I am Manchu, and our living customs are as follows; Chinese New Year's Day is 30 minutes. You should eat eight bowls at noon and jiaozi at night. Invite God on the first day of the New Year's Day and send him on the third day. Don't eat dog meat. Dogs are our Manchu friends. When there are guests at home, women and children can't eat with them (just can't serve food). Manchu customs in the long historical development process, Manchu has formed its own unique folk customs. Since the Qing Dynasty, with the integration of Manchu and Chinese cultures, Manchu customs and habits have been constantly evolving, but many traditional national characteristics have been retained, which are reflected in clothing, diet, residence and so on. Skirt. Manchu costumes directly inherited the custom of Jurchen, and their robes, tops, vests and shoes all had unique national characteristics. Men's cheongsam is a narrow-sleeved round neck, twisted to the right, with slits on all sides, buttons and belts, commonly known as "arrow clothes", which are mostly worn by officials and soldiers. Unopened robes are casual clothes, and most of them are worn by civilians. Women's cheongsam, with lace on the neckline, skirt and cuffs, is generous and decent, which can fully show the curvaceous beauty of women, and is now loved by women of all ethnic groups in China. Due to different seasons, robes are made of leather, cotton, single, sandwiched and gauze. A coat worn outside a robe, waist-length, elbow-length sleeves and wide cuffs, is commonly known as a jacket. Wearing robes inside and gowns outside is the main costume of Manchu in Qing Dynasty. Vest, also known as vest, is different from corset, corset and lute corset. Commonly known as "Batulu vest", it is now deeply loved by people of all ethnic groups. The most distinctive shoe of Manchu is cymbals, which are made of animal skin, pigskin and cowhide, with a flat front and a round back and a square mouth. In the old society, there were many Manchu people in eastern Inner Mongolia. Manchu women never bind their feet, and their shoes include boots, flat shoes and "flowerpot bottom" shoes. The so-called flowerpot shoe is a horseshoe-shaped wooden sole with a flat front and a round back and a height of three to four inches. The vamp is embroidered with colorful embroidery and inlaid with various jewels. In the old days, it was very popular among women in Suiyuan City and ten Manchu townships. Crown hat is divided into high-top hat and cap. Top hats are worn by people with status, including warm hats in winter and cool hats in summer. Civilians often wear "melon skin hats" sealed with six petals of cloth, and farmers in Zhuangtian wear felt hats. Diet. Since the Qing Dynasty, with the improvement of economic life, the types and production methods of Manchu diet have been enriched. Manchu people in Inner Mongolia take white flour, millet, millet, corn, sorghum, oat flour and buckwheat as their staple foods. The staple food is characterized by liking pasta, sticky food, sweet and sour, and a wide variety. Manchu people in the western regions, represented by Suiyuan City, like to eat noodles, flower rolls, white flour cakes, yellow wheat pancakes, sour cakes, millet noodles, Saqima, oat noodles, buckwheat noodles and millet porridge. Manchu people in the eastern region, represented by ten Manchu townships, like to eat bean flour cakes, pineapple leaf cakes, perilla leaf cakes, sticky rice cakes (sticky bean buns), sticky rice cakes, baked spring cakes, Ajige cakes (frozen jiaozi), corn flour cakes and sorghum rice. Manchu Tun Manchu has been engaged in nomadic industry since the Qing Dynasty, so meat is the staple food, supplemented by rice, flour and dairy products, and its most ethnic diet is "small meat porridge". The method is: Dice pork or mutton, stir-fry in a pot until it changes color, then add Tonga seasoning, and then put the washed millet or sorghum rice in a pot and cook it with slow fire. On the day of worshipping Buddha and ancestors, you must eat small meat porridge with friends and relatives. Manchu cuisine is mainly meat, and dog meat is not allowed. There are many cooking methods of dishes, mainly including boiling, stewing, boiling, roasting and frying. In the eastern region, Manchu people like to eat pork vermicelli stew cauldron, white meat and blood sausage, hot pot (including white meat hot pot, assorted hot pot and fish-based chrysanthemum hot pot, etc. ), pigskin jelly, all kinds of game, stewed sauerkraut, lettuce (onion, cucumber, cabbage, radish, etc. ) dipping sauce, etc. Manchu people in the western regions like to eat braised dishes, bean sprouts, mutton and eggplant, assorted cold dishes, bean