What are the living habits of the Miao people in China?

1. Miao food customs have their own characteristics. The staple food of the Miao people in southeast Guizhou, Xiangxi, Hainan Island and Guangxi Rongshui is rice, but there are also corn, sweet potatoes, millet and other miscellaneous grains; The Miao people in northwest Guizhou, southern Sichuan, and northeast Yunnan eat corn, potatoes, buckwheat, and oats as their staple food.

2. In some Miao areas, it is forbidden to wash the retorts, rice bags, and rice bowls at any time, and can only wash them when eating new rice, so as to show that the old rice is removed and the new rice is welcomed. Washing at any time will wash away the family's wealth, and there is not enough food to eat. Drinking raw water on the mountain should not be drunk directly, and grass marks must be marked first to show that the sick ghost is killed.

3. In many Miao areas, the form of the Lang still exists, and the Lang Statute has been replaced with the content that is compatible with modern social life, becoming an effective supplement to the administrative organization and laws and decrees of the first class, and has played a very important role in social production and maintaining social stability.

4. Relatives and friends visit, New Year's holidays, red and white ceremonies, will be treated with wine, over time formed a set of traditional customs and etiquette for drinking, many places of the Miao people feast and toast, there is also the custom of singing wine songs.

The Miao people in the border areas of Hunan, Guizhou and Guizhou are also popular to drink oil tea, which is not only a must-have diet for the Miao family to entertain guests, but also a special drink before and after meals, and some places even eat with oil tea.

The Miao nationality is one of the oldest ethnic groups in China, with a large population and vast distribution, and the Miao nationality in Xiangxi belongs to one of them. In the long-term historical development process, the Miao people have formed their own unique customs and habits in clothing, festivals, marriages, funerals, entertainment, etiquette, taboos, diet, etc. Hmong costumes.

1. The ancient costumes of the Miao people in Xiangxi are very different between men and women, and they are all the same"Colorful"；He wears a floral dress on his upper body, a pleated skirt under him, long hair on his head, an ochre-colored handkerchief, boat-shaped flowered shoes on his feet, and various silver ornaments. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty"Change the land and return it to the stream", ** Directive"Clothing should be divided into men and women"After that, the changes are greater.

Miao men's clothing is relatively simple; He wears a cardigan with long and small sleeves, short and large trousers, and a blue wrap for his feet. There are two kinds of headscarves: green and flower, the length of the handkerchief is more than one zhang, and there are many to three zhang. When wrapping and wearing, it is mostly oblique cross-shaped, as big as a hat, and the color of the clothes is checkered, all blue, all blue, etc., among which the checkered cloth clothes are the most distinctive.

Buttons are generally seven. Some young men, in order to envy their wealth and boldness, wore as many as seven clothes. The outermost layer of clothing is buttoned with only the lowest pair of buttons, and the second layer of clothing is buttoned with two pairs of buttons below.

And so on until the innermost seven pairs of buttons are buttoned. In this way, the layers of new clothes can be seen from the outside, and there is a different kind of taste.

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