The New Year Festival belongs to the Miao people? Spring Festival? Also known as? Hakka year? . During the Chinese New Year, every household kills pigs and sheep and bakes wine to celebrate the harvest. I hope that the weather will be good and the crops will be plentiful in the coming year. According to the custom, the Miao people express their wishes and hopes for the New Year by singing songs in pairs. Early in the morning, compatriots of all ethnic groups from five townships and four towns in the border areas of Guizhou, Hunan and Chongqing rushed from all directions to the foot of Tianxingpo at the junction of the three provinces and cities to express their joy in welcoming the new year with songs. I also want to sing "Song of Spring", with lyrics to the effect of longing for spring, longing for spring, cherishing spring, holding spring and so on.
2. Huashan Festival
Huashan is a traditional Miao festival. Miao people in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces are popular in the first and second months of the lunar calendar or in April and May, which stems from the courtship activities of young men and women. During the festival, young men and women sing songs, dance Lusheng and seek spouses; The old farmers came to the flower field to exchange production experience, teach production technology and wish the crops a bumper harvest. Miao people living in mountainous areas will also have a bullfight during the festival. The Miao people in Pingbian County also hold competitions of jumping lions and climbing flower poles.
3. April 8th
It is said that this festival started in the Ming Dynasty. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Miao people gather around the fountain in Guiyang City in costumes, and blowing sheng plays the flute and has a heart-to-heart talk with songs to commemorate and pay tribute to the legendary ancient hero Yanu.
In addition, April 8th is also a festival of Buyi people. Is it called? Ox King Festival? Yes, there are also calls? Shepherd's Day? Or? Seedling opening festival? Yes. On this day, people and cows should eat it? Niu Wangba? Or glutinous rice, and take a day off, to show comfort to the cattle.
5. Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is a Miao festival popular in Shidong and Songtao areas in western Hunan and southeastern Guizhou. Most of them are held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. In addition to the dragon boat race, there are horse racing, bullfighting, drumming and other activities.
6. Sisters' Day
In Miaojia Village on the Qingshui River in the east of Guizhou Province, the Miao family is celebrated from March 15th to 18th of the lunar calendar every year. Sister's Day? . During the festival, Miao people eat according to traditional customs? Sister rice? . This kind of rice is steamed by dyeing glutinous rice with colorful flowers and leaves collected by girls on the mountain. There are also lively bullfighting scenes and? Traveling? Activities.
7. Catching the seedling field
is a traditional Miao festival. Popular in Xuyong and Gulin areas. It is held twice a year on February 13th and July 3rd of the lunar calendar. According to legend, the origin of the seedling farm was formed by the Miao people after an uprising failed. The government won't let them get together. People secretly contacted each other in the name of playing lusheng at the dam, and later it gradually evolved into a fixed festival.
8. Ribbon-giving Festival
is popular in Xiadong area of xuyong county. It is held every year on the fifth day of the second lunar month. By then, dozens of young men and women in Fiona Fang. If both parties like it, they can give each other belts as engagement gifts. Those who repent afterwards can claim back their belts and dissolve the relationship.
