What are the unique customs of the Miao people? What are the customs of the Miao people?

There is no unified date for the New Year of Miao compatriots, and it is generally on the "Mao" (rabbit) day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Sometimes several villages have joined forces, and sometimes they have taken turns in order, often lasting more than a month. Before the holidays, wine, meat, fish, and other food are prepared, and everyone prepares new clothes.

During the festival, there are many activities. The main activities include bullfighting, horse racing, jumping reed sheng, and party swimming. On the first day, the cattle are fed, decorated and taken to the bullring.

Each village has a traditional bullring, and the surrounding hillside is a natural stand. During bullfighting, there are often five or six thousand people full of interest**. After the bullfight, the good wine gathered by each family in advance is carried to the venue**, people drink while dancing to the beat of the reeds, and the elderly often eat and drink on the hillside while taking a break.

There are many types of Miao people in Guizhou, and I will introduce to you the wedding customs of the young seedlings in southwest Guizhou. Miao young men and women are free to love, generally work during the day, only come out at night to talk about love, if the parents are more fierce, the man will whistle outside, the woman will secretly come out to date the man, if the parents are more gentle, go directly to the woman's house to ask, or go to her house to take her out for a date. On the day of the wedding, the woman should put all the gold and silver jewelry in a bag, and the man should carry the bag around the village for a circle, and each intersection is guarded by the woman's relatives and friends, as long as she is caught at a certain intersection, she will be fined a big bowl of wine, and then return to the original point, start again, and only take the bride back until the pass is successful.

"Playing glutinous rice cakes" is an indispensable item for Miao compatriots to celebrate the New Year, which is equivalent to steamed steamed buns during the Han New Year. Before the Spring Festival, the scene of "playing glutinous cakes" can be seen everywhere in Miao Village. They use the most traditional method of steaming glutinous rice and putting it into a special stone container, and then using a special "big wooden hammer" to repeatedly ram it until it is beaten into a paste, and finally knead it into pieces of "cake-shaped" glutinous rice dumplings by hand, which are soft and delicate in taste and quite delicious.

During the first month of each year, the Miao compatriots hold a grand slope meeting in a certain township to welcome the new year, and people of other nationalities will also participate. On the day of the "slope meeting", there will be a lot of rich literary and artistic activities with national characteristics, such as "blowing reed sheng", "singing mountain songs", "bullfighting competition", "horse fighting competition" and so on, through such "slope meeting" not only adds to the joyful atmosphere of the national festival, but also promotes the emotional exchanges between various ethnic groups.

Before the meal, you should not serve the rice bowl first, but drink enough wine first. First, the host pours everyone full of wine glasses, and each person drinks two glasses, and then the host toasts, also two glasses. After the toast, you can use chopsticks to eat.

In the Hmong people, there are also many categories of wine. First of all, "roadblock wine", as the name suggests, "roadblock wine" is a roadblock wine ceremony before you enter the village, it is a kind of etiquette culture that combines traditional customs and the fashion of the times.

The customs and habits of the Miao people can be said from five aspects, namely living habits, festival habits, wedding and funeral habits, architectural habits, and clothing habits.

1. Living habits.

The Miao people have the habit of eating oil tea, which is a hospitality tea made by boiling fried popcorn mixed with water, and they also have the custom of eating mountain loaches and green vegetables;

2. Festival habits.

In addition to the festivals of the Han nationality, the Miao people also have young men and women who fall in love with each other on the third day of March, eat black rice on the eighth day of April, worship the land god on the sixth day of June, and celebrate the New Year on the second day of October.

3. Wedding and funeral habits.

The love of the Miao people is based on the song as the medium, in the third day of the third lunar month, young men and women want to fall in love with the song, and they also have the custom of escaping marriage. And generally start crying before getting married;

4. Architectural habits.

Timber is abundant in the Hmong area, so the houses used to be made of wood. Miao houses are generally stilted buildings, which are divided into two floors, the upper floor is inhabited, and the lower floor is enclosed for livestock or stacked sundries;

5. Clothing habits.

Miao costumes are called "vomit yawning" in Miao language, which are mainly composed of children's clothing, casual clothes and dresses.

The Miao people are the earliest rice farming people, and they have been cultivating rice since ancient times. In the primitive society, the Miao people used leaves as clothing, tree nests or caves as their homes, and women as their leaders.

