Special Festivals of China's Ethnic Minorities

Featured Festivals of Ethnic Minorities in China:

Mongolians

The traditional festivals of the Mongolians include the New Year of the Old Lunar Calendar, which is known as "Chagan Sareen" in Mongolian, i.e., the white month.

The Mongolian New Year's Day is also known as the "White Festival" or "White Moon", which is closely related to the whiteness of milk.

In addition, there are also Naadam, Horse Milk Festival and so on.

Korean

The festivals are basically the same as those of the Han Chinese, including the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Elderly People's Day.

There are also three family festivals, i.e. the baby's first birthday, Hui Kap Festival (60th birthday), and Hui Wedding Festival (60th wedding anniversary).

On every Hui A Festival and Hui Marriage Festival, children, relatives, friends and neighbors bless and wish the old man.

Dai

The major festivals of the Dai include the Water Festival, the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival, which are all related to Buddhism.

Dongxiang Ethnic Group

The Dongxiang ethnic group, like other ethnic groups who believe in religion, has three major annual festivals, namely the Eid al-Fitr Festival, the Gulbang Festival, and the Shengji Festival, all of which are derived from the *** religion.

The Browns

The Hounan Festival is a grand annual festival of the Browns, held every 7 days after the Ching Ming Festival in March of the lunar calendar, i.e., April 13-15 of the solar calendar.

During the festival, the main activity is to splash water on each other, and the ceremony is held in full accordance with the ancient and traditional way of the Brown people - the custom of welcoming the sun, so it is called the festival of welcoming the sun.

Nu

The main festivals are: the Spring Festival, called "Jijiam" in Nu, also known as Qaisi Festival; Fairy Festival, also known as the Festival of Flowers, is a traditional festival of the Nu ethnic group living in the Gonshan area, the festival is held on the 15th and 17th day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year; the festival of the God of the Valley, the Nu said, "Ru for the", the original Bijiang County, Nu, the Nu ethnic group.

Tatar

Tatar language called "Gulbang Aiti", is the phonetic translation of the *** language loanwords, *** language "Kalbang", meaning "dedication".

Gulbang Athi is a phonetic loan word from the *** language, *** language "Karbon", meaning "dedication".

Gurbon is celebrated on December 10 of the *** religious calendar, 70 days after Mezze.

The three major festivals are Gurbon, Eid al-Fitr, and Eid al-Adha.

***

*** There are three major festivals, namely, Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Azha and Eid-ul-Azha.

All three are religious festivals.

Eid al-Fitr is the translation of the *** language "Erd-Fisr", so it is also called "Erd", and in Xinjiang, there is also the "Meatz" festival called.

Gulbang Festival, the 70th day after Eid al-Fitr, that is, the *** religious calendar on December 10, is the Gulbang Festival.

Gurbon, also known as Eid al-Adha, is the last day of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca (Mecca: the holy land of the *** religion).

On this day, people take a bath, burn incense and fast for half a day.

In the morning, people will go to the *** Temple to participate in the rituals, bowing to Mecca, asking the imam to slaughter animals, part of the slaughtered cattle and mutton will be given to friends and relatives to help the poor; Sacred Kiraya, the day of commemoration of the birth of the Prophet ***, which is the 12th of March in the *** religious calendar, but also the day of the death of ***.

The commemorations are usually held at the *** Temple, where scriptures are recited and speeches are made about the holy deeds.

In some places, a grand Ermeli (feast of good deeds) is held on this day to entertain the guests.

Manchu

The Manchu are influenced by Han culture, and the festivals are similar to those of the Han, emphasizing the Lunar New Year.

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year, the 25th day of the first month of the lunar year to pray for the coming year, "Tim Cang Festival", the second day of the second month of the lunar year is the day of the "Lock Dragon", and the fifth day of the end of the fifth month of May, the sixth day of the sixth month of June, "King of the Bugs Festival ", August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival; Tim Cang Festival, the 25th of the first month of each year, the Manchu rural households to cook sticky sorghum rice, placed in the warehouse, with broomcorn millet stalks weaving a small horse inserted in the rice bowl, meaning that the horse to the home of the pack food, food and clothing.

The first day, and then add new rice, even add three times.

Some people also use sorghum straw to make two hoes inserted in the rice.

This festival has been preserved in the rural areas of the Northeast; the King of Bugs Festival, June day, prone to insect infestation, the Manchus living in the area of Xiuyan and Fengcheng, Liaoning Province, in the past, on the sixth day of June, a family out of a person to the King of Bugs Temple pilgrimage to kill a pig in worship, begging for the King of Bugs to be free of disaster, to ensure that the ground harvest is good.

