The mulaoCustoms and habitsMulao holiday information and clothing characteristics

The word "MuLao" in the national language, is the meaning of "mother".After the founding of a general designation mulam.The vast majority live in guangxi luo mulao autonomous county.The rest scattered in mount XinCheng, appropriate, liucheng, float, huanjiang, hechi, such as county, and zhuang, han, yao, miao, dong, maonan, aquatic animals live together.

Mulao ethnic history

Mulao is by the ancient "current" development, evolved from JinRen Chang Qu HuaYangGong ambition in the south, volunteers, is about "current" in the yunnan-guizhou Gao Yuanyun south along the ridge mountains region.After tang and song dynasty, the ridge outside generation ", "creek pretty plexus smile" and so on through the "current", "1" have been found in the account of community."Tianhe county annals", "qing YiTongZhi" said: "mummer aka current, the common man", visible MuLao and current chief, has a close relationship between origin.Academic circles generally believe that mulam from current, is separated from the music form.History does not treat mulam as a nation, August 30, 1953 through the national identification, mulam truly become a member of the family of the Chinese nation.

Mulao form a single nation, its time about in the song dynasty.

According to historical records, song MAO treasure five years (972), in guangxi state to leave LuoCheng County hole, first transferred to melt state, is a celebration after the house.To mastery of the material knowledge, mulam until late in the yuan dynasty or Ming has lived in the town area.

Inheritance system of song, yuan, Ming dynasty in the town, tianhe, appropriate mountain areas of mulam officer, set up flow in the society at the grass-roots level to set up.At the same time under the county magistrate, adding soil inspection department, town and village fort etc, using the local person, combine with officer and soil have ruled.People must pay the summer and fall to the law.

Qing dynasty could be divided into "in" mulam areas below the county, in the "in" has "the winter".Around ten per "winter", "winter", which shall be elected by all, responsible for raising food gathering.Originally "winter" pay LiangKuan divided basic unit of society, because most of mulam namesake race, so under the "winter" and "room", in fact, under the feudal patriarchal system and name, organization.

1912 years later, to set up the group total, dong, a long, use the original "winter" for cover, a long, rule mulam people.After 1933, along with the nationalist forces, the establishment of a district, township and village baojia, head of the local militia captain and elementary school principal, a so-called "trinity", "five even protect" the reactionary rule.Some "XiangLao" and "heads" in the mulao tend to pass on government, listed under the strength, the left and right sides of colluding with the bandits forcing people to abide by the "conventions", "ZuGui", make every effort to safeguard the feudal patriarchal system.Together with other ethnic brothers, mulam people several times the struggle against feudal rule.During the anti-japaneseThe warAnd the liberation war, a number of advanced mulam youth attended the leadership of the communist party of China and willow willow north the anti-japanese advance team north of the people's liberation team.LuoCheng County liberation got the mulao the strong cooperation of the people.

The mulao marriage customs

Mulao young men and women have always been a free love, in addition to the holiday, assembly, and to contact met, the main way of love is in the "slope" in the song a dating each other."Slope" in March and August is the season autumn, young people dressed in costumes, men and women in their respective company, to market to find by the partners.Find satisfied with the opponent, is invited to the scenic hillside lawn began to singing, song, for media, question and answer, satisfied with each other, give each other a token.Finally the matchmaker inform parents, determine the wedding date of their marriage.

Matchmaker by the groom's first please, if the family agreed to, the daughter of a birth horoscope to the matchmaker forwarding the man.Groom's parents, after receipt of the wife of eight think with son's transition, the thought basic.

Ridiculous way around slightly difference, is the most interesting of ten sisters "" send to marry.The bride had a month before his own door, with the village peers a best girl of ten people voluntarily, do sister to marry the bride's family, and the bride accompany, day and night to help her do the new shoes, seam bottom drawer, for a dowry.Ten sisters married of that day of, and the bride dressed the same, wear the same shoes "lover", "good, hold the same umbrella" sisters ", cut the same hair style, the same braid, even the similar posture is similar behavior.

