1. Dietary folklore - Manchu biscuits. The Manchu people like to eat sticky food, because sticky food hunger, easy to go out shooting activities. One of the most characteristic is the production of exquisite, unique flavor of a variety of snacks, collectively referred to as "Manchu meat and potatoes", so there has been a "Manchu point Han dishes" said. Manchu meat and potatoes have a long history, which is most representative of the "chestnut noodles nest head", also known as small nest head.

Manchu before entering the customs there is a feast called "meat and potatoes seat", using 80 pounds of flour per table, the scale of the visible. Use of flour for sticky noodles, that is, with glutinous rice or yellow rice, small yellow rice-based, mixed with the right amount of other rice ballast, and then with bean paste, nuts, sugar for filling. The main varieties are sachima, mung bean cake, Su Ye cake, pea butter, cow tongue cake, cake, fried cake, sticky bean buns and so on. Every winter, Manchu families generally have to do a few pots of sticky bean buns, frozen up to eat as you go. Now Shenyang winter market can still often be heard on the call of the sticky bean buns.

Dishes. Manchu people especially like to eat pork, sauerkraut, and many cooking methods. The more characteristic dishes are eating meat canon, white meat and sauerkraut blood sausage, hot pot, sour soup son.

2. Hair and clothing:

(1) Hair. Manchu people's hair inherited the Jin Dynasty female Zhenren customs, men's hair is half shaved half stay, that is, before shaving after staying, leaving the hair braided hair hanging behind the head. Braid can be knotted with a variety of decorations, from the decorations on the basic judgment of the status of the status of the high and low and the status of inferiority and superiority. Legend has it that this hair style is related to the production method of the female genitals, mainly to avoid the front hair blocking the line of sight, affecting the hunting and shooting of wild animals. In the sixties and seventies, the Han rural boys, in order to be well fed, there is still the custom of leaving pigtails at the back of the head, which can not be said to be influenced by Manchu customs.

Manchu women love their hair very much, and pay close attention to the hair style.

(2) dress. Manchu dress is the most significant influence on China's modern dress of ethnic minorities dress, cheongsam, kangsam, waistcoat and so on still with its unique charm, become the people of all nationalities favorite dress.