Diet:
1. The Shui people take rice as their staple food, and they like to eat hot and sour seasonings. They have the custom of "no vegetables, no sour food, no spicy food".
2. The most important thing in entertaining guests is wine. When toasting, the host takes the lead and shouts "xiu" (which means cheers), and everyone also shouts "xiu" in unison and drinks all the wine.
Belief:
The belief culture of the Shui people belongs to the category of primitive religious beliefs. The Shui people believe that all things are animistic and worship many gods. Nature worship, ancestral spirit worship, and god worship constitute the core of Shui tribe's beliefs.
Architecture:
Most of the Shui tribe villages are inhabited by clans of the same blood. When building a house, one usually has to choose the auspiciousness based on the owner's birth date. Most of the traditional house structures of the Shui people belong to the ancient Yue people's mortise-and-tenon "ganlan" architectural style of "living on the floor and climbing up the stairs", which evolved from "living with trees as nests".
Language: The Shui people have their own language and traditional writing.
Customs:
1. Agricultural production in the Shui Nationality area is based on small families. The main production tools include: plow, rake, nail rake, rake and seedling rake. , tread plow (step plow), plow, shovel hoe, digging hoe, shovel hoe, hand hoe, axe, hatchet, sickle, saw sickle, picking knife, grain barrel, wooden hammer, iron hammer, water mill, pounding machine, Carrying pole, skewer, chisel, push planer, saw, spear, bow and arrow, iron clamp, shotgun, artillery, etc.
2. Aquatic people worship fish, and fish is the totem worship object in most aquatic areas. Fish farming in ponds and rice fields are important skills and characteristics in aquatic areas. People use the skills of field fish spawning and splitting eggs with straw balls to reproduce, and master the methods of floods and wild beasts harming fisheries, so as to achieve a double harvest of fish and rice. Therefore, eating rice and soup with fish has become a traditional custom of the aquarium people.
3. There are many festivals for the Shui people. There are more than 20 festivals for the Shui people every year, such as Duanjie (borrowing and eating Duan), Maojie (borrowing Mao), Fore Festival (borrowing amount), Suning Xi (borrowing Ning Xi), Jingxia Festival (Jingxia, worshiping Xia), Spring Festival (borrowing), Qingming Festival (Guaqing, Guashe), Dragon Boat Festival (borrowing King), Bronze Drum Festival, Bathing Festival (June) 6),
Yellow Rice Festival, Pepper Festival, White Dragon Festival on February 2nd, Dragon Festival in March, Land Festival in June, Mountain God Festival in June, Picking up and seeing off the ancestors in July and a half, July. Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, pounding beef cakes in October, worshiping temples (worshiping Bodhisattva, worshiping brothers and sisters, worshiping good deeds), Yun Niang (Yunniang), eating new festivals (borrowing bites, borrowing profit), etc.
4. Marriage and love, the marriage of Shui people follows traditional customs and abides by the principle of not marrying people of the same clan, but marrying people of different clans and surnames. "Parents' orders and matchmaker's words" are still the mainstream of marriages between young men and women in the Shui Nationality area. Pay attention to the right match, and pay attention to marrying with a clear matchmaker. Even in modern times, it is common that love is not very free and marriage cannot be completely independent.
5.? Funeral, the main characteristics of the Shui people’s funeral customs are: many taboos, rich burials, long sacrifices, and long sacrifices. The funerals of the Shui people embody the cultural connotations of belief in ancestor worship, god worship, and nature worship. At the same time, funerals have become an important activity for the Shui people to pass on filial piety and ancestor worship rituals, adjust interpersonal relationships, enhance the cohesion of blood clans, and exchange social knowledge.
Extended information:
The Shui people have their own language and traditional writing. The Shui language belongs to the Dongshui (Dongtai) branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and is the ancient writing system of the Shui people. It retains the characteristics of compatibility of pictorial characters, hieroglyphs, and abstract characters.
The Shui people call themselves "Suǐ". Regarding the origin of the Shui people, there are theories such as the theory of descendants of the Yin people, the theory of the origin of Baiyue (Guangdong and Guangxi), the theory of Qianlai from Jiangxi, and the theory of Qianlai from Jiangnan. Shui Shu is a relic of Xia and Shang culture and is the spiritual pillar of the Shui people. Fish is the totem of the aquarium, and eating rice and soup with fish is an important social custom of the aquarium.
The Shui people live in the upper reaches of the Longjiang and Duliu Rivers at the junction of Guizhou and Guizhou. Sandu Shui Autonomous County, Libo, Dushan, Duyun and other counties and cities in southern Guizhou Province are the main residential areas. Rongjiang, Danzhai, Leishan, Congjiang, and Liping counties in the southeast are the main scattered areas. In addition, there are Shui ethnic villages in Hechi, Nandan, Huanjiang, Rongshui and other counties and cities in northern Guangxi, as well as Fuyuan County in Yunnan Province.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Aquarium