Most of the festivals of the Zhuang people are the same as those of the local Han people. Traditional Han folk festivals such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Spring and Autumn Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, etc. are also annual festivals of the Zhuang people.

The Zhuang people's festivals with their own national characteristics are the "March 3" Song Festival, "Niu Soul Festival", "Hungry Ghost Festival" and so on.

1. "Ox Soul Festival", also known as "Ox King Festival" and "Seedling Opening Festival".

It is usually held on the day after spring plowing. In some areas, it is held on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month because it is said that this day is the birthday of the Ox King.

It is said that the Ox King was originally a god who came down to earth to help people farm under the orders of the Jade Emperor.

People were grateful for his contribution and sacrificed the cow soul on his birthday.

On this day, every household washes their cattle and repairs the cattle pens. They bring a basket of five-color glutinous rice and a bunch of fresh grass to the cattle pens to offer sacrifices to the soul of the cattle, and then put half of Food and fresh grass are distributed to each cattle.

2. Marriage

The Zhuang people have many monogamous families. In the past, it was more popular that "a woman marries a man, and the husband lives with his wife". Later, it transitioned to the dominant patrilineal family, where "the husband lives with his wife".

3. Funeral

The traditional funeral customs of the Zhuang people mainly include two burial methods, namely burial and cremation.

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, burial became the main burial method.

The main burial style of Zhuang people is "secondary burial". Secondary burial is also called bone-picking burial or bone-picking burial. The Zhuang people call it "Jintan burial", "Jinzhong burial", etc.

The burial method is: After the death of a relative, they are buried nearby with a thin coffin to create a "long tomb"; after three to five years of muscle decay, the grave is dug, the coffin is opened, the bones are picked up and put into a pottery " "Golden Altar", and then choose a geomantic treasure place to bury them and build a "round tomb".

The aforementioned cremation of the Zhuang people also uses a "golden altar" to store the ashes and then buries them in a selected place, which is also a secondary burial style.

In modern times, some wealthy people, in order to show their status, have a very grand burial and a very grand cemetery. They no longer have a second burial. This is called a "big burial" among the people.

However, in the minds of the general public, this kind of burial ceremony is not valued or recognized.

Extended information:

Most of the clothing of the Zhuang people is the same as that of the Han people, but in the rural areas of western Guangxi, especially middle-aged and elderly women, they still retain the characteristics of their own national clothing. For example, in northwest Guangxi, middle-aged and elderly Zhuang women mostly wear collarless, left-sided clothes with embroidered piping, trousers with piping and wide feet, embroidered aprons around their waists, pleated skirts and embroidered shoes, and they like to wear silver jewelry; Guangxi Zhuang women in Longzhou and Pingxiang areas in the southwest still wear collarless black tops with left lapels, a square black handkerchief on their head, and black wide-legged trousers.

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