Maonan mainly in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the north of the Huanjiang County and the rest scattered in Nandan, Hechi, security and other places. Maonan Dong Lu area close to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, around the Karst, Castle fell. Mao Nan Shan is the central, north-east of the mountains is 90,000, is the Phoenix Mountain in the northwest, south-west of the Rock is a mountain, green trees, a sub-tropical climate, suitable for livestock farming. Maonan have their own language, almost all Maonan people and the Chinese Zhuang Jian Tong, Maonan not have their own language, is common in Chinese. This nation and the State Council in 2006 was included in the first state-level intangible cultural heritage: Maonan sets of fertilizer. Maonan with Han, also had the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Yeung Festival, and so on, there are other traditional festivals Ghost Festival, the Dragon sub-section, such as the ancestors of the dike.

　　Maonan people Duige free love has always been the custom in Duige before, people often see an interesting phenomenon, Maonan people known as "cap snatching" and "cap snatching" girls and boys. In the rush Wei, Chi Xijiu or non-governmental activities of the assembly, when a young Chinese girl, which, it is the idea of looking for opportunities to spend away the other side of the bamboo hat (also took away some of the other side of the handkerchief). The flower girl was stripped of bamboo hat left, she would turn around and took aim at a young man, if people think he is not Italian, then the other side expressed a dissatisfaction immediately to scramble back to the hat. If this does not scramble back in the future have to scramble to find an opportunity to come back, or the Trustee of the original cable back. In such cases, the young man to know each other and not pay a friend. On the other hand, if the woman feel young Italian talent, she promised quietly, happy to let the young man took away bamboo hat, immediately or some time later that he also obtained a gift to each other, as a souvenir. There are also eager courtship of the girl, in their rush to do or dike, "with mother", often intentionally, the purse will be exposed to a handkerchief, or caught in the internal organs visible Waterloo, want to facilitate the young man away. "Cap snatching" China and Italy, both as friends hand. However, the "cap snatching" just a friend at the turn, is only the prelude to love.

　　Maonan wedding both unique and complex, there are some other humorous. Maonan wedding into the "wedding of women" and "M wedding," the two. "Women's wedding," a smaller scale, many do not give the bride price, said the order also relatively simple, it is common for farmers to do the wedding. "Marriage of men" on a larger scale, sent numerous gifts, Ying Qin also a large contingent, which includes in addition to "female marriage," all the procedures, there are a number of talk show, say the lavish scenes, it is money well-off only rich families Can afford to do. "M wedding," more or less the process that is the case. On the eve of auspicious days, palanquin, bride price, and other materials ready Qi, Ma Ying Qin concentrated to groom home. Auspicious days in the early morning, people used Yingqin breakfast, then in accordance with the allocation of prior good role Tiaozhao their bride price, in the mighty sound of firecrackers to set off. The bride's house, swing-up a pre-trial "Ying Qin table," with coverage of Hong Tan, are on the table tobacco, tea, betel nut and so on. A general Maonan ceremonial welcome to the table and stood waiting, when the team went to Ying Qin, who can smiling face greet guests. Ying Qin in the bride's family lunch, noon time, the bride's family house was a ceremony held fold. By the bride's family have this and that the two children of primary Gusao mother to be folded, the side of the break was, by the side of the female teachers to sing songs, "Huan folded cotton" (song by folding). The bride dressing up and pay his respects after the Koubai ancestors, and singing "go out the next song order," "Song of the marriage." Chang Ba, the bride's parents and brothers and sisters Yiyixibie. Ying Qin home of the groom lifted his people will "cotton Kong" and other gifts also back. In the groom, eat dinner and then put a special banquet table, has been referred to the Hong Kong overnight. The next day early in the morning, then turns to the groom's uncle gave a banquet for the bride, bridesmaids and the bride as to the mothers, women and song Gusao division. At noon that day, the groom's family was held at the hall where the ceremony. Open by the end of the bride and bridesmaids had eaten lunch together after her return, the bride's home after the third day, the groom then the original home of the bride or her sister brought some gifts to the bride's family invited the bride back.

　　Maonan people in the reproductive area also has its own national characteristics, such as children born a boy, baby in the water to cast a pen with the intention of children in the future wish to study smart; if the girl is, to put in a basin that high-strength women's craft The article also wished the girl in the future Arts and manual dexterity, from this point can be seen on the quest for knowledge Arts Maonan the urgency of national psychology. If giving birth to baby boy, his father's clothes to use package, is the mother of a baby girl with clothes on the package. Said the old man: to do so in the future to the children upright style is not frivolous. This Maonan that has remained loyal to its style of life on the courtesy and manners are a civilized nation.

