The jingCustoms and habitsJing holiday information and clothing characteristics

Jing, is one of the smallest population of ethnic minorities in southern China, is also China's only a coastal fishery ethnic minorities, is China's only national ocean at the same time, is part of the Chinese nation.Jing's history has been called "annan", "YueZu", who "jing".In May 1958, approved by China's state council, officially named as "jing".In Vietnam, jing nationality, 54 people in Vietnam, jing nearly 90% of Vietnamese population.

The origin of the jing

In the early 1950 s, jing once known as the "YueZu".Wu head, heart, tail Wan mishima had respectively established YueZu ZiZhi Township.On May 1, 1958 to build large county (December 25, 1978, changed its name to fangcheng county, this and renamed shen, and upgraded to city-level), according to the characteristics of history, language, culture, living custom and the national will, approved by the state council, officially named as "jing".

In 1951 the central delegation contact group was deeply jing area survey, and write the witch head, Wan tail, fangcheng area of mountains of survey of heart of Vietnam, he wrote: "inclined according to legend, the Vietnamese (i.e., jing -) originally lived in Vietnam peach mountain (namely TuShan - led) to do the sea for a living, probably more than 10 generations ago, liu, ruan two name is fishing in the sea, driven by a group ofThe big fishTo the island, at that time no one to live on the island, grass trees, tiger beast, many more people see this person less, sea fishing do easy, namely live down.Followed by two surname liu, ruan back to peach mountain invited to li, li is to do with the sea, then sons multiply, have so many people."1953 central ethnic affairs and guangxi ethnic affairs and social history of jing joint investigation, more detailed account of the material: in mount wu head, heart, Wan mishima, jing a total of 25 surname, all surnamed people accepted liu, ruan, two family name comes first.In 1958, the guangdong minority society history investigation survey materials (fangcheng as guangdong) also said: fangcheng in jing, a total of 30 surname, the largest surnamed lu, accounted for 20%, nguyen, yellow,, su wu, wu five times, accounted for 41%, is the earliest, nguyen surname liu has 16-17, to the latest pei, once, butyl three surname only 2 to 3 generations, generally about nine generations.From Vietnam TuShan, qing jing in the name of flowers, the appropriate Ann, feng, red creek, mans street, Wan Zhu, Angle of white moved to.

Jing national holiday

Ha festival

Jing in addition and the han nationality of the sameThe Spring Festival、The Dragon Boat Festival、The Mid-Autumn festivalOutside, the most popular and ceremonious festival is "ha festival".

Ha festival, also called "festival", the meaning of the so-called "sing," the singing, song festival is a traditional jing, night, singing and dancing.Jing lunar June 10th (drain tail, wu head island), or August 10th heart island (mountain), the first 25 (red camp township), the most local jing to grand "ha festival", "sister" take turns to sing by the singer.Sing ha activity will continuously for three days and three nights, while drinking, listening to sing.Sing than in the pavilion, the pavilion is a unique national style of buildings.

7800 years ago, it is said, there is a fairy singer came to jing area with beautiful deep meaning of the song to revolt against feudal the rich man, is popular among the jing people.In order to commemorate the fairy singer, people set up booth.During the festival, the whole village together, singing and dancing all night, and held in the pavilion to meet god and ancestor worship, duration, wrestling and other activities."Ha festival" in the past, held each year around the date.Every festival, Beijing home all ages, men and women dressed in ceremonial dress, to the pavilion to ahab before meet god and worship, praying to protect fisheries harvest, people and flourish.Sing, activity process, roughly divided into against god, to god, sitting singing ha, god send four parts.Holiday the day before, in Beijing's house first "zhenhai king" the gods in the pavilion, such as festival starts at about 3 o 'clock in the afternoon to god, the god, namely sitting catering, singing.This is singing festival of the main activities of the project, the program has a love song, lantern dance, dance, sing jay, this is the climax of singing festival, people likes singing and dancing for many days.Sing, to the end of our god, to god, sing the end of the day.

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, every family to do the "sweet potato (b)" (a cake made of glutinous rice flour bag Lizzie), early breakfast don't eat meatdrinking, only eat sugar porridge, ZongBa and sweet potato b (m).The entire village to the pavilion during the Spring Festival for pigs, chicken, fish offerings worship the gods, came home to worship ancestors., punctuality, must before the ancestors, on the sweet potato can fall asleep.

Jing national diet

Jing mainly live in known as "jing three island," said the China's guangxi zhuang autonomous region, the dirt tail, wu heart three head, mountain island.Jing used to be called YueZu, 1958 officially changed its name to jing.Jing is mainly engaged in coastal fisheries.Jing three island and the development of agriculture, fish processing and artificial pearl farm.

Jing is mainly engaged in Marine fishery, at the same time, influenced by national historical and cultural traditions, performance is from the rice is the staple food in the diet custom, sweet potato, taro is omnivorous, like eating fish, shrimp, crab, fish sauce and glutinous rice products.Women love to chew betel nut.

Jing people generally like to eat sugar food, especially like sugar glutinous rice porridge to entertain the guests.No matter where a guest, the host always take as a lover and a VIP guest and beaming.At dinner, to give a guest with a sweet drink, fragrant glutinous rice porridge sugar;Or mung bean syrup, sugar, soup bean or sweet potato sugar, soup, and so on.

Why Beijing family like sugar so much food, and especially like to glutinous rice porridge or other desserts sugar to entertain the guests?

