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What is the traditional festival of Yao nationality? Brief introduction of traditional festivals of Yao nationality.

1. There are many traditional festivals of Yao nationality, almost every month, and the festivals are different from place to place. Large-scale festivals include Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Social Festival, Wang Pan Festival, King Wishing Festival, Drama Hope Festival and so on.

2. During the Spring Festival, the Yao people held cultural and sports activities with rich ethnic characteristics, such as singing, playing bronze drums, racing top, shooting crossbows, hunting, throwing hydrangeas and fighting thrush.

3. Wang Pan Festival, also known as "King of Wang Pan", "King of Bargaining" and "King of Jumping", is a grand traditional festival for Pan Yao to commemorate his ancestor "King of Wang Pan". Before 1980s, it was held regularly or irregularly in the off-season from autumn to Spring Festival. In A.D. 1984, the Yao people in China celebrated Wang Pan Festival on October 16th of the lunar calendar.

Zhuzhu Festival is a very warm and grand festival in Bunuyao, Guangxi, commemorating the birthday of the first mother Miruotuo. People beat bronze drums on the 29th day of the fifth lunar month to celebrate three days. The Play and Hope Festival is held every three or five years, usually around the lunar calendar 10/0/6. This is a day when young men and women have sex with songs.