What are the customs and habits of the Shui people?

The Shui people have a long history of planting rice and have formed many very strong customs related to rice. The calendar of the Shui nationality is based on the weather of rice planting, and the Maojie and Duanjie of the Shui nationality are grand annual festivals formed by rice planting and harvesting. In the past, people thought that at the critical stage of rice production, it was necessary to win the favor of the rice god in order to obtain a bumper harvest. Therefore, from soaking seeds, sowing seeds, planting seedlings to eating new harvest, we often have to act according to Shui Shu and choose good luck.

Before opening the seedlings, I brought two rice seedlings home to offer fish, wine and rice as sacrifices, and invited the dressed young daughter-in-law as the main sacrifice, mumbling to pray for the gods to bless the high yield of rice: "Others' rice was picked with a knife, and mine was cut with an axe. The axe cuts the root pile, and the knife is slightly pointed ... ". Then, after the daughter-in-law took the seedlings to plant a few rows in the field, other women dressed up and prepared to work in the field.

The ceremony of opening the seedling gate is not only a respect for the rice god, but also a use of the witchcraft principle of similarity law to let the young woman's exuberant fertility pass on to rice and pray for greater yield.

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.

2. festivals

There are more than 20 festivals when the Shui people are old, such as Duanjie (borrowing food), Mao Jie (borrowing wool), Frontal Festival (borrowing amount), Suning West (borrowing Ningxi), Xiajing Festival (respecting and worshiping summer), Spring Festival (borrowing recommendation), Tomb-Sweeping Day (hanging green, hanging society), Dragon Boat Festival (borrowing king) and bronze drum.

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

3. Marriage and love

The marriage of the Shui nationality follows the traditional customs, and abides by the principle of not marrying in the same family and marrying in a different surname. "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.

The Shui nationality practiced monogamy very early, and concubinage was rare in feudal times. In ancient times, the scope of marriage agreement of the Shui nationality was very serious, which led to various legends such as "planting Chinese fir upside down", "planting maple upside down" and "breaking the surname and getting married".

4. Funeral

The main characteristics of the funeral customs of 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.

The heavy burial of the Shui nationality is not reflected in the preciousness and quantity of the funerary objects, but in the construction of sarcophagus tombs and large tombstones. This phenomenon far exceeds that of neighboring ethnic groups.

Extended data

There have been two great migrations in the history of Shui nationality. After the subjugation of the Shang Dynasty, some Yin people moved south and merged into Baiyue ethnic group. This is the first migration of the ancestors of the Shui nationality. In the 2nd century BC, after the Qin Dynasty unified China, it sent troops to conquer Lingnan. The second great migration of the ancestors of Shui people separated from Baiyue's mother, went upstream from the south and lived in the upper reaches of Longjiang and Duliujiang, which roughly formed the distribution pattern of later generations and gradually moved towards a single nation.

The ancestors of Shui people experienced a relatively stable development in 8900, and gradually developed into a single nation in the Tang Dynasty. The name of the aquarium is "water" instead of "Sui", which is related to the rich water county established in the Tang Dynasty. During the Kaiyuan period (7 13-74 1), the water country of Jimifu was established in the Tang Dynasty along the border of Guizhou and Guangxi, with the main purpose of appeasing the ancestors of the Shui people.

According to the biography of Tang Zhi Nan Man, "In the third year of Zhenguan, Xie Yuan, the leader of Dong Xie Man, went deep into North Korea ... taking his land as Yingzhou, worshiping Yuan Wei as a deep secretariat and leading the Guizhou Governor's Office." "In the third year of Zhenguan, Xie Yuan, the leader of ASEAN, set up Duchang, Gaolan, Yingjiang, Tuolong and Luogong counties."

"During the Kaiyuan period, I set up detention conditions such as squatting, toiling and caressing water." According to research, Yingzhou and its subordinate Duchang County are under the jurisdiction of Shangjiang Town, Sandu County. Polan County is located in Hengfeng Township, Sandu County, later called Shuipo; Yingjiang County is Pingyang Township, Rongjiang County; Tuolong County is Taijiang; Luogong County is Leishan County. The rich water mansion in the north of Yizhou is located in the riverside area in the north of Guangxi today.

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