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  GUANGXI ZHUANG AUTONOMOUS REGION
  The biggest one among 55 minorities, Zhuang lives in Guangxi Autonomous Region.

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  Traditional Threshing Machine Photo by : He Nonglin
  Actually, farmer uses the electric threshing machine instead of the traditional one today. In order to keep the ancient agricultural tool, I asked some aged men to copy one...
 

     
  The main material for the machine' cover is bamboo.   To avoid worm, all the bamboo should be soaked in the lime water.   The machine's inside is made of soil.   To weave the millstones.
       
  To test the shaft between the two millstones.   To put soil into the top stone.   Finished two millstones.   Make a test.
               
  Frog Festival Photo by : Li Tong
  This festival shows that the ancestor of Zhuang Ethnic Group worshiping the frog.
               
       
  To put the frog into the bambaoo coffin.   Carrying the frog to every villager's house and praying by songs.   All families will gather together and play the drum.   Divination by eggs at the frog's graveyard.
             
  The graveyard will be placed in a good enviroment.            
   
  Dancing and Singing of Dark-Costume Zhuang
   
 
Miao Style Bamboo Building of North Guangxi
   
  People of Liuzhou City on Motocycle
   
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