What festivals and customs do ethnic minorities have?

Water-splashing Festival, also known as Buddha-washing Festival and Cold River Febrile Festival, is a celebration for Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai and Southeast Asia, as well as people in overseas Thai settlements such as Jiulong City, Taiwan Province Province and Zhonghe District of New Taipei City, who get up early in the morning to wash Buddha, and then start for several days. In the meantime, everyone splashed each other with pure water and prayed to wash it off.

2. 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.

3. The Lisu people's sword and pole festival.

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".

4. Bai March Street

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.

5. Lahu Mid-Autumn Festival

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.

6. 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.

7. Hani Zallet

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.

8. 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.