The main profile of the Zhuang (50-100 words or so)

The Zhuang, formerly known as the Boys, are one of the most populous ethnic minorities in China, and their national language is Zhuang, which belongs to the Zhuang-Dai branch of the Zhuang-Dong group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. They are mainly found in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guizhou provinces and regions.

The characteristic fabric of the Zhuang is Zhuang brocade. The traditional dress of the Zhuang is still green and black, with men's lapel and women's right obeisance. Most of the houses of the Zhuang people still maintain the ancient "dry fence" form. People live on the upper floors, and the lower floors are used for raising livestock and poultry, setting up agricultural tools, pounding pestles and mills.

Expanded Information:

The Zhuang ethnic group in China has a population of 18 million people (2010 census. mainland China only), accounting for 1.40% of the population, making it the second largest ethnic group. Guangxi is the province with the highest concentration of Zhuang, with 14,207,143 Zhuang, accounting for 32.40% of the region's population and 87.77% of the Zhuang population, making it the second largest ethnic group in Guangxi.

Yunnan is the second largest province in terms of Zhuang population, with 1,144,021 Zhuang people, accounting for 7.07% of the Zhuang population, 2.70% of the population of the whole Yunnan province, and 8.08% of the population of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, making it the fifth largest ethnic group in Yunnan. Guangdong is the third largest province in terms of Zhuang population. There are 570,200 Zhuang in Guangdong, accounting for 3.52% of the Zhuang population, 0.67% of the province's population, 44.93% of the province's ethnic minority population, and the second largest ethnic group in Guangdong.

In addition to the Zhuang hereditary provinces of Guizhou and Hunan, the four provinces of Hainan, Hebei, Zhejiang and Fujian, the Zhuang population is more than 10,000 people, mainly living in the diaspora. The number of successive censuses, the first census in 1953, the Zhuang population of 6,919,600 people, the second census in 1964, 8,386,100 people, the third census in 1982, 13,383,100 people, the fourth census in 1990, 15,555,800 people.

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