Qinzhou, etc., which are called the "big surnames of the Hundred Yue", and they are called the "big surnames of the Hundred Yue". The "Great Surnames of the Hundred Yue", each of which lived on one side of the countryside. During the Tang Dynasty, the Lingnan Province was divided into two provinces, Lingnan East and West, and five provinces were set up in Guangzhou, under which there were five provinces. Among them, Gui, Yong, Rong three tubes are the Zhuang ancestors of the settlement area. During the two Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the central government strengthened its rule over the Lingnan region by establishing prefectures and counties, sending officials and historians, and levying tributes, and the central government implemented a tie-up prefectures and counties system in the Zhuang region, and appointed the prestigious Zhuang people as the Tusi to manage their own ethnic groups. The indifference of the central government and the heavy burden brought to the Zhuang people by the tyrannical levies of the Tusi made the Zhuang people unbearable to be enslaved, and they resisted many times. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Huangdong Barbarians" revolted, in the Song Dynasty, Nong Zhigao revolted, in the Ming Dynasty, the Peasants' Uprising on the river, and in the Qing Dynasty, there were hundreds of years of uninterrupted revolts, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which was a great sensation, started in this area. However, all the uprisings were suppressed and failed. The Zhuang people have made great contributions and sacrifices in the fight against the invasion of French colonizers, the Xinhai Revolution and the War of Resistance against Japan, and the Zhuang people have a glorious revolutionary tradition.

Diet of the Zhuang:

Daily vegetables include bok choy, melon seedlings, melon leaves, jing bai bai (Chinese cabbage), choy bai (Chinese cabbage), rape, mustard greens, lettuce, celery, spinach, kale, water spinach, radish, bitter flaxseed, and even bean leaves, sweet potato leaves, pumpkin seedling, pumpkin flowers, and pea seedling can be used as vegetables.

The Zhuang people are not forbidden to eat any livestock meat, such as pork, beef, mutton, chicken, duck, goose, etc. Some areas do not eat dog meat, but some areas are very fond of dog meat.

The Zhuang people love to hunt and cook game and insects, and have studied the therapeutic treatment of Panax ginseng, using Panax ginseng flowers, leaves, roots, and whiskers to make dishes with great characteristics.

The Zhuang people also make rice wine, sweet potato wine and cassava wine at home, which are not too high in degree, and rice wine is the main drink for festivals and guests.

The architectural style of the Zhuang:

The houses of the Zhuang living in the dam area and near the towns are mostly of brick and wood structure, with whitewashed exterior walls and decorative patterns painted on the eaves. The Zhuang living in remote mountainous areas, their village houses are mostly tiled or straw houses with earth and wood structures, and the architectural styles are generally semi-dry-fence and full-ground dwelling type.

The costumes of the Zhuang:

The costumes of the Zhuang are mainly blue, black and brown. The Zhuang women have the habit of planting cotton and spinning yarn, and spinning, weaving and dyeing cloth is a family handicraft. The cloth woven with self-spun cotton yarn is called "home machine", fine, thick, solid, wear-resistant, and then dyed blue, black or brown. The cloth is then dyed blue, black or brown. It can be dyed blue or green with dazhong (a kind of herb), black with fishpond, and brown with yam scopolette. Zhuang costumes are different, men's and women's costumes, men's, women's and unmarried women's headdresses, each with its own characteristics.

Taboos of the Zhuang:

The Zhuang people are taboo on killing animals on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar; in some areas, young women are taboo on beef and dog meat; the first three days of a woman's child birth (some of them are the first seven days) are taboo for outsiders to enter; it is taboo to give birth to children not yet a full month for women to visit their homes. When climbing up the bamboo buildings of the Zhuang people's homes, they generally have to take off their shoes. Zhuang taboo wearing a hat and carrying a hoe or other agricultural tools into their own homes, so to the Zhuang outside the door to put down the agricultural tools, take off the hat, hat. The fire pond and stove pond are the most sacred places of the Zhuang family, and it is forbidden to step on the tripod on the fire pond as well as the stove platform with your feet. It is taboo for pregnant women to participate in the marriage of Zhuang youths, and pregnant women in particular are not allowed to see the bride. In particular, pregnant women are not allowed to enter the home of a woman in labor. If a family has a woman in labor, they should hang a sleeve branch or insert a knife on the door to show that it is forbidden. Those who inadvertently intrude into the house of a woman in labor must give the baby a name and a set of clothes. A chicken or a corresponding gift to be the child's godfather or godmother.

The Zhuang people are rice farmers, very much in love with frogs, some parts of the Zhuang people have a special "honor frog ceremony", so to the Zhuang region, it is strictly prohibited to kill frogs, and do not eat frog meat. Whenever there are floods or other major disasters, the Zhuang will hold the Anlong Ancestor Sacrifice to beg the divine dragon for disaster relief. After the ceremony, a monument is set up at the entrance of the village to prevent outsiders from entering the village.

The culture and art of the Zhuang people:

The Zhuang people can sing well, and the area along the Right River is called "Huan", and the area along the Left River is called "Poetry", and the area along the northern part of Gui is called "Bi", "Huan" and "Huan". "and" Huan ", are the meaning of singing songs. There are regularly held singing songs, known as song dike. Song Wei date varies from place to place. To the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar for the most grand. Dashan song dike has more than ten thousand people to participate. The content of the invitation song, song, exciting song, song, polite song, push song, disk song, point more song, parting song, love song, send song and so on.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang people already had dances, such as the pounding dance, which consisted of pounding rice and was accompanied by pounding sounds. In the Song Dynasty, there were dances such as the Flat Stretch Dance, the Tea Picking Dance, the Shrimp Fishing Dance, and the Spring Cow Dance. The male dancers were robust and powerful, while the female dancers were graceful and elegant. This dance has been handed down to this day. Around the Qing Dynasty, theater began to appear among the Zhuang. One is the Zhuang Opera, Shigong Opera and Puppet Opera sung in the Zhuang language; the other is the Song and Dance Opera developed on the basis of folk songs and dances. The Zhuang opera was divided into the "North Road Zhuang Opera" popular in Tianlin, Xilin and Baise, which was formed under the influence of Dian Opera and on the basis of the folk rap opera "Bench Opera", absorbing the cantata of Dian Opera, and accompanied by the musical instruments of the Zhuang people such as the horsebone hu, gourd hu, wooden leaf, and the Han people's flute, flute, and wooden leaf, and the Han people's flute, flute, and wooden leaf. The accompanying musical instruments include the horse bone hu, gourd hu, wooden leaf of the Zhuang nationality and the flute, three strings and erhu of the Han nationality. The "South Road Zhuang Opera", which is popular in Qingxi and Debo generation, is formed on the basis of Ma'ai Tu Opera and influenced by Yi Opera to form the form of singing opera, accompanied by musical instruments other than the national horse bone hu], hulu hu, but also using the Yi Opera's gongs, gongs, cymbals, small cymbals, erhu, sanxian, flute, drums, clappers.