What is the traditional festival of the Gelao, Miao, Buyi, Bai and Zhuang ethnic groups?

The New Eating Festival is a traditional festival of the Gelao, Miao, Buyi, Bai, and Zhuang ethnic groups, with the Gelao being the most popular. Eat new festival, also known as taste new festival, half a year festival, time is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, when the rice has been pregnant ears, tasseling, people can eat the new rice and hold a grand celebration, on the one hand, to take advantage of the busy season is over we get together to rest and entertainment and spice up their lives, and on the other hand, it is to reflect people on the harvest of a kind of hope.

Taste the new festival to firecrackers to sweep the cottage, perform Nuo opera, singing songs, playing martial arts, the old man of the cottage with a sieve Sheng chicken, meat, wine, will be bolted with red pepper and green garlic bamboo poles inserted in the fields, to show that send ancestor Bibi.

A few days before the Taste of the New Year Festival, newly dressed women and girls in law, wearing straw hats and carrying bamboo baskets, went to the rice fields to pick early, plentiful rice ears. They also lit red incense and stuck it on the ridge before going to the fields.

During the Taste of the New Year Festival, the Gelao people also hold a life release program, mainly for wild animals and fish. Today, the Gelao villages of Anshun Xixiuwanzizhai and Pingba Dagouchang are the most grand in the Tasting Festival.