Dancing and Singing of Dark-Costume Zhuang Nationality

Nomination Award of Education, Recreation & Sport

Dancing and Singing Dark-Costume Zhuang Nationality

Nong Minjian(China)

There is a clan called themselves Min at Napo county on the border area of southwest Guangxi province in China. They belong to the Zhuang nationality, and the population are 51,000 or so, as well as one fourth of the population of the county. They wear their blue local style clothes and live in the traditional Ganlan type structure houses. The Min is their mother language, which distinguishes differently with other the Zhuangs' languages. They are called the black-costume Zhuang Nationality.

The black-costume Zhuang Nationality mainly are dwelling on the Dashi Mountains, where is grand apexes and piled up chain of mountains. Napo county is the only dwelling area to them. As the following years, there have been a lot of scholars inside and outside and the specialists in Zhuangs' culture to collect folk songs and produce. The Napo county has been the last pure land to search the Zhuangs' culture.

3、Casting red-beauty band-the young people first awaken of love come to under the hundreds of trees or on the sod to meet. The red-beauty band is a keepsake for lucky and love, on which the names and birthdays of the lovers are written. The red-beauty bands are thrown into a big basket to be blended. Then each person selects one, and the name on which shows who is your dreaming lover. It is said that the red-beauty can get the lovers together with a fine marriage.

5、Red thread passes the love feeling on each other-the lover have endless love to express, but they don't date in the moonlight, they pass the love on with a red thread in their songs. In that particular way, the black-costume Zhuangs' youths bring their fates together.