What are the festivals of ethnic minorities?

The Copper Drum Festival A traditional festival of the Zhuang ethnic group around Aidong and Changle Townships in Donglan County. It is held on the first, fifteenth and thirtieth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. At that time, the young men of each village form a copper drum team, carry the copper drum to the top of a high mountain near the village, hang it on a wooden frame, firstly beat the drum to offer ancestor worship, and then have a competition of beating the copper drum. The method is big drum to big drum, small drum to small drum, to four sides for 1 group, each drum 3 people, rotating to play, can not be interrupted. To play loud and clear, fast-paced, endurance for the win. Competition is often overnight. At the same time, male and female youths sing in pairs. At the end of the competition, people bring food from home such as rice dumplings for a picnic, singing and laughing resounded through the valley.

Frogwoman Festival Donglan, Nandan, Tian'e and other counties Zhuang folk traditional festival. Commonly known as ant Festival. Festival from the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to thirty (some places to fifteen) days, to the village as a unit or several villages held jointly, there are "please frog woman", "singing frog woman", "filial piety frog woman", "funeral frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman", "the frog woman". There are rituals such as "Inviting Frogwoman", "Singing Frogwoman", "Filial Piety", "Burial of Frogwoman" and so on. The whole festival activities to praise the frog god to bring rain to the earth, blessing the achievements of the harvest throughout, for the music and entertainment of the god of the song and dance extravaganza. The first frog found on the first day of the New Year is regarded as sacred, and the person who captures it is honored and embraced, and becomes the chief who presides over the frog-sacrificing ceremony in that year. In modern times, the Frogwoman Festival has evolved into a mass entertainment festival and song, so it is also known as the "Ant Song Festival".

Eat Li Festival Longzhou County, Pingxiang City around the Zhuang folk festival. "Eat Li" Zhuang language meaning "celebrate" or "make up for the Spring Festival". According to legend, when the Spring Festival was approaching in 1894, the French invaders invaded the frontier, and in order to fight against the invaders, the local young and strong men took up arms to defend their homeland, so they were unable to celebrate the Spring Festival on time. On the 30th day of the first month, the soldiers returned in triumph, the townspeople killed chickens and goats, made sticky rice patties, hospitality, celebrated the victory, make up for the Spring Festival, and has become a custom. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, lively.

Farming Tools Festival A traditional festival of the Zhuang people in the southwestern region of Gui. It is held on the 29th day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. On this day, each family to their own processing production of various agricultural tools, pick to the pike, arranged in rows, plow frame, yoke, dustpan, dustpan, stretcher, hoe, plow, rake, hoe handle, baskets, bamboo mats, grain bucket, grain barrels and furniture and so on. People have to buy to prepare for spring plowing.

Flower Lady Festival A traditional festival of the Zhuang people. According to folklore, the first ancestor of the Zhuang people, Liujia, was born from a flower. Later, he was in charge of giving flowers to children. All people are transferred to the world from the flowers in the garden of Lioujia, so he is worshipped as the god of flowers. The 29th day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the Goddess of Flowers. The Zhuang women hold a sacrificial ceremony in which women of the same generation in the village, together with their sisters of different surnames, gather money to prepare chickens, ducks and incense to offer to the Goddess of Flowers, and then go out in groups to pick flowers to wear to pray for fertility and to bless the children's healthy growth. Women who have not given birth to children will go to the field on this day to pick flowers to wear, in order to ask the Goddess of Flowers to give flowers to send children. If they become pregnant later, in order for the child to be born with a soul, they have to ask the master to go to the field to pray for flowers, and they also have to do the bridge ceremony in a small ditch by the roadside to bring the flowers over the bridge. After the birth of a child, the goddess of flowers should be placed in the bed of the mother and worshiped regularly. This custom has now been diluted.

