What are the folk customs of Luzhou

Step on the Mountain Festival, also known as: Flower Mountain Festival, Flower Pole Ground; time: between the first and fifteenth day of the first month of the year; meaning: praying for blessings, blessing the Miao people peace and prosperity. During the festival, the Miao compatriots dressed in costume to the village side of the broad lawn, lion dance, swing, blowing bamboo leaves, play xiao tube, people also erected a dyed red and blue with 12 sections of the "flower pole" to show to the sky to pray for the son of the young men and women in the song and dance in the search for lifelong companion, and pray to God for blessings. Treading Mountain Festival lasts for three days, these three days in the Miao village dance dance song is very lively.

There is a marriage custom of "stealing relatives" among the Miao people. When young men and women after many "sit sister (talk about love), song, mutual understanding, they send each other gifts to love, ready to get married. If the woman's parents oppose the marriage, they will take the "stolen marriage" approach. The night of the "stolen marriage", the woman first to the daily use of things to about half a mile away from home to hide, and then at home to wait for the arrival of the man. When night falls, the man and his best friend go to the woman's house to "sit with her" as usual. Late at night, the man said goodbye, the woman pretended to be reluctant to give up the appearance of sending brother out, to hide things to take things out of the place together with the man to go home. The next day, the woman's parents realized that their daughter was "stolen" by the man. On the third day, the groom appointed a respected old man with three gifts - chickens, ducks, eggs, to go to the party's home to their parents to report the situation, to apologize. If the woman's parents accept the gift, that they have basically agreed to the marriage, then discuss the wedding; if refused, the wedding will not be held, to the government registration on the line. This kind of "stealing relatives" marriage customs, popular among the Miao people has been hundreds of years of history, is the Miao youth for freedom of marriage, resistance to the feudal system of arranged marriages of a way, has been inherited to this day.

Eating Cow Festival "Eating Cow Festival" is the grandest festival of the Miao people, from tracing its roots, we can understand that this festival is not so much a "sacrifice to the gods" as a challenge to the "gods" to review people's performance. "

The festival is the first of its kind in the world, and it's a great opportunity for people to learn more about what it means to be a part of the world.

The festival is popular in Xuyong County and Gulin County. It is held twice a year on February 13 and July 3 of the lunar calendar. It is said that the origins of the Catching Miao Festival were formed after the failure of an uprising of the Miao people. The government did not allow them to join the party. People then secretly contacted each other under the name of playing Lusheng for entertainment at the field dam, which later gradually evolved into a fixed festival.

The festival is popular in the lower east of Xuyong County. It is held on the fifth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year.

For the record, the answers are for reference only, so please do not be blindly superstitious.