Write about Manchu customs and habits

In Xikang or Kang Bei, Manchu residents used to avoid the dead. When people die in coffins, they are carried out of windows and usually buried. Manchu people have the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, and have the tradition of honoring their elders and paying attention to etiquette and rules.

Manchu people do not coax crows, but cherish them more. In Manchu inhabited areas, many people have a tall wooden pole with a bucket on it in their yard. The bucket is filled with pork, pig water and rice to feed crows and magpies.

Manchu people are not interested in wearing a dog fur hat to eat dog meat, and they are most afraid of others wearing a dog fur hat to enter the house. Manchu people used not to eat dog meat. If children have to eat it, they must cover it with a piece of cloth so that he can't see it.

Women are not allowed to attend other people's weddings after pregnancy, nor are they allowed to serve their ancestors. I am pregnant for 5 months, so I can't go to the stables, lead horses, hear about dystocia, go to the delivery room, and make jokes strictly. The delivery room is not allowed to be located in Westinghouse, and there can be no jade articles in the delivery room. Men are not allowed to enter the delivery room during childbirth. They think it is unlucky for men to enter the delivery room.

A new wife cannot eat at the same table as her father-in-law, mother-in-law and husband. When the elders eat, the daughter-in-law will serve. Otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful and unfilial. Grandpa and uncle are not allowed to joke with nephew and daughter-in-law. My nephew and daughter-in-law are not allowed to show their arms and legs in front of my uncle.

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Manchu people are scattered all over the country, most of them live in Liaoning province, and others are scattered in Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shandong and other large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Xi, Guangzhou and Yinchuan.

The formation of large dispersion is characterized by small sedimentation. At present, Xiuyan, Fengcheng, Xinbin, Qinglong, Fengning and other Manchu autonomous counties and several Manchu townships have been established in major inhabited areas.

Manchu belongs to Manchu branch of Manchu-Tungusic language family of Altai language family, which was created with reference to Mongolian letters ending in 16. Later, we added "circle" and "dot" to the borrowed Mongolian letters, which is called "Manchu with circle and dot" or "New Manchu". In the past, it was called "the old Manchu without circles".

Since the Qing Dynasty, a large number of Manchu people moved to the Central Plains, and a large number of Han people moved to Shanhaiguan, where they had close contacts in economy, culture and life, and Manchu people gradually used Chinese.

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