1. The aquarium takes rice as its staple food, likes to eat hot and sour spices, and has the custom of "no food, no acid, no spicy food".

2. Wine is the most important treat. When the host made a toast, he took the lead in shouting "Xiu" (that is, cheers). Everyone shouted "Xiu" in unison and drank all the wine.

Faith:

The belief culture of Shui people belongs to the category of primitive religious belief. Shui people believe in animism and worship many gods. Nature worship, ancestor worship and deity worship constitute the core of Shui people's belief.

Architecture:

Most Shui villages are inhabited by the same blood clan. When building a house, it is usually necessary to act according to the date of birth of the owner. Most of the traditional architectural structures of the Shui people belong to the legacy of the ancient Yue people's tenon "dry fence" architecture, which evolved from "living in a nest with trees".

Language: Shui people have their own language and traditional characters.

Custom:

1.？ Agricultural production in the Shui nationality area takes small families as the unit, and the main production tools are: plow, rake, nail rake, rake, seedling rake, ladder plow (ladder plow), rake, hoe, shovel, hand hoe, axe, firewood knife, sickle, saw sickle, pickaxe knife and grain.

2. Aquariums worship fish, which is a totem worship in most aquarium areas. Fish culture in ponds and paddy fields is an important skill and feature in the Shui nationality area. People use the skills of laying eggs by field fish and dividing eggs by grass balls to master the methods of flooding and wildlife endangering fisheries, so that both fish and rice can be harvested. Therefore, rice soup fish has become a traditional custom of the aquarium.

3.？ There are many festivals of the Shui nationality. At the age of one, there are more than 20 festivals, such as Duanjie (borrowing the end to eat the end), Jieji (borrowing the amount), Suning West (borrowing Ningxi), Jiejie (honoring the summer), Spring Festival (borrowing the recommendation), Tomb-Sweeping Day (hanging the green, hanging the club) and Dragon Boat Festival (borrowing the king).

Yellow Rice Festival, Pepper Festival, White Dragon Festival in February, Dragon Boat Festival in March, Land Sacrifice in June, Mountain God Sacrifice in June, Sending Bodhisattva in July, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Booking in October, Temple Fair (Bodhisattva Worship, Brother Worship, Good Worship), Xun Yu (Yunniang).

4. Marriage and love, the marriage of the Shui people follows the traditional customs, and abides by the principle that the same clan does not marry, and different clans have different surnames. "Parents' orders and matchmakers' words" are still the mainstream of young men and women's marriage in Shui nationality areas. Pay attention to the right door, pay attention to the right door. Even in contemporary times, it is a common phenomenon that love is not free and marriage is difficult to be completely independent.

5.？ Funeral, the main characteristics of the funeral customs of the Shui nationality are: numerous taboos, thick burial, long sacrifice and long sacrifice. The funeral of Shui nationality embodies the cultural connotation of ancestor worship, deity worship and nature worship. At the same time, funeral has also become an important activity for Shui people to inherit filial piety and ancestor worship etiquette, adjust interpersonal relationships, enhance blood clan cohesion and exchange social knowledge.

Extended data:

Shui nationality has its own language and traditional Chinese characters, and the language of Shui nationality belongs to the branch of Dong Shui language (Dong Tai language) of Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. The ancient writing system of Shui nationality retains the compatibility of pictures, hieroglyphs and abstract characters.

Shui people call themselves "Sui (suǐ)". There are several theories about the origin of Shui people, such as the descendants of Yin people, the origin of Baiyue (Guangdong and Guangxi), the migration of Jiangxi, and the migration of Jiangnan. Shuishu is the heritage of Xia and Shang culture and the spiritual pillar of the Shui people. Fish is the totem of the aquarium, and rice soup fish is an important social custom of the aquarium.

Aquarium owners live in the upper reaches of Longjiang River and Duliujiang River at the junction of Guizhou and Guangxi, with Sandu County, Libo, Dushan and Duyun in the south of Guizhou as the main residential areas, Rongjiang, Danzhai, Leishan, Congjiang and Liping in the southeast as the main scattered areas, and there are also aquarium villages in Hechi, Nandan, Huanjiang, Rongshui in the north of Guangxi and Fuyuan County in Yunnan Province.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-aquarium