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The Mulao people are farmers and have always
had relatively advanced farming techniques.
Labor is fairly distributed among the sexes,
with the men doing most of the plowing, carrying
manure and threshing, while the women transplant
rice, sew and do housework.
When a Mulao person dies, the son of the deceased
brings the body into the main room and goes to the river to get water. Before drawing the water,
he throws two coins into the river to "buy
water." He then returns and bathes the corpse with the river water. Funeral
clothes are put on the body, and the son breaks
a silver coin, putting half of the coin in the
mouth of the corpse. Finally, he places a small
white bag with silver and copper coins in the
left hand and a white towel in the right. The
body is wrapped in a white cloth, put in a coffin
and buried.
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