The customs of ethnic minorities

The customs of ethnic minorities include: offering Hada, Torch Festival, Dressing Festival, Taste of New Year's Goods Festival, and Cattle Soul of Zhuang Nationality.

1, Xianhada

Offering Hada is a courtesy of Mongolian and Tibetan people, representing purity, sincerity, loyalty and respect for each other. In Tibet, people are used to offering "Hada" to greet their elders, pay homage to Buddha statues and bid farewell to long-distance travel. Hada is Tibetan, that is, scarf or silk scarf. Mainly white, but also light blue or light yellow, generally about 1.5 meters to 2 meters long and about 20 centimeters wide.

2. Torch Festival

Torch Festival, also called Chinese Valentine's Day by some ethnic groups, is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups. With profound folk culture connotation, it is called "Oriental Carnival". Its main activities include bullfighting, horse racing, wrestling and song and dance performances.

3. Dress Festival

Dress-up Festival is a fashion show for Yi girls: there are two places in Yizhou, Chuxiong, which fully show that Yi people are smart, hardworking and capable. It is also a day to love beauty, beauty pageant and compare beauty.

4. Taste the Spring Festival

The Festival of Eating New Year's Goods, commonly known as "Eating New Year's Goods Festival", is a traditional festival for Gelao and Miao, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities, especially Gelao. The time is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. During the Mid-Autumn Festival when the ears of rice began to turn yellow, Bai farmers celebrated their agricultural festivals with joy, tasted new festivals and enjoyed the fruits of hard work for the first time.

5. Strong Cattle Soul Festival

The "Cow Soul Festival" is also called "Cow King Festival" and "Seedling Opening Festival". Most of them are carried out on the second day after spring ploughing, and some areas are fixed on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, because it is said that this day is the birthday of Niu Wang.