1. Clothing
Most of the Zhuang people's clothing is the same as that of the Han people, but in Xixiang village of Guangxi, especially middle-aged and elderly women, they still retain the characteristics of their own national clothing. For example, in the northwest of Guangxi, middle-aged and elderly Zhuang women often wear collarless, left-lapped, embroidered hemmed clothes and trousers with wide legs, embroidered waist, pleated skirts and embroidered shoes, and like to wear silver jewelry.
2. Diet
Because it is not suitable for the Zhuang people living in arid mountainous areas to grow rice, they take corn as their staple food. Zhuang people like to eat aquatic products, fish clams and snails, all of which are rare; Mushrooms, cicadas, snakes, birds and animals in the mountains are also the daily delicacies of the Zhuang people. Chewing betel nut is a traditional custom of Zhuang nationality, and Zhuang women in Longzhou and other places in Guangxi still have this hobby.
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Cultural and artistic customs of Zhuang nationality:
1. The musical instruments commonly used by Zhuang people are suona, bee drum, bronze drum, big drum, brass cymbal, gong, sheng, Xiao, flute, Ma Guhu and Tianqin. Tianqin is the oldest plucked instrument of Zhuang nationality, which is mainly distributed in Longzhou, Ningming and Fangcheng, which border with Vietnam in southwest Guangxi. It has a history of thousands of years.
2. Zhuang brocade is an original handicraft of Zhuang women. Take cotton yarn as warp and velvet as weft. Warps are generally primary colors, and wefts are woven into various beautiful patterns with various colors. Zhuang brocade is bright in color, exquisite in weaving, soft in texture and durable. The Zhuang people love the phoenix symbolizing auspiciousness, so "ten Zhuang brocade and nine phoenixes", the phoenixes on Zhuang brocade are vivid and unique.
3. The dances of Zhuang nationality include "Tang Dance", "Hydrangea Dance", "Shrimp Fishing Dance", "tea things", "Pole Dance" and "Bronze Encouragement". Dance is characterized by distinctive theme, heroic dance steps, humorous and lively, realistic feelings, sometimes passionate and generous, and sometimes tearful, which fully embodies the stubbornness of the working people of Zhuang nationality and the clear personality of love and hate.
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