What are the traditional festivals of Yao nationality?

Yao is an ancient nation in China and one of the nine Li ethnic groups in the ancient East. It has a long history. During thousands of years' changes, Yao nationality still retains many unique national festivals, among which the traditional festival Niusheng Festival is one. Let's take a look today.

Niu Sheng Festival, a traditional festival of Yao nationality, is also called Niu Sheng Festival, which is the fourth of the twelve solar terms of Lanxi Yao nationality, and falls on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year. It started in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty and has a history of 1000 years. There is a touching legend about the origin of this festival.

In the early days of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Qi Daohou was slandered by Jiang Heng, his nine sons took refuge everywhere. After Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, woke up, all nine sons were sealed up everywhere. His fourth son, Hou and his descendants. After repeated political events and killing each other, the Eastern Han Dynasty gradually declined. In order to take refuge in the lake, Hou sold his war horse to buy cattle, became an ancestor, took his children and grandchildren to drive cattle to salute, took refuge in Yaoshan, Lanxi, built Jiangjiazhai, and lived and worked in peace.

Jiang Yao, Marquis of Hu Lin, sells horses and cattle. First of all, he did it to cover up his military status. Second, to take refuge in the remote Yaoshan is to plow cattle for a living. Since then, the Yao cattle farmers in Lanxi have worked hard for the Yao people and made great contributions. It is an important draught animal and life-saving god of Yao nationality. Therefore, the Yao people call it the "god cow".

Yao people had no food in those hard days of fleeing, their mothers were malnourished, and they had no milk to feed their children. They raised their children one by one by milk. Milk has saved the lives of many Yao people, who are always one of the "six animals" in their daily production and life. Therefore, since ancient times, the Yao nationality in Lanxi has a deep affection for cattle, and the eighth day of April is designated as the birthday of cattle every year.

Yao people worship cows as gods. On the eighth day of April, cows should leave their plows and rakes and stop all agricultural activities. People are not allowed to beat and scold, not to eat beef, not to hit or ride cattle. Everyone should use the boiled water of Stemona Gleditsia at home, bathe the cows with the warm water boiled by Stemona Gleditsia, comb off the lice with a comb and comb them all over.

In addition, people should clean the cowshed, spread a new layer of straw, write the words "Six Livestock Flourish" on red paper, stick them on the cowshed, keep the cows in the cowshed at home, prevent them from grazing in the wild, cook the cow food and send it to the manger, so that the cows can have a happy, happy and happy birthday.

On this day, every Yao family in Lanxi will use glutinous rice and add some beans, such as peanuts, beans, winter beans, black beans and white beans, to make alkaline rice cakes. Alkaline water is made by burning straw into ash, then mixing it with boiling water and filtering it. Alkaline Ciba is to soak glutinous rice and beans in alkaline water, and then wrap them with bamboo shoots to form a big Ciba like a cow's feet and a waist drum.

Alkaline water Baba, also known as Niutui Baba or Tangu Baba, is cooked in a pot for as long as possible. The longer it lasts, the better it tastes and the better it is preserved and stored. Ciba is about twenty kilograms, seven or eight kilograms. On the Niusheng Festival, everyone in Yao people will eat "Niutuiziba" and get together to play drums. The dolls will also play drums with Niutuiziba on their backs to celebrate the cow's birthday.

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