Zhuang people have many customs, traditions and habits. Everyone can sing. Everyone can sing

Zhuang girl

Among the ethnic minority populations, the Zhuang people have the largest population, with more than 35% of the Zhuang people in China living in Guangxi. Traditional houses of the Zhuang people like to live near mountains and rivers. Between the green mountains and clear waters, there are wooden buildings dotted with people living on them and livestock below. This point is similar to that of the Dong, Yao and Miao peoples. However, in Zhuang people's houses, shrines must be placed on the central axis of the entire house. The front hall is used to hold celebrations and social events, with rooms on both sides occupied, and the back hall is a living area. Life in the house centers on the fire pond, and three meals a day are eaten next to the fire pond. This is another unique method for the Zhuang people.

Zhuang people's costumes mostly use self-woven soil cloth to make materials, and there are many styles. Women's clothing is generally blue and black. The top is a collarless dress with a tight-fitting belt on the left lap. The lower body is worn with long trousers with slightly wider corners and blue, red and green silk and cotton lace on the trousers. Pants, coats, skirts, and skirts also have rims. Wrap a black towel on your head, wear embroidered shoes, earrings, bracelet and collar, and hang a colorful cone on the left side of your waist. Most Zhuang men wear double-pronged blouses with buttons tied with cloth. A small pocket is sewn on the chest to match the two large pockets on the abdomen, and the hem is folded inwards to form a wide edge; the lower pants are short and wide, some of which are wrapped around leggings; a headscarf with embroidered patterns is tied and cloth shoes are worn.

Zhuang folk songs are particularly developed. Zhuang people, regardless of men and women, began to learn to sing folk songs from childhood when they were four or five years old. Fathers taught children and mothers taught women, forming the custom of learning songs in childhood, singing in youth, and teaching songs in the elderly. In rural areas, whether farming in the fields, cutting firewood in the mountains, weddings and funerals, festivals, or social love between young men and women, folk songs are used to express affection. In some places, even dialogues and quarrels between family members are sometimes represented by songs. Singing has almost become an indispensable part of the lives of the Zhuang people. Everyone can sing, everyone can sing. Therefore, the vast Zhuang Township is known as the "Sea of Songs". It was called "the land covered with keys" by the poet. In history, there have also emerged many famous singers like Liu Sanjie and Huang Sandi who are known as "Song Xian" and "Song King".

Due to their relatively large population, the Zhuang people have lived with the Han people for a long time. Even some Zhuang people's living customs have been basically Hanicized. Therefore, the Zhuang people's living customs are very close to those of the Han people in some aspects, but traditional folk customs are still preserved. For example, Zhuang women in many places immediately carry buckets or bamboo tubes to springs and rivers to draw "new water" to ask for good luck. The man carried a lantern and rushed to the temple to burn incense and turn paper. In some places, the gate was opened, and the family gathered in the courtyard bowed to the east and blessed: "The east is rich in benefits, and this year is even better than last year!"

On the first day of the first day, Zhuang people in most places do not visit. People eat glutinous rice balls during the day and eat meat dishes for dinner, believing that this can eliminate disasters and diseases. There are many taboos on the first day of the first day. On this day, all unlucky words are prohibited. Forbid to use scissors for fear that in the new year, my family will have a sharp tongue and quarrel and scold people; do not sweep the floor for fear of losing money. You are also not allowed to take things out of the dry pen, let alone lend things to others, for fear of losing your family's wealth. In some places, it is forbidden to beat gongs and drums for fear of alarming ghosts and gods, but in some places, you can beat a kind of cowhide drum as tall as a person, which can be clearly heard for dozens of miles around. In many places, a section of hardwood is burned in the stove from the first day to the fifth day of the lunar calendar and cannot be extinguished, which means that the descendants will continue to grow and the fireworks will continue. No killing is allowed on this day. Pigs, chickens and ducks must be cleaned up a few days before the New Year for sacrifice and consumption.

Zhuang girl

Since the second day of the second lunar year, relatives and friends began to come and visit New Year greetings. Especially married daughters. Bring a few kilograms of meat, chickens and ducks and other gifts to go back to her parents 'home to pay New Year greetings with her husband and children. Married sisters took the opportunity to gather together to say goodbye.

In addition to the Spring Festival, the third month of the third lunar month is Qingming Festival, which is also a song festival for the Zhuang people. As the Qingming Festival, it was influenced by the Han people. However, some Zhuang people visit tombs on March 13th, 14th and 26th, which is quite different from the Han people. The Zhuang people attached great importance to the ceremony. At that time, the whole family would dispatch and bring five-color boards, meat, incense sticks, and paper flags to the ancestral graves to offer sacrifices and pay homage. The sound of firecrackers could be heard from time to time in the mountains and fields, and it could be heard for a long time. On the hills and among the bamboo forests, white soul flags fluttered on the bamboo poles on the top of the tomb, creating a mysterious and solemn atmosphere. Zhuang custom states that offerings must be eaten in the wild. In some places, they are thrown away and not eaten. Superstitious belief is that bringing them home will attract ghosts to enter the house.

In many places, a grand song fair is also held at the same time as the festival's festivals in March. In recent years, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has designated this day as a Zhuang festival. The first song festival was held in Nanning in 1984. More than 700 singers from various counties performed on stage, making Yongcheng in March a sea of song and dance. Even foreign friends traveled across the ocean to enjoy the joy of the festival with the Zhuang people. During this period, superstitious activities such as offering sacrifices to gods and performing ceremonies are often accompanied by superstitious activities such as fireworks grabbing, acting, acrobatics, martial arts performances, colorful dragon dancing, colorful phoenix dancing, and singing poems for tea picking challenge competitions. In recent years, new plays, movies, and ball games have been added. However, most of the young men and women's attention is not on this aspect, but on how to find their favorite partner through the song fair.