March 3 Song Festival Traditional festival of the Zhuang people. Also known as March Song Wei. Guangxi has been known as the "sea of songs", the Zhuang people have several regular annual folk song gatherings, including the first three days of March in the lunar calendar for the grand. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dye red eggs, celebrate the festival, some last two or three days. Song festivals in various places have specific meeting places. Generally, it is the slope of a mine field. Some use bamboo and cloth to build a singing hut to receive singers from other villages. Participants to unmarried young men and women as the main, the old man and child also come to play and cheer. In the song dike around the field, vendors gathered, folk trade is active. Larger song dike, dozens of miles around thousands of men, women and children have come to participate in the sea of people, singing one after another, lively and extraordinary. Famous song pikes are Bama's Panyang Riverside, Du'an's Cotton Hill, Tianyang's Qiaoye, Tandong's Yangyan, Yishan's Shijian, Liuzhou's Yufeng Mountain and other places. People go to the song dike on the song competition, song appreciation; young men and women sing to love, love for each other will be given to the token, as a love affair. In addition, there are embroidered ball throwing, touching colorful eggs, performing Zhuang opera and other recreational activities. The Song Festival is not only an event of national culture, but also an event of national economic exchange. In order to promote national culture, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region organized the "March 3" Song Festival in 1984, singers from all over Guangxi gathered in Nanning, and compatriots of all brotherly nationalities, Hong Kong and Macao, and foreign friends also came to sightseeing, which was unprecedented. 1985, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region designated March 3 as the Cultural Arts Festival.

Bull's Soul Festival A traditional festival for Zhuang, Dong, Mulao and Gelao peoples to worship the bull god. It is also known as Ox Birthday, Ox King Festival, and Yoke Festival. Most of them are held on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year, and some are held on the eighth day of the sixth month or the eighth day of the eighth month. On this day, the farmers give the cattle a day off, each family to the cattle pen to repair a new. The village elders comment on the cows of the village and warn the families to take care of the cows. Every family steams five-colored sticky rice and feeds it to the cows wrapped in loquat leaves. In some places, offerings of wine, meat, fruits and melons are set up in the hall, and the parents lead an old ox to walk around the offerings, singing as they go, in order to praise and reward the merits of the ox. On this day, each family will first feed the cow, and then the whole family to eat the festival meal. 70 years, since the Ox King Festival in the cow god has been thinned out, but respect for the cow cow protection style still exists.

The Medicine King Festival is also known as the Medicine Master Festival. Traditional festival of the Zhuang people. Legend has it that the Medicine King is the god of Zhuang medicine. He found medicinal herbs, for people to cure, but also to the crowd to teach the knowledge of planting medicine, picking medicine, cure. In the old days, all the larger villages in the Zhuang area had a temple of the Medicine King, which was worshipped at the Dragon Boat Festival in May every year and was held to collect medicine and prevent diseases. Such as the northern part of the Zhuang this day on the mountain to pick back Sapium sebiferum, Tianji Huang, gourd tea, Yuanbao grass and other herbs to boil water to take a bath. Thought that this action can make the skin clean, do not have scabies. Jingxi County, the Zhuang in this day to open the medicine market, specializing in selling a variety of herbs, buyers enthusiastically. Legend has it that the medicine of this day has special effects. In addition, each family also wrapped triangular rice dumplings, boiling vinegar liquid in the house, burning pomelo skin, inserted in the door of the wormwood, in order to drive away the evil spirits from the epidemic.

Eating new festival Zhuang, Dong, Miao and other ethnic traditional festival. It is also known as the Green Festival and the New Rice Festival. Held every year in the sixth lunar month, the specific date varies from place to place. At that time, rice and corn have begun to ripen, people take a little new rice, cook dry rice and vegetables for the festival. If the rice is not ripe, they pick back the ears of rice on several pieces of their own homes, and pinch and sprinkle their grain pulp in the rice pot to show that they have tasted the new rice. In some places, new rice, meat and wine to honor the gods of agriculture. In some cases, the village as a unit, in the fields or hillside gathering feast, singing and dancing, after the day off. It is said that the custom of this festival originated from people's worship of the god of agriculture, and later gradually evolved into a general folk festival.