9. Eating New Festival
Also called? Xinhe Festival? . ? Eat new? It is one of the Miao festivals living in the middle and upper reaches of Qingshui River and Duliujiang River. There is no uniform date. According to the custom, in the harvest season, find a field where rice grows best, and everyone will celebrate here? Eat a new festival? . According to legend, in ancient times, there was no millet in the world, only the millet in charge of the heaven (Lei Gong) was state-owned, so people had to hunt for a living. In order to get the seeds of millet, the ancestors of Miao nationality told Lao to take 9,999 kinds of rare birds and animals to the millet country for nine buckets, nine liters and nine bowls of seeds of millet, and put them in the warehouse for sowing in the spring of next year. But one night, Awuyou, with a long arm, grabbed the horizon with his hand, stepped on a stone by the light of the sky lantern, and accidentally knocked over the sky lantern and just fell to the top of the wooden barn. As a result, there was a fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger. The grain seed cried in the warehouse, and finally flew to the sky in smoke and ran back to the home. Gao Lao went to Gao Hu and asked him to persuade Gu Zhong to return, but Gao Hu insisted that Gu Zhong did not go to heaven. No way, Gao Lao discussed with Gao Hu and exchanged 9,999 kinds of rare birds and animals for grain seeds. His mouth was worn out with nine layers of skin, and his voice said that he had dried up nine jars of water, but he refused to accept it. After nine days of thinking about kuya, I finally came up with a plan: when the millet is ripe, send a dog to the rice field to roll a few times, so that the millet can be brought back on the Mao Mao. On the morning of July 13th in the ancient calendar, the dog was about to set off, and told him to take the seeds with a stalk five feet high and ears five feet long. However, because the dog was in a hurry, when he reached the south gate, he accidentally tripped and wrote down the confession. As a result, he ran to a rice field that was only five inches long, and quickly rolled back. The defendant huhu saw through the plan. When the dog reached the overpass, huhu sent ninety-nine sturdy warriors to guard the bridge. They knocked the dog into the Tianhe River. They thought that the Tianhe River was wide and deep, and the dog had only a dead end. However, they never expected that after the dog fell into the Tianhe River, it quickly put its tail high above the water, and it took a lot of effort to swim across the Tianhe River and came back with nine grains on its tail. I told Lao that I had a seed, so I plowed the field and withdrew the seed. On June 6th in the ancient calendar, a string of ears of grain like a dog's tail was pulled out from the seedling tip, and a month later, the ears of grain in Jin Shanshan matured. On July 13th in the ancient calendar, it was the day when the grain was planted for one year. On this day, I picked nine liters of millet and cooked a large pot of delicious white rice. He first scooped up three bowls for the dog to eat, and then tasted them himself. The remaining seeds are sown every year, which makes people eat white rice. In order to remember the date of picking up grain seeds, July 13 was designated as the new festival, which was handed down from generation to generation. On the day of the festival, every family cooks in the new valley. At the dawn, people bring new rice, wine, chicken, duck, fish and meat to the field. After offering sacrifices to their ancestors, the banquet begins. Everyone forms a circle, and each person raises his glass to the next one's lips. At the old man's command, everyone cheers three times in succession, and then they respect each other and drink it off. Suddenly, laughter echoed in the field, and traditional cultural and sports activities such as singing, stepping on the pond and dancing the lusheng began until dusk.
1. Sheep and Horse Festival
is popular in Longchi and Shidi in Xiushan County. It is held every year from April 26 to 28 of the lunar calendar. At that time, people will kill pigs and sheep, treat guests and give gifts, and celebrate the festival grandly.
11. Catch the Autumn Festival
spread to Xiushan County. Beginning of autumn Day is held every year. At that time, people will flock to the meeting place from all directions to participate in and watch activities such as swinging, lion dancing, playing dragon lanterns and climbing the knife ladder. As for the origin of the festival, it is said that in ancient times, a clever young man, looking for a beloved girl for the people, changed a swing for one person into a swing for eight people to attract people from far and near to swing. On the swing field, he finally found his beloved girl. From then on, people get together to play on the swing every autumn. Year after year, it becomes catching up with autumn.
12. Miao year
Miao year, which is called Miao language? Can it be brewed? It is the most solemn traditional festival of Miao people. The date of celebrating the Year of Miao is not uniform in different places. Among the Miao people in Rongshui, November 3th of the lunar calendar is the New Year's Eve, and the next day is the Chinese New Year, which has the largest population and the widest area.
There are many folk activities in Miao Year, including offering sacrifices to ancestors, playing the Lusheng in the hall and tying the knot in the village in the same year. Lusheng stepping hall was held in Lusheng hall of this village, with male blowing and female stepping, and both men and women participated. First, the little Lusheng hand blows out a short sheng song, and then the big and small sheng hands play it together. The girls are wearing birds' clothes and silver jewelry, and the silver crowns dance, and the crunchy silver ornaments and the music are intertwined into a touching melody of the festival.
