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Legend has it that in the ancient times (another legend of Shennong taking grain seed mother-title myth), Shennong, the ancestor of the Miao people, sent a man and a woman to the East to take grain seed, teaching the Miao people to plant, so that people have five grains to eat. Therefore, Hunan Huayuan County, Ma Li field to Jishou City, the Miao people around the short cottage, every year before the arrival of the Autumn Festival, to have to catch up with the Autumn Festival, the Shen Nong sent to take the grain seed of a man and a woman known as the autumn male and female autumn, as a way to commemorate the benevolence of the God of Nong. Because the lunar calendar before the arrival of autumn, paddy fields, dryland crops are yellow ripe, due to the blessing of Shennong, a good harvest has become a foregone conclusion, therefore, catching the Autumn Festival as a mobilization, Miao people in all directions to catch the Autumn Rally held in the song, jumping drums, playing the swings and other recreational activities to commemorate the ancestors of Shennong and the autumn and autumn grandmothers. Later, the festival inserted the love legend of heroes and beauties, so that the festival has the mass entertainment festival of praying for the greatness of Shen Nong's taking grain seeds and glorifying the significance of free love. In recent years, Huayuan County, Ma Li field of the Catch Autumn Festival, every year to participate in the masses of 70,000 to 80,000 people. It can be seen that the Miao people worship Shennong who sends people to take grain seeds. Miao Festival - Treading Flower Mountain is a grand traditional festival of the Miao people in the territory, which is usually held on the first, third and sixth days of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. Where there are Miao people living in the counties, these days are to set up flower poles, held a grand stamping flower mountain activities. This is not only a good time for young Miao men and women to talk about love, but also an important place for Miao people to carry out cultural, sports and recreational activities. Miao men and women, young and old, wearing gold and silver, from all directions to the foot of the flower pole, blowing Lusheng, playing loud scorn, jumping tripod, playing big knife, bullfighting, wrestling, fighting with the eyebrows, climbing the flower pole.

NO.2 Beat Back Festival

The Beat Back Festival is popular in parts of Funing County, held from the third to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and it is a festival for young Miao men and women. During the festival, young men and women gather on a scenic hillside, and when the beating starts, the men swarm out and rush to the girl of their choice, holding the girl's neck with one hand and blindfolding her with the other, while the other young men go to beat her back. The girl, not to be outdone, laughs and struggles at the same time. When she breaks free, she catches the lads and returns the favor. The whole field, men chasing women, jumping around. Tired of playing, both men and women that is to find a place to play the earth phone (that is, with two bamboo tubes, the center with a long line, each on one side of the bamboo tube speech, singing can be heard), pouring out each other honeyed words of love, in order to enterprises to form a partner. After the love affair, and then tell their parents, choose an auspicious day to get married.

NO.3 Jumping Incense Festival

The Miao people not only worship Shennong before the autumn when the harvest is set, but also after the completion of the autumn harvest, but also to hold a large sacrifice to Shennong's festival, the Miao people called jumping incense. The festival is usually held in the tenth month of the lunar calendar after the fall. The prevalence of jumping incense festival sacrifices to the god of grains and Shennong area, there are Hunan Luxi, Jishou, Guzhang, Yuanling, Chenxi and other counties and cities, whenever the jumping incense festival, presided over by the Miao priests, the festival is generally one day and one night, in addition to the worship of the god of grains and Shennong, but also jumping incense dance, the local Miao people called the "Dude Xiong", "Dude" Miao people called "Dude Xiong", "Dude" Miao people called "Dude Xiong". The local Hmong people call it "Dude Xiong", which means "Dude" in Hmong means jumping up and down, and "Xiong" means Hmong. On this day, the Hmong priests to preside over the young men jumping Miao dance to pray to the gods of the five grains and Shennong. Like the Miao before and after the autumn harvest in October, there are special festivals and dances to pray to Shennong, in other ethnic groups have not yet found.