jelly, stewed mutton with potatoes, fried noodles with mutton and sauerkraut, instant-boiled mutton and all kinds of stir-fried dishes. I like to eat Shao Shao, soybean milk, mutton offal and so on for breakfast. Live. Since the Qing Dynasty, the houses with the most national characteristics of Manchu have been mud-walled straw houses. Folk call Manchu folk houses "pocket houses, swastikas and chimneys standing on the ground", which vividly summarizes the characteristics of Manchu folk houses. Manchu people in eastern Inner Mongolia still live like this, especially Manchu villages. Its shape is as follows: the walls are mostly rammed earth or adobe, with wooden columns in the middle, and the walls are leveled with grass mud; Most roofs are ridged and saddle-shaped. First, lay a board on the rafters, then lay grass on the roof, about two feet thick, and then fix the grass with criss-crossing ropes. In order to prevent the strong wind from blowing the grass away, put a wooden frame around the roof to press the grass. The average family has three to five bedrooms, facing south. Most of the bedrooms are located on the south side of the easternmost room, and most of the five bedrooms are located on the second room in the east, which looks like a pocket, so it is commonly called "pocket room". Others open the door in the middle of three or five rooms, commonly known as the "opposite room". The one that opens the door is called the outhouse, because there is a stove, it is also called the kitchen; The left and right rooms are called the back room and bedroom. There is a fire kang in the north and south of the back room, and a narrow kang connects the north and south kang under the gable in the west. Therefore, the south, west and north of the house are in the shape of "Kuang", commonly known as "Wan Zi Kang". There is a board box for ancestor worship in the western wall, which contains genealogy, images and sacrificial vessels. Outside the living room, there are chimneys on the east and west sides that communicate with the kang, which is called "Hulan" in Manchu. Chimneys are two to three feet above the eaves, mostly hollow logs, covered with yellow mud inside and outside, and some are piled with adobe. The doors and windows of the house are very distinctive. The upper part of the wooden door is a small wooden lattice similar to the window lattice, and the lower part is equipped with wooden boards. The door is pivoted on the left side, and is sleeved in the tenon groove of the wood structure from top to bottom to open the door outwards. The window is divided into two parts, the upper part can be opened into the house, and the window lattice has horizontal lattice, vertical lattice, square lattice, diamond lattice and so on. The lower sash is a vertical two-grid, three-grid or glass window, which is installed at the mortise and tenon of the window frame and does not open at ordinary times. Sticking hemp paper on the outside of doors and windows is one of the three eccentrics in Northeast China. There are fences around the yard, commonly known as "barriers". There is a gate in front of the fenced yard, which is opened and closed by a crossbar. On the east and west sides of the yard, there are barns and barns. Manchu bedrooms in western Inner Mongolia are represented by Suiyuan City. In the old days, Suiyuan city headquarters was the center, with yellow flags in the north, blue flags in the south, red flags in the west and white flags in the east. There are 28 streets and 26 alleys in this city. On every two east-west streets, there are two rows of houses of the Eight Banners Military Attaché. The front courtyard door faces south and the back courtyard door faces north. Each row of houses is connected. Ice cream house covers an area of 0.33 mu and has two houses. The bedroom is located at the northern end of the courtyard, with brick structure and saddle roof. Living in a slightly larger outhouse, it also doubles as a kitchen; The back room is small, with a south kang, and some people buy a north kang because of the population. The house has an east wing or a west wing (the gable of the wing is also a shadow wall). Outside a gable in the living room is an arrow path, where flag soldiers usually practice arrows and martial arts. The window lattice is Kanto style, which can be divided into square, vertical, horizontal and rhombic lattice. In the southeast corner of the courtyard stands a Soren pole, which is used to worship the gods. Flowers, fruits and trees are planted in the open space of the house. In summer, the eyes are full of shade, flowers are red and green, bees are flying and the fragrance is overflowing, just like a small garden.