Folk customs of Xanadu

Most of the trips to Xanadu are carried out on water, and about one third of them are to watch the architecture and living habits of Dong, Zhuang and Miao, while these tours are carried out on land. If you want to know everything contained here, you might as well take a walk in Xanadu and feel it for yourself.

Xanadu folk custom

Qin Tian, a Zhuang nationality in black, performed: Napo County, Guangxi is located in the southwest of China, adjacent to Viet Nam. Zhuang people in this county are divided into 12 ethnic groups according to their self-proclaimed titles and their respective languages. Among them, the people who call themselves "Min" (also known as "Buzhuang") are a people named "strong in black clothes". Anthropologists call the Zhuang nationality in black a "living fossil" of the Zhuang nationality.

Dong people's big song: it is a kind of unaccompanied polyphonic multi-voice chorus. Mainly chorus. With a wide range, complex and diverse music, orderly rhythm and perfect harmony, it is known as "music that shines like a clear spring and crosses the edge of ancient dreams". Dong folk songs have been included in the world intangible cultural heritage.

Zhuang hydrangea: it is an auspicious representative of Zhuang nationality and a symbol of love. Zhuang hydrangea is embroidered by Zhuang girls themselves. A ball is composed of 12 petal-shaped spun silk. There are 12 petals, representing 12 months in a year, and each petal is embroidered with plants or animals representing the corresponding month. A hydrangea represents 12 months in a year, which means that every month is safe and full.

Miao Xiu: It's a collection of memories of traditional patterns, combined with modern styles, and it's hand-embroidered, not painted. Each piece needs more than 60 thousand stitches, and it takes a month to embroider a tie, and the fastest time is 26 days. They embroidered the front side from the back side, and the two sides were formed with one stitch. This is China's unique skill.

Yao Dance: Yao people live in mountainous areas and have rich bamboo and wood resources. They used local materials to make some bamboo crafts, and also used bamboo and wood as some dance tools to weave various bamboo and wood dances.

Leather family batik: The leather family is a people who live by batik. The production method of batik printing is: first draw a picture on cotton cloth, then dip the wax liquid from the porcelain bowl of the heater with a copper or aluminum wax knife and apply it on the white cloth. When the wax liquid falls off the cloth, it will dry, and then the cloth stained with wax will be put into the indigo vat for dip dyeing. Because there is no color where there is wax, after boiling, dewaxing, rinsing and drying, there will be a pattern with white characters on a blue background. Color batik is made by waxing and dipping for many times, because the last waxing can only be dyed once, and the process is more complicated. (Ge Jia Batik pays attention to symmetrical layout, and the patterns are mainly flowers, bronze drum patterns and fish patterns. In addition to appreciation, it is also the pursuit of a better life. ) The Gog family is a people who believe in the sun god, which can be clearly reflected in their costumes. They have red tassels hanging on their heads, and the whole crown symbolizes the sun. The silver circle below represents the bowstring, the silver needle above their heads represents the arrow, and the bow and arrow points directly at the center of the sun, representing the materialistic view centered on the sun.

Zhuang brocade production: plain spun yarn as warp and silk thread as weft. General Zhuang brocade patterns are mainly geometric patterns or animal and plant shapes, among which geometric patterns are endless and colorful. The colors of Zhuang brocade are bold, and red, big green, rhubarb and big blue are all full of national characteristics. Color dyes are made of roots, leaves and flowers of plants, and they are colorful. Traditional patterns include water, clouds, birds, animals, flowers, grass, insects, fish and so on. , as well as the complex double dragon play beads, lion roll hydrangea, fish jump Longmen, Yuanyang play in water and so on. The woven brocade can be used as quilt cover, bedspread, curtain, wall hanging, brocade screen, tablecloth and so on.