Achang
Bai
Blang
Bonan
Bouyei
Chaoxian(Korean)
Dai
Daur(Tahur)
Deang
Derung
Dong
Dongxiang
Ewenki(Owenk)
Gaoshan
Gelao
Han
Hani
Hezhen
Hui
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Kazak
Kirgiz
Lahu
Lhoba
Lisu
Li
Man
Maonan
Miao
Monba
Mongol
Mulam
Naxi
Nu
Oroqen
Primi
Qiang
Russian
Salar
She
Shui
Tajik
Tatar
Tu
Tujia
Uygur
Uzbek
Va
Xibe
Yao
Yi
Yugur
Zang
Zhuang

The style of a man's costume is like T'ang's. a woman dresses simply and decent. Black and blue are the normal colors in a Shuit. She likes to wrap head with embroidered towel, and has an exquisite apron around waist. The Zhuangs' women like to wear earrings, bracelets and necklace. Little decorative ornaments are always with a Zhuang woman's Shuit.

A storied ganlan is most unique style construction for their houses. The upper floor is for people's living, which is divided into three or five rooms. Before a hall, there is a kitchen for cooking and getting warm. Above this floor, an attic is for foodstuff storing.

Respect the elder and care the children are good traditions. On any occasion, it is taken to be non-breeding and wicked when a person is impolite to an elder; and he will be reproached by anyone. A child cannot be treated badly. When a baby is short of breast milk, any mother in suckling time will provide the baby. A wine will be present before a guest and he should have it, otherwise, it will be taken as liberty and profanity

A lot of taboos are in daily life. No matter what kind of it is, a stranger should not disobey, such as: a guest will not enter a woman's room when she has a three weeks baby; dog's fresh can not be cooked in fireplace; a visiting couple cannot sleep in a same room, and so on.

Paddy, corn , taro and bean are their favorite food. The cooked bean, porridge with meet fragment and rice in bamboo bowl are fragrant and unique. They can cook five-color- rice, ciba and all kinds of glorious rice dumping. On every march 3, every family will cook five-color and five-color-eggs. Mix fresh blood with food is a favorite dish in west Guilin area. They think fresh blood can supply vigor. Unless a distinguished guest, he will not enjoy it.

The festivals of Zhuangs' are almost the same as those of Hans.

Ghost Festival, also named ZhongYuan Festival, is on June 14. every family will braize five color glorious rice and cook chicken to sacrifice ancestors.

Niu Hun Festival (Cattle King Festival) is held the day in spring ploughing. A family bring a box of five colors glorious rice and a band of grass to byre to sacrifice cattle's spirits. Half of the food will feed to cattle. It is said cattle lose spirits when they are working in farm, so people must get the spirits back.

Copper Drum

Copper Drum is with over two thousand years history. The types of the copper drums are much with different size; the biggest one is over 1 meter in diameter, the lightest one reaches several decade kilograms and the heaviest of which reaches thousands kilograms. On both sides, relievo decorates the drum noble and elegant, besides, the body of which is also designed with flower figure. Parlances vary in martial music, folk music, sacrifice music or representative of power and fortune, etc.

Brocade

The Zhuangs' women oriJingated special handicraft-Zhuang Brocade, with cotton yarn through longitude and velour going in latitude. The longitude normally is in primitive colors and the latitude is in different colors. Kinds of beautiful designs are weaved over. Zhuang Brocade is used in many purposes. In history, the Zhuangs' women had produced the beautiful special brocade in Tang and Song Dynasty. During Ming and Qing Dynasty, the Zhuang women had been famous all around China. Now, Zhuang Brocade, honored to be folk artic, has been developed greatly; they not only weave traditional designs, but also created new beautiful thing with their skillful hands.

Sing and Dance

They are famous for capable of sinJingg. SinJingg can be heard everywhere in the Zhuangs region. The famous singer Liu Sanjie, who lived in Tang Dynasty, created ballads with melodious tone to express good will. The songs have been coming down among the common people. The instruments are suona horn, bee-drum, copper-drum, copper-cymbals, Sheng, Xiao, flute and horse-bone-hu.

They dance with brilliant subject, the steps of which are powerful and smart. They play lively and humour with all kinds of feelings, which shows their contumacy, love and hatred. The famous are 'embroidered silk ball dance', 'fishing shrimp dance', 'picking tea dance' 'shoulder pole dance' and 'copper drum dance.'

Cultural Arts---Murals on Cliff

The mural on the cliff of Huashan Mountain has been the history of two thousand years. The mural paints almost 1,300 persons with four thousand meters high and hundreds meters long, showing different figures. The biggest portrait on which is high 3 meters, and the smallest one is only 0.3 meter; shapes of tymbal, gong and animals can also be seen. The tone of carving is wild, thick and powerful. The mural mirrors the ancient Zhuangs' living aspects in some distance.

They believe in gods, ancestors, huge stones, old trees, mountains, earth, dragons and birds.

Nong Minjian:Dancing and SinJingg of Dark-Costume Zhuang Nationality