Fairy Festival is a traditional folk festival of Nu people in Gongshan. What folk activities are there during the festival?

Fairy Festival is a traditional folk festival of Yunnan Gongshan and Nu people. It is celebrated on 15 in the third month of the lunar calendar, and is called "Flower Festival" locally. At that time, taking the village as a unit, caves with stalactites were chosen as fairy caves, and people offered sacrifices. Fairy Festival, also known as "Flower Festival".

It is a traditional folk festival of Nu people in Gongshan area of Yunnan Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, mainly distributed in Bingzhongluo Township of Gongshan. The settlement time is lunar calendar 15 every year, lasting for three days. Festival activities include offering sacrifices to immortals and welcoming holy water, singing and dancing, and sports competitions.

The origin of Nu myths and stories comes from primitive worship. Another Nu clan was the first matriarchal clan to respect women. Nu Baixian prays for Antai. According to legend, the fairy who hanged herself was a beautiful girl named Arong in Jimude Village. She invented the bamboo zipper thread flying over the Nujiang River, spared no effort to divide Gaoligong Mountain, and also led people to the fresh spring water of Gaoligong Mountain. Throughout the drought year, poor farmers were watered, the rocks on both sides of the river bank turned into fertile fields, and the dry mountains turned green. Arong's name runs through the Nujiang River, and both sides are called fairies. She loves her very much.

Ah Rong's beauty makes the evil leader feel sad, and the leader wants to possess Ah Rong. The public mountain must be hidden in the mountains and caves in Gaoligong Mountain. The leader didn't give up. He chased him to the mouth of the cave and proposed to Ah Rong. Miss Arong didn't agree. On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the leader set fire to Arong and killed the girl in the cave.

On the lunar calendar 15, it is March in spring. Flowers bloom on both sides of the Nujiang Strait. In order to commemorate this smart and strong girl, the Nu people designated this day as the Flower Festival, and worshipped it every year, gradually forming a custom fairy festival on this day.