44 Facts About Zhuang people

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Zhuang people are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang people Autonomous Region in Southern China.

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Zhuang, Nung, and Tay people are a cluster of Tai peoples with very similar customs and dress known as the Rau peoples.

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In China, the Zhuang people are today the largest non-Han Chinese minority with around 14.

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The ethnic Zhuang people was a product of the "ethnic identification project" pursued in 1950s China.

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In one instance, a Zhuang people student said that he had previously regarded himself as Han Chinese before being taught that he was Zhuang people.

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The Zhuang people did not perceive themselves as marginalized or in need of promotion.

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Zhuang people peasants displayed resistance to the ideal of a formal Romanized Zhuang people script, noting that they had used Han script for centuries.

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Formal classification of the Zhuang ignored historical similarities between northern Zhuang and the Bouyei people.

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Guangxi has a type of Zhuang people called “local Zhuang people” who are widely spread across the province.

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10.

The Zhuang people are a relatively large Chinese southern minority, but we still know little about them.

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11.

Zhuang people do not seem to have aspired to creating an empire after the collapse of the Tang and sought merely autonomy.

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The Zhuang people were governed under this system but not the Yao people, who were far less numerous.

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Zhuang people provided the Song dynasty with river transportation during the Song conquest of Southern Han .

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14.

In 980, the Zhuang people participated in the Song–Ðai Co Viet war as Song allies, however the expedition ended in defeat.

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In 1000, the Zhuang people attacked Yongzhou but the attack was quelled by Zhuang people troops of the Song-allied Huang clan.

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In 1001, Zhuang people calling themselves the Troops of Chen rebelled in Yizhou.

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17.

Zhuang people declared the Great Tang and declared war on the Song.

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Zhuang people's married Nong Quanfu and became his primary political adviser.

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Zhuang people was held prisoner for a year before he was released with an honorary title and given control of Guangyuan, Leihuo, Ping'an, Pinpo, and Silang in return for a share of their natural resources, particularly gold.

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Zhuang people called the Viet court's actions criminal and that his territory would not be annexed by China.

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Zhuang people then presented substantial tribute and petitioned the emperor.

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Zhuang people recruited other Nong clan members such as Nong Zhizhong and Nong Jianhou.

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Zhuang people held out at Yongzhou, defeating five Song commanders sent against him.

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Zhuang people requested aid from the Viet court, which sent the tribal commander Vo Nhi to assist the rebels.

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Chinese schools in Zhuang people areas were set up and the sons of elite Zhuang people who enrolled in them later took posts in the Song bureaucracy.

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Chinese style dress began to influence the Zhuang people, who started buttoning their clothing on the right, women wearing bodices, giving up trousers for skirts, and wearing their hair in the Chinese style.

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The Zhuang people warriors carried both a long and short double-edged sword.

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Zhuang people reported that the delegation showed interest in encroaching on Song territory, including Wenmen grotto .

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Zhuang people continued to cause trouble in the Ming dynasty, which used different groups against one another.

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The Zhuang people served as mercenary troops known as wolf warriors in the Ming army.

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Many Zhuang people peasants took part in revolutionary movements such as the 1911 Revolution as part of the Tongmenghui.

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In contrast, many Zhuang people joined the communist army under the leadership of their Zhuang people leader, Wei Baqun.

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The orthodox Dangdai Zhongguode Guangxi portrays Nong Zhigao as a Zhuang people who rose up to protect Chinese borders from Vietnamese aggression.

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34.

Originally Zhuang people society was more egalitarian and female shamans such as A Nong were respected.

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At some point Zhuang people customs became more patrilineal as they absorbed more Han customs.

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Zhuang people languages are a group of mutually unintelligible languages of the Tai family, heavily influenced by nearby Sinitic languages such as Cantonese.

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The Standard Zhuang language is based on a northern dialect, but it is closer to the Bouyei language than Southern Zhuang, so few people learn it.

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38.

Zhuang people have their own scriptures written in poetic form such as the Baeu Rodo.

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The role of the wupo is Zhuang people religion has been minimized due to influence from Chinese religious traditions.

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Zhuang people religion believes that the world is composed of three aspects: heaven, earth, and water.

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41.

Between winter and spring, the Zhuang people make a trip to the mountains to sing in the Zhuang people style, called "hun gamj gok fwen".

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42.

Zhuang people's was pretty and wise, with long flowing hair, and she was naked.

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Zhuang people's was known as Muliujia, “mu” refers to mother and “liujia” is a bird that the Zhuang use to symbolize wisdom.

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Genetic evidence points out Zhuang people possesses a very high frequency of Haplogroup O2 with most of them being subclade O2a making it the most dominant marker, one that they share with Austro-Asiatic.

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