Traditional festivals of Jingpo nationality

Jingpo people are good at singing and dancing, and there are many vivid dances. In many festivals and celebrations, Jingpo people hold song and dance activities. The most important festivals are "Eye and Brain" Festival, New Rice Festival and Flower Picking Festival. ? 1. "Eye and brain" means "everyone dances". Every time we celebrate the bumper harvest of grain, welcome distinguished guests, commemorate major festivals, get married between men and women, reunite relatives and other occasions, we should hold meetings of different scales. The traditional grand "Eye and Brain Festival" is usually held within a few days after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with a time ranging from four to five days. Choose two days of singing and dancing to avoid one day. Every festival, Jingpo people gather in the square, men, women and children, dressed in costumes. The young man wears a white head with red spikes, and the girls wear black velvet tops, colored beads and colorful wool skirts around their necks. In the center of the "wooden brain" square, wooden brain piles are erected. The wooden brain column is generally about 20 meters high and is made of two chestnut boards. Both sides of the chessboard are painted with exquisite symbolic pictures. The bracken is often painted on the right, which is a symbol of unity and progress in the eyes of Jingpo people; Three triangles are often drawn on the left and divided into four squares, and each triangle is painted in another color. Look at two silver broadswords lying across two wooden posts. Next to the wooden brain column, there are two big boards, each about eight meters high, which are also decorated with patterns. The horizontal plaque depicts the majestic Himalayas, and the plaque below depicts livestock and crops, close to the wooden brain column and horizontal plaque. These are two platforms for looking into the future. Around the stake of Gaotai, there are all kinds of eight-sided gongs with musical instruments, about one meter in diameter, two big leather drums and other musical instruments, and the outermost bamboo fence has two doors. ? When the "wooden brain" started, the participants were jubilant. First, the music is played in unison, and the sheng pipes, drums and gongs are resplendent and magnificent, and the sound is mixed and pleasing to the ear. Then, a group of Jingpo women appeared. With a gift basket of eggs, glutinous rice and rice wine on her head, she walked in lightly from the right door of the fence and entered the meeting place. At this time, the salute suddenly sounded and cheers thundered, and Jingpo compatriots from all over the world gave gifts and raised their glasses and danced. As soon as the ceremony begins, it will be danced for two nights, from night to morning and from morning to night. ? 2. The New Rice Festival is an interesting harvest festival for Jingpo people. Every year in August and September of the lunar calendar, when the rice in the field is ripe, every household will celebrate the "New Rice Festival". ? The day before the new rice festival, the host family began to prepare. They carry baskets full of flowers on their backs, then pick a bunch of ripe wax particles, take them home and put them next to the gate of hell. Then, they sent a warm invitation to all families and invited them to visit the next day. The next day, men, women, children and demons all came to the host's house happily, and the host took out water and wine to welcome the guests. After the host and guest exchanged greetings, the food for the New Rice Festival was ready. Women and little girls stir-fry millet, pound rice, make Baba, cook new rice and pick wild vegetables on the mountain. The boys sang together and went down to the river to catch fish. According to the traditional rules of Jingpo people, you can't kill chickens and pigs in the New Rice Festival. Before the banquet begins, the host will hold a prayer ceremony. He arranged Baba, flat rice, water and wine, dried fish and dried mice, prayed and made wishes to ghosts, hoping that people and animals would be safe, the weather would be good, and disasters would be solved. If you can do this, you will definitely kill cattle for sacrifice in the future. ? At the ceremony of the New Rice Festival, the virtuous old man told the origin of millet. It is said that a long time ago, Jingpo people planted millet, but the soul of millet went to heaven. The millet on the ground doesn't grow well. When the dog saw it, he barked day and night and finally called Xiaomi's soul to the ground. Since then, the millet planted by Jingpo people has flourished. ? Therefore, Jingpo people have special respect for dogs. On the New Rice Festival, feed the dog first, then the cow, and then the old man. ? On the New Rice Festival, people talk and laugh while drinking, mainly summarizing farming, discussing the suitable time of sowing, the use of soaking water, the technology of planting seedlings, the method and time limit of sowing in dry land, the design of land reclamation and the knowledge of rotating planting. The New Rice Festival is a festival to celebrate harvest and promote agricultural technology exchange. ? 3. Flower picking festival. Jingpo is called "Sixianxian" or "Jeddah" or "Ningda" and is usually held during the Spring Festival. At that time, young men and women in the same village or neighboring villages will meet together, bring Baba silk, rice, eggs and other food, and go up the mountain together to find a suitable place to play. Everyone will sing and dance, laugh and play, and hold various games such as "cooking". Couples love each other and give gifts to each other, while others, men, women and children, distribute some food such as wine and meat and cook together. Old people sing to young people, and the lyrics are mostly auspicious words. After dinner, everyone sings, dances and plays together. In the evening, young men and women meet, sing and enjoy themselves in bars and other places until late at night.