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Folk customs in Daning Town

The Yao people’s “Panwang Festival”, “Valentine’s Day”, “Oleifera Tea” and “Long Drum Dance”; the Zhuang people’s “March 3rd”, “Temple Fair”, “Cannon Festival” and “Fire Dance” "Cat"; the Miao people's "Lusheng Tatang Dance" and other simple and strange folk customs are intoxicating. Tuyao is a branch of the large Yao family in China. There are currently more than 7,000 people living in Etang and Shatian towns in Babu District, Hezhou City, Guangxi. Tuyao lives in the jungle in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by beautiful mountains and clear waters. Tuyao has a small population, but its unique customs attract many domestic and foreign tourists for sightseeing. Tu Yao men are mainly dressed in blue,

Tu Yao girls

are matched with white, with a white towel wrapped around their heads, and long shorts; Tu Yao female compatriots wear long cheongsam. , wearing a round wooden hat made of tung tree slices, with red, yellow, green and blue wool as a buckle, which is particularly eye-catching. In addition, during festivals, Tuyao girls also wear skirts made of red, yellow, green, blue and cyan wool, and net bags made of different colors of wool on their backs, giving them a unique charm... Tuyao customs are unique and charming. Every Spring Festival, Tuyao compatriots gather together to pound and make glutinous rice cakes, perform cheerful glutinous rice cake dances and sing glutinous rice cakes songs, and the scene is very lively. Every spring and autumn, Tuyao compatriots have the traditional habit of building mountain roads. Every day when road construction comes, the men, women, and children in Tuyao Village dress up in new clothes as if they were celebrating the New Year. They carry road construction tools on their shoulders and gather on the hillside to dig and build roads. During the break, men, women and children of all ages blow the leaves and sing love songs. Young men and women use this opportunity to find their sweethearts, exchange tokens, and sing to express their feelings.

Tuyao compatriots are warm and hospitable. Usually, whenever a friend comes from afar, all the men, women and children in the village will gather together and set up a long table with wine to toast the guests. The Tuyao long wine table can seat one to two hundred people, or as few as two to thirty people. During the banquet, men, women, and children in the village sang songs to encourage the guests to eat. Generally, drinking at a long table takes three to five hours. It was already late at night after drinking at the long table, and the Tuyao compatriots gathered the guests to sing and dance around the fire hall until early the next morning. Hezhou City Qingshui Water chestnuts are famous at home and abroad for their large size, thin skin, tender meat, sweet and crisp taste, and no residue. Canned Qingshui Water chestnuts are natural green food, pollution-free, and can be used as fruits or dishes.

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