What are the traditional festivals of Yao nationality?

Yao is one of the ethnic minorities in China, and there are different branches within Yao, among which some Yao people living in Liannan and Lianshan counties in Guangdong are called Paiyao. Today, I want to introduce one of the traditional festivals of the Yao nationality, the "wishing festival"-the ploughing festival, which is celebrated grandly in the Paiyao residential area.

Farming Festival is one of the traditional festivals of Yao nationality. The third day of the third lunar month, also known as "Treading Festival", means the beginning of spring ploughing. On this day, the Yao family will kill chickens, and grinding bean curd will make a wish to the ancestors of King Pangu, hoping that the weather will be good and the crops will be bumper, so it is also called the "wishing festival". There are also some Paiyao people who ask their husbands to choose auspicious days as the "ploughing festival" of Pai people. On that day, the whole row was planted with peanuts, soybeans, corn and other crops at the same time.

Lian Nan Pai Yao Association held a grand ceremony of ploughing on the Farming Day, and the ceremony of ploughing and offering sacrifices was very grand. The young Yao people blew horns, and several gentlemen waved copper knives, sounded bronze bells and gongs. While chanting and dancing, they also spread corn, rice, yellow rice and other seeds in all directions from time to time, meaning to drive away evil forces, eliminate disasters and solve problems, keep the cottage safe and harvest food.

On the day of ploughing, the Yao people in each village slaughtered pigs and sheep, recited Yao scriptures, paid homage to temple gods and ancestors, prayed for good weather and abundant crops, sealed songs, danced and hunted, and concentrated their labor and energy on farming, so it was also called "wishing festival". The activities of the "Land Reclamation Festival" include the Yao people's land reclamation sacrifice, chasing and driving away the black-faced people, and displaying the living fossils of Yao people's primitive farming.

In addition to the activities in the platoon, relatives and friends also visit each other, especially inviting relatives and friends of Han people to be guests. Interestingly, married men and women can visit their old friends on that day. Those men and women who were in love before, but were not married because of their parents' discord or misunderstanding, were allowed to visit their old lovers that day, and they dated and flirted in the jungle to catch up. They are called "supplements" and are not subject to constraints and interference.

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