Moichi Dawang Festival A traditional festival of the Zhuang people in northern Gui. It is also known as Wugu Temple Festival. Held annually on the second day of the sixth lunar month. Legend has it that this is the day for the birth of Mo Yi Da Wang, because it saved the Zhuang people have merit, and bless the grain harvest, the Zhuang people feel its benevolence, so in front of the village to build temples, home neutral shrine enshrined. Every year, a small festival is held to offer chickens, ducks and pork; a large festival is held every six years, and all villages and towns must collect money to kill pigs and slaughter sheep. At that time, each family sends a person to participate in a grand ceremony held in Mo Yi Da Wang Temple, presided over by the head of the village, please Taoist priests chanting prayers. At the time of the festival, according to the 12 months of the year, the meat, liver, intestines, bones and other different parts of the pig and cattle were made into 12 dishes, one by one on the offering table. When all 12 dishes have been offered, paper is burned to perform the ritual. After the festival, each dish is equally distributed to each person to taste. In the evening, songs and operas are sung and other entertainment is held.

Ringback Festival A traditional festival of the Zhuang people in the western part of Gui, who call themselves "Bunun". In Zhuang language, it is known as "Guinhou to", meaning eating new grain and young men and women to socialize. It is held on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. Families slaughter chickens and ducks, make tofu, steam new rice for ancestors, family feast, and rice to feed dogs and cats, to show that they do not forget the work of guarding their homes to catch rats. After dinner, young men and women dressed in new clothes gathered on the ground next to the village to hold a back-beating activity. Men and women tease and play with each other, you step on my feet, and I beat your back. Old people and children also came to watch and cheer, full of laughter. According to the custom, the male first pat the female back, said the male first fancy female; if the female first beat the male back, said that the female fell in love with the male; if both beat each other, said that they love each other. Then they chased each other out of the field, to the village walled village side to the song, blowing wood leaves, tell each other love, parting gifts to each other, to determine the love relationship.

Taste the new festival Zhuang folk traditional festival. It is held every year during the seventh and eighth months of the lunar calendar when the new grains are ripe. Usually each family alone, but also invited neighboring friends and relatives to gather together. On this day, every family cooks rice with new rice, kills chickens and ducks, prepares pork, and offers sacrifices to ancestors and various gods to thank them for blessing a good harvest. Early in the morning, women go to the fields to cut green rice leaves and offer them to the shrine, and offer rice and fruits, then burn incense and light oil lamps. When everything is ready, the dog is called to the shrine and fed with a big spoonful of fresh rice and various dishes. After the dog has eaten its fill, the whole family sits down for a meal. Legend has it that the dog brought the earliest seeds of grain, so in order to thank the dog for its work, it must be allowed to eat first on the festival.

Jumping Lingtou Festival The traditional festival customs of the Zhuang and Han folk around Qinzhou in southwest Gui. Also known as "jumping Lingtou". More than ten days before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, held in individual places in March or October of the lunar calendar. For the local second only to the Spring Festival festivals. Because of its activities are held in the village on the ridge and named. At that time, the village Tuen every pond fishing, family slaughter ducks and set up a feast, ancestor worship God. At the same time, the "Lingtou Team" (Shigong) is invited to perform a dance and festival on the ridge next to the village. The Shikongs wear masks and perform the "Throwing Maddie" (dance) and "Singing Ge" (song and dance); in some places, there are also martial arts and "Fighting Method" (folk magic) performances. The performance program is to install the altar, invite the gods, collect the ban, songs and dances, and so on. The songs and dances are accompanied by drums and music. It was recorded in Qinzhou Zhi during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. Today, it has evolved from a religious ritual to a folk entertainment activity.

