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Gelao Nationality

   

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Gelao, distributes in west Guizhou Province.

The senior generation is respected in Gelao ethnic minority nationality. A banquet of cooked dog is held when he is sixth years old by his children and good relation and friend, which is to present their love feeling to the senior. If an old man is ill, he will be taken good care, and when he comes back, a kind of dance will be performed to celebrate for the old.

There are lots of taboo, such as do not stand or sit at the gate, especially for a woman. When a man is talking to another man, a woman is not allowed to pass through from them. A family can not be visited when a child is born or someone is dead.

Marriage and Burial
The young are free in love. In some area, a boy may make a chopsticks bridge, which is for matchmaker, and he goes to a girl's family to ask for marriage. A hand spun is a piece of tie for a marriage, the bridegroom will lead his bride.

The burial is the same as the Hans, only in Zunyi, Renhuai and other areas, a ceremony of tramping dance will be held before bury the dead. Three of dancers make a group, one of them play a reed-pipe wind instrument, another play a pole of money pole, and the other dance with a knife. In most of areas, before burying the dead, they will sing pious songs. When a relation visits, he will be thanked by a wine. A tree will be planted beside a tomb.

The cultural arts are colorful. the rhyme is also in style of three words, five words or seven words in a sentence, the tone of which is sonorous and forceful. Their music and dance are simple. Tramping dance and reed-pipe wind instrument dance is popular in Zunyi and Renhuai areas. 'Flower dragon' is a kind of little ball, which is weaved by thin bamboo strip, it is packed with sandstones or other things to make sound. When play the game, no matter men or women, young or old, will get together. Two of them make a group to compete and entertain.

The festival of Gelaos' is most the same as the Hans'. A special different is they make a big cooked glutinous cake to worship ancestors, which could not be touched in three days. In Anshun, Puding, Zhening area, the Gelao people will kill fowl to present to the earth on June Sixth. On October 1, the cattle gods are worshiped, and in some area, the cattle is to have a day to make a rest.

On every Chinese traditional June 2, it is the festival of eating bugs. On this day, the married women will go back to their bloody parents' family. The banquet is full of with cooked locust, pupa, and so on. The members of a whole family sitting around to eat.


They worship multi-gods and their ancestors.



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