What are the main products of the Zhuang nationality? What are the characteristics of the Zhuang nat

The characteristics of the Zhuang nationality are the diversity of cultural and artistic forms, the rich and colorful literary works, and the fighting spirit of the Zhuang people.

1. There are various forms of culture and art.

The culture and art of the Zhuang nationality are diverse in form and rich in content. The murals of Zuojiang Cliff are artistic treasures created by the ancestors of the Zhuang people two thousand years ago. Most of these murals are distributed on the stone mountain cliffs on both sides of the Zuojiang River and its tributary Mingjiang River, and a few are distributed on the stone mountain cliffs on both sides of the Tianzhi County and Youjiang River.

Among them, the cliff painting on the bank of the Ming River is the most representative, with a length of more than 135 meters and a height of 44 meters.

2. Literary works are rich and colorful.

The literary works of the Zhuang people are rich and colorful. Folk literature includes mythological stories, folklore, mountain songs, etc. The Zhuang people have always been known for their ability to sing, and they are good at using songs to express their lives and struggles, and to express their thoughts and feelings.

3. The Zhuang people are full of fighting spirit.

The Zhuang people are full of fighting spirit and have a glorious revolutionary tradition. The Taiping Revolution, which shook China and the rest of the world, was jointly launched by the Han and Zhuang peoples. Wei Changhui, Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang and others from the Zhuang nationality made great contributions to the Taiping Revolution.

During the Xinhai Revolution, the Qinfang Uprising and the Zhennanguan Uprising were initiated and commanded by Zhuang Huang Mingtang, Wang Heshun and others under the leadership of Sun Yat-sen.

Traditional sports of the Zhuang people

1. Zhuang lion dance.

There are two types of lion dances: southern lion and northern lion. When the Zhuang lion dance is on the stage, it is performed to the southeast and northwest in turn, and "grabbing the green" is the etiquette and performance action in the Zhuang lion and lion dance activities.

2. Zhuang dragon boat racing.

The dragon head and tail of the Zhuang and Han folk dragon boats are generally pretended to be in the shape of a dragon, and the length and size are different from place to place. During the race, the color of the dragon's head and the rower's headscarf, clothing color are divided into black dragon, yellow dragon, white dragon, green dragon, red dragon, etc., the number of people in each boat is generally more than 20 people, as many as 28 people, and there is a gong and drummer each, and one person at the helm, within a certain distance, the one who arrives at the finish line first wins.

The above content refers to the people of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region**-Zhuang.

1. Most of the festivals of the Zhuang nationality are the same as those of the local Han people, and the traditional Han folk festivals such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Spring and Autumn Sheday, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang, and Chinese New Year's Eve are also the festivals of the Zhuang people. The festivals of the Zhuang nationality with their own characteristics are the "March 3rd" Song Festival, the "Ox Soul Festival", and the "Zhongyuan Festival".

2. The Zhuang people have several regular folk song gatherings every year, among which the "March 3" song festival is the most solemn Zhuang people have always been known for their songs, as early as the Han Dynasty Liu Xiang's "Saying Yuan, Good Sayings", there is a record of the "Yue Ren Song" sung by the ancestors of the Zhuang people in the pre-Qin period. Zhuang folk songs are rich and colorful in form and content, with two or three sentences, three or four sentences or even more; Seven-character sentences and waist and foot rhyme are popular.

3. There are pan songs (or "guess songs"), crying wedding songs, new home songs, life songs, agricultural songs, current affairs songs, historical songs, and so on. The characteristics of Zhuang Song are that they are good at touching the scene and feelings, taking metaphors from things, and singing colorful and touching lyrics in the form of riddles and cross-examinations.

1. Food characteristics.

The Zhuang people are one of the earliest ethnic groups to cultivate and grow rice, and the rice culture is very developed, and rice has naturally become the staple food of the Zhuang people. There are various ways to make rice, there are steaming, boiling, stir-frying, stewing, frying, etc., all kinds of rice, rice porridge, rice noodles, rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes, zongzi, glutinous rice balls, etc., which are the daily favorite foods of the Zhuang people.

2. Architectural features.

Most of the Zhuang houses are the same as those of the local Han Chinese. Zhuang villages in the southwest and northwest of Guangxi still maintain the ancient traditional form of housing "ganlan", also known as "malan". It is divided into two floors, where people live on the top and livestock and sundries are stored on the bottom.

3. Clothing features.

Most of the costumes of the Zhuang people are the same as those of the Han people, but in the villages of western Guangxi, especially the middle-aged and elderly women, they still retain the characteristics of their national costumes.

The Zhuang are the largest ethnic minority in Chinese. 90 It is distributed in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and a small number live in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and other places. The Zhuang used to use a "local character" and created the pinyin alphabet in 1955, but they still mainly used Chinese.

The Zhuang area has a mild climate and abundant products, and the Zhuang people are mainly engaged in agriculture.

