What are the festivals of various ethnic groups related to agricultural activities?

"Living Road Festival" is a festival before spring ploughing in Dong villages in zhenyuan county, Guizhou, such as Bao Jing, Bao You, Bai Yan, Long Ben, Pingming, Naidui, Gaokan, Bashuo and Gaogou. The festival is held every year from New Year's Eve to the second day of every Friday in the first half of the first month. A festival is a day. In the nine Dong villages that reported to Beijing, two adult men were selected to be responsible for farming, which was called "the living road head". Because Baojing Village is recognized as a traditional activity center, people who report to Beijing usually take the lead. Every year, on the first day of the New Year's Day, that is, after breakfast on New Year's Eve, Huolutou will climb the ravine on the north and south sides of Beijing Dazhai, beating gongs and drums, and inform all families to seal up farm tools, spinning wheels and nests and stop farming, spinning and activities. Dong Jia around heard the announcement of the burner, and immediately put a paper seal on the electrical appliance, saying that it would stop using it from now on until the burner festival came.

Every year, after breakfast on the second day of the fifth day of the first month, all the men, women and children in Dong Village wear festive costumes and come to a festival venue in Qiantianba, Dazhai, Beijing to participate in the ceremony of the Living Road Festival. In the morning, the iron cannon sounded three times on the field, and the ceremony of the Living Road Festival officially began. First of all. Starting from the end of the road, the oxen plow the fields, then dig their nests with hoes and plant several tender thatches prepared in advance, symbolizing that lush seedlings have been planted. Then people danced around the dam in melodious Lusheng music, expressing the joy of the festival and wishing the agricultural harvest this year. After the road sacrifice ceremony, it marks that the sealed farm tools, spinning wheels and other appliances have been removed, and the work of spring ploughing and spinning has arrived. In the afternoon, every household tore off the seal and planted several tender thatches in the garden with farm tools, indicating that spring ploughing broke the ground; In the evening, the women began to spin and weave. From the next day, Jiuzhai, a newspaper in Beijing, will put into intensive spring ploughing production and win a bumper agricultural harvest with hard work.