What are the aspects of Miao culture?

Miao people have created rich and colorful folk literature and art with unique styles. Folk literature mainly includes poems and legends, and most of them have been passed down to this day by oral legends. Poetry is generally five-character style, with seven-character style or free style in between, and most of them only talk about the tune without rhyme. Generally, the tune is simple, with little change, the rhythm is not too strict, and the length is not limited, including ancient songs, logical words, witch songs, bitter songs, anti-songs, love songs and children's songs. Such as "The Old Man Opens Heaven and Earth" and "Ninety-nine suns and Ninety-nine moons" are ancient songs that tell the history of the Miao people and reflect the struggle between the ancient Miao people and nature. Miao's poems and ancient legends not only provide rich national folk literature materials, but also are important reference materials for studying Miao's history.

Miao people are a people who love singing and dancing, and music, dance and Miao opera have a long history. There have been records of men playing lusheng and women ringing in historical books. Miao people's "flying songs" are famous, and now they have performed stage singing or composing music. Instrumental music can be divided into percussion and orchestral music, with wooden drums, leather drums, bronze drums and lusheng being the most famous. In addition, there are mangguo, Piaoqin, Kouxianqin, Muye and various flutes. Dances include Lusheng Dance, Bench Dance and Monkey Encouragement, among which Lusheng Dance is the most common and highly skilled, and is deeply appreciated at home and abroad.

Miao people's arts and crafts such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade, batik, paper cutting and jewelry making are colorful. The batik technology of Miao nationality has a history of thousands of years. After liberation, it has developed to be able to dye colorful patterns and exported to foreign countries. The traditional silver ornaments of Miao nationality are various, including bracelets, collars, headdresses, chest ornaments, silver clothes, etc. They are also famous for their exquisite carving patterns.

Miao people established their own medicine, and divided human diseases into 36 diseases in internal medicine, 72 diseases in surgery and more than 2 kinds of treatment methods. Mr. Shi Qigui is the author of Miao Medicine Prescription and Animal Medicine Guide. Lu Kemin is the author of Miao Medicine Collection. At the end of the 19th century, Long Laoer, a doctor at Songtao Hall, was able to remove the stillbirth by caesarean section for pregnant women. Treating fractures, snake wounds, poisoned arrow wounds, knife and gun injuries, Miao medicine doctors have a quick effect. Miao medicine mostly uses crude drugs, which are now used.