The festivals with national characteristics of Zhuang nationality include "March 3" Song Festival, "Niu Soul Festival" and "Central Plains Festival".
1. "Ox Soul Festival", also known as "Ox King Festival" and "Seedling Opening Festival".
Most of them are carried out on the second day after spring ploughing, and some areas are fixed on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, because it is said that this day is the birthday of Niu Wang.
Legend has it that the ox king turned out to be a god, and he was ordered by the jade emperor to come down to help people farm.
People appreciated his contribution, so they offered sacrifices to the ox soul on his birthday.
On this day, every household should wash and dress the cows, trim the cowshed, bring a basket of five-colored glutinous rice and a bunch of fresh grass to the cowshed to sacrifice the cow's soul, and then give half of the grain and fresh grass to each farm cow.
Step 2 get married
There are many monogamous families in Zhuang nationality. It used to be popular that "women marry men, and husbands live from their wives", but later it was mainly paternal families who lived from their husbands.
3. Funeral
There are mainly two burial methods in the traditional funeral customs of Zhuang nationality: earth burial and cremation.
After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, burial became the main way of burial.
The main burial method of Zhuang nationality is "secondary burial". The second burial is also called deboning burial and deboning burial, and the Zhuang people call it "Jintan burial" and "Admiralty burial".
The way of burial is: after the death of relatives, bury them nearby with thin coffins and build a "long tomb"; Three or five years later, when bones and muscles are decayed, they will dig graves, open coffins, pick up bones and put them into the pottery "Jintan", and then choose a geomantic burial place to build a "round tomb".
The cremation of Zhuang nationality mentioned above is also the second burial style. The ashes are stored in the "Jintan" and then buried in a selected place.
In modern times, some rich people gave a grand burial to show their identity, and the cemetery was extremely magnificent. They don't have a second burial, which is called "big burial".
However, in the concept of the general public, this kind of burial is not valued and recognized.
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Most of Zhuang people's costumes are the same as those of Han people, but in Xixiang village, Guangxi, especially middle-aged and elderly women, they still retain the characteristics of their own national costumes. For example, middle-aged and elderly Zhuang women in northwest Guangxi wear collarless, left-collared, embroidered clothes, wide-footed trousers, embroidered waist, pleated skirt and embroidered shoes, and like to wear silver ornaments. Zhuang women in Longzhou and Pingxiang in southwest Guangxi still wear collarless black shirts with left collars, square black handkerchiefs on their heads and black wide-leg pants on their lower bodies.
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