What are the festivals and customs of the Keno people in China?

The Iron Festival, known as "Te Mouche" in Keno, is the grandest festival of the Keno people, generally held in December of the lunar calendar every year, lasting three days.

The first day of the festival in the morning to hold plagiarism ceremony, in the afternoon, the elders in the cottage ringing cowhide drums, people can not help but with the drums around the drums dance rough, which is the Kino people to celebrate the harvest of the "Sun Drum" dance.

Kinuo hospitality is sincere, the folk have always retained the "raw points cooked to eat" customs and wine instead of the custom of punishment. Caught the prey, whoever saw the catcher, raw can share a share, cooked can go to eat.

In the village, who violated the village law or did something wrong, generally punish 10 bowls of wine, the heaviest to punish two pigs, more than 100 pounds of rice and dozens of pounds of wine, please the village young and old **** meal. In the past, the kino tribe has had a rite of passage custom. Children over the rite of passage, to fat cattle, beef wrapped in banana leaves, given to each family in the village to celebrate.

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The Jinuo ethnic group is mainly located in Jinhong County, West Shuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and a small number of them are scattered in Mengwang, Mengyang, Oliba, Dadugang in Jinhong County, and Xiangming and Menglun in Mengla County. The Jinuo are an ancient ethnic group.

The Jinuo are mainly engaged in slash-and-burn agriculture, and their farming tools are basically made of iron, including machetes, sickles and small hand hoes. The main crops are dry rice and corn, and there is also a long history of cotton cultivation, with an abundance of subtropical fruits such as bananas and papayas.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Kinuo People