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- The Zhuang (/ ˈdʒwæŋ, ˈdʒwɒŋ /; Chinese: 壮族; pinyin: Zhuàngzú; Zhuang: Bouxcuengh [poːu˦˨ ɕeŋ˧]); Sawndip: 佈獞) are a Tai -speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces.
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The Zhuang (/ ˈ dʒ w æ ŋ, ˈ dʒ w ɒ ŋ /; Chinese: 壮族; pinyin: Zhuàngzú; Zhuang: Bouxcuengh [poːu˦˨ ɕeŋ˧]); Sawndip: 佈獞) are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces.
- History of The Zhuang Nationality
- Eating Habits of The Zhuang Nationality
- Architectural Style
- Dress Style of The Zhuang Nationality
- Etiquette of The Zhuang Nationality
- Taboos of The Zhuang Nationality
- Culture and Art
- Marriage Custom
- Religious Belief
- Other Religious Beliefs of The Zhuang Nationality
The Ancestors of the Zhuang People
In the pre-Qin period ( before 221 BC ) , the ancestors of the Zhuang nationality belonged to the Luoyue and Xiou People in Baiyue area in south China. As early as the late stage of Palaeolithic Age, in today's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, there were Liujiang People and Ganqian People in today's Liujiang County, Qilin Mountain People in today's Laibin City , Lipu People in today's Lipu County , Gnaan People and Jiulengshan People in today's Duan County , Bailiandong People and Dule Peopl...
Historical Relics of the Zhuang Ethnic People
Huashan Culture , which mainly refers to the world famous rock and cliff mural painting , is a very precious treasure created by the Luoyue People. It is mainly distributed along the two sides of Zuojiang River and its tributary Mingjiang River, covering a length of over 200 kilometers. The other five relics of Huashan Culture distributed in the drainage basins of Zuojiang River including areas of Pingxiang City, Tiandeng County and so on in Guangxi. In total there are 287 groups of fresco pa...
In most areas the Zhuang nationality people are used to have three meals a day, while in some places the local Zhuang people have four meals a day that means they have one more snack between lunch and supper. The breakfast and lunch are both very simple, at which they usually have some porridges, and they take supper as a very formal dinner, as a r...
The Zhuang people who live near rivers and urban areas usually have brick or wooden houses, the walls of which are whitewashed and the eaves of which are decorated with various patterns of pictures. As for those who live in the countryside or remote mountain areas, they usually live in titled wooden or earthy buildings, while some still live in str...
The clothes of the Zhuang nationality are mainly in three colors, which include blue, black and brown. The Zhuang women have the habit of planting cottons and spinning, and spinning, cloth weaving and cloth dyeing are three kinds of family handicraft industry. The cloth that is weaved from the cottons planted by themselves isalled home made cloth, ...
The Zhuang ethnic group is very hospitable and amicable to foreign guests. In the past no matter which family in the Zhuang villages one visited, he would be treated as the guest of the whole village. Different families always invited the guest to their home for dinner one by one, sometimes one had to eat in at least five or six families. In normal...
The Zhuang people do not kill animals on the first day of the first lunar month, and in some areas the young women do not eat beef or meat of dogs. When a baby is born, in the first three days, in some places, the first seven days, strangers are not allowed to enter the courtyard of the family. A woman who has just given birth to a baby and if the ...
The Zhuang people are adept at both singing and dancing. The people living in Youjiang area call it Huan, which means happiness, and the people in Zuojiang area call it Shi, which means poem, and the Zhuang people in north Guangxi call it Bi and Huan, which mean competition and happiness. Actually all the names mentioned above refer to the activity...
There are two forms of marriages in the Zhuang nationality, one is free love and the other is arranged marriage by parents. Normally the young men and women have enough freedom to choose whom they love . However, their love affairs and marriages are often interfered by their parents. Monogamy is the marriage system of the Zhuang nationality. Both m...
The Zhuang nationality mostly worships the nature and their ancestors. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, both Buddhism and Daoism spread to areas where the Zhuang ethnic group lived, and more and more temples of Buddhism and Daoism were built. In 1858 Catholicism was introduced to the Zhuang people, and in 1862 Protestantism was introduced here, h...
Goddess of Huapo Huapo is believed to be the wife of Buluotuo, while some brances of the Xhuang ethnic group believe that she should be the mother of Buluootuo. Huapo is the goddess that is in charge of the birth of babies, and she is also known as the Virgin Goddess. The Zhuang people believe that babies are the flowers in their courtyards, which ...
The Zhuang ethnic group has 18 million members and is the largest of China's 55 official minorities. Most of them inhabit Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where they are almost a third of the population, and Yunnan Province.
With a population of about 16,178,811, Zhuang ethnic group is the largest minority group in China with a long history and glorious culture. Over 90 percent of the population live in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region .
The Zhuang ethnic minority is China's largest minority group. Its population of about 16.18 million approaches that of Australia. Most of the Zhuangs live in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is nearly the size of New Zealand.
Zhuang, largest ethnic minority of South China, chiefly occupying the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi (created 1958) and Wenshan in Yunnan province. They numbered some 16 million in the early 21st century. The Zhuang speak two closely related Tai dialects, one classified as Northern and the other as Central Tai, with Chinese as their second ...
Guangxi Zhuang are the second largest ethnic group in China after the Han Chinese. They numbered 19,568,546 in 2020 and made up 1.39 percent of the total population of China in 2020 according to the 2020 Chinese census.