The Miao people have their own language, and the Miao language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, which is divided into three major dialects: Xiangxi, Qiandong, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. The religious beliefs of the Miao people are mainly ancestor worship and nature worship.

The Miao are an ethnic minority in China with a rich variety of customs and traditional festivals. The following is about Miao customs, the origin of the festival, related allusions, meanings, celebration methods, and related extensions.

Miao customs:1Marriage customs: The Miao people have a unique marriage system, and weddings are usually held during the Spring Festival of the lunar calendar to show good luck. The bride is dressed in gorgeous Hmong costumes, and the groom rides to the bride's house to receive her relatives.

2.Dragon Boat Racing: The Miao people love dragon boat racing, an ancient traditional activity that is usually held during the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People rowed dragon boats in the rivers, lakes and seas to commemorate the ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

3.Bull Racing: The Miao people also enjoy bull racing, which is a traditional activity that embodies courage and strength. People would tie two cows together and compete to see which cow could knock the other cow down.

Origin of the festival:1The traditional festivals of the Miao people include the Miao Year, the Lusheng Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and so on. The Miao Year is an important festival for the Miao people to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Lusheng Festival is a festival for the Miao people to perform and celebrate the harvest with reed sheng instruments, and the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

2.The origin of these festivals is related to the history, religious beliefs and farming culture of the Miao people. The Miao people worship nature and respect the land and agriculture, so many festivals are related to farming and harvest.

Related allusions:1There is a legend among the Miao people that in ancient times, the ancestors of the Miao people survived a great flood. To commemorate this legend, the Miao people hold a sacrificial ceremony every year to thank their ancestors for their blessings.

2.There is also a legend among the Miao people that the ancestors of the Miao people once had a relationship with a species called"Birds"of mystical creatures became companions, thus creating the Hmong people. Therefore, the Miao people have a special worship and protection of birds.

Meaning: The customs and festivals of the Miao people imply reverence for nature, land and agriculture, as well as respect for ancestors and traditional culture. These customs and festivals also convey the spirit of unity, bravery, and struggle.

Celebration: The Miao people usually hold grand celebrations, including dancing, singing, eating, dragon boat racing, cattle racing, etc. People wear traditional Hmong costumes and participate in various rituals and games to show their love and celebration of the festival.

Related Expansion: Miao customs and festivals are not only influential in China, but also in the international spotlight. For example, the Miao reed sheng** is included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage, attracting many foreigners to come to learn and admire.

In addition, the traditional costumes and handicrafts of the Miao people are also favored and have become an important element of tourism and cultural exchanges.

Summary: The customs and festivals of the Miao people are rich and colorful, implying reverence for nature, land and agriculture, as well as respect for ancestors and traditional culture. Through celebrations and ceremonies, people express their love and celebration of the festival.

Miao customs and festivals are not only influential in China, but also attract international attention, becoming an important element of cultural exchange and tourism.

The Miao nationality is one of the 56 ethnic minorities in China, and it is also a simple-hearted, kind-hearted, honest and hospitable people. The appearance characteristics of the children of the Miao family are the same as those of other ethnic groups, with black eyes, black hair, and yellow hair, there is no difference, but the language, customs, and clothing are different.

Due to the long-term scattered residence of the Miao people, they have formed their own characteristics in different regions, and the houses are mostly wooden structures, and the roofs are covered with tiles, cedar bark or thatch, and the roofs are covered with thin stone slabs in central or western Guizhou. Most of the mountainous areas are stilted buildings; Hainan Island and Zhaotong in Yunnan Province live in long thatched houses or "branch houses" made of tree trunks; The area around Xiangxi is a stone house.

Miao costumes maintain the traditional Chinese folk weaving, embroidery, picking, dyeing and traditional craft techniques, often using a major craft technique at the same time, interspersed with the use of other craft techniques, or pick in the embroidery, or dye in the embroidery, or weaving and embroidery combined, so that these flowers are splendid, brilliant, showing distinctive national artistic characteristics.

The Hmong have many unique customs, including:

1.Colorful clothing customs: The clothing customs of the Miao people are colorful and diverse, with more than 20 styles. Among them, Xijiang Miao costumes are the most famous and unique among Miao costumes.

2.Rich love and marriage customs: The Miao people have rich love and marriage customs, such as traveling to the party, jumping to the moon, sitting on flowers, climbing windows, etc., these customs are the way for young men and women of Miao to express their love.

