Worship tradition

This is a traditional festival for Yao people to sacrifice their ancestors. Yao is a unique ethnic minority in China, whose ancestor is that the annual festival is a grand folk festival for Yao to worship their ancestors. Yao people at home and abroad regard him as the ancestor of this nation and attach great importance to this national sacrifice. In Yao areas in southern Hunan and southwestern Hunan, such as Lanshan, Ningyuan, Jianghua and Jiangyong counties, every year on October 16th of the lunar calendar, Yao men, women and children put on their own national holiday costumes and get together to sing and dance to celebrate the Pan King Festival (also known as "King of Jumping Pan" or "King of Adjusting Pan"). The songs they sing are music songs adapted from Song of Pan Wang (which will be introduced in detail below); Dance is a group dance in which each person holds a long drum about 80 cm long, usually in groups of two or two. About Wang Pan Festival, Wang Pan Song and Long Drum Dance, they all have a long history. The ancient custom of festivals in Yao areas was first seen in Gan Bao's Sou in Jin Dynasty, Song of Man Zi by Liu Yuxi in Tang Dynasty, and A Generation Beyond the Ridge by Zhou Qufei in Song Dynasty. "A Answer from Outside the Ridge" said: "Every October, Yao people hold an activity of offering sacrifices to King Bei in front of the temple, and they will meet men and women who have no real family, and men and women are connected in groups." Tread "is the" king of jumping ".