"Sugar is sweet," Beijing family to metaphor the yearning for happiness and hopes.Jing there is an old proverb: "home product describe as guests.Can see from this, Beijing family on the tradition of the value of friendship and love.And glutinous rice porridge sugar sweet honey, is time embodies "often in friendship, such as rubber such as paint" the good wishes and pious nation mentality!

Beijing family thinks, often come home have guest, a privilege is a very happy life.Because of this, so must to oneself's favorite "sweet" devotion to honor the guests.In the "sweet" and "happiness", embodies the "good" custom case, almost everywhere in the social life.

For example, in the custom of the marriage ceremony, the woman to send with the male direction, including "sugar" and "rice".So in the festival custom, such as the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for breakfast, every household to eat glutinous rice sugar porridge;August 15 Mid-Autumn festival is that the "reunion" first eat glutinous rice porridge sugar;Ha festival offering god first will have sugar sticky rice.In addition, in the folk songs in "sweet" to contain is "good" phenomenon is also common.

Specialty food

Catfish juice

Communities depend, near the sea eat sea, jing people's favorite, most will eat fish and shrimp, of course.Jing accommodation facilities to a kind of small fish marinated sauce at ordinary times, called "catfish juice", is one of the unique product jing area.

Catfish juice generally called fish sauce, in the market is to use a kind of small fish marinated sauce, 3 to 6 months each year, fishermen house of catfish pickle juice: in a large and clean tile bottom mat straw and sandbags in cylinder when the filter layer, filter layer of tank bottom feet cut a small hole, install the plug and tube leakage.Will be cleaned, small fish and spread a layer of a layer of salt in the cylinder.

After the cylinder filled with, pressure on the heavy stone, affix a seal.A week later, open the tube leakage, catfish juice out continuously, the color such as orange juice, fragrance 4 excessive, hanging appetite.Stay to the leaking pipe has flow out catfish juice, "head drip juice" to do.And then to add cool salt water in cylinder, day pick up "two juice leakage";The final filter "three juice leakage.

In terms of its quality, each time almost.Thus head leak the juice export southeast Asia, the second leakage the juice in the domestic market sales, three juice leakage often home to eat.Even three juice leakage, will make people good taste, aftertaste fluid.Proverb says: "thousands of juice, juice, as Beijing's catfish juice".When making soup add some catfish juice, soup is feel delicious;Meat dip to catfish juice, the entry soon faint scent.

"The wind" (m b) is the food made of rice, when the snack.With hot water after soaking rice into batter, scoop into the aluminum tray 40 cm in diameter, a plate of floating in boiling water pot steamed into a thin membrane powder, sprinkle with sesame seeds, in large breeds contempt screen with charcoal fire drying.Because of its light and thin, seemed to windward, therefore calls "the wind blows (b)".

Its crispy taste delicious, sailing boat or to entertain at home, is very convenient.If the powder of steamed film cut into filaments, drying, "bean".The winter powder, the screw shell meat, crab meat, dry sand worm, shrimp and other seafood mix in one-pot, is "(m b) silk seafood soup", as long as a sample, will be unforgettable.

Jing's marriage customs

The past is parents arranged marriage.Most free love, by looking for an object.To the song, if the man fall in love with a girl, can slowly near the woman, and toe will be pulled to the girl, such as the woman is interested in the heart, will still kicking the sand back to each other.By means of this kind of play sand or to throw the leaves each other activities, to develop a relationship, then please "LanMei (go-between) pass love song," the two sides also exchanged a color clogs, if just about matching, is considered a day to generate pairs, can be properlyTo get marriedDE patinagem DE about (referred to as "the"), then the man brought gifts, please some singers to the woman by the endeavoured.When the wedding, the woman closed the door, in the road in front of and the woods have three injured hanging lamp rongping door.Song, is a must to pass three doors, until the woman singer satisfaction through checkpoints.After dinner, go to the man's house, meeting the bride, song,, the night, happy joyful songs accompanied to a couple of days.

Jing engaged young men and women, the man want to use a certain number of pork, cakes, etc. As a gift to the woman, poor home to also want to send a small amount of sugar, glutinous rice, tea, cakes as a wedding.When they get married, the man will be one hundred jins of pork, two hundred wine (each equal to 200 grams), seven meters and other gifts, to the woman.

Three days later, the bride "return", the couple will own dyed red sticky rice two tray (about 6 kg), two pieces of pork, chicken, two visits to thank her parents, and the wedding is over.

Jing marriage system

People in marriage.Jing monogamous.Jing most of traditional marriage is internal marriage in this nation, and adjacent to the han, zhuang ethnic intermarriage is very few.

Sharing is not married.In the traditional customs of jing, general sharing is not marriage, it is forbidden to cross-cousin marriage, if any violation, will be punished by the ZuGui.

Parents arranged marriage.Jing the marriage of young men and women, are mostly arranged by their parents, the so-called "the lives of their parents, their arranged".Some families in order to meet the demands of labor, the door to door or recruit, or buy a child bride (" consummation ") when I grow up.

The matchmaker! Oad.

Jing religious beliefs

Jing ancestor worship, worship god more, especially related to sea god particularly admired.Jing in the past, believe in Buddhism, Taoism, more commonly a few Catholic.Jing men every time out to sea, the old man, women, children will see off to the beach, and held some activities.