What festivals are unique to the Dong people?

The New Year is based on the Dong calendar. It is usually the end of October or the beginning of November in the lunar calendar. Nowadays, most Dong people do not celebrate this year. Only some places still celebrate the Year of the Dong. These places have two kinds of New Year every year. The Dong New Year is called the Small Year. The Spring Festival is the big year. The Dong villages around Rongjiang's 72 villages celebrate the Dong New Year at the beginning of the 11th month of the lunar calendar. In October, the front and back of the houses are cleaned, pigs and cows are killed and patties are pounded in preparation for the New Year. From the first to the fifth day of November, large-scale activities such as song-stepping, lusheng dancing and bullfighting are held. In some places, the festival of family names is also called the New Year of the Dong, and the date of the festival of family names varies from family name to family name. But generally for the eleventh month of the lunar calendar.

2, Dawuliang Song Festival

Also known as Dawuliang Song Festival. Every year, 18 days before the beginning of summer, Xiangqian-Guizhou three provinces (regions) border of the Dong, as well as the Miao Yao and other young people gathered in Hunan Channel Dong Autonomous County, Dawu Liang, held an annual song, the number of participants, fewer than a few thousand, or more tens of thousands of people. This song will be a memorial to a pair of lovers who died a tragic death of hate and the rise.

3, flower gun festival

The annual flower gun festival of the Dong people, held on different dates. For Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, it is the third day of the first month (lunar calendar, the same below), Meilin is the second day of February, Fulu is the third day of March, while Linxi is the 26th day of October. The firecrackers are divided into the first, second and third cannons, and the package cannons are tied with an iron ring symbolizing happiness, and wrapped with red and green threads on the outside. The gunpowder cannons are used as the impulse to charge the iron ring up into the air when they are set off. When the iron ring fell, people will take the iron ring as the target, swarming scramble, so-called "grab the flower gun".

4, Dong bullfighting festival

Every year in February and August of the lunar calendar, the Ohio. The Dong people love bullfighting, and every village keeps a "buffalo king" for the competition. "King Bull" circle built near the drum tower, clean and ventilated, known as the "Cow Palace". The buffalo king is served by a person who cuts grass and carries water and mixes ingredients, and is often supplied with food such as honey, lard and rice wine. "Cow King" is a large and robust body, body roll melon flow oil, horns thick sharp, like open steel fork.

5, Girl's Day

In Hunan-Guizhou-Guizhou border ethnic minorities, to celebrate the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, "Girl's Day". It is rumored that this custom comes from the Yang surname of the Dong ethnic group. Every year on this day, the married girl must return to her mother's home to celebrate the festival with her own sisters and aunts. At that time, the sisters sing, laugh and **** together to make a kind of festival food - wu rice patties. When they go back to their in-laws, but also with a lot of rice patties, to give to friends and relatives to eat, or to compensate for the "Girls' Day" the day of the lads of loneliness. April 8 to eat Wu rice (also called black rice) is an ancient very old custom, said to be in honor of the Dong heroine Yang Bamei. Wu rice is a kind of black pulp with a kind of leaf impregnated with water, the Dong district specialties of the "glutinous rice" dyed black, steamed and made.