Were it not for family and friends, I don't know who is the bride, who is the best man.By the groom's family, the eleven girl together, become a lively group.

On the day of the ridiculous, many places have set up the custom of song "card".Village ridiculous man a line of people to the woman, want to sing a questioning can through song "card" into the bride's family.Also, the woman seeing the bridegroom off team to ask family village have to answer the song to into the groom's house.Sing sometimes from morning until night, onlookers bystander was jammed.The last if don't answer, then ask yourself the answer, or by parents to sing the song "reconciliation", declared "bar song" to an end.In a long song, he will supply delicious good drink to the guest, to ensure that the energy, when the song spirits.

After the bride into the house, many places to "make" song hall, is placed in the bridal chamber inside and outside the arena song, sing a men and women.Orgasm, cheers, laughter, into a sound, become the young a great place to show talent.

To get marriedOn the day of the couple and different lodge, the bride and groom should be with the guests and friends for the night.After breakfast the next day, the bride will along with seeing the bridegroom off people back together.Day, until the second year in February, the club's family didn't pick up the bride to her home for the festival.And until that night couples room nights.Still living back the next day, the bride, usually only in the busy farming season, the bride was temporarily back to family short a few days, untilpregnancyNo longer long stay back after giving birth.

Mulao eat custom

Mulao nationality mainly live in southern China, guangxi and other places.The word "MuLao" in the national language, is the meaning of "mother".Colony hills, mountain, hill and more narrow, less arable land area, main crops such as rice, corn, sweet potatoes, wheat.So MuLao shan diet is given priority to with corn, rice, every pickling sauerkraut, MuLao people like drinking smoking, do not eat animal heart.

Rice is the staple food, wheat and barley, potato, corn, beans supplemented.Rice, sticky rice and glutinous rice, glutinous rice as part of their daily meals, glutinous rice as raw materials for the food festival.

Mulao used three square meals a solar eclipse, porridge for breakfast, lunch eat breakfast porridge, rice and relatively rich dishes for dinner.Generally is the busy farming season have porridge for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the rice.Sweet potato is one of the mulao main auxiliary food.Soybean after Fried, boiled, eat at ordinary times, and the marriage funeral festival event when used to make tofu.Each fall, every family to make twenty to thirty pounds bean paste, to assist the porridge.

Mulao always like cold food, the food cooked, the air is cool to eat, eat a meal not over, don't need to eat again heating again next meal.At ordinary times are generally drink to living water.Mulao cooking meat is used to "white diving", namely cut large pieces of pork or net of the slaughter chickens, ducks in the water boiled, and then cut into small pieces, add salt when eating, or dip in brine.Fish oil frying, single fry beef often.

Mulao people like eating hot and sour, every altar with acid curing all kinds of pickles, pickled beans, garlic, etc.Folk in the early, two meals, only hot and sour dishes with rice.First boiled vegetables habits, add oil and salt.Local specialty sand tank is mulam unique cooking, food, coal burning tea drinking utensils.

Mulao typical food: tofu food;White buns, mulam traditional snacks, made from cooked sticky rice.

Chongyang wine is MuLao traditional rural peasant's favorite drink.Chongyang wine fragrance pubi, more drink more like to drink, which often drunk all don't know, when wake up head not dizzy.The double ninth festival every yearThe double ninth festivalPart, MuLao rural families choose good glutinous rice wine.Chongyang wine production methods similar to the han, zhuang region method of the wines, sealing aged for a period of time before drinking it.

Tongue dog zi ba

"Dog zi ba tongue" made from glutinous rice, encase with tung leaves after tongue shape is like a dog, its name derived therefrom.It is soft and tasty, taste sweet, then sprinkle with sweet sweet sesame seed candy powder, that is more memorable.It also has a special significance, or how it and love to sing folk songs together!On August 15 and August club is mulam young men and women "slope" season.Slope field after the young men and women sing folk song ", then sat together mutually exchanging to bring "dog zi ba tongue", means love sweet like sesame seed candy.

