Duanjie is an important festival for the Shui people. What are its main activities?

Duanjie is an important festival for the Shui people. Its main activities are as follows:

Duanjie Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals of the Shui people. The festival is usually on June 24th every year, and people also call it "Mid-Day Festival" and "Summer Festival".

In the Shui nationality area, Duanjie Festival is an annual traditional festival, and its main activities include:

I. Sacrificial activities

Shui people generally believe in religion, the cultural center is "court", and the soul that runs through all activities of Shui people is "Bangjian". On the day of the festival, the residents of the Shui nationality will hold grand sacrificial activities in the big court or small court, offering offerings such as Puba and beeswax cakes for meals and wine, offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods in the clan, and praying for the protection of Bangjian.

Second, traditional customs.

On the festival day, Shui people will wear national costumes with gorgeous body decorations and celebrate sacrifices in the street. The whole celebration ceremony will be accompanied by performances of various traditional customs, such as suona, singing and dancing, traditional competitions and handicraft production. Among them, traditional competitive activities are one of the favorite activities of the Shui people, mainly including dragon boat rowing, walking on stilts, playing mat and so on.

Third, eating activities.

During the festival, the Shui people will also prepare traditional foods, such as glutinous rice, glutinous rice gourd, asparagus and other unique flavors. The glutinous rice of the Shui nationality is one of the most representative foods. Made of local unique mother glutinous rice, it is sweet and delicious and deeply loved by tourists.

Generally speaking, Duanjie is an important festival combining the traditional culture of the Shui people with national beliefs. It is not only a festival to wash the soul, but also a big festival to thank the ancestors, express freedom and happiness.

Shui nationality has its own language and traditional Chinese characters, and the language of Shui nationality belongs to the branch of Dong Shui language (Dong Tai language) of Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. The ancient writing system of Shui nationality retains the compatibility of pictures, hieroglyphs and abstract characters.

Shui people call themselves "suǐ". There are several opinions about the origin of Shui people, such as the descendants of Yin people, the origin of Baiyue (Guangdong and Guangxi), the migration of Jiangxi, and the migration of Jiangnan. Shuishu is the heritage of Xia and Shang culture and the spiritual pillar of the Shui people. Fish is the totem of the aquarium, and rice soup fish is an important social custom of the aquarium.