What is the festival of August 8 in Guizhou Province

"August 8" Miao Festival is a traditional festival of the Miao compatriots in Xingren, Guizhou, originating from a beautiful legend of the Miao people in Xingren.

Every year on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, under the yellow ripe rice harvesting season, the county and the surrounding Miao compatriots, overflowing with the joy of the harvest, every family kills chickens and slaughter ducks, baking a pot of hot new glutinous rice wine, cooking a cauldron of fragrant flower glutinous rice, or to invite guests, or to visit friends and relatives. Men, women and children dressed in festive attire and gorgeous jewelry gather together to sing and dance to celebrate the harvest.

In 2014, Xingren organized the "August 8" Miao Festival ten thousand Miao bench dance parade successfully declared the Shanghai Guinness Book of Records.

"August 8" Miao Festival of inheritance and development

September 5, 2000 (the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar), the first Guizhou - Xingren "August 8" Miao Style Festival Approved by the Qianxinan state committee, the people's government of Qianxinan state, and by the people's government of Qianxinan state, the people's government of Xingren County, Qianxinan state Miao Association. Since its success, it has been held for 12 consecutive sessions.

Organized by Guizhou - Xingren "August 8" Miao Festival aims to eulogize and show the people of all ethnic groups in the state under the leadership of the party's happiness and well-being, unity and progress of the spirit, to the world to show the state's rich ethnic customs, rich natural resources, unique human landscape and beautiful landscape scenery.

Consolidate the fruitful achievements of reform and opening up, heritage of traditional national culture, promote the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage, accelerate the construction of the new socialist countryside, and promote the economic and social development of good and fast, better and faster. And "August 8" Miao Style Festival has been identified by the Qianxinan Prefecture Committee, the Qianxinan People's Government of Qianxinan Buyei, Miao Autonomous Prefecture statutory holidays.