先秦以前,在广西地区生活的远古人群属于百越民族。其中苍吾越分布在广西境内的东北部,西瓯分布在桂江以西、浔江以北的桂中地区,骆越的活动范围分布在红水河以西的左右江流域、郁江、浔江南岸及北部湾畔。世代水滨生活的陶冶,使广西地区的越族先民炼成了一身“涉游刺舟”的本领。“九疑之南,陆事寡而水事众。于是民人被发纹身,以免鳞虫;短绻不袴,以便涉游;短袂攘卷,以便刺舟。”“短绻不袴”与“短袂攘卷”都是为了适应水上的生活与工作。滨水越人以渔猎为生活之源,在长年累月地 Before the Qin dynasty, the ancient people living in Guangxi belonged to the Baiyue ethnic group. Among them, Cangwu is distributed in the northeast of Guangxi. Ximei is distributed in the west of Guijiang and Guizhong in the north of Qijiang. The scope of activities of Luo Yue is distributed in the left and right rivers in the west of Hongshui River, And North Bay. The cultivation of generations of waterfront life has made the Yue people in Guangxi region a forerunner of “boat-breaking”. “Nine suspicious of the south, the land of a few people and water. So the people were tattooed so as to avoid scale insects; short stubborn, in order to visit; And ”shortest confinement volume" are to adapt to the life and work on the water. The more waterfront fishing and hunting for the source of life, in many years