What are the traditional festivals and customs of Miao nationality?

Traditional Miao festivals: Eating New Year Festival, Miao Year, April 8th, Autumn Festival, Seedling Farm, Fishing Festival, Sheep and Horse Festival, etc. Eating New Year Festival: Eating New Year Festival, commonly known as "Eating New Year Festival", is a traditional festival of Gelao people and Miao, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang and Dong people in Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. The time is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. Every year, the new valley will be held in June and July of the summer calendar. Before the festival, housewives went to the fields to pick new grain and cook delicious white rice. On the morning of the festival, every housewife will steam new rice and cook fresh fish, that is, invite elderly guests, take their children to the fields to worship their ancestors, and then have a family dinner to wish a good harvest.

Hmong

Miao Year, called "Neng Niang" in Miao language, is the most solemn traditional festival of Miao nationality. The date of celebrating the Year of Miao is not uniform in different places. Among the Miao people in Rongshui, the 30th of the lunar calendar 1 1 month is New Year's Eve, and the next day is Chinese New Year, with the largest population and the widest area. There are many folk activities in Miao Year, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, playing lusheng in the hall, and tying the knot that year. Lusheng Treading Hall was held in Lusheng Hall of our village, where both men and women participated. First, the little Lusheng player blows out a short sheng song, and then the big and small sheng players play together. The girls wore bird costumes and silver ornaments, and the silver crowns danced, and the crisp silver ornaments and music interwoven into a festive melody.

April 8(th)

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is a traditional festival for Miao people near Guiyang, Guizhou Province to commemorate the ancient hero "Yanu". According to legend, a long time ago, Miao people rested in the rich Ge Sang (now near Guiyang) and lived a happy, satisfied and well-fed life. The resourceful leader "Yanu" led the people to fight bravely and dealt a heavy blow to the invaders in order to resist the attack of the rulers' officers and soldiers, but he died unfortunately on the eighth day of April and was buried in "Jiajiawei" (now near Guiyang fountain). To commemorate the heroic spirit of the Yanu people, so far, on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Miao people dressed in festive costumes have gathered in front of the fountain in Guiyang from all directions.

Dry autumn festival

The festival of friends gathering spread to Xiushan County. Beginning of autumn Festival is held every year. At that time, people will flock to the venue from all directions to participate in and watch activities such as swinging, lion dancing, playing dragon lanterns and climbing knives and ladders. As for the origin of this festival, it is said that in ancient times, a clever young man, looking for a beloved girl for the people, turned a swing for one person into a swing for eight people to attract people from far and near to swing. On the swing, he finally found his beloved girl. Since then, people get together to play on the swing every autumn. Year after year, it becomes catching up with autumn.