What day is the ninth day of the sixth lunar month?

On the ninth day of the sixth lunar month, the Jing people in Dongxing, Guangxi held a unique national traditional festival-"Ha Festival", or singing Ha Festival.

This is a traditional song concert. People put on holiday costumes and hold ceremonies such as welcoming gods, offering sacrifices, singing, drinking in the countryside and seeing off. The god here refers to the sea god, and the Jing people mainly produce marine fisheries and believe in the sea god. Every year, I go to the seaside to welcome Poseidon back to worship, praying for the prosperity of people and animals and the bumper harvest of crops.

Inherited value

Haji Festival is the only traditional festival of Jing nationality, which is celebrated solemnly every year. Its main contents are offering sacrifices to gods, reuniting with villagers and socializing. After nearly 500 years of development and evolution, Haji Festival of the Jing nationality is a concentrated expression of the traditional culture of the Jing nationality. By understanding the whole process of welcoming, offering sacrifices, singing, drinking in the countryside and seeing off the gods, we can interpret Haji Festival as the accumulation of marine culture.