The culture and art of the Zhuang people are rich and long-standing. The mural of Huashan Cliff, more than 100 meters long, more than 40 meters high, has 1,300 portraits, and has a history of 2,000 years. The history of the bronze drum is more than 2,000 years old, and there are more than 500 pieces unearthed and collected.

Zhuang brocade, which is as famous as Shu brocade, is a famous handicraft created by Zhuang women. It is made of colorful velvet as the weft and thick fine yarn as the warp, and is made of fine weaving. The weaver is delicate, and the texture is heavy and durable.

Now Zhuangjin is exported to the United States, France, Japan and African and Southeast Asian countries, and has won a reputation for the Zhuang people of the motherland.

There are many Zhuang myths, stories, ballads and other works, as well as traditional songs, dances and operas. The Zhuang people had the custom of chiseling teeth and tattoos in ancient times, which are still retained among the Zhuang people in some areas.

The Zhuang people are a nation that can sing well, and singing has almost become an indispensable part of the life of the Zhuang people. Every third day of the first month of March, the singers of Sixiang come to sing at the foot of Yufeng Mountain. The form is mostly guessing and cross-examination.

The Zhuang people love martial arts and have a long history. The Zhuang people believe in multiple gods, worship boulders, old trees, mountains, snakes, birds and ancestors. Later, he believed in Taoism.

The Zhuang people gradually developed as early as the Qin Dynasty. Historically, the Zhuang have repeatedly waged struggles against reactionary rulers.

The song fairy Liu Sanjie is said to be a famous singer of the Zhuang nationality in the Tang Dynasty, and now there is a legend that "now Guangxi songs become the sea, all of which are passed down by the third sister herself".

The Zhuang people who participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement accounted for about 1 4 1 3 of the total.

Mountain songs, row by row here, row by row there, mountain songs are sung.

Five-color glutinous rice, zongzi, glutinous rake, and so on.

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I don't have good tea and dinner today, only the mountains sing...

As a nation, the important basic feature of the Zhuang people is that they have the common language of their own nationality - Zhuang language. The Zhuang people can sing well, and the singing of mountain songs held regularly every year is called Gewei.

The third day of the third lunar month is the most solemn. More than 10,000 people participated. Liu Sanjie, who is known as the fairy of songs, is a typical representative of Zhuang singers.

During the singing period, entertainment activities such as throwing hydrangeas and touching eggs between men and women are also held, eating five-color glutinous rice, singing Zhuang opera, and concurrently organizing material exchanges, etc., wishing a bumper harvest of grains. The Zhuang people in the Tang Dynasty already danced. The cliffs of Ningming, Longzhou and other places in Guangxi have left many cliff murals painted by the ancestors of the Zhuang nationality.

The casting and use of copper drums has a history of more than 2,000 years in the Zhuang people. Zhuangjin is a well-known textile handicraft.

Zhuang traditional song festival. It is also called "March 3rd", "Song Wei Festival", Song Wei, and Zhuang is called "Wobu Slope" and "Shuanglong Yuan". It means a song that is sung in the fields or outside the cave.

It is divided into day song and night song song. Rige Wei is in the wild, with the main content of relying on songs to choose matching; In the village, the night song is mainly sung production songs, seasonal songs, pan songs and historical songs. Except for the third day of the third lunar month, the Spring Festival and the beginning of April.

8. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, weddings, children's full moons, housewarming and other seasons can form songs. Even when the song meets the opponent on the road to the polder, it can also form a temporary polder. There are many legends about its origin, one says that Liu Sanjie invented mountain songs, and everyone competed to sing them, and gradually evolved into songs; One is to entertain the gods, remove disasters and drive away epidemics; One is said to commemorate a loyal couple.

Before the Gewei Festival, people have to prepare five-color rice and eggs, and the girls have to catch up to make hydrangeas. On Song Day, boys and girls wear festive costumes, men carry gifts, and women carry hydrangeas, and go in groups. Some carried the statue of Liu Sanjie around the song for a week before starting to sing.

Some of them are set up by the girls in colorful embroidery sheds, and when the young men arrive, they will sing songs and judge each other's character and talent. Some are men and women in pairs, the girl throws the hydrangea to the person she likes, and if the other party likes it, she will tie a gift to the hydrangea and throw it back to the woman. Some of them have the custom of touching eggs:

The young man touched the egg in the girl's hand with the egg in his hand, and if the girl was willing to be friends with him, she would show half of the egg for him to touch, and if she didn't want to, she would hold it whole. There is also a village A to send a colored ball to village B, and a mountain song competition is held when the ball is returned, if village B loses, the colored ball is not allowed to be returned, and the game will continue in the next year until the song wins. Now, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has set the third day of the third lunar month as the Zhuang Song Festival, and gradually developed into the "March 3" cultural and art festival.