The custom of Zhuang nationality

There are several regular folk song gatherings of Zhuang nationality every year, among which "March 3rd" is the most grand. Zhuang nationality has always been famous for its energetic songs. As early as the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang's Shuo Yuan Shan Shuo pian recorded the Yue songs sung by the ancestors of Zhuang nationality in the pre-Qin period. Zhuang folk songs are rich in form and content, with two or three sentences, three or four sentences or even more;

Seven words and waist rhyme are popular. There are songs (or "guessing songs"), songs about crying and marrying, songs about celebrating a new house, songs about life, songs about farming, songs about current politics, songs about history, and so on. Zhuang songs are characterized by being good at touching the scene, comparing people with things, and singing vivid and touching lyrics in the form of guessing questions.

According to legend, there was a famous female singer Liu Sanjie in the Tang Dynasty. She wrote melodious songs, praised the happiness of the people in labor and love, and exposed the greed and ruthlessness of the upper rulers. Therefore, she is still praised by the Zhuang people, known as the "singing fairy". Zhuang people have a tradition of meeting and singing regularly, and the singing place is relatively fixed. This particular collective singing place is called "Gexu".

Its early history can be traced back to the clan and tribe period, which originated from the religious activities of ancestors offering sacrifices to gods and praying for a bumper harvest. Later, it gradually evolved into a social activity in which young men and women regularly gathered in Yuanye to "express their feelings through songs" and "choose their spouses through songs", and later developed into a mass amusement festival.

Every polder day, men, women and children from dozens of miles away gather here to enjoy their own national carnival. 1984, the people's government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially designated the third day of the third lunar month as the national festival of the Zhuang nationality-"March 3" Song Festival.

The traditional funeral customs of Zhuang nationality mainly include earth burial and cremation.

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, burial became the main way of burial. The main burial method of Zhuang nationality is "secondary burial". The second burial is also called deboning burial and deboning burial, and the Zhuang people call it "Jintan burial" and "Admiralty burial". The way of burial is: after the death of relatives, bury them nearby with thin coffins and build a "long tomb";

Three or five years later, when bones and muscles are decayed, they will dig graves, open coffins, pick up bones and put them into the pottery "Jintan", and then choose a geomantic burial place to build a "round tomb". The cremation of Zhuang nationality mentioned above is also the second burial style. The ashes are stored in the "Jintan" and then buried in a selected place.

In modern times, some rich people gave a grand burial to show their identity, and the cemetery was extremely magnificent. They don't have a second burial, which is called "big burial". However, in the concept of the general public, this kind of burial is not valued and recognized.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Zhuang nationality