What are the three major festivals of the Dong people?

The three major festivals of the Dong people are Sama Festival, Fairy Festival and Knife and Pole Festival.

1, Samar Festival

The Dong Sama Festival is popular in Guizhou and the surrounding Dong areas. It is the oldest and grandest traditional festival in southern Guizhou, which inherits the customs of the Dong matriarchal clan society.

Sama Festival is the oldest existing traditional festival of the Dong people, and generally only married women and a few respected village girls are allowed to participate. It is called the Women's Day of the Dong nationality, and it is the heritage of Dong matriarchal social customs.

2. Fairy Festival

Fairy Festival is the largest traditional festival of Nu people, which contains rich Nu culture. The folk dances, legends and music of the Nu people are preserved and displayed during the festival.

Nvxian Festival, also known as Flower Festival, is popular in Yunnan Nu inhabited areas. It is held on March 15th of the lunar calendar every year for three days. Festival activities include offering sacrifices to the fairy cave and welcoming holy water, singing and dancing for happiness, and sports competitions.

3. Tool holder joint

The Lisu people's knife and pole festival is called Atang in Lisu language, which means climbing knife festival. It is a traditional festival for Lisu and Yi people living in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. This festival is on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year.

Going up the mountain and going down to the sea of fire is the main custom performance activity in the polar festival, which reproduces the life experience and arduous spirit of the mountain people and is also a traditional folk activity.

The history of Dong nationality:

Historians have different views on the historical origin of the Dong nationality. There are four main viewpoints: one holds that the Dong people are an indigenous people, who have lived and worked in this land since ancient times and are the same people formed in this land; The second view is that the Dong people migrated from Wuzhou in the lower reaches of Duliujiang River to today's Dong township, because the Dong people in the southern dialect have a migration ballad of "Gong Zu Xiajiang".

The third view is that the Dong people migrated from Wenzhou in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River along the Yuanjiang River through Dongting Lake, because there is such a legend in the song "Gong Zu enters the village" circulated among the Dong people in the northern dialect; The fourth view holds that the main component of the Dong nationality is local, and it is integrated with other ethnic components that moved in from other places in the long-term historical development process.