The maonanCustoms and habitsMaonan holiday information and clothing characteristics

Maonan nationality history

Since the song dynasty, recorded in Chinese university, guangxi huanjiang county territory today have "trail beach", "MAO beach", "south" and other places.Lingnan hundreds more branches, is place name and family name of customs union, maonan also to place names.After the liberation, known as the "difficult".In the eighty s, according to native opinion "maonan" instead of "difficult" MAO for.

Maonan is developed from the branches, lingnan.Before tang's current, reflecting the music, it is their ancestors.According to the record, today the area of maonan inhabit to grace county in the tang dynasty years, lingnan ring under the jurisdiction of the state;The song dynasty to fondle water state territory;Under the jurisdiction of the yuan dynasty is a celebration of a distance.Grace of the first year of MingZhengDe county mei hechi state.In the qing dynasty, grace XianShu igawa far mansion.Guangxu period, in maonan set "MAO difficult armour" populated areas.Under "a" on, middle and under three "well", "well," a "group"."Well"

To set under the "brand", "brand first", the general jurisdiction over 10 homes.In order to against the feudal ruling class oppression and exploitation, maonan people had constantly struggle.During the anti-japaneseThe warIn the battle to defeat the Japanese aggressors, the liberation war against the kuomintang reactionary rule have made important contributions.

Maonan nationality festivals

Maonan holiday is the lunar temple festival in May,The qingming festivalAnd "catch ancestor fair"The Lantern Festival"Bird" is unique to their observance.Maonan holiday has two obvious features: one is the ancestor worship;The second is singing song activities more.

Dragon quarter

Maonan folk festival is the biggest annual dragon quarter after the summer solstice."Dragon festival, also called" temple in May Day ", is unique maonan festival, two days prior to the lunar calendar of "dragon" to hold, is primarily a sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, the whole village has come a long way and WaiJia women and men and women of relatives and friends came to celebrate, grand and warm.Excessive dragon festival, every family should be steamed steamed pork with rice flour and five-colored sticky rice and roast pig.Inverted switch in central scroll, knead into small round and round the five-colored sticky rice, and stick on the switch, to indicate the fruit harvest, pray for good harvest.

Points during the dragon festival, monao ethnic group had the people of all ages, sexes dressed up, young daughter-in-law holiday with parents back.They gather the golden flower, maple leaf steamed five-color waxy rice;In the field the five-color waxy rice, steamed pork with rice flour, offering the emperor shen nung, pray for good crop weather, the grain harvest;In the village head permeating the temple NiuJing offering legend monao ethnic group had slain breeding beef cattle, the founder of the three male ye QiZhu people and flourish.Also use "hair" (a big if sectoral leaves) package five-colored rice and steamed pork with rice flour, visiting relatives and friends, to celebrate the holiday.Points the dragon festival the same day as the relation between young men and women parties, activities such as mouth, slope foot song on depression.

The Dragon Boat Festival

Maonan also a Dragon Boat Festival, but the meaning of the festival is different from the han nationality, folk known as "day".Whenever any medicine section, habits mining moxa leaf, calamus, turmeric, shit cane and other herbs boil water to drink, or use these herbs minced filling package ZongBa antidote to the disease.

pumpkins

Maonan "pumpkin festival", when the lunar September 9th, namelyThe double ninth festivalOn the day.Each harvest to a variety of shapes and orange pumpkin with floor, one by one.Young people, the most satisfying position to each competition "pumpkin king".Not only depends on appearance, but to see seed through surface.Until all basic agree, by a strong person with a machete "pumpkin king", the master took out a gourd ladle, leave the plump seeds for next year's seeds.Then cut the melon into pieces, into the millet soup pot.Simmering stew, cook for mature, filled a bowl for the first before the incense hall "pumpkin king", and then they share meals.

The double ninth festival

Many of China's national the double ninth festival as advocates, have to respect the traditions.Maonan also is same, just different fashion.For over 60 and frail old man, monao ethnic group had people generally during the double ninth festival on the grain filling longevity ".Children with a table on this day in the home, please visit their relatives and friends, visitors want to take a few jins of refined grains good meters, or fresh fruit."Hundred meters from relatives and friends" to separate storage.Later when cooking for the old man to grasp some mixed into their meters."Hundred meters" finished, the old man without rehabilitation, still have to continue to make grain filling life "on the nativity ceremony.This custom is actually out of a love for the old man, very accord with people's moral and traditional ideas, support and appreciated by the local government.

