1949 Before the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), people in China wrote "Yi".
After 1949, it was changed to the word "Tong" next to it, and it was collectively called "Tong Jia" (Tong and Zhuang are homonyms).
After 1965, "Tong" was changed to "Zhuang". "Tong" or "Zhuang" is a transliteration of Zhuang language Cuengh, which has no special Chinese character meaning. The language and culture of Zhuang nationality are basically the same as those of Buyi nationality in Guizhou, Dai nationality, Nong nationality and Reyi nationality in Vietnam.
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Zhuang people mainly live in the south of China, starting from Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County in Guangdong Province in the east, reaching Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province in the west, congjiang county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province in the north and Beibu Gulf in the south. Guangxi is the main distribution area of Zhuang nationality, with 1420.7 1 10,000 people, accounting for 87.8 1% of the total population of Zhuang nationality, mainly living in Nanning, Chongzuo, Baise, Hechi, Liuzhou, Laibin and Guigang. There are 98 10000 people in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and scattered in other parts of Yunnan Province 129000 people. There are 42,000 people in Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County of Guangdong Province, and more than 4,000 people in Xiashuaizhuang Yao Township of Huaiji County adjacent to Lianshan. Congjiang county 1.6 million in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. There are more than 5000 people in Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Hunan Province. The settlements of Zhuang people are basically connected, and most of them live together, but a considerable number of them live together with Han, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan and Shui nationalities.
Limestone is widely distributed in Zhuang area, which is a world-famous karst area. Rocky Mountains have caves and underground rivers. This kind of terrain constitutes a scenic spot of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world and Yangshuo's landscape is the best in the world". This coast is rich in all kinds of precious seafood, especially Nanzhu. Zhuang area has mild climate and abundant rainfall. Agriculture-oriented, planting rice, corn and potatoes. Fruit is also very rich, and the forest area is wide, rich in Liuzhou fir, silver fir, camphor wood and other precious wood.
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Zhuang language is generally divided into Austro-Taiwanese language family or Taiwan-Kadai language family in the world, and into Sino-Tibetan Zhuang-Dong language family in China, which is divided into two dialects, north and south. There are about 20 sub-dialects (dialects) under the dialects.
Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the folk word "sawndip" has been popular among Zhuang people. According to the statistics of the "Dictionary of Zhuang Ancient Characters" (the first draft) published by the Office of the Leading Group for the Arrangement and Publication of Ancient Books of Guangxi Ethnic Minorities 1989, * * has more than 10700 words. These characters are collected from stories, vouchers, master songs, folk songs, stories and legends, genealogy, letters and inscriptions published or copied hundreds of years ago. 1955, the party and the people's government created phonographic Zhuang language according to the Latin alphabet. In the 1980s, the revision of the outline of Zhuang language was completed, which further popularized Zhuang language and re-entered schools at all levels.