The longest carnival in the world-Naton Festival?

In "Oh, Let a man with spirit take risks where he likes", many countries, regions and nationalities in the world have grand and lively carnivals, such as the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the carnival in Venice, Italy, which are famous all over the world. However, today's lunar calendar will introduce the festival of China's ethnic minorities-the Turkish Naton Festival, which is known as "the longest carnival in the world". Let's find out.

Nathan Festival is a social entertainment festival celebrated and harvested by the Turkish people. Also known as "Farmers' Congress" and "Qingfeng Harvest Congress". Nadun is a local transliteration, which has the same meaning as Mongolian Nadam, meaning "entertainment". The Naton Festival is extremely long, starting from the end of summer (July 12 in the lunar calendar) and ending in autumn (September 15 in the lunar calendar), lasting nearly two months, so it is also called "the longest carnival in the world".

There is a magical legend about the origin of Naton Festival. According to legend, once upon a time there was a skilled Tujia carpenter, and the emperor also called him to build a palace. Three years later, a magnificent palace was built, which was unprecedented in glory, but the vicious emperor ordered the carpenter to be killed in order to enjoy the success alone.

The carpenter fled to his hometown overnight to organize villagers who had long been unbearable for royal abuse to rebel. The emperor heard the news and sent troops to suppress it. The clever carpenter had a brainwave and immediately asked the villagers to beat gongs and drums, carry the prepared war flag and wave the weapons that had been painted with dyes to the temple in the village.

The emperor's army was puzzled, and the villagers told him, "We are celebrating this year's harvest, and we are dancing to thank God for it." So the army retreated. Since then, in order to commemorate this witty carpenter, the annual Nathan has been handed down and gradually became a grand festival to celebrate the harvest.

The annual Naton is a group activity with various village communities as the main body. It can be held by one village alone or jointly by two villages until the fifteenth day of the ninth lunar month, from east to west, and finally back to the central area. The most common is the combination of two villages, one village is the "main" and the other is the guest.

The men in the host village lined up, holding colorful flags, beating gongs and drums and shouting "Great!" Meeting in the wheat field outside the main village is the warmest and most exciting moment: dozens of drums hit the sky, accompanied by steady and powerful drums, the players jumped up and down, showing health and beauty against the rough treble.

As soon as the team arrived at the wheat field, Nathan started. Nathan's activities are mainly dance and drama performances. "Hand Dance" is the opening program, which is a mass group dance attended by dozens to hundreds of people, and the participants are arranged in order of age. With the rhythm of gongs and drums, everyone stepped, posed, moved left and right, and danced around the field. The dance was beautiful, the atmosphere was warm and the scene was spectacular.

Hand dance is a large-scale dance attended by forty or fifty people. Old people and young people are arranged in order. At the front of the dance is an old man wearing a robe and holding a fan. They are often the organizers of Nathan and the descendants of Nathan's dance. Although they are over 60 years old, with silver whiskers hanging from their chests and dancing, they are still so carefree and strong.

Young people with colorful flags and children with wicker followed in turn. They swayed, moved around the field and danced. Although the movements of the dance are not too complicated, the neat pace and harmonious movements, coupled with rhythmic drums and gongs, are very beautiful. While dancing, the host kept toasting the participants with sea bowls to increase the fun. People are intoxicated in the dance, and the climax of celebration and joy is getting higher and higher.

After the hand dance, the masked mime Crops was performed, which showed the scene of father teaching his son agricultural production technology in the form of dance. The performance is vivid, delicate and funny. Then the stories of Three Kingdoms, Three Generals and Five Generals are often staged. Finally, in order to show the production and life of the Turkish ancestors in the period of animal husbandry production, and to reproduce the spirit of the tenacious struggle between the Turkish ancestors and nature, the face dance-killing the tiger general.

Lively Nathan naturally became a good opportunity to visit relatives and friends. Early in the morning, you can see men, women and children, wearing new clothes, marching on country roads. The wheat field outside the village is full of colorful flags, gongs and drums, and people are buzzing, which is a happy scene after the harvest.

Nathan is the most important cultural and recreational activity of the Tu people, and it is also a good opportunity for them to visit relatives and friends, exchange experience in production and life, and learn and spread new ideas and knowledge. For the young men and women in Seeds of Love, Nathan's Day is a good time to find bosom friends and a godsend marriage.

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