Maonan festival, there are two obvious characteristics: first, must worship our ancestors;The second is singing song activities more.Ancestor worship festival, general multi-purpose pigs, chicken, duck, beef and wine, and sticky rice as offerings.Maonan at the feast, hold wedding, like do tofu circle, practice is to put the pork or beef, dried shrimp, peanuts, garlic and parsley, pepper mix chopped, add salt and stir into paste, bean curd with mash of water bag filling in my hands repeatedly rolling into a cone, or a bowl and then into the pan fry until done.Eat when put in the pot boiled soup, fresh fragrant delicious taste, is not only the necessary food entertain guest, as a gift gift to each other.In the festival, maonan like with boiled water rinse beef reception guests, namely according to the local habits, on the fireplace placing buy a wok, eat when everyone gathered around the wok, add meat, lettuce into the boiling water rinse cooked, then mix ingredients wine, this is the most common form of banquets maonan folk.Maonan folk festival is the biggest annual dragon quarter after the summer solstice.Excessive dragon festival, every family should be steamed steamed pork with rice flour and five-colored sticky rice, some roast pig.Back in the willow branches in class, the pinch five-colored sticky rice into small round and round, and stick on the switch, to indicate that fruitful, desire for good harvest.Maonan also a Dragon Boat Festival, but the meaning of the festival is different from the han nationality, folk known as "day".Any medicine section, habits mining moxa leaf, calamus, turmeric, shit cane and other herbs boil drinking water turbidity, or use these herbs minced filling package ZongBa antidote to the disease.Maonan adult males are all welldrinkingThe wine, and is not enough to respect the guest.Some people still use made from sorghum, corn.But in the majority with market selling bottled liquor.

Maonan eating habits

Maonan three square meals a solar eclipse, all in various rice is the staple food of rice and corn, sorghum, millet, sweet potato, pumpkin is complementary.Such as monao ethnic group had the meal, waxy maize powder add bamboo shoots and other vegetables and seasoning mix is made after cooked.Maonan is staple food in summer.Maonan also longer than made of corn or rice bee larvae "m" as auxiliary staple food, is to get stiflingly.All like to eat sweet sweet potatoes, and as one of the auxiliary staple food after autumn.

Maonan love salted meat, acid acid spiral lions, sauerkraut, is a traditional hospitality delicacies.Maonan people bother hospitable,Have a meal, guests are invited to elders around him, and to use his best meal served.

Maonan region of vegetables is more, four continuously, are peas, cabbages from ma vegetables, pumpkin, sweet potato leaf, pod, banana taro, green vegetables and carrots, pumpkin is qiu dong often eat vegetables, can be sliced cooked porridge, also can steam alone.

Meat is the poultry, livestock, main sources there are pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, etc.Like eating dog meat, hungry ghost festival in some places have killed the acquisition of dog meat.Maonan is general dishes like eating half a lifetime half ripe, think some meat and vegetables, especially chicken, will have boiled stale.But it is advisable to know the duck in cooking, cooking on the "raw duck cooked chicken".

Maonan adult man is good to drink, and have the wine to toast to the guest.Some people still use made from sorghum, corn.But in the majority with market selling bottled liquor.

Maonan mostly like to drink tea, summer often in strong tea has soared.Often take along walk "wild pomegranate" or green peppers, to quench thirst.

Typical food: bright roentgen cut white pig is the famous maonan, seasoning with local pig steamed.In addition to: sweet sweet potatoes;Spiral lions acid, garlic acid water, duck blood sauce, bean curd meat dish.

Maonan religious beliefs

Maonan faith god more than teach more.Before Ming dynasty is given priority to with primitive religion.Qing dynasty, was introduced into maonan district school of Taoism, started several religious popular at the same time.With maonan, Taoism culture, especially the confluence of primitive religious, cultural, and other folk beliefs, occupy the main position, form to worship god TiaoShen (let) of the so-called "wu", mainly playing zhai intra-family so-called "education", and is composed of two class people cooperation amphibious dojo.In charge of make person who worshipped god, monao ethnic group had known as "set", namely, Confucius;In charge of intra-family hurrying called "Sir", the Taoist.Deals with spirits for god, for a third of the wizard, called sunset "potter", the other is Mr Tong, Mr Feng shui, guiguzi down god (and divination, etc.).The first three, they each have a set of books, such as, Confucius has just wait recite words (wu);Taoist has the song open circuit, "elegy" and the buddhist scriptures;The wizards have wu language set.Gong to form more recite words, words have three, four, five, six, seven words, very few ranging form.Monks have five sentences and sentences of sentences, sentence is different length of the scriptures.These lyrics, scriptures and wu has quite part of verse, pay attention to rules, relationship with have maonan folk ballads, their form, a cover for people like the smell of music listening.Its writing, most of the truth of Chinese characters, part of use under the guise of word.Sprechstimme, Confucius and wizards use dialect, guangxi yizhou DE sheng township combination monao ethnic group had the language and words.Monks in guangxi liuzhou mandarin, lyrics with monao ethnic group had words.Lyrics million words, texts, and wu, not only contains a lot of religious materials, traditional verse and prose works, but also save a lot of folk customs, history and language material, cultural connotation is very rich.

Established in 1941, Christianity began in some rural churches or missionary, up to now has more than 200 christians, not very normal activities.In addition, there are very few people a month in the lunar calendar month, on the fifteenth day burn incense and worship guanyin bodhisattva.