(a) "Drums Society" is the main religious rituals of Rongshui Miao people. The "Drum Society" is a typical activity of the Rongshui Miao to worship their ancestors, which represents the "religious culture" centered on ancestor worship. The "Drum Society" is also an ethnic organization that combines religion, politics and military affairs, so every member of the tribe must participate in it. At the time of the ancestor festival, many members of the clan gather together, and with the "drum" as the center, they sing and dance day and night. They sing to "tell" ancient legends and dance to memorialize the past.
(2) Rongshui Miao daily life rituals, where the disease and disaster, most of the souls to be called to drive away the ghosts, curses and other witchcraft activities, which, the funeral ceremony is the Rongshui Miao ghosts concept and ancestor worship is an important embodiment. Funeral generally by the sorcerer to officiate, the whole process, the sorcerer v. not all is sung, sung not table is said. Prayer sound, always singing. Although this combination of singing and chanting, "singing with singing, singing with saying", is the main form of ritual activity, there are occasional instances of the addition of some accompanying musical instruments, which, in religious consciousness, are often regarded as a means of communicating with the gods, rather than as a musical instrument.
(3) "Burying words" is a patriarchal phenomenon guided by the cultural activities of gods and goddesses, and it is also a kind of religious activity in disguise which is subject to the "deification mentality". There is no fixed time and place for "burying the rock", but it is decided on the initiative of the villagers of a certain village at the right time. During the ceremony, the presiding officer quotes and rejects the scriptures, or speaks or sings, so as to state the "ancient principles and rules" and emphasize the importance of "burying the rock" activities. At the end, when everyone has made their intentions clear, the crowd will bury a rock in the earth (usually without inscriptions or markings on the rock) to show that the activity is in effect. After the "Burying of the Rock" is over, the Rilao (shaman) will organize the contents of the event into various words of reasoning and formulate a "Burying of Words Song", which will be sung everywhere, so that the people can remember and carry out the event in the future.
In the cultural tradition of the Rongshui Miao, folk songs have long been nurtured in the consciousness of the ethnic groups, and religion, as a social ideology, has always had an inseparable relationship with the song culture. Over the long years of history, religious beliefs have been integrated with national consciousness, customs and moral norms, and are often regarded as an important part of the national culture, and through the folk songs, one of the carriers of the national culture, we can see the cultural phenomena of different stages of social development of the ethnic group.
Rongshui Miao song inheritance custom of the formation of its various historical and social reasons, it is mainly manifested in the following points: 1) the ancient Miao people living in inhospitable places, living a hard life, a lot of work, if you do not sing to vent their heartache, can not get rid of its physical and mental fatigue, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of the pleasure, therefore, since ancient times, the Miao people have been to sing to solve the difficulties of the means of the pursuit of a better life, so the Miao song can be sung endlessly and along the line of the Miao people, the Miao song can be sung, the Miao song can be sung. (2) Miao people do not have words, narrative history of their forefathers and philosophers, it is entirely to lyrics or Taoist witch classics to recite, so the Miao people regarded the songs handed down with the successive generations of "genealogy", "historical records", Therefore, the Miao people regard the songs handed down as equally precious as the "genealogies", "chronicles" and "canons" of the past generations, and therefore, those who practice and are good at singing take it as their duty to pass on the songs, and they sing the songs on all kinds of occasions and recite the history and sentiments of the ancestors of the Miao people. 3) The labor songs and horns produced in the traditional collective form of labor and production allow the Miao people to benefit from the functions of coordinating the labor and encouraging the morale of the Miao people, and to teach each other and learn the techniques of production. They can teach and learn production techniques from each other, and thus the songs of farming often linger in the fields and mountains. 4) The good singers among the Miao can usually win the hearts of women, and can use this as a medium to achieve the most perfect love; they can also sing love songs in pairs to experiment on who is the most desirable object, and then achieve the purpose of a happy marriage. This custom of using songs as a matchmaker between young Miao men and women has made Miao songs a permanent melody in their married life.5) When the Miao people gather for gatherings, wedding banquets, group work, and banquets, they will judge their honor and dishonor by winning or losing a song contest. At that time, guests from all sides and the public gather to watch the "song battle", and those who are good at singing can win the honor of the general public. Therefore, singing is not only entertainment, it actually contains a kind of fierce competition, which makes the Miao people compete to learn songs on weekdays, and take pride in singing well. (7) Overall, the formation of the Rongshui Miao song inheritance custom relies mainly on the powerful knowledge dissemination of the human voice and the social adjustment function of the Miao song itself, which has contributed to making it a long-lasting favorite type of music among the ethnic minorities.
The inheritance of Rongshui Miao songs is not only a kind of preservation of its artistic form, but also a kind of comprehensive cultural development, which is fully nurtured in all kinds of inheritance fields of Miao songs. In other words, every inheritance field of Miao songs is a window for the all-round display of traditional Miao culture. Most of the unwritten ethnic groups live in the backward and closed remote mountainous areas, and their identification with their ancestors is different from that of the urban population. Not only do they regard their ancestors as their "roots" to believe in, but also the inheritance of the folk songs, one of the carriers of their ethnic worship, contains a kind of loyalty to the ethnic group.
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The Miao Autonomous County of Rongshui is located in the north of Guangxi, about 120 kilometers from Liuzhou City, and is home to the Miao, Yao, Dong, Zhuang, and Han ethnic groups. Here, the mountains and waters are green and the ethnic customs are rich, and the picturesque Bei River and the Miao villages on both sides of the river, the colorful Miao songs and dances, the tense and intense Miao horse fights, the strange marriage customs, the unique Miao footstools, the gorgeous ethnic costumes, the interesting ethnic meals, etc., constitute a splendid and colorful picture of the ethnic customs.
Rongshui Miao Mountain's charming and picturesque scenery, the towering Yuanbao Mountain, the reckless sea of forests, waterfalls, deep pools and caves. The clear water of the Beijiang River is accompanied by the "Beijiang Flying Rainbow" - the iron rope bridge, and there are also landscapes such as the Shouxingyan Temple. Here is a natural flora and fauna garden, the Quaternary glacier relics of the plant "Guangxi fir" more than 200 plants, is a newly discovered rare and precious tree species.
There are more than 30 major attractions in this area. Near the Beijiang Cable Bridge, 19 kilometers away from the city, the first ethnic tourism village in Si Rong Township was newly built. The main roads in the village have been repaired and made smooth, and the Lusheng Ping and Douma Ping have been remodeled, and a new wooden building with national characteristics has been built for reception.
The village is inhabited by more than 70 families are Miao, in the customs and habits, house architecture, language, dress and other aspects of the strong Miao characteristics are maintained, colorful Lusheng stepped on the hall dance, Mango dance, pulling the drum dance, dance of toast and fight horse race horse, fighting birds and other lesser-known customs.