The Zhuang New Year Zhuang New Year, one month earlier than the Spring Festival. Every year on November 29 or 30 of the lunar calendar, the Zhuang villages, every family to kill pigs and slaughter goats, the family ancestor worship, the United Village to worship the community, to welcome the New Year. From the first day of December, the villages will carry out a large scale collective visits between each other, will be relatives drinking feasts, songs for fun; young men and women are social activities, the young men in groups of villages and villages "haunted the girl", the song to choose a spouse. These activities continue to the end of December 7 around. About the origin of the strong year, according to legend, the king of the original department of orphans, since childhood in the Zhuang village begging grew up, strong, can get rid of the evil and subdue the devil. Later on, the demons made Chongxiang suffered, people fled in all directions. The king of the society does not forget the grace of Zhuang people's upbringing, exorcise the demons and eliminate disasters, protect the fields and fortresses, so that the Zhuang people return to their homes and live in peace and happiness. When people celebrated the harvest day, the king of the community in the village side of the tree under the shed perched not, when the lunar calendar November 30th. Later, in order to commemorate the king of the community, they will be the beginning of December must be the first day of the year, on the spot to repair the king of the community shed sacrifice to pray for protection.

Surname Festival Traditional festival of the Dong nationality. It is popular in Longsheng, Sanjiang and other places. Shi and Luo family members celebrate "Wei Festival", taking the first Wei after the beginning of Autumn as the festival; some Shi family members celebrate Ancestor Sacrifice Festival on October 12th. The Hu and Wu surnames celebrate the "Jixu Festival", i.e. the first Jixu Day after the beginning of Autumn. The Wu family name in the sixth day of June in the "Double Duck Festival" or in August "Social Festival". The Chen family originally celebrated the "Festival of the Great Expectations" (i.e., the Festival of the Opening of the Wine Altar) on the morning of New Year's Eve, but because it was difficult to invite guests on New Year's Eve, they switched to the "Festival of the Middle Era" on the 14th day of the 7th lunar month. In most of these festivals, coarse rice, light vegetables or frozen vegetables are put on banana leaves before dawn to offer sacrifices to the ancestors and to commemorate the hard life of the ancestors who fled under the oppression of the nation. Only in the morning or at noon do they invite their friends and relatives to their homes as guests. since the 1940s, the ancestor worship at dawn has faded, and the custom of inviting guests to their homes during the daytime is still prevalent.

Winter Festival See Dong New Year.

Flower Gun Festival Traditional festival of the Dong, Zhuang and Mulao ethnic groups. It is popular in Sanjiang, Longsheng of Guangxi and Taoist Channel of Hunan. The period of the festival varies from place to place, including the third day of the first month, the fifteenth day of the first month, the second day of the second month, the fifteenth day of the second month and the third day of the third month. The Fu Lu Flower Cannon Festival in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is the most lively. The main activity is to organize the robbing of firecrackers in each village. The firecracker is a small iron ring wrapped in red cloth (or red silk), which is placed on the top of the iron cannon, and then ignited to fire the cannon, the small iron ring rushed into the air, and when the "firecracker" falls to the ground, the intended personnel will fight for it, and snatch the firecracker and send it to the designated place as the winner. Grab the flower cannon means good luck and happiness, you can get a pig, sheep, red eggs, wine and mirror screen and other rewards. Firecrackers are divided into the first, second and third cannons, and in some places there are four or five cannons. Grabbing firecrackers is limited to men only, often with a family, a clan, a village team, but also across the village free team. The snatching of flowers and cannons was originally a folk religious rituals and customs, has developed into a mass cultural and sports activities, and included in the national traditional sports competitions for ethnic minorities.

Walking Slope Festival A traditional social festival of Mulao ethnic youth. It is also known as the Poe Festival, Poe Meeting and Houshang Festival. It is usually held on a day during the Spring Festival and around the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the festival, young men and women dress up and come in groups to the reserved mine field or hillside to sing songs, make friends and look for lovers. The first meeting to sing the "meet song", when you say goodbye, give each other towels, shoes and other small gifts; the second song to meet each other, each other called "double"; the third meeting song to change the name "old". Through many songs, love is increasing, many young people with each other in the same year, love and love. Modern walking slope and added a ball game, chess and other activities.

Po will See walking slope festival.