It is also an important folk activity during the Year of Miao. Every Miao year. Village and village will be guests and hosts to each other, and they will be married in the same year. Dozens or hundreds of men and women in the village took Lusheng, put on festive costumes and went to the village in the same year to have a party. Before entering the village, the host was informed by three songs, and the host led the men and women in the village to meet him. Then play the Lusheng again in Lusheng Hall and step on the hall as a ceremony to enter the village, and the host also reciprocated by playing the Lusheng and stepping on the hall. After the ceremony, guests were invited to various houses for entertainment. Guests usually stay for three days. During the day, they play lusheng on the hall, have lusheng competitions, and perform Miao opera at night. Unmarried young men and women will play during this period? Sitting sister? Social activities for songs, pursuing your lover, staying up all night.
During the Miao Year, in addition to the above activities. Miao people also hold traditional sports competitions such as bullfighting, Touma, bird fighting, shooting and pole climbing. Among them, bullfighting and Touma are the most attractive and often attract thousands of people to watch.
13. Cutting Mars Festival
Traditional Miao festivals. It is popular in Guanling area of Guizhou. The content of the festival is mainly to stipulate rural rules. According to different surnames, the time of festivals is different. Roughly July, August and September 27th. Once a year, according to the clan's households, it takes turns to be on duty, and the duty year is responsible for convening everyone to discuss the township regulations and related major events, and then the duty year family will prepare wine to kill chickens and invite everyone to drink? Heart wine? And give a toast to the next year. In turn, it takes turns to hold a gathering and drink "knowing wine" at whose house it is worth the New Year.
14. Hakka year
The Hakka year of Miao nationality is the Spring Festival. On the 3 th night of the lunar calendar, families get together and no outsiders are allowed to disturb them. They set off firecrackers with a half-closed door to show that people are not allowed in at this time. Continue to set off firecrackers in the early morning of the first day, respect ancestors and eliminate evil. People use their hands to fence cows and sheep, and say: Drive cattle and sheep to show the prosperity of six animals, and then eat New Year's dinner. On the second day of the second year, Miao family members dressed in costumes went from village to village to congratulate each other on the festival. The hospitable host will propose three toasts to the guests. Every family is filled with festive joy. Young men and women gather on the lawn beside the village village, playing lusheng, playing yueqin, dancing and singing, and some places will hold them? Step on Huashan? 、? And cattle? And other activities.
15. Bridge Hanging Festival
The traditional festival of Zhaitou, Miao Township, Sansui County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, is also called? February second? . According to legend, Zhaitou people originally lived in Yewu Mountain. Because of the fertile land in Zhaitou, all Zhaitou people moved into Zhaitou together. On the day of moving, the dragon will follow, but the Shiping River blocked the dragon's way, so the Guluo (elders) in the village discussed it and decided to build a bridge to take the dragon, because the dragon symbolizes good luck and happiness. All the twelve houses in the village have to be connected, so this bridge has built twelve piers. The bridge was repaired and named? Solitaire bridge? The bridge was built on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. In order to commemorate this day, every year on this day, a pig is carried in each room of Miao family in Zhaitou and slaughtered on the bridge.
16. Mountain climbing festival
Mountain climbing festival of Miao nationality is also called? Climbing festival? It has been formed for thousands of years, and it is in the late March of the lunar calendar every year. Horse day? (In ancient times, the Chinese zodiac was used to mark the day), that is, it was held on the 19th day of the third lunar month. At that time, the Miao people living in Kaili, southeast Guizhou, will gather on Xianglu Mountain, where they will be singing songs and fighting birds. Young men and women sang and climbed to the top of the mountain along the winding mountain path. All the way to Lu Ge, Miao people's flying songs, love songs, wine songs and ancient songs are scattered all over the hillside, and the first one to reach the top of the mountain is known as? Mountain climbing hero? , respected by everyone. Get the favor of the girls. According to legend, the Xianglushan Mountain Climbing Festival commemorates the handsome young people of Miao nationality, A Bu, and the jade emperor's youngest daughter, A Bie. The jade emperor's youngest daughter, Abei, yearned for a free life on earth, flew down the hill, married a clever, capable, honest and kind Abe and had three daughters. One day at dawn, when the whole family was happy, suddenly the cock crowed for the first time. The Jade Emperor stipulates that when the rooster crows three times a day, it is a pilgrimage. If Abei can't arrive in time, there will be a catastrophe. Abé, who was in a hurry, climbed six stories from the top of the incense burner with one foot when he flew to the sky at the top of the mountain. Without the top of the censer mountain, A-bie could no longer descend to the earth, and the Jade Emperor could not enjoy the human incense because there was no top of the censer mountain, so he punished A-bu and turned it into a censer for burning incense. In order to commemorate the loyal love between Abei and Abubu, Miao people have an annual climbing festival on the day of Abubian incense burner.
