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What traditional festivals do Mulao people have?

In the past, the Mulao people believed in many gods and held many festivals.

There are festivals almost every month of the year except October and November.

The triennial "Fan Yi" Festival, also called "Joy and Enrichment", is the biggest festival of the Mulao people. The main purpose of "relying on food" is to make a wish to our ancestors, pray for the safety of people and animals, and reap a bumper harvest.

The special festivals of the Mulao nationality are: Women's Day (also known as Children's Day) on the third day of March, and its activity is to hold sacrifices in villages; On the eighth day of April, the activity is to let the cows rest and worship the cowshed god; The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival. Besides having the same content as the local Han and Zhuang people's Dragon Boat Festival, each village also carries paper boats to patrol the fields to drive away insects to ensure a bumper harvest. The second day of June is Insect Eating Festival, which is a traditional festival to promote pest control methods. August 15 is a festival for young men and women all over the world to carry out social activities. There is also a sail festival, once every three years and once a year. It is held every "auspicious day" after beginning of winter. In Daqing, taking the village (religion) as the unit, pigs and sheep are prepared to sacrifice to the ancestral temple, and performances, dragon and lion dances, folk songs and other activities are held. Xiaoqing is a family activity.