Information on the Manchu 500 words

Population: The Manchu are scattered all over China, with the most living in Liaoning, and other scattered in Jilin, Heilongjiang, and other provinces and regions.

Temperament: The ancestors of the Manchu people are hunting people, in the era of hairdressing technology is not yet developed, in order to adapt to the life of long-term hunting and trekking, Manchu men chose to braid their hair as a hair style. The practice is to shave the hair in front of the forehead to avoid blocking the line of sight, easy to shoot arrows or fighting. The hair at the back was braided instead of being a hair registry to accommodate the bumps of horseback riding. Historically, Manchu men wore robes and coats with horseshoe sleeves, waist harnesses, or long robes covered with lapel coats, cool hats in summer and leather sloppy hats in winter. Clothes like to use green, blue, brown and other colors of cotton, silk, silk, satin and other textures of the clothing material production, trouser legs tie green leg bands, feet wear cotton boots or leather boots, winter wear leather Ula. The top is left braided and the surrounding hair is shaved.

Folk customs: Manchu housing, the past general courtyard has a shadow wall, standing for the gods with the "Solon rod". Manchurian traditional housing is generally west, center, east three, the door opens to the south, the west said the west on the house, the center said the hall, the east said the east under the house. The west room is called the west upper room, the center is called the hall room, and the east room is called the east lower room. In the west upper room, there are kangs in the south, west and north. The houses of the Manchu people are also unique. In the past, they lived in "pocket houses" with grass roofs and earth walls, "the height of the house was more than ten feet, with a single southeast doorway". The east end of a south-facing door is the outer room; the west end of the two or three houses for the bedroom, called the inner room. The structure of this "sole south-east casement", such as pocket-shaped, easy to keep warm. Manchu people like to sleep on the kang. Every family is a large north-south kang, the west side of the house along the mountain wall and a sliver of narrow kang, the north-south kang linked, commonly known as "Wanji kang".