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Family etiquette and customs of Zhuang nationality

Zhuang nationality is a family composed of one husband and one committee. Before liberation, there were some cases of polygamy. How happy it is to run in the family. My son has the ability to build a new house and separate after marriage. Parents are used to leaving their little son in the old house to settle down. Children have the right and obligation to be filial to their parents and inherit their ancestral home, and other property is equally distributed by the sons of the whole family. As family members, women and men do housework together. In productive labor, men are mostly responsible for plowing and building houses, while women are mainly responsible for transplanting rice, transporting fertilizer, weeding, planting cotton, harvesting cotton, spinning and raising livestock and poultry.

Zhuang people have a deep sense of family. As long as they find out where their ancestors live, they will visit relatives no matter how far away. The surname of the first village is respected, and its elders are often elected as the "elders" of the village, presiding over the mediation of civil disputes and the sacrificial activities of the whole village.