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Which national festival is the Harvest Festival, and when is it celebrated?

Harvest Festival, literally, can you get the meaning of Harvest Festival? Is it to celebrate something? If your idea is from the perspective of "abundant harvest with snow", it really coincides with Bian Xiao. Then, let's really look at the Harvest Festival through traditional festivals.

Harvest Festival is a festival of Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province. It is usually held on the auspicious day of July and August of the lunar calendar every year, lasting about 6-7 days.

Harvest Festival Celebration: Every family makes wine before the festival, and every family kills pigs and cows. As soon as the festival arrives, the men, women and children in the village gather in costumes. They lit a bonfire, the old people drank and chatted, and the young people walked around the bonfire hand in hand, singing and dancing all night. In the festive dance of Harvest Festival, "Soaking Rice Dance" has unique national characteristics.

Rice-swallowing dance, also known as pestle dance, is a dance work based on steamed rice. The performers are hardworking and intelligent Gaoshan women, and most of them are young and energetic girls. They wore colorful clothes sewn with linen, polished ornaments such as shells and animal bones, held wooden rice pestles and sang songs around the stone mortar in music. When the long pestle strikes the stone mortar, it not only strikes a crisp and pleasant sound, but also strikes different parts of the stone mortar with each pestle, as if hitting the keys of the piano, giving out different and sonorous music, forming a magical and charming percussion music. In the process of rice threshing, while singing, the women raised the pestle with a certain beat and fiddled with the corn poured out of the mortar plate with their feet. The long pestle is staggered up and down, forming a harmonious and beautiful pestle dance with rhythmic stamping. At the moment, there are still people beating gongs and drums to entertain. Melodious singing, powerful drums, and realistic movements blend with each other and have endless charm. No wonder it spread widely and lasted for a long time.

Gaoshan people love singing, and singing is one of the important contents of the Harvest Festival. The traditional songs of Gaoshan nationality generally adopt the form of improvisation, with high-pitched and powerful tunes and exciting melodies. Among the festival folk songs, there are songs about ancestors, hunting and farming. The singer praises the hardworking and brave hero and looks forward to a happy and beautiful tomorrow. The moving song penetrates the mountain forest, floats to the Sun Moon Lake, and ripples leisurely on the blue water, with a lingering sound.

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