What's the difference between Zhuang nationality and Han nationality?

Zhuang language belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and Chinese belongs to Chinese family of Sino-Tibetan language family.

2. Different customs.

For example, on the Mid-Yuan Festival, the Zhuang people generally celebrate July 14, and some Han people who live with the Zhuang people also celebrate July 14, but most Han people generally celebrate July 15. For another example, the Zhuang people generally practice secondary burial, but most Han people do not have secondary burial, and only some Han people in Guangdong and Guangxi have the same secondary burial as the Zhuang people.

3, the text is different.

Zhuang language is the phonetic symbol of Latin letters, and Chinese characters are abstract ideographic characters. The ancient Zhuang people also used China's written and classical Chinese, just like all ethnic groups in East Asia. However, in the process of using Chinese characters, Zhuang people use the six-character method of Chinese characters.

Created ideographic abstract characters similar to Chinese characters that conform to Zhuang language, which look like Chinese characters, and people who don't understand Zhuang language generally don't understand them. Han people don't use this saw.

Extended data

There are mainly two burial methods in the traditional funeral customs of Zhuang nationality: 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 "Jin _ 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";

After three or five years, exhausted, they will dig graves, open coffins and pick up bones, put them in pottery "gold _", and then choose a treasure house for burial and build a "round tomb". The cremation of Zhuang nationality mentioned above is also the second kind of burial. The ashes are stored in "Jin _" 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.

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