Traditional festivals and customs of Hani nationality

The traditional festivals and customs of Hani nationality are as follows: June Festival is a traditional festival of agricultural production; Yeku Festival is a traditional festival of Hani people in Xishuangbanna, mainly to commemorate their ancestors. The festival of living and rustling is a sacrifice to cuckoo and "pen bitter" bird, the messenger of the god Cang Mo Mi. Zhalaite Banner is the biggest festival of Hani people, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors. October Festival is the Spring Festival of Hani people.

1, June (Kuzaza): During the festival, cows (yellow cattle) are sacrificed to the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth. Average distribution of beef, collective arrangement of life. In May and June, the village is prone to diseases, and the fields are prone to insects. So the well was cleaned, and the Song and Ming torches were lit at night to light up the house and drive away evil. Torches were inserted in the roadside of the field to drive away the plague. Carry out various cultural and sports activities during Kuzaza Festival.

Yekuza: It is a traditional festival of Hani people in Xishuangbanna, celebrating the end of sowing and praying for ancestors to bless the people of the whole village for good luck and health, a prosperous population and a bumper harvest. From the first day of the sixth lunar month (the auspicious day of Hani nationality) every year, the festival lasts for 3 to 5 days. During the festival, people stop working in the mountains, eat, drink and have fun at home, or go out to visit relatives and friends.

3. Lively: Han people call it "Yellow Rice Festival" or "February Year", so the festival is held after hearing the first crow of cuckoo and "Pen Bitter" bird, and the festival ends in one day.

4. Zhalaite Banner: This is the biggest festival of Hani people. Because it is held in October of the lunar calendar, it is also called "translating wax into reality", that is, October, which lasts for six days. On the festival day, every stockade will kill a pig when offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods. Regardless of the size of pigs, meat is distributed equally by households.

October: The Hani people start the year in October of the lunar calendar, and the New Year comes after October. The festival lasts for five or six days, up to half a month. Conditional people want to kill pigs to make glutinous rice. Relatives and friends visit each other. If there is a matchmaker, please take this festival to invite the media to give it to the matchmaker, and the married girl will visit her family.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hani nationality