China officially called it "the Ziggy family". It is a minority in Guizhou, and it is listed in the world 18 minority cultural protection circle by the United Nations Foundation for the Protection of World Local Cultures. It is a minority other than the 56 ethnic groups in China, so few people know about it, or even think that it does not exist.

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I. Geographical distribution

There are about 50,000 to 60,000 Ge Jiaren who call themselves "Gomo". Ge Jia is mainly distributed in Ping Huang, Kaili, Majiang, Guanling, Weng 'an, Fuquan, Zhenning, Xingren, Qianxi and other places, with Ping Huang and Kaili on both sides of Chong 'an River as the most, and huangping county has 2 100 people, accounting for the whole country.

They mainly live in 89 villages in Chongxing Township and nearby Chongan Town, Huangpiao Township, Gulong Town, Chongren Township, Xinzhou Town and Langdong Town. The largest village in Ping Huang is Fengxiang Village, with more than 700 households and more than 3,700 people. The second village is Tang Dou Village, with more than 400 households and more than 2,000 people. "There is hope dam village, etc.

There are nearly 10,000 people in Kaili City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, mainly living in Matang, Longchang Town. Matang is one of the most typical stockades, with 98 families and more than 450 people.

In the fourth year of Guangxu (1879), 20 people including Ge Jiaren, Gao Guifu, Luo Tingxiang and Tan Hai erected a monument in Paomu Village in Longchang, engraved with "Xinzhai, Ganyan, Yangjiashan, Laoya Mountain, Huajie, Luomian, Yudong, Gaobangpo, Yingyan, Yiwanjing and Gan".

Second, the folk custom of folk houses.

Ge Jia's family likes to live in ravines and valleys and the waist of mountains. Most of the houses are three wooden tile houses, and there are hundreds of households living in the village, and there are dozens of households. Most of the houses in Ge Jia are of shingle structure, and the surrounding walls are like courtyards painted with boiler bottom ash. Every household sticks red couplets, such as "fields crisscross, fireworks people are halfway up the mountain."

Some people also have two-story buildings with wide yards. The main room is centered on the hall, which is the place where family members eat, rest and entertain guests on weekdays. On the east side of the hall is the bedroom, and on the right side is the small living room with a fire pit, which is the place for heating, eating and entertaining guests in winter. The kitchen is very wide and the cooker is very big.

In the past, villagers used bamboo creek to draw spring water from the back hill and inject it into the water tank, which saved the effort of carrying water. Now they have used pure tap water. Upstairs is usually a warehouse, a girl's boudoir, dry and clean, so that they can make friends. Downstairs are the utility room and cowshed where farm tools are placed. Farmers love cows, and put calamus in cowsheds and hall doorframes to exorcise evil spirits and pray.

In the hall, there is a "heaven and earth" god on the main wall, and there is a land god tablet below, which is similar to the beliefs and customs of farming peoples everywhere. Strangely, there is a small bow and arrow hanging on the upper right of the "Heaven and Earth Relativity" monument. The bow is made of peach branches and the string is cotton thread. Zhi Zhu's arrow hangs on the bowstring. They are all wrapped in red and green cotton thread and look colorful.

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