Miao people's dietary customs have their own characteristics. The Miao people in Qiandongnan, Xiangxi and Rongshui of Hainan Island take rice as their staple food, as well as corn, sweet potato, millet and other miscellaneous grains.

Miao people in northwest Guizhou, south Sichuan and northeast Yunnan live on corn, potatoes, buckwheat and oats. Besides collecting wild vegetables and engaging in fishing and hunting, there are many kinds of non-staple foods, such as livestock, poultry and fish, beans, vegetables and melons.

Hot and sour taste is an indispensable thing in Miao life. In the past, due to the lack of salt in mountainous areas, many Miao people lived on light food all the year round, so they could only use hot and sour seasonings, which became a habit over time.

2. Miao language:

Miao language belongs to the Miao branch of Miao Yao language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. In the early 1950s, the second task force of China Academy of Sciences conducted a field trip.

Through scientific research on similar word formation and different phonetic features of Miao languages in different places, Miao languages are divided into three dialects, namely Xiangxi dialect, Guizhou Oriental dialect, Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan dialect, seven sub-dialects and eighteen dialects.

3. Miao festivals:

Moving Moon 1-1 5th is the Year of the Opera Festival, in which1sub-day is the Year of the Year, Miao people don't go out, and1ugly day is the Year of the Earth. From 1 ugly day to 2- 14, people visit relatives and friends to celebrate the new year.

15 is the last year, and the first ugly day of the partial moon is social day, also known as the dragon head festival. Miao people worship land gods, solitaire and Anlong. May 438+the first day of October (a festival for material exchange and social interaction between men and women).

The first Sunday in February is Ox King's Day, a cherry party for men and women, and the birthday of the Buddha. The first and second days of March are the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival respectively. The Dragon Boat Festival was later called Qu Yuan Festival, also known as Qu Yuan Festival and Singer Festival, to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

The 1 day in April is the Dragon Boat Festival and the New Year Festival. The 1 sub-day in May is the China New Year Festival, the second Yin day in June is the Duck Festival, and the second Chen day is the Autumn Festival.

The 1 th God Day in July is the Wine Festival, and August is the Sacrifice Festival, which mainly carries out activities such as ancestor worship, eating pigs, jumping incense, mourning and Anlong. Hunting Festival In September, when the three gods of Meishan offered sacrifices, hunting began. 10 In the morning and afternoon of June, there are Pig Eating and Bathing Festival, Kitchen God Festival and New Year's Eve.

4. Miao costumes:

Miao costumes are diverse and colorful. There are five streams in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Wuxi, now the junction of Xiangxi and Guizhou, Sichuan and Hubei, is named after five streams.

According to the Miao People's Good Five-color Clothes, Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote the famous poem "Five streams are clothed in sky". There are more than 100 styles of Miao women's wear, which is the best in China. More representative traditional costumes, there are dozens of headdresses only inserted in the bun.

Miao women generally wear narrow sleeves, big collars, double-breasted tops and pleated skirts. This skirt is either knee-length and elegant and colorful, or knee-length and elegant and moving.

Casual clothes are mostly wrapped in handkerchiefs, wearing blouses on the upper body and trousers on the lower body, with embroidery on the edge and embroidery on the waist, and a little delicate silver ornaments as a foil.

Miao men's clothes are relatively simple, mostly double-breasted tops or right-handed robes, with wool felt woven with geometric patterns on their shoulders, blue baotou on their heads and leggings on their calves.

Extended data:

Miao people mainly live in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and other places, with large settlements, small settlements and areas mixed with other ethnic groups.

Use Miao language, which belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family.

Miao Yao language family

Miao language is divided into three dialects: Xiangxi, Qiandong and Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. There are also small branch dialects in big dialects. Miao people in mixed areas can speak Chinese, Dong language and Zhuang language.

In the past, there was no unified script for Miao people. 1956 created or reformed the Latin phonetic characters of four dialects. Most Miao people believe in the primitive religion of animism.

Miao nationality is one of the ancient nationalities with a long history in China. It was called "Miao" in the history books more than 4,000 years ago. Nan Man? There are Miao ancestors in the clan or tribe. In ancient legends, Chiyou, who fought against the Yellow Emperor and Yan Di, was the ancestor worshipped by Miao people.

There are Mu, Meng, Mao, Guo Xiong and others who call themselves Miao. In some places, the prefixes of Miao characters are different according to their residence and costumes, such as long skirt Miao, short skirt Miao, long horn Miao, red Miao and black Miao.

Since the Han Dynasty, Miao people have been living in western Hunan, western Hubei, eastern Sichuan and eastern Guizhou. Because of war, famine, disease, numerous births and abandoned farmland, they have been constantly migrating.

Therefore, Miao people are widely distributed, with great differences in dialects, costumes, headdresses and customs, and unbalanced social and economic development. Miao people mainly grow rice and corn, and also manage cash crops such as tung oil and rape, as well as rare medicinal materials such as Tianqi, Gastrodia elata and Eucommia ulmoides.

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