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What are the cultural characteristics of the Miao people?

Miao cultural characteristics are:

First, language characteristics:The language classification belongs to the Miao and Yao language family. Phonetics is characterized by many consonants and few rhymes. The ancient Miao language is divided into four tones: flat, up, go and in. Grammatically, the subject comes before the predicate and the object comes after the verb that makes the predicate.

Second, the characteristics of clothing:Colorful and colorful, exquisite craftsmanship, rich style. Craft embroidery, pick flowers, brocade-based, and like to wear silver decorations to Qiandongnan Miao more prominent.

Third, music: the Miao have many kinds of musical instruments. For example, there are many kinds of musical instruments, such as reedsheng, manchu, night xiao, sister xiao, flute, suona, etc. But reedsheng is the favorite of the Miao people. But the reed-sheng is the favorite and most commonly used by the Miao. It is essential for many important festivals and rituals, and its tone is beautiful! It is different from other musical instruments. Singing mountain songs is even more distinctive.

Fourth, custom features: numerous festivals, there are many unique and rich in local characteristics of the festival, such as the Miao Sisters Festival in Taijiang, the Doki Dragon Boat Festival, Leishan's Year of the Miao, Danzhai's festival of the festival of the You, a lot of places in the Miao over the April 8 festival, Miao Lusheng will be, the western Miao region of the Flower Mountain Festival (Treading Mountain Festival, Flower Tree Festival, etc.), and so on.