See the pillow

At the feast, the MuLao rural families are package pillow reed celebrate the holiday.Legend, pillow reed is a group of zhuang children's mission to cattle mulam children.Every only five or six pound pillow reed, tend to be a family with a is enough.The way is: first to soak glutinous rice for a few hours, take it out to dry after putting some alkaline mix well;Layers and then leaves the back threw more than about a foot wide, with glutinous rice to a certain height and leaves surrounding edge, pile on a layer of leaves, laying a layer of rice, like wai wai valley millet.With the rope tied tightly fastened, finally into the pot to boil inside a day and night.Club day package pillow reed season in February.

Duck sauce

Duck sauce is MuLao shan beauty taste delicious flavorings, kill ducks with duck blood (not frozen), deserve to go up the barrel of his acid acid water, mix well with chopsticks, become slightly dark to moderate in the blood, then add a little salt and sharp.Some do not cook, thought it keep fresh "blood";Boil the mostly, a roll for a quick.With duck sauce and eat.

The mulao is a traditional festival

Mulao believed in many gods in the past, holiday.A year in addition to October, November, nearly every month holiday.Once every three years the "rice" section is also called "joy" thick mulam most grand festival.The purpose of "rice" is primarily to ancestors, let people and peace, the grain harvest.Mulao special festival: march third woman group (also called children's day), the activity was held sacrificial villages;April 8th festival, its activity is to rest of cattle, and sacrifice offering kraal god;fifthThe Dragon Boat Festival.Besides the same as the local han, zhuang, Dragon Boat Festival, the contents of the village also carry paper boat cruise Tian Dong insecticide, in order to protect the harvest;Second day for eating insects section in June, is promoting deinsectization method of traditional festivals;Around August 15 for epigenetic section, is the young men and women to carry out the "slope" social activities.A year and three years of daqing, a small city in accordance with the food festival, held on "good day" after the beginning of winter, daqing village (religious) as the unit, caterers pig sheep the ancestral temple, held in acting, dragon dance lion dance, sing folk songs and other activities;A little celebration is one individual activities.

Once every three years the "rice" festival is also called "joy" thick relatively grand.According to the food festival held in "good day", after the beginning of winter.The purpose of "cooking" is primarily to ancestors, let qi bao people and peace, the grain harvest.Commonly used old ginger,eggs, sesame, beans, the husband chicken, fish, and the pig's heart, liver, lung, kidney, intestine, predicate of 12 kinds of food for the offerings.Act in an opera in the village play a dragon lion dance, sing, for three consecutive days, because of the influence production is now rare.Every festival, in addition to all kinds of celebration activities, to buy a big house to food.Such as: chicken, duck, fish, meat and glutinous rice food, but also according to seasonal produce different seasonal food.The fifteenth day of the off-year to dao zi ba;February spring club to make zongzi;April 8th steamed sticky rice;August 15 to do dogs (cow) tongue reed;December 24 to do water circle (dumplings), steamed rice cakes.On the first draft circle, second day began to treat.Out of the married women 2 back, and I will with pork, chicken, duck leg for a New Year gift, return to the husband's family as usual, also want to back to some holiday foods.Glutinous rice products is the main food of every festival festival days.Marriage,The childThe full moon, etc. To make zi ba, in addition to do tofu, I do.Mulao ritual activities in the festival, every encounter major festivals in the past, the village held a joint or several village collective worship, offering higher, according to different seasons, and differ somewhat, each offering a god, split the cost of offering used all, after the ritual activities, sacrifices by the split, referred to as the "issues".Issues of personal income, after coming home can be used for ancestor worship, and then as a festival food.Seiqnyied bat "cow" birthday, on the day of the rest, let the cow and chicken, duck, wine, meat, prepared steamed sticky rice "stall" god worship, and to give cows eat sticky rice.

