What are the customs and cultures of Miao nationality?

Miao's national cultural customs include: Spring Festival, Huashan Festival, April 8th, Dragon Boat Festival and Sister Festival.

1, New Year Festival

Spring Festival is the "Spring Festival" of Miao people, also called "Hakka Year". During the Chinese New Year, every family kills pigs and sheep and bakes wine to celebrate the harvest. I hope the weather will be fine and the crops will be bumper in the coming year. According to the custom, Miao people express their wishes and hopes for the New Year by singing duets.

Early in the morning, compatriots of all ethnic groups from five townships and four towns in the border areas of Guizhou, Hunan and Chongqing rushed from all directions to the foot of Tianxingpo at the junction of the three provinces and cities to express their joy in welcoming the New Year with songs. I also want to sing "Song of Spring", the lyrics are full of spring, looking forward to spring, cherishing spring, hugging spring and so on.

2. Step on Huashan Festival

Walking on Huashan Mountain is a traditional Miao festival. Miao people in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces are popular in the first month, February or April and May of the lunar calendar, which stems from the courtship activities of young men and women. During the festival, young men and women sing, dance lusheng and courtship; Old farmers came to Huatian to exchange production experience, teach production technology and wish crops a bumper harvest.

3.4.8

April 8 is a traditional Miao festival, which is said to have started in the Ming Dynasty. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Miao people gathered around the fountain in Guiyang City in costumes. blowing sheng played the flute and talked about songs to commemorate and pay tribute to the legendary ancient hero Yanu.

In addition, April 8 is also a festival of Buyi people, some people call it "Ox King Festival", others call it "Shepherd Festival" or "Seedling Opening Festival". On this day, people and cows will eat "Niuwangba" or glutinous rice and take a day off to show their comfort to cows.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is a Miao festival popular in Xiangxi, Qiandongnan Shidong and Songtao. Most festivals are held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. In addition to dragon boat racing, there are horse racing, bullfighting, drumming and other activities.

5. Sisterhood Day

Sisters' Day was held in Camus Village near Qingshui River in eastern Guizhou. Every year from March 15 to 18 of the lunar calendar is Camus' "Sister Festival". During festivals, Miao people traditionally eat "sister meals". This kind of rice is steamed by dyeing glutinous rice with colorful flowers and leaves collected by girls on the mountain. There are also lively bullfighting scenes and "tourism" activities in the festival.

Miao nationality development

Miao people are the earliest people who planted rice, and they planted rice in ancient times. In primitive society, Miao people took leaves as their clothes, caves or tree nests as their homes and women as their leaders, which was reflected in a large number of Miao ancient songs. From the kinship appellation system in some areas, we can also see the evolution traces from matrilineal system to paternal system, and from consanguineous marriage to pairing marriage. After Qin and Han Dynasties, the feudal dynasty set up counties in most Miao areas, and implemented the policy of "not following the attached funds, not chasing and abandoning the rebels".

Miao ancestors in Wuxi have started to engage in agricultural production, mastered the spinning and dyeing techniques of weaving with wood skin and dyeing with grass, and there has been product exchange. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the continuous development of productive forces, the original Miao society began to disintegrate, and the clan commune originally composed of blood relations gradually developed into a rural commune with geographical relations. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Miao people gradually entered the class society, and the leaders of rural communes had the right to dominate the land.

The feudal economy of Han nationality promoted the formation and development of the feudal lords economy of Miao nationality through frequent exchanges with Miao nationality. Some "pretty chiefs" and "pretty handsome" became hereditary "local officials" and owned a lot of land. The Miao people among these "local officials" became serfs (called "Tian Ding"), cultivated the land of the lords, paid rent and kimono for free labor, and had to participate in the battles between the lords and work hard for them.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Miao nationality