Yao custom

There are many traditional festivals of Yao nationality, almost every month, and the festivals vary from place to place. Major festivals include Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Social Festival, Wang Pan Festival, Wish Festival and Hope Festival.

1. During the Spring Festival, the Yao people hold cultural and sports activities with ethnic characteristics, such as singing, playing bronze drums, racing cars, shooting crossbows, hunting, throwing hydrangeas and playing thrush.

2. Wang Pan Festival, also known as "King of Wang Pan", "King of Bargaining" and "King of Jumping", is a grand traditional festival for Pan Yao to commemorate his ancestor "King of Wang Pan". Before 1980s, it was held regularly or irregularly in the off-season from autumn to Spring Festival.

Zhu Zhu Festival is a very warm and grand festival in Bunuyao, Guangxi, commemorating the birthday of the first mother Miruotuo. People beat bronze drums on the 29th day of the fifth lunar month to celebrate three days. The Play and Hope Festival is held every three or five years, usually around the lunar calendar 10/0/6. This is a day when young men and women have sex with songs.

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Funeral custom of Yao nationality

In most areas, Yao people are buried in the ground, and cremation is popular among Yao people in Liula Chashan, Jinxiu County, Guangxi. Qingyao in Yao Lu Township, Libo County, Guizhou Province was buried in a cave, and Baiku Yao also had this burial method.

After the death of Ba Pai Yao people in Liannan, Guangdong, the bodies were tied to chairs. At the funeral, the sedan chair takes the body to the cemetery, which is called "wandering corpse burial".

In the past, Cha Shanyao, Hua Lanyao and Ao Yao in Jinxiu, Guangxi believed that children came to the world by a "flower god" who managed fertility. If children die before the age of five or six, they will wrap the body in rags, rags and brown skin.

Put it in a bamboo basket, hang it on a tree in a deep forest, and hang it for burial, so that his soul can return to the "flower god" and be reincarnated again. This way of burying children is called "hanging burial", which is rare now.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Yao nationality