Duan Festival A traditional water festival. It is called "Borrowing Duan" in Shui language. The Duan Festival was originally held on a single day, but because of the large number of people and the dispersal of dwellings, the festival was held in batches from the first to the seventh day of the month from December to February of the next year (from August to October of the lunar calendar), after consultation. It is customary to live in the long house first, after the late house. Festival avoid sunny, to have rain as auspicious, omen is the year of wind and rain, grain harvest. Now Guangxi water tribe is not alone in the end of the festival, with the local Zhuang, Han together with the Spring Festival.

Mao Festival Nandan, Hechi and other places in the traditional festival of the water tribe. Also known as borrowing dao. Every year after the summer harvest and summer planting busy, people choose a d day to celebrate the harvest. Young men and women to catch the "d slope", looking for their beloved partner singing, mutual adoration.

The New Year's Day is a traditional festival of the Yi ethnic group in Napo County. In Yi language, it is called "Noisy Tangchuang", which means the beginning of the festival. Every year, the first eight or nine of the first month is held. Activities are: gatherings of ancestors; accounted for the year's major festivals songs and dances and clan festival head figure; for the year's various festivals and activities to collect funds to raise food.

Singha Festival A traditional festival of the Kinh people. Legend has it that during the Tran Dynasty in Vietnam, a Vietnamese singer came to the Kyong ethnic area and mobilized the Kyong people to resist the dark rule of the Tran Dynasty by teaching songs and dances in the name of the Kyong people, and was admired by the Kyong people, and the descendants built the "Ha Pavilion" to set up a shrine and sang songs to celebrate the festival. Year after year, "Singing Ha" has become a traditional festival of the Jing people. Singing Ha Festival held in the Ha Pavilion, there are to welcome the god, sacrifices to the god, into the singing Ha and send the contents of the god, is a folk religious activities.

The Forest Protecting Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi people. It is also called Jihuan Festival. Circulating in Longlin, Napo County, part of the Yi ethnic area. It is held on the third and sixteenth day of the third month and the sixteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar respectively. Ancient Yi people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, the formation of flowers and trees have the concept of spirit, every spring and summer when the grass and crops sprouting, choose a day to worship the grass and crops ghosts, to show that the protection of their strong growth. Napo County Yi also organized a symbolic "hunting" activities during the festival, several young men were dressed as hunters, hounds and hunting animals, playing in the forest hunting. From the day of the festival, the copper drums, gourd sheng and Yi Hu and other musical instruments sealed up, declaring the beginning of the annual taboo period, until the first ten of October to open the ban.

The Jumping Bow Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi ethnic group in Napo County. Also known as the Jumping Gong Festival. In Yi language, it is called Kachee, Kong draft, and Noisy Chee. It is held in the middle of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year. Specific time due to the village and Tuen. Legend has it that in ancient times, the ancestors of the Yi people went out to defend their village against the enemy, and won the victory one after another in early to mid-April and returned to their hometowns, and the clansmen set up banquets and songs and dances to celebrate, which has become a custom. The activity began in the Northern Song Dynasty. Sub-big jump and small jump. 9 years held a big jump, each 6 to 9 days. Every year, a small jump, each 3 days and a half. People sing and dance around the gold bamboo wire activities, neighboring villagers to watch and congratulate, outside the temporary market trade.

Panwang Festival Yao traditional festival to commemorate ancestors. Also known as "do Panwang", "run Panwang", "return Panwang wish", "return ancestral wish". The festival period varies from place to place. Generally held after the fall harvest. 1984 August 17 ~ 20, held in Nanning, the National Yao Representatives Symposium, through the lunar calendar October 16 for the Pan Wang Festival. According to legend, Pan Guo defeated Gao Wang for King Evaluation, married three princesses of King Evaluation, and was named Pan Wang, giving birth to six men and six women. Afterwards, Pangwang went hunting in the mountains and died after being knocked down by an antelope on a cliff. In order to commemorate the kindness of his ancestor, the descendants made drums of catalpa wood, took antelope skins, and beat the drums to celebrate. Because of the time after the fall harvest, contains the meaning of celebrating the harvest.