Acid acid product

Dong has "dong from acid", mulam diet also cannot leave the acid.In MuLao shan, either one, acid eat is little not.Such as lime, acid papaya, pickled radish, etc.

BaoTong reed leaves

Every August and autumn clubThe Mid-Autumn festival, mulam every BaoTong reed.The reed oblong, shaped like a dog's tongue, also known as the dog's tongue zi ba.The zi ba, soft and elastic, delicious and tasty, old and young all appropriate, is mulam flavor food.

Chongyang drinking

MuLao shan of the lunar calendar in September, the rice harvest.People use the best made from glutinous rice into strong alcohol and steam glutinous rice wine.Because is the double ninth festival, therefore calls "chongyang wine".

Off slope

Song is also called the will of the slope, slope, slope section, is a traditional mulam young men and women singing party, seeking a companion and a form of social activities, more inThe Spring FestivalOr during August 15 Mid-Autumn festival, generally choose in the wild, the scenery pleasant hillside field, or cave "slope" is mulam great opportunity of young men and women looking for Mr Right to each other.Dress up this day, a woman, that supports the paper umbrella or take an umbrella, man up new clothes, also groups flock, certain which girl, then to sing folk, if the woman is interesting, since the duet to stay, you come to me to, praise each other, ask full name, date of birth, residence, etc., and meet the farewell, give each other a token (generally send female flowers towel of male, female to male new cloth shoes), for life."Slope" reflects the mulao youth love freedom, is full of romantic is mulam reflected the traditional culture.

Will kiss

Is one of the forms of mulam marriage.So-called "kiss", is the matchmaker by men and women both parties agreed to by the groom's family shall banquet, first on a predetermined crossroads, and then withdraw.Followed by the parents, uncles, brothers and relatives and friends of the family came to the crossroads, eat a meal, eat all back.The next day, I also have a bear on the side of the road, the family by family parents, relatives and friends to eat a meal.

In accordance with section rice

Is also called "respect in accordance with rice and ye", "joy is willing to", "ancestors wish", "royal family" and so on, is the mulao ancestor worship and sacrifice to god, protect human and animal peace and celebrating the harvest ritual activities, is the traditional grand festival."According to meal festival" for two days, every package of reed, sticky rice, kill chickens and ducks, invite friends and relatives to the home festivity.In guangxi, mulam in accordance with the food festival is MuLao luo shan people people one of the most unique and grand and traditional festival full of mystery and distinct personality.In st. "please" ceremony to 36, please god, they are respectively: (top) messengers filling pile, flower Lin Taizi, pale, GongCao, campaigns, figure, five horses, point of hua sweep floor messengers, altar, queen, prince charming, Liang Wang;(middle) is on the book, meishan, pangu, three yuan, Pacific, south cao, four horses department, guanyin, the thor, led light, a wise king, land;(bottom) ruban, seven holy cow song, officer, virgin, beam, three worlds, nine Li She king, takes the messenger, four mountain seven niang, fairy, weed king, the king of clubs.Today, mulam "according to meal festival", joined the rich period flavor, such as new play, a new song, for all kinds of sports games, and economic and trade activities, promote the unity of the nationalities.

Rob zi ba

Rob zi ba mulam's most bustling activity.The three of them as a "winter" (group), a total of three long "winter" people take turns to use chopsticks to grab on the triangle reed in the cylinder, but three people must share three legs, all by hand in hand, climbers legs keep balance in the jumping, accidentally lost his balance and get the dumplings will fall down.Suddenly a sellout applause scream and drumming his, until finish ZongBa rob in the cylinder, grab the most ZongBa "winter" is the winner.Triangle is the mascot of the reed is mulam according to meal festival mulam people who rob much, believe that is, the more blessings.