Literature Zhuang

The most important myths of the Zhuang turn concerning Buluotou. Whose name assumes his poem of the creation. According to this work in the beginning there was nothing, then three gases were created, of three different colors: black, yellow and white, that in the chaos were thickening increasingly up to turning into a stone egg, which thousands of years later gives birth to to Buluotou, The King of the Thunder, and King Dragón.

Buluotou is the creator of the man, sky and ground and in general all the things of the universe. There is an enormous number of myths relative to Buluotou, to which there is related the creation of each of the objects and phenomena of the nature.
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Also they are much extended between the Zhuang, the myth of Bupo, which in the first part describes the struggles of the proper Bupo with the King of the Thunder. Later it describes like his children, Pooh and Yi gives birth to to the man.

The song of the Third Sister Liu has turned into the whole symbol not only for the Zhuang, but also for the nearby populations of the south of China. The Sister Liu is considered to be at present the Fairy of the Songs, and the singing teacher considers it between the Zhuang. This personage is inspired in a woman who lived between the Zhuang during the dynasty Tang.

The Song that It Upsets. It is a philosophical poem that describes the origin of the inequality, the misfortunes and oppression of the people, explaining different aspects of the life, nature and society.

Song of Leaving the Chaos: It is a pacifist unproved statement of the XVIth century. In the one that by means of the alternate singing of a couple, tells himself the whole process of the military life of a boy, since it is enlisted in the army, and the sufferings that it transports.

Big King Moyi, and the Song of Tepi, there are two poems much extended between the Zhuang, they describe the struggles of these two popular heroes, always straining in favor of the people.

Between his songs, perhaps the calls are the most typical type "nuan". They consist of four poems of five words with heap. These songs are sung in all kinds of situations. His subject-matter is very varied.

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