What are the Miao festivals?

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.

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. Miao people living in mountainous areas will also fight bullfights during festivals. The Miao people in Pingbian County also held competitions such as lion jumping and flower pole climbing.

3.4.8

Miao traditional festival, it is said that this festival began 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

In Camus Village near Qingshui River in eastern Guizhou, the "Sister Festival" of Miao families is held from March 15 to 18 every year. 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.