3.Food customs such as sour soup fish: The Miao people's food customs are most famous for sour soup fish, in addition to sour soup dishes, sour soup rice, etc.

4.Entertainment customs such as stepping on lanterns: The entertainment customs of the Miao people are most famous for stepping on lanterns, in addition to dancing drums and blowing reeds.

5.Sacrificial customs: The Miao people have rich sacrificial customs, such as ancestor worship, cattle sacrifice, thunder sacrifice, etc.

The above are some of the main customs of the Miao people, which reflect the life and cultural characteristics of the Miao people.

Living customs: eating oil tea and mountain loach, wearing Miao unique costumes, and living in stilted buildings. In terms of festivals, young men and women will fall in love with songs on the third day of March, eat black rice on the eighth day of April to commemorate Yang Zaisi, worship the land god on the sixth day of June, and celebrate the "Little Year" on the second day of October.

The grass label is popular in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and young men and women use the grass label as a bond to convey love.

The main beliefs of the Miao people are primitive religious forms such as nature worship, totem worship, and ancestor worship.

Miao costumes are varied and colorful. The more representative is the traditional "dress", and there are dozens of headdresses on the bun.

Miao women generally wear narrow sleeves, large collars, and short cardigans on the upper body, and pleated skirts on the lower body. Miao men are dressed in a simpler manner, with a short cardigan or a long shirt on the right side, wool felt woven with geometric patterns on the shoulders, a cyan head wrapped around the head, and leggings wrapped around the calves.

Miao folk customs:

1. Clothing. The Miao costumes are no different for men, generally wearing blue and blue headscarves, and wearing long shirts or cardigans and loose tubular trousers in the old days. The front of the women's clothes is rich and colorful, and there are many styles and shades. Most of the Miao people in Wangmo County grow cotton and hemp, spin, hemp, weave, and sew clothes by themselves.

The Miao branch is distinguished by language and clothing, which is manifested in women's dress and attire.

1. "Black Miao" men wear cyan caftan with cloth buttons, barrel pants under the body, knee-length, also cyan and blue, and other colors are mostly white.

2. "Red Miao" calls itself "Mengna", which means red. The women's blouse is sewn with fine linen, the sleeves are made of batik embroidered red cloth with a high neckline, a red pattern 4 inches 8 wide under the neckline, and the placket has no buttons, short to the waist.

3. "Bai Miao" calls itself "fierce wisp". "Wisp" means white. Women wear 4 zhang long, layers of cyan or blue ** handkerchief, the blouse is sewn with cotton or fine linen, the right placket, the length of the belt ties, the collar sleeves are embroidered, the red pattern under the collar is shouldered, the length is more than 8 inches, and the lace is inlaid all around.

2. Residence.

The Miao people in Wangmo County moved into the county relatively late, and most of them migrated in the late Qing Dynasty. After the relocation, they reclaimed the uninhabited wasteland and cultivated the land, so they lived scattered and lived in branches to live in one village and one village. Such as Songtuan Village of Shidian, Rong Village of Zarao Township, Niujiao Plug of Xintun Town, etc.

The Miao village competition is either a single family, or three or five households are neighbors, and it is rare for dozens of households to compete in the same village.

The Miao family has the habit of "going to the beam". The beam is erected on the two central pillars of the middle room, before "going on the beam", a square table should be installed behind the middle room, the table is covered with a foreign cloth umbrella, a female handkerchief and earrings are hung on the umbrella frame, the back of the table is surrounded by a mat, there is a bamboo tube of rice on the table, incense, candles and lamps are burned on the rice.

3. Diet. The Miao people in Wangmo County live and cultivate land in the alpine zone, so they mainly produce bud grain, millet, buckwheat sorghum, red, bean rice, dry grain, upland rice, etc. During the New Year's festival and happy events, I like to eat tender bud grain rake, red barnyard cake, millet cake, and buckwheat cake with various glutinous rice accumulations.

Fourth, fight Lao Geng.

In the young and middle-aged people of the Miao nationality, they often fight with their own ethnic group, as well as the Buyi and Han ethnic groups. During the New Year's holidays, they send gifts to each other, and they help each other with close red and white ceremonies, like brothers and sisters, and are like brothers and sisters.

5. Faith. The Miao people worship their ancestors, worship nature, and worship multiple gods. Every household sets up a shrine to worship the ancestors, and every New Year's festival, or wedding celebration, must kill chickens and cook meat sacrifices.