What day is July 27th?

July 27th is the New Year Festival.

Eating New Festival is also called "Xinhe Festival". "Eating New" is one of the Miao festivals living in the middle and upper reaches of Qingshui River and Duliujiang River. On that day, nearly 1, Miao compatriots from neighboring villages gathered in Paimo Village in festive costumes to celebrate the festival with lusheng dance, Miao songs and bullfighting. Eating New Festival is a traditional festival of Miao people in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province, which is held on July 27th every year.

During the New Year's Festival, local cannons and firecrackers are used to sweep the village, perform Nuo opera, sing folk songs and play martial arts. Village elders sieve chicken, meat and wine, and insert bamboo poles tied with red peppers and green garlic in the fields to show off their ancestors. During the festival, Gelao people will also hold release activities, mainly wild animals and fish. Today, the Gelao Village, such as Xixiuwanzai Village in Anshun and Pingba Dagouchang, has the most grand New Year Festival.

Festival Ceremony of Eating New Festival

Eating New Festival, commonly known as "Eating New Festival", is a traditional festival of Gelao people and Miao, Buyi, Bai and Zhuang people, especially Gelao people. The time is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.

First, a village elder or ghost teacher led boys and girls to the corner of a nearby field to pick new fruits, pick some ripe cereals and melons, hang them under ancient trees, then kill pigs, sheep and chickens, and sacrifice whole chickens, pig heads, sheep heads, nine skewers of pork and twenty-four bowls of rice to ancestors and gods. People are arranged according to seniority, and they bow down to their ancestors. Ghosts recite gelao language, and use bamboo whips to teach six animals about grains. Everyone follows them like students.