The composition of the Hani people on Gatangpa Festival is 400 words.

Gatangpa Festival is a traditional festival of Hani nationality, which has a long history, but there was no unified festival in the past. It is said that the ancient Gatongpa Festival lasted 15 days, with ancestor worship and feasting as its main contents. On 15 days of the festival, it costs a lot to hold banquets and drink every day. By the time14th generation of Hani ancestors honored Tangpan, the festival had been going on for four days, and it was stipulated that the celebration would start from the first ox day in 10 and end in the Year of the Loong every year. The content of festival activities has maintained the previous ancestor worship and feasting, and increased the content of entertainment activities. When the festival comes, people will cook rice wine, stir-fry rice cakes, kill pigs and chickens, prepare rice, rice wine, meat and tea, and make sacrifices and prayers in front of Apepolo, the ancestral shrine. Every household should hold a banquet, invite friends and relatives to drink with each other, give gifts to each other, and connect with each other. Every village has swing racks and gyro fields to carry out swing and gyro activities. Young men and women dressed in new clothes invited each other to the mountains to pick wild fruits, wild flowers and sing songs to have fun. Men who like hunting, then shoot birds or hunt in the mountains in groups of three or five.

1987, the Standing Committee of the State People's Congress designated Gatangpa Festival as an annual festival of the Hani people, and the festival time was unified as 65438+12-4 October in the Gregorian calendar. Festival activities are organized by the township government or village offices, and the content is mainly cultural and sports activities. During the festival, young men and women will perform traditional bamboo tube dance, long bamboo dance and various entertainment programs to show Hani customs. Swing, gyro, crossbow and other competitions and spring outing activities will be carried out. Sing on the mountain and have fun. In the past, many activities with feudal superstition have been replaced by healthy and beneficial cultural and sports activities.