Nowadays, not to engage in the Bug King Festival ritual sweeping activities, but the family to dry clothes on this day to prevent insect infestation.

Li

The Li festival is closely related to the Li calendar.

Before liberation, most of the Li festivals in the neighboring Han areas and the Li and Han mixed areas used the lunar calendar, and the festivals were the same as those of the Han people, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and so on.

As far as the Li are concerned, the grandest and most common festivals that are celebrated are the Spring Festival and March 3rd.

Naxi

Many of the festivals of the Naxi people are the same as those of the Han Chinese, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. However, the contents of the Spring Festival activities are different from those of the Han Chinese, and they have strong ethnic characteristics.

Like many ethnic groups in the southwest, the Naxi also have a torch festival.

And the traditional festivals of this ethnic group are mainly the Mule and Horse Club, the Farming Tools Club, the Dragon King Club and the Chao Shan Club.

The Salar People

The Salar people mainly have the Gurbang Festival and Eid al-Fitr Sanki Festival.

Uzbek

The main Uzbek festivals are Eid al-Fitr and Gurban, Nowruz.

Dulong

There is only one traditional festival of the Dulong people, which is called "Kakchuwa" or "Deliwa", meaning the annual festival, and it is held in the middle of the lunar month, and the specific time is set by the families or clans themselves, and the length of the festival depends on the food preparation. The situation depends, during the festival, people should be held to sacrifice the mountain god ceremony, singing and dancing.

Tibetan

The Tibetan people have many festivals, almost every month there is a festival, and folk festivals and religious festivals are interspersed with each other.

The traditional festivals include the Tibetan New Year, the Bathing Festival, the Xuedong Festival and the Wangguo Festival, which are the largest and most distinctive.

Besides, there are Dharma Festival, Flower Appreciation Festival, Shangjiu Festival, Langzha Rekha Festival, Oxi Festival, Luojian Zahua, Bathing Festival, Ghost Exorcism Festival, Sounding Waves Festival, Ghee Flower and Lamp Festival, Fruit Watching Festival, and Mountain Turning Meeting, etc.

In the traditional festivals, there are the largest and most characteristic festivals.

Dong nationality

Most of the Dong nationality in different places celebrate Spring Festival on the first day of the first month.

In some places, the Dong New Year is celebrated on a date at the end of October or the beginning of November.

April 8 or June 6 is the Cow Sacrifice Festival, and the use of cows is not allowed during the festival.

In addition, there are Flower Cannon Festival for robbing flower cannons, New Rice Eating Festival for eating new rice, stopping production activities, and surname festivals of each family name as well as Song Catching Festival, Girls' Festival, Bullfighting Festival, Flower Cannon Festival and so on.

The annual Firecracker Festival of Dong nationality is held on different dates in different places.

For Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, it is the third day of the first month (lunar calendar, the same below), Meilin is the second day of the second month, Fulu is the third day of the third month, and Linxi is the 26th day of the 10th month.

The firecrackers are divided into the first, second and third cannons, packages of cannons are tied with an iron ring symbolizing happiness, outside the red and green wire wrapping.

Burning gunpowder cannon for the impulse, the iron circle into the air.

When the iron ring fell, people will take the iron ring as the target, swarming scramble, called "grab the flower gun".

It is said that whoever grabs the firecrackers, who in this year will be able to prosperity, happiness and well-being.

*** The place also sings Dong opera, colorful tunes, blowing Lusheng, "DuoYe", playing basketball and so on.

The Flower Cannon Festival is the most lively festival of the Dong people.

Lisu

The main festivals of the Lisu people include the Bath Pond Festival, Harvest Festival and New Year's Day.

The traditional Knife Pole Festival is held on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. In the center of the festival venue, two roughly 20-meter long poles are erected, and 36 long knives are tied to it like a ladder as the crossbar, with the mouths of the knives upward, which is called the Knife Pole.

At noon, firecrackers and drums ringing, five Lisu Hanzi dressed in red robes, wearing a blue cap, under the knife pole will be full of white wine a drink, jumped on the knife pole.

They hold on to the upper layer of the knife face, barefoot stirrups sharp blade, bravely climbed up, climbed to the top of the pole, take out the firecrackers, firecrackers sound cheers sound into a piece.

The pole climbers down, people have to him to offer wine, can climb the knife pole in the Lisu people are very respected.

After the end of the pole climbing, young men and women also threw cigarette packet activities, men and women stand on one side, throwing each other, if the girl followed the young man's cigarette packet, and collected, it shows that the girl accepted the young man's love and affection.

Kokesh Festival, "Kokesh" is the translation of the Lisu language, "the first year" meaning.

