水族主要分布在黔桂边境的十多个县市境内,语言属汉藏语系壮侗语族侗水语支。他们自称为“虽”,汉译为“水”,乃“梳”之意也;史称“越”、“骆越”、“僚”、“俚”、“水家苗”等;一九五六年后通行称法为“水族”。水族风俗中,有一点相当独特,就是丧葬时的“忌荤”是忌肉不忌鱼(一般民族忌荤时,鱼虾、猪牛、飞禽、鸡鸭及其油一律在忌禁之例),而且鱼还是必备的祭品,此 Aquariums are mainly distributed in more than a dozen counties and cities along the border between Guizhou and Guangxi. The languages ​​belong to the Dong-Shui language branch of the Zhuang-Dong ethnic group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. They claim to be “though”, the Chinese translation is “water”, meaning “combing”; the history is called “Yue”, “Luo Yue”, “bureaucrat”, “slang” After five or six years the passage known as “Aquarium.” Aquarium customs, a little unique, that is, when funeral “bogey” is to avoid flesh not fish (general national bogey, fish, pigs, birds, chickens and ducks and their oil are all banned cases) And fish is an essential sacrifice, this