What are the cultural customs of ethnic minorities in China?

Dai nationality's Juncus Flower Street

Also known as "Chongxin Street". The Dai language is called "horse". Traditional Dai festivals in Xinping and Jinggu areas of Yunnan Province are celebrated every year after the Lunar New Year (the first day of the first lunar month). According to local customs, after the Spring Festival, we have to drive three streets, each for ten days. The first street is for teenagers, the second street is for unmarried young people in their twenties, and the third street is for married adults. The girls who rushed to the second street wore flowers and new floral dresses, and brought a batch of special lunch boxes to each boyfriend. There are bacon, glutinous rice and a cloth in the lunch box. Sometimes, although the parents of girls' boyfriends come to watch the fun, they can also get lunch boxes from girls and enjoy food together, and they are proud of it. After dinner, the boy put some small gifts such as candy and silk thread in the box as a reward for the girl. On this day, the boys also put on beautiful clothes and drank with their lovers with wine and delicacies. Young men and women drank, sang and danced together until late at night.

Dai water-splashing festival

Also known as Buddha Wash Festival, also known as Leng He Shang Han, it is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai-speaking and Southeast Asia. People in overseas Thai settlements such as Kowloon City and Zhonghe District of New Taipei City in Taiwan Province Province get up early to wash Buddha, and then start celebrations for several days. During this period, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other and prayed to wash away the past year.

Yi torch festival

Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu nationalities. It has a profound connotation of folk culture and is called "Carnival of the East". Its main activities include bullfighting, goat shooting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling and song and dance performances.

Sword and pole festival of Lisu nationality

The Lisu sword and pole festival is called Tang De in Lisu language, which means "climbing knife festival". This is a traditional festival for Lisu and Yi people in Lushui County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. This festival is held on15th day of the first month of each year, and performers perform "Shang".

Baizu Sanyue steet

March Street, also known as "Guanyin City", "Guanyin Street" and "Sacrifice Guanyin Street", is a traditional grand festival of the Bai people, and it is also a grand gathering of traditional folk material exchanges and cultural activities of the Bai people. Popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places, it is held at the foot of Diancang Mountain in western Dali from March 15 to February1Sunday every year. At first, it was full of religious activities, and later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting.

Hani daughter's day

Celebrate the festival on the fourth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that in ancient times, a beautiful local girl fell in love with a handsome young hunter, but her parents betrothed her to the one-eyed son of the toast. The girl was heartbroken. On the fourth day of the second lunar month, the girl went up the mountain to cut firewood and met a girl who also suffered from marital misfortune. After complaining to each other about their difficulties, they jumped off the cliff together and committed suicide. Afterwards, the Hani people thought that they could no longer interfere in the marriage of young people and wanted girls to choose their lovers freely, so they designated the fourth day of the second lunar month as Girls' Day. On the morning of the festival, unmarried boys borrowed beautiful clothes and trousers from their lovers, dressed as girls, and danced with their lovers to entertain themselves until the sun went down. Married men should be particularly diligent on this day. When they get up early in the morning, they have to draw water and cut wood, give the boiled water for washing their faces to their wives, and then cook for chickens and ducks. After finishing these chores, we should quickly concentrate on the square in the stockade, be diligent and agile, and be one step ahead. Go home and continue to wait on your wife until late at night.

Snow Festival in Tibet

Xuedun Festival is a traditional religious festival for Tibetan people in Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces. Most of them are held in early February, mid-April or mid-June of the Tibetan calendar, and the specific dates vary from place to place. In Tibetan, it means to eat yogurt, so it is also called "Yogurt Festival". Because there is a grand and enthusiastic Tibetan opera performance and a grand Buddha-drying ceremony during the Snowdon Festival, some people call it IT.

Miao Huashan Festival

Huashan Festival, also known as "stepping on Huashan Mountain" and "jumping flowers", is a traditional Miao festival, which is popular in southern Sichuan and southeastern Yunnan in the central and western regions. It is usually held around the Dragon Boat Festival in May of the lunar calendar. During the festival, Miao people dressed up in traditional jumping hurdles, young men and women danced on the flower pole in the center of the venue, and young men also performed pole climbing, horse racing, archery, singing, dancing and beauty contests.

Hani zalet

Zhalaite Banner is the biggest festival of Hani people. Because it is held in October of the lunar calendar, it is also called "translating wax into real people", which is October. During the festival, people stop working in the mountains, eat, drink and have fun at home, or go out to visit relatives and friends. During the festival, there will also be horse racing, spinning top and jumping bamboo tube.

Tibet butter sculpture Lantern Festival

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, a Dafa meeting will be held on the last day. On this day, Tibetan people will paste flowers, birds, fish, insects and figures carved with colored ghee to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Monks, laymen and folk artists from all over Tibet have made exquisite ghee sculptures with ghee and Tibetan pigments. Many ghee sculptures have formed multi-frame serial stories, telling the ancient legends of Tibetan people.

Mid-Autumn Festival of Lahu Nationality

Mid-Autumn Festival is an agricultural festival of Lahu people, also known as Baha 'i Festival. The Lahu people pronounce Baha 'i, which means the moon. It was originally held on August 15 of the Lahu calendar to worship the moon and celebrate the harvest, and the ceremony was held at sunrise in the evening. Each family chooses the best melons and fruits as sacrifices, puts them on the table and carries them to the place where the mountain gods are sacrificed. In the moonlight, men, women and children in the village danced Lusheng dance around the bamboo table to celebrate the festival.

Mongolian horse milk festival

Horse milk festival is a traditional Mongolian festival, mainly drinking horse milk wine. Popular in Xilin Gol League in Inner Mongolia and some pastoral areas in Erdos. It is usually held in the late August of the lunar calendar. The date is not fixed and lasts for one day. In order to celebrate the bumper harvest and bless each other, besides preparing enough kumiss, guests were also treated with "hand-grilled meat", horse racing activities were held, folk singers were invited to sing greetings, and gifts were given to old Mongolian doctors.