What activities do Qiang traditional folk songs lead to songs festival have?

The most important traditional festival of the Qiang nationality is the Qiang New Year, which usually lasts for 3-5 days on the first day of October in the lunar calendar. During the festival, people stop working and go out, get together at home and make all kinds of small cattle, sheep and chickens with flour as sacrifices to ancestors and gods.

In some places, they jumped from the palace to the sacred forest, killed sheep, sprinkled blood in front of the altar to sacrifice to the gods, and brought mutton back to their homes. Then they join the family, invite their relatives and friends to drink their own wine, sing wine songs and dance in Guo Zhuang to celebrate the harvest. Qiang nationality is a nation that can sing and dance well.

No matter in labor, production, marriage, funeral and other aspects, men, women and children mostly sing their own folk songs, singing and dancing. Festivals are the best time to sing and dance. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, Qiang people should enjoy singing and dancing. Jiuge is a traditional duet form of "miscellaneous wine" on the first day of New Year's Day. When singing, the host and guests sit side by side and take turns singing, with slow rhythm, beautiful melody, loud voice, cadence and elegant and simple style.

About half a minute later, a dog finally came back. More than a dozen men and women attended the ceremony, often singing and dancing. Qiangdi is the main tool for singing and dancing. This is an ancient six-step double-tube flute. In addition, there are gong, suona, sheepskin drum, huqin, harmonica and other musical instruments. These instruments can play, play and pop up unique folk music, which makes people in festivals extremely happy. The earliest time for Qiang people to calculate years and months is the solar calendar.

Also known as the Mountain God Festival and the Heaven Festival, it is held once or 2-3 times a year in rural areas from March to June of the lunar calendar. The procedure of offering sacrifices to mountains is very complicated. According to different legends and totems, the ways of offering sacrifices are also different.