What is the origin of the Zhuang people, and what is the history and culture?

According to the statistics of the fifth national population census in 2000, the population of the Zhuang nationality was 16178811. The Zhuang people use Zhuang language, which belongs to the Zhuang Dai branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. In the Southern Song Dynasty, local characters composed of square Chinese characters appeared.

The use of local characters is not widespread, and there are not many people who can use them, and they are mostly used to write place names, make up mountain songs, and record things. In 1955, the state helped the Zhuang people create a Zhuang script based on the Latin alphabet, which was implemented. In 1982, appropriate revisions were made and the use of Zhuang script was promoted.

The Zhuang people are a people with a long history and splendid culture. The Zhuang people developed from a branch of the Yue people in ancient China. It has a close relationship with the Xiou and Luo Yue in the Zhou Feng period, the wingmen, slang and bird margin in the Han and Tang dynasties, and the servants and natives after the Song Dynasty.

Before the Qin Dynasty entered Lingnan, in the motherland of Lingnan (now Guangdong, Guangxi), there were mainly two ethnic groups belonging to the Baiyue system, Xiou and Luoyue, which were the ancestors of the Zhuang people. <>

The Zhuang people live in the western and northern parts of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the southeastern part of Yunnan Province, the border areas of Guangdong, Guizhou and Hunan provinces with the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the northern border of Vietnam. In modern times, some Zhuang people have migrated to Guangdong Province and other parts of China for work, marriage and other reasons. The Zhuang people are the aborigines of Lingnan. Beginning in 214 BC, Lingnan came under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains regime.

In 1965, he was called the "Servant Clan."

Changed to "Zhuang". The Zhuang people have an ancient and unique national culture, which has continued to develop from ancient times to the present day, and has integrated into a certain Han culture. About 90% of the Zhuang people speak Zhuang language, and modern Zhuang youth have both Chinese and Zhuang language expression and listening skills.

Zhuang and Guizhou Buyi.

It is roughly similar to the language and culture of the Dai Yi, Nong and Rei ethnic groups in Vietnam, and the Zhuang language is similar to Thai and Laotian.

Some of the ancient words have similarities. <>

The "Xiou" and "Luo Yue" who lived in the Lingnan region recorded in the historical books of the Han nationality in the pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties were the most direct ancestors of the Zhuang people.

During the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of the Zhuang people were still called slang, wing, and Wuhu (Wuwu), but there were also ethnic names named after regions or surnames of large clans, such as "Xiyuan Man", "Huangdongman", "Nong Dongman" or "Dongman", "Donggang" and so on.

After the Song Dynasty, there were new changes in the Zhuang ethnic name, and there were titles such as "collision", "cloth soil", and "native people".

After the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was insulted and translated as "buckwheat", and there were also self-proclaimed Zhuang, Nong, Lang, Tu, Sha, etc.

Originally, these titles had a certain regionality, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the title of "Zhuang" was widely seen throughout Guangxi and western Guangdong, and became the most common ethnic name of the Zhuang people.

In 1952, it was uniformly called "僮" (Yinzhuang).

In 1965, it was rewritten as "Zhuang".

1. The "Xiou" and "Luo Yue" living in the Lingnan region recorded in the historical books of the Han nationality in the pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties are the ancestors of the Zhuang Lu Dou who are most directly envied. In the pre-Qin period, in the south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China to the southeast coastal area, there was a widely distributed ethnic group known as "Bai Ma Pa Yue", which was distributed in the area of present-day Guangdong and Guangxi, and Luo Yue was part of it, and they were still in the development stage of clan and tribal society at that time.

2. In 221 BC, after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he sent Wei Tu Sui to lead an army of 500,000 troops, divided into five routes, and marched to Lingnan.

3. In 214 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent Shi Lu to lead his troops to open the Ling Canal, pass grain and wages, and transport the army, so that the Qin army defeated the Xiou people, unified the Lingnan region, and set up Guilin, Nanhai, and Xiang counties in Lingnan, and officially included the region under the rule of the ** dynasty.