Koshi Festival, is the Lisu people's festival.

It is held between the first and the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar and lasts for two or three days.

It is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese.

Maonan

The Maonan people release birds to fly in the Spring Festival and look for herbs in the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Maonan also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, as well as the Pumpkin Festival and the Chongyang Festival.

Russians

The traditional national festivals of the Russians are mainly related to religious beliefs, and the Russians celebrate Christmas on January 7 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

It commemorates the birth of Jesus.

Oroqen

The main festival of the Oroqen is the Lunar New Year.

*** The Organs

The traditional festivals are Meatz (i.e., Eid al-Fitr), Kurban (i.e., Gurban), and Nowruz.

Yao

Yao ethnic festivals are more, the main Pan Wang (that is, Pan Gou Wang, She, Yao legend in the ancestor, legend is a dragon dog named "Pan Gou") Festival, Danu Festival and so on.

The Danu Festival is a festival in honor of the goddess of creation, Milo, and is held on May 2-9 of the lunar calendar.

In addition, there is also the Jugodang Festival, which is also called the Jiuwang Festival, the Sunshine Festival, the Gamba Festival, the Mid-Moon Festival, and the Zhuzhi Festival, etc.

The festival is held in honor of the Goddess of Creation, Milo Buddha.

Wa

The Wa celebrate the Spring Festival like the Han Chinese.

There is also the Seed Insertion Festival and the New Rice Festival.

Kyrgyz

The festivals of the Kyrgyz are divided into traditional festivals and religious festivals.

Religious festivals refer to the three major festivals of the *** religion.

Gelao

The three major festivals commonly celebrated by the Gelao people are the Mountain Worship, the Eating of the New Year, and the New Year.

Ewenki

The Ewenki, whether they are herders, hunters or farmers, take the Lunar New Year as their main festival.

On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the fire god is sacrificed.

On May 22, the pastoral community celebrates the Mikolu festival, which is actually a festival evolved from a production activity.

On this day, the number of animals is counted, and horses are trimmed and branded.

People woke up early on the fifth day of the fifth month to pick mugwort and put it on their heads, and went to the river to wash their faces and bathe in order to seek health.

The pastoral area is also "sacrificing Ovoo", which is evolved from religious rituals into a festival, to hold horse races and other activities.

The Herzhe Uzhgong Festival is a new festival of the Herzhe people, born in 1985.

"Wuzhigong" means entertainment or sports conference, held every two years, usually in the lunar calendar, held in May and June, lasted three days.

Miao

The traditional festivals of the Miao people include the Year of the Miao, April 8, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Eat New Festival, the Catch the Autumn Festival, the Flower Hill Festival, the Drying Bridge Festival, and so on.

Among them, the most solemn is the Miao New Year.

Miao equivalent to the Han Chinese New Year, generally held after the fall.

Bai

The main festivals of the Bai people are the New Year, March Street, around the three Spirit, Torch Festival, Juggling the sea will be, worship and so on.

The same as the Han Chinese, also had Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on.

Among them, the March Street and Torch Festival are very unique.

She

She mainly celebrates March 3 and She Spring Festival.

Tu

The traditional festivals of the Tu, Spring Festival and Duan Yang Festival, are the same as those of the Han Chinese.

The festivals and temple fairs of this ethnic group include Yu Ning Temple Official Scripture Session on the 14th day of the first month of the old calendar, February 2nd, March 3rd and April 4th.

Xibo

The traditional festivals of the Xibo people are the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., of which the most national characteristics should be regarded as the Festival of Maghreb and Western migration.

De'ang

About the Door Festival and the Open Door Festival, religious festivals have "into the pudding" (Door Festival), is the largest pious Buddhist Jieju put fasting festival.

There is also the Water Festival.

Yi

Yi New Year is the annual festival of the Yi people in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province.

According to the Yi calendar, there are 10 months in a year and 36 days in a month.

The festival has no fixed date, and is usually held on an auspicious day in early October in the golden autumn, and there are also the Jumping Gong Festival, the Flower Arrangement Festival, and the February 8 Festival, etc.

The Tujia Festival is the most important festival of the Yi people.

Tujia

Tujia traditional festivals, "in order to catch the New Year" is the most grand, every year, the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese New Year's Eve, Tujia Department is in the *** at least one day in advance of the New Year, so it is called "to catch the New Year", the Tujia people over the "small year", the Tujia people. The "small year", but also than *** one day in advance.

There is also the festival of the king of the earth cow hair.

Daur

The festivals of the Daur ethnic group include the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and so on, which are roughly the same as the traditional festivals of the Han Chinese.

But the Daur people have their own traditional festival customs characterized by these festivals.