Danu Festival Mashan, Du'an, Bama, Pingguo, Long'an and other places call themselves "Bunu" traditional festival of the Yao people. Also known as the two nine festival, Zuniang Festival, Zhu Zhi Festival, Yao year. Danu, Yao language meaning old mother of mercy. Legend has it that the 29th day of the 5th lunar month is the birthday of the first mother of the Yao people, Mi Luo Luo Luo, later out of worship, set the day for the birthday celebration. On this day, every family kills pigs and goats, feasts guests, and also holds copper drums, fights with paintbrushes, race archery, horse racing and other recreational activities. Danu Festival through the changes in history, gradually from the folk religious festival into a harvest festival and peace festival.

The Bird Festival is a traditional festival of Bucheon and other land Yao. It is also known as the Bird Festival, the Bird Festival, and the Bird Festival. On the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar, families make dumplings and patties, hang them on trees to feed the birds, and burn incense and prayers, hoping that the fields will be free of pests and disasters, and that the wind and rain will be favorable, and that there will be an abundance of grains. Now the bird festival also added bird trading, young men and women sing songs and other activities.

Miao year Miao dialect area of southeast China Miao traditional festivals. Miao language called Nulun. Beginning in the DuLiu River basin, from north to south by RongShui Dainian, arch hole, pole hole, hole, red water, white cloud to AnTai, AnJian, XiangFan, SiRong and stop, to the lunar calendar in September d to December half, lasted more than 3 months. Before the year, everyone cleans houses, repairs village roads, kills pigs, makes patties, and prepares to welcome guests. On New Year's Eve, young and old observe the New Year's Eve, and after the fourth night, the girls grab new water, pick gold and silver, and the young men go up the mountain to drive the cattle and sheep into the pen, wishing for the coming year's grain abundance and the prosperity of six animals. On the first day of the Dragon God, to drive away the ghosts and evil spirits. On the second day of the lunar calendar, the daughters who have been married are given the New Year's dinner. After the third on the Lusheng slope, the village as a unit "playing Lusheng with the year", the village together with the young and old to his village as a guest for three days. During the festival period, there are thirteen slopes, sixteen slopes, seventeen slopes of the three big slope festival, village-level, township-level slope festival countless, slope festival in addition to blowing the sheng pedal hall, reed-sheng competition, but also held horsefighting, birdfighting, bullfighting, and song, wrestling, birdshot, and other activities. Young men and women are free to come and go, to meet friends with songs, to pass on love with flutes, and to find their ideal partners. The festival ends on the twentieth day of the Lunar New Year.

She Festival The traditional festival of the Miao people to worship the land god and ancestors. It is divided into the Spring Festival and the Autumn Festival, and is held on the fifth day of the eleventh month after the beginning of spring and the beginning of autumn. The Spring Festival is held on the fifth day of the eleventh month after the beginning of spring and autumn. The Spring Festival is held to receive the gods and the Autumn Festival is held to send the gods to the gods. Social festival for the sacrifice of pigs, in the previous year to draw lots to decide. People who need to honor the land god are not allowed to participate in red and white wedding events within 30 to 40 days before the festival, and women and men with pregnant women are forbidden to participate. Before the festival, each family pays one catty of glutinous rice for brewing and steaming. On the morning of the day, the master of the house to house to seek blessings, after breakfast, everyone gathered in the social ping, the temple, killing pigs and steaming rice, burning incense and paper, worship the god of the community, praying for wind and rain, a bumper crop, the six animals prosper. After the sacrifice, and the land god *** meal with the same music. Social day to avoid drying clothes, work on the ground, go up the mountain fire, picking firewood into the cottage and so on.

