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　　Then we will look at Miao's marriage custom. "Pinch finger" is one way for Miao guys to express their love. When lots of people get together in festivals, the guy would crowd to his lover silently and pinch her finger gently. If the girl wants to accept the guy's love, she will pinch the guy's finger as a response, otherwise she won't do anything and the guy would know he is rejected. Once the love relationship is established, the young man and woman will date as other lovers. They make marks with branches, leaves, weeds and wild flowers with different meaning: weed mark means dating, flower mark expresses the secret meeting, while weeds and flowers linking together shows the decision of marriage. After associating for some time, lovers would exchange keepsakes such as towel, cigarettes, silver hairpin etc. Later, they will tell their parents, and the guy's parents would invite a matchmaker to propose for him, then the marriage date would be settled.
　　Thirdly, I will talk about girls' beautiful skirts. It is said that, a long time ago, a peacock saw a Miao girl; it spread its wings to compare with the girl's skirt, but it was failed and flied away jealously. The legend shows people's praise of these girls' hard-working. All girls there can embroider. Once a girl was born, her mother would try her best to teach her identifying different colors. By the time the girl could use needle and thread, her mother would teach her to embroider, because a girl who can't embroider well, no mater how beautiful she is, won't attract guys' attention.
　　In my opinion, Miao is a kind, simple and hard-working nationality. They have retained a lot of interesting customs. I wish I can go to their inhabitation one day, and the same to you.

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