The Achang

Playing with white elephants is a traditional festival of the Achang.

Security Guard Ethnicity

The traditional festivals of the ethnic groups are also major festivals of the *** religion, such as Eid al-Fitr, Gulbang Festival, and Shengji Festival.

Lhoba

The Lhoba take the blossoming of the peach tree as the first of the year, and the moon cycle changes 12 times for one year.

Every year after the harvest of crops, the Lhoba people have to hold a nearly two-day harvest festival called Ondrin Festival.

During the festival the whole village men and women dressed in costumes, each family brought out the prepared wine, *** enjoy the festival food.

Zhuang

March 3 Song Festival, Spring Festival, Gyro Festival, Longduan Festival, Eat Li Festival, Yabai Festival and so on.

Hani

"Zalet" is the biggest festival of the Hani ethnic group, which is also known as "Yilaiheshi", or October Year, because it takes place in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

"Good Harvest" is one of the three major festivals of the Hani ethnic group in the area of Na Ruoh in Yuanjiang County, although not as grand as "Zalet" and "Bitter Zaza", but it is particularly important, the local Hani people believe that this festival is not a good idea. The local Hani people believe that without this festival, the new year has not yet really come, and the first of October is just a prelude.

"Good harvest color" is "dyeing yellow rice" means, the local Han Chinese called "yellow rice festival" or "February year

The local Han Chinese call it "Yellow Rice Festival" or "February Year".

The local Hani people use this festival to sacrifice to the messengers of the god Cangmamitian, the cuckoo bird and the "pen bitter" bird, so the festival is held after the first call of the cuckoo bird and the "pen bitter" bird, and the festival ends on a day of choosing the day of the Ohi pig; "Toil Zazha" festival, every year in the fifth month of the summer calendar, "Toil Zazha", is one of the important traditional festivals of the Hani ethnic group in the area of the Mourning Mountains in southern Yunnan, which lasts for 3-5 days, and its celebrations are extremely grand; "Ye bitter Za", is a traditional festival of the Hani people around Xishuangbanna, from the first cattle day of the sixth lunar month of each year (the auspicious day of the Hani people), the festival period of 3-5 days, during the festival, people have stopped the production of labor on the mountain, at home to eat, drink and have fun, or go out to visit friends and relatives.

During the festival, horse racing, playing gyro, jumping bamboo tube dance and other activities are also held.

Lahu

There are five unified festivals of Lahu, namely, Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Torch Festival and August Moon Festival.

Among them, the Spring Festival is the biggest festival.

The origins of these festivals and the contents of the festivals have their own ethnic characteristics.

According to the Lahu calendar, there are 12 days in a round, 30 days in a month, and 12 months in a year. Later, according to the Han calendar, there are three years and one month, but they still don't have a festival, so in the Lahu places, there are two festivals and two years in the Lahu year.

In some places, they celebrate the festival of the previous month but not the festival of the following month.

Mulao

There are festivals almost every 1 month in the Mulao hill country.

Starting from the Spring Festival (i.e. Lunar New Year) on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar to the 24th day of the 12th month of the Lunar Calendar when King Zao is sent to heaven, and the New Year's Eve on the 30th day of the 12th month (Big New Year) or on the 29th day of the 12th month (Small New Year), each festival throughout the year has its own forms and styles of activities.

There is the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival Day in February, the Cow's Birthday, the Zhenwu Festival, and so on.

Pumi

Pumi festivals, mainly "the big year", "big fifteen festival", "for the cave", "the mountain will be", "the". The main festivals of the Pumi people are "Great New Year", "Great Fifteenth Festival", "For the Cave", "Turning the Mountain", "Tasting the New Festival", etc. These festivals are closely related to the production and labor and religious customs.

Jinuo

This is to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the Jinuo ancestor ugly Yao Bai, usually held in June, lasted three days.

Ugly woman Yaobai created the Keno Nation, its mountains, rivers, sun, moon, animals and plants, and was finally martyred in a campaign to build the land.

The festivals and rituals of the Jinuo people are basically indistinguishable.

Buyi

The Chabai Song Festival is a major festival of the Buyi.

Every June 21 of the lunar calendar on this day, young men and women of the Buyi ethnic group on the borders of Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces and regions gather from all directions at the Chabai field in Xingyi County to hold a grand song festival.

The Song Festival is a social and romantic event for young men and women of the Buyi ethnic group.

When the wave whistle to shake each other chaff bag, bag decorated with a number of embroidered spikes beard, throw throw as if the colorful butterflies flying in the sky, very nice.

In addition, there are also Buyei Dainianchen, Buyei March 3, Buyei April 8, June 6 and so on.