17. Picking Onions Festival
is a gathering of Miao youth in Wengpaipo, Baojing County, western Hunan. Legend has it that a long time ago, Adaya, the daughter of an old-nosed Miao village official, fell in love with Lang Yannuo, a Miao shepherd who rammed sand. The local official was so angry that he said, How can a phoenix bird nest with a nail sparrow? Yannuo's old man also advised Yannuo: Honeysuckle and Diba cuisine can't share the same heart. ? Adaya is locked in a diaojiao building and can't go out. Yannuo drives cattle home at dusk every day and runs from rammed sand to Old Nose Village to see his beloved girl. Ada, who lost his freedom, sang with a song:? Kingfishers are caged in bamboo cages, hanging on the mountain flowers. Birds look forward to flowers, flowers look forward to birds, and they meet only when they are clear and green. ? Qingming caiqing? It was a Miao girl who went up the mountain to pick onions on Qingming Day and asked the mountain gods to bless her. Yannuo understood the girl's meaning and sang:? The vines that have been torn off the trees are rolled to the ground, and the vines are dead and the leaves are dead. I hope that it will be clear and rainy, and I will not leave the village again. ? On Qingming Day, they left home early, just walking on the lush slope of Weng Pai. Their loyalty and love moved Sister Hu and contributed to their beautiful marriage. Therefore, every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, young Miao women put on festive costumes and bring steamed ones? Qingming? Holding an onion knife and a young man holding a sand knife, they all gathered on the slope of Weng Pai to choose a mate. This is the annual? Picking onions? .
18. Drum Festival
This is a traditional ancestor worship festival of the Miao people. Twelve years a big sacrifice, 67 years a small sacrifice. Legend has it that human mothers? Sister list, sister stay? Born from the heart of a maple tree, they have to go back to the maple tree after death, and their souls have to go back to their hometown after death to rest in peace. Ancestors' hometown is in the heart of the tree, and the wooden drum is the place where the ancestors rest in peace. Later, I worshipped my ancestors. Ancestor worship? Did you shout it? Sacrifice drums? Yes. Up to now, offering drums is offering sacrifices to ancestors. What is the drum sacrifice? What's the rein? Held for the unit, one? Rein? It's a blood-related relative handed down by an ancestor, and they both worship a wooden drum that thinks the soul of their ancestors lives in it. On the day of drum festival, each family prepares a water-sticky cow, or several families prepare one, or buy some beef. Let the cattle fight first, and hundreds of cows fight together. The scene is spectacular, and then slaughter them for worship. According to the custom, no matter the relatives and friends who come to celebrate, the guests who come to see the bullfight and the vendors passing by, they are all allowed to stay. The more people there are, the more glorious the owner's face will be.
19. The Miao people in Antai, Dongtou, Sirong, Xiangfen, Anhuang and other townships in the northwest mountainous area of Rongshui like Touma. Whenever Miao people celebrate traditional festivals, Touma activities are indispensable. In 1987, Rongshui County People's Government celebrated the county day. November 26th is designated as the Horse Fighting Festival. On this day in Touma, the village was singing loudly, and iron guns and powder guns were everywhere. People of all ethnic groups dressed in festive costumes were in high spirits and danced a cheerful Lusheng dance. At this time, the energetic Miao cells, holding their horses, came from all directions