What festivals do Yugur people have?

The first month conference is the biggest gathering of Yugur people in a year. When the conference was held, the temple exploded, making steamed bread and slaughtering sheep, and the Lama also sprinkled red dates among the participants to show good luck. On this day, men, women and children should put on new clothes and go to the temple to burn incense and light lamps; Monks dance "dharma" for everyone (Buddhism says that people who support Buddhism are dharma; While defending the dharma they had acquired, more than 20 monks put on masks and jumped to their feet, and the surrounding people bowed down. The temple also held a butter sculpture (that is, a lantern festival made of butter mixed with several different colors), and exhibited various flowers, figures, faces, birds and animals, with vivid images.

Sacrifice to "Ebo" is usually on the second day of the second lunar month. Tribes in Dahe area sacrificed Obo at different times. Long ditch, Yale and other places are the first day of June, and Xipin River in Shuiguan Township is April 21st. Ebo is made of pine rafters five or six meters long. In the past, every Yugur asked a parent to go to Ebo.

All the "Zhuanshen sheep" wishing for Ebo were not cut from childhood and looked good. To be carefully managed, it must be a green goat or a white goat (both rams). The right shoulder of Zhuanshen sheep should be tied with red and green cloth and marked. When the lamb is six or seven years old, it should be slaughtered and sacrificed to Ebo. In addition, there is a special Ebo platform in Dashan. In the first year, the tribe sent two people named "Meeting Hands" to take turns to take charge of the preparations. On the day of offering sacrifices to Ebo, people put some new wooden rafters on Ebo, and the tips of the wooden rafters were wrapped with wool; People will also hold simple sacrificial ceremonies at the scene. Ask the monk to recite the scriptures, first put some ghee on the sheep's head, then water the sheep's head and body, and then kill the sheep when it is shaking all over. Mutton is distributed to everyone, the Lama carries it alone, and each of the other participants has one.