What are the customs and activities of the Zhuang

1. Culture and art. Song is the main content of the Zhuang folk cultural life, festivals, red and white wedding, welcome guests, talk about love, recreational activities, etc., more than songs to express feelings and cheer. There are many kinds of songs, with colorful contents, such as ancient songs, drinking songs, love songs, bitter songs, praise songs, pan songs, filial piety songs, mountain songs, and so on. There are also short songs, lekang songs, haiku and long narrative poems, etc. The rhymes of these ballads are all in the form of waist-legged rhymes. Their rhymes are all waist-foot rhymes, different from the rhymes of Han poems, which are the characteristics of Zhuang poems. The so-called waist-foot rhyme, regardless of the pentameter or heptameter, is the first line of the end of the word foot and the second line in the middle of the word (can also be moved forward) rhyme, the second line of the end of the word of the third line of the end of the word rhyme, the third line of the end of the word and the fourth line of the word in the middle of the word (can also be moved forward) rhyme. That is to say, "the foot of the first line rhymes with the waist of the second line, and the foot of the second and third lines rhymes with the foot of the third line. The third line of the foot is the fourth line of the waist, and the foot and waist rhyme with each other.

Folklore stories are often accompanied by ballads to increase their vividness. This form of literature combining recitation and singing is very common throughout the Zhuang region. Folk literature mainly consists of myths, legends, ballads and proverbs.

2. Residence. Zhuang villages are mostly mountainous and waterfront, multi-storey residence, is a dry-rail type of construction. House construction form has two, in southeast Guizhou, the Zhuang family room class Dong mode, wooden structure, mostly four columns of three take partial Xia. Qiannan Libo, Dushan area, the Zhuang family housing mode and neighboring Buyei and Guibei Zhuang the same.

3, clothing. The dress of the Zhuang living in Qiannan is basically the same as that of the local Buyi. Generally young men and women wear ordinary clothing, there are still some women also often wear an end of the embroidery of the hanging chest waist, braids plated on the head, or wear a variety of colors of the bandana, showing the characteristics of the nation. Southeast Guizhou border area Zhuang long with the Dong, Miao mixed, with the countryside with the same customs, men and women dressed in green and black color, similar to the local ethnic groups.

4, funeral. The old man passed away, just down the gas, padded with straw mats, the body parked in the fire hall or behind the door, immediately to the uncle's family to report the funeral. Please ask the magician to choose the time, and then moved to the corridor between the parking. After choosing another time, the body was carried downstairs and parked at the foot of the stairs. Then symbolically wash the body, straighten the hair and wear a life jacket, that is, the coffin into the coffin. The whole family to eat vegetarian, avoid salt, relatives and children with filial piety package white gauze. Projected by the birth date of the deceased, choose the funeral and burial time.

5, festivals. Zhuangxiang festivals, mostly combined with recreational or religious superstitious activities. Traditional festivals are Zhuang Nian, Cow God Festival, June 14 or July 14 festival.

Strong year, most of the Zhuang family from the river to the lunar calendar in December for the first year, the end of November for New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve afternoon, the villages and cottages collectively killed by each household every year to take turns raising the "social pig", after the sacrifice of the king of the community, according to the number of households in the cottage will be cut into a number of copies of the pork, with a bamboo skewer up to the households, each family will be skewered meat cooked to honor the ancestors, the whole family **** meal, known as the "YI nine! ", that is, over the "twenty-nine", as in the Han Chinese lunar calendar 30 over the "New Year's Eve".

Except for women and men whose wives are pregnant, they are all allowed to participate in the rituals. From New Year's Eve to the third day of the Lunar New Year to honor the Land God, the village and outsiders are generally prohibited from entering and exiting the village, and after the third day of the Lunar New Year to the tenth day of the festival for the period of recreational activities.

The Cow God Festival, also known as the April 8 Festival, is the day people do not work, cattle do not go down to the field, families do black glutinous rice, and rice to feed the cattle, to express the meaning of comfort and respect. June 14, where the lunar calendar December for the first year, must be June 14 for the festival, which is in addition to the New Year's Day, the second largest festival.

If you only celebrate the Spring Festival, but not the strong year, then the July 14th for the Chinese New Year Festival. Is the day, commonly kill ducks to honor the ancestors, the girl back to her mother's family reunion, some held horse races or playing swing and other activities.