The Zulu people traditionally wear colorful beadwork that carries specific meanings. Women wear beadwork skirts, men wear loincloths and young boys go without much clothing. The colors of the beads - white, blue, green, yellow, pink, red and black - are arranged in patterns called ishunka, isithembu and umzansi that each communicate different meanings as part of Zulu culture. The main foods in traditional Zulu cuisine include roasted meats, amasi or fermented milk, maize meal, vegetables like spinach and sweet potatoes. Beer called umqombothi is also commonly consumed. The Zulu language is called isiZulu and many Zulus today also speak other languages
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1. How zulu woman wear
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6. The meaning of the colors
Sishunka seven colours - white, light blue, dark
green, pale yellow, pink, red and black.
Isithembu five colours - light blue, grass green,
bright yellow, red and black. Umzansi four
colours - whitedark blue, grass green and red.
Isinyolovane combination of any colours not
Consistent with other schemes.
These colour schemes are part of fashion and
dress and are intended
to communicate specific meanings
7. What zulu people eat
?
The main food that Zulus eat consists of beer
(tshwala), Zulu bread, cooked chicken feet,
meat, amasi, pumpkin, cabbage, tubers and
phuthu or maize meal. Meat is roasted on
coals, and is often left scorched almost black
on the outside and very rare on the inside
(inyama eyosiwe). The Zulus drink amasi which
is sour, curdled milk. Milk is hardly ever drunk
fresh ('green milk'), but it is sometimes used to
thin amasi which has gone too thick to be
used. Maize is a popular part of the Zulu's diet.
8. Kinds of food the zulu people eat
Inyama
yokosa(braai
meat)
9. Zulu language
? Their
language is isiZulu. Many Zulu people
today speak English, Afrikaans, and other
of South Africa's 11 official languages. In
the Zulu language, Zulu means "heaven"
or "sky".