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Brief Introduction of Lusheng Festival

1. The Lusheng Festival is the most common and grandest traditional festival in the Miao area, and it is a festival in which the Lusheng Stomping Hall and the Lusheng Race are the main activities. Lusheng Festival is generally named after the name of the slope meeting (such as thirteen slopes, Gulong slope). The time of Lusheng Festival varies from place to place, from the third to the seventeenth day of the first month. Some of them come from the auspicious days of ancient rules and regulations, some from the celebration of harvest, and some from myths and legends.

2, in the lusheng event, especially the Kaili International Lusheng Festival is the most spectacular, it set the essence of the national flavor, "a hundred oxen scramble", "a thousand pairs of silver horns", "10,000 Lusheng It is a colorful and spectacular scene with "a hundred cattle fighting", "a thousand pairs of silver horns" and "ten thousand rushengs", integrating national culture, sports, food and crafts, and has become an event for cultural exchange between Chinese and foreigners of rushengs and a big stage for attracting investment and developing economy. Since the first International Lusheng Festival was successfully held on August 28, 1999, it has become a focus of attention.

3, Lusheng Festival is Guizhou Province, Qiandongnan Miao, Dong Autonomous Prefecture, the Miao people's traditional festival, held around September 27 on the lunar calendar, a week. According to legend, the lusheng pipe was taught by Zhuge Liang to the Miao people, so they also called the lusheng pipe the Kongming pipe. According to documents, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the southwest region is widely popular in playing the reed-sheng, reed-sheng festival has a long history. During the festival, men wearing pairs of lapel or right lapel shorts and pants, head wrapped in green cloth scarf, belt, holding a reed-sheng, lock na, copper drums, surging to the venue; girls wearing embroidered with various colors and patterns of dress, head wrapped in green handkerchiefs, waist embroidered colorful belts, wearing silver jewelry, talking and laughing to follow, people dance with the music of the reed-sheng.