　　Maonan women is characterized by the largest set of three black lace cardigan jacket and pants left, mostly blue clothes into a blue cloth, with Silver card and spent top, all Enuoduozi. Department of girls is also on a small rectangle of Wei Yao, the top of the beautiful embroidered patterns patterns. Maonan Aichuanxiuxie woman, a "double-bridge", "cat nose" and "cloud head" in the form of three: "Shuangqiao" shoes with red, green color of the two, in the upper lace inlay into two, as Two stone arch bridge across the river, like a pair of rainbow water, which got its name. "Cat nose" using colored shoes with flowers, hook constitute the upper head of the upper cloud embroidered lotus patterns, quiet generosity. These exquisite embroidered shoes, usually on the preservation of the box, and The Wedding Banquet to go out when the pro-wear.

　　Maonan the women's silver jewelry to add luster, in addition to silver bracelets, there are earrings, silver necklace, silver unicorn, multicinctus, Yinzan, "the five-Deng-Ke," Mao Shi, silver flower flutter, silver hairpin, silver Salisbury, and so on. Five men known as the withholding clothing, with women the same right to open lapel, but do not lace inlay, which features five bright Tongkou, the Maonan language "Bone-e-Ni", meaning that five of the hostage clothes . Get a deduction, the three right lapel, collar and hold relatively vertical, security in the location of the navel, below cardigan. Touchan best when black turban, about bachi. From left to right regularly wrapped around his head, one end of the turban cloth to be there, his head, walking, the Bushmen jitter, small as it Selenastrum, it said Selenastrum towel, Maonan words "linked to claw." Maonan people long-term cultivation of vegetables, beans melon, feeding livestock and poultry mining and hunting of wildlife species as many as 70-80 of these non-staple food processing methods to deal with a lot. If the vegetables are pickled melon products acid, dried; a yellow bean products, yuba, soy milk, miso, tofu pills, confusion tofu, bean oil and dried fruit piece. In meat products, in addition to day-to-day when the pan-fried dishes, burned, fried, stewed, braised, steamed, fried, grilled, boiled and more, but also love to eat pickled pigs acid beef, cattle dried wax Pakistan, the refined Fen Zhengrou Notes and pig intestines for the coating of the sub-Rouchang more than 10. Hi eat salad vegetables in the summer, winter, love Dabian Lu (hot pot).

　　In the main day-to-day food, with the exception of large rice, polenta, but also generally eat rice cereals, rice flower empty sheep, sweet potato and so on to the kinds of food, rice chowder, people say, "Mao Nan rice." Grinding it (stone pestle Chung) of grain corn flakes as the backbone, and to the semi-boiled, blended with corn flour, pumpkin (Miller), kidney beans, ginger, bamboo shoots, such as melon-green vegetables to make a pot, and then adding a small amount of oil Salt, green pepper, chopped green onion sauce and the like, for the meal can be. Air sheep rice flower, is used Maonan wild sheep tree flowers cooking space yellow water in which rice was disseminated, and then steamed (boiled) into the aromatic yellow rice. At the same time, with other plants made of black, white, red and blue colored glutinous rice called glutinous rice, the Department of Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Festival and at other common festive day one of the main food. Maonan mountain-rich sweet potato and food accounted for a certain weight. In order to eat and enjoy a variety of delicious, there are ways to eat simmer fire, water, slices cooked sugar, Zhenggan film, the production of pulp mill sweet potato fans take the whole child cook, bake, slice or mixed with cooked rice in the pot, and so on And so on.

　 Maonan belief in God and more, as usual for a variety of worship, gods and the separation of God and God are two things that God has ancestral home, Wang Tso, the God of Wealth (also the land of God), God of the public three realms, both the main (that is, Our Lady of Niangniang ), Wang agency, such as Guanyin. Five were written before God in a red paper, attached to the main hall of the shrine, the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival for the use of meat wine, home of the gods are posted on the door to door god, Men Ting security, not evil into the lives, security Injured people and livestock security, there is god kept outside the official, Mo six officials, such as General Li, a Mongolian official evil god, sick people believe that it is for Chong, to be used for pig and poultry offerings, " Ghost teachers "to sacrifice for avoiding calamity solution of the water's edge, Mo six official is considered to be" the protection of local good God, "As a result, people in the marriage" would also like to "invite all six official Mo, the general Li tablets in each of the village Imports, is considered to be safe for people and livestock guarding the village of God, the annual New Year's Eve and July when the Ghost Festival, every household with pork or chicken, duck Jiufan worship for kids, "calling back."