April 8 Miao honoring the cow festival. Legend has it that the eighth day of April is the birthday of the cow. On this day, people do not go down to the ground, cattle do not pull the plow, up the hill to pick the leaves of the Umi rice tree and maple leaves, into the stone mortar and pounded, with the juice of the filter soak the rice steamed into a glutinous rice, and kill chickens and slaughter ducks for the cattle to wish for the "birthday". Wu rice is the Miao folk prescription, has a strong tendons and bones, beneficial to the vital essence of the therapeutic effects of nourishing the qi. The Miao use rice to honor the cow, reflecting the special role of the cow in farming society.

Lusheng Festival A traditional festival of the Miao people, popular in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County. It is also called Lusheng Po Festival. It is divided into three categories: village Lusheng slope, domain Lusheng slope and county Lusheng slope. Each slope has a fixed slope master. During the festival, the owner will bring men, women and children with lusheng gongs and drums to the venue, and the ceremony will be presided over by the founder or successor of the lusheng slope. Early in the morning, the owner of the slope brings wine, pig's head and pig's tail (indicating a whole pig), chickens, glutinous rice, incense and long-haired grass to the edge of the slope to offer sacrifices. At noon, he leads his village's lusheng team to take the lead in the slope field, and the lusheng team circles around the lusheng post three times before performing the ritual. After the ceremony, everyone raises a cup and drinks together, shouting auspiciousness and announcing the opening of the slope. The content of Lusheng Festival includes stepping on the hall, racing Lusheng, playing Lusheng in the same year, horsefighting, horse racing, bullfighting, birdfighting, songfighting, wrestling, bird gun shooting, Manqiao performance as well as merchandise exchanges, etc., which is an event integrating entertainment and commerce. The number of participants ranges from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and the festival is attended by Miao, Dong, Zhuang, Yao, Han and other ethnic groups. The festival usually lasts for two days, the first day into the slope, the next day closed slope, such as in case of good weather will be up to three or five days.

The Horse Fighting Festival is a traditional festival of the Miao people, which is held in the northwestern mountainous area of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County. The local Miao people have the custom of fighting horses for fun. According to legend, 500 years ago, Miao girls love to marry brave horsefighting, boys love the same girl, the king of the Miao organized horsefighting to decide the belonging of the girl. Afterwards, horsefighting gradually evolved into the main activity of the grand festival.

In 1987, the People's Government of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County set November 26 as the Horse Fighting Festival of Miao. There are two kinds of festivals: horsefighting and horse racing, and the first, second and third place will be awarded at the end of the festival. During the festival, traditional cultural activities are also held at the same time.

La Drum Festival A traditional festival of the Miao people. In Hmong, it is called Hsi Niu. The big festival is held once every 13 years, pulling a 4-meter-long drum; the small festival is held once every three years, pulling a 1.7-meter-long drum. The festival lasts for 3 days. Drum with a large paulownia wood according to the size dug into the hollow, the two ends with cowhide sealed tightly, the drum drum through two air holes. Festivities are divided into hoop drums, singing drums, drums, drums, burial drums stage. At that time, distant relatives have come to "eat drums", together to celebrate the festival; the masters sub-drum society pork, chicken slaughter ducks, hospitality, the whole village immersed in joy. Drum Festival aims to worship ancestors, pray for good weather, village prosperity, rituals and entertainment into one.

The Year of the Dong Dong traditional festival. It is called Ninggan in Dong language, also known as Winter Festival or Yang Festival. Winter Festival was originally a festival of Yang surname of Dong nationality. At first, the Yang Festival was used as the Year of the Dong in some areas of Liping, Rongjiang and Congjiang counties in Guizhou (between November 19 and 22 every year). Later, they followed each other's example, and the number of people who celebrated the Year of the Dong gradually increased.In the early 1980s, the representative figures of the Dong ethnic group in various places agreed to take the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar as the Year of the Dong. On that day, the Yang family prepared all kinds of pickles, frozen fish, patties to feed friends and relatives, called "eating Yang Po". When they celebrate the Lunar New Year, the other party has to give back as much as they want, which is called "returning Yang Po". Generally speaking, people kill chickens and ducks during the Dong New Year, and invite friends and relatives to feast.