What are the traditional Brown holidays? Brown ethnic festivals a big list

The Brown Tribe Flower Arrangement Festival, or Water Splashing Festival. Ten days after the Qingming Festival. Before the festival, every family will kill a pig and fry "baked clams". On that day, after breakfast, the young men and women in the village dressed in brand new clothes, banging beer barrels and elephant foot drums, lined up to the river. The girls filled their bowls with sand and piled them up in front of the Buddhist temple, inserting flowers. The whole village is surrounded by sand and dances behind the elephant-foot drums and bee-bucket drums. After running a few laps, the drums are guided through all the lanes of the village and the celebration lasts for 5-7 days. During the Ikebana Festival, there is also a "washing of the Buddha". Close the door, open the door, and take away the wearer. The Spring Festival, like the Han Chinese New Year, is a time of stopping, swinging and spinning. During the festival, rich food and delicious food are made.

2. Strong Southern Festivals

Southern Festivals: Also known as the "Sanggan Festival" and "Gansong Festival". The grand festival of the Brown people is held on the seventh day after the Qingming Festival in March of the lunar calendar, that is, April 13th to 15th of the solar calendar. The main activity of the festival is to throw water on each other to welcome the sun. Therefore, people call this festival the festival of welcoming the sun. Nowadays, there are many changes in the Water Splashing Festival compared to the past. In addition to the traditional activities, entertainment programs and sports competitions have increased and become more popular.

Washing the Cow's Feet

Washing the Cow's Feet: Every year in May, the Brown people in Shidian also wash the cow's feet. At that time, the old people and leaders would wear hats, tie hemp fibers, hold brooms made of willow and peach branches, lead sheep, and insert red paper branches in front of each house to show their blessings. The blessed inhabitants would pour clean water over the old men and their heads to show that they had washed away the marks of the oxen's feet. Finally, they will take the sheep outside the fortress to be slaughtered and cooked.

4. Torch Festival

Torch Festival: Also known as the "Daughter's Festival", it is a traditional festival of the Brown ethnic group in Shidian, Changning and Yongde in Yunnan. Held from June 23rd to 24th every year. In Shidian, Changning and other places, the Brown people in June 23rd began to celebrate the Torch Festival, mainly to sacrifice to the gods of the five grains, praying for a good harvest. At that time, the parents of every family in the village will gather under a tree in front of the village to kill pigs and sacrifice grain, praying for a good harvest. During the festival, we also offered sacrifices to the sacred forest. Families bring rice and wine, cook under the sacred forest tree, and kill pigs and share the meat.

Children under the age of 12 are not allowed to take part in the worship of the sacred forest, and pregnant women are not allowed to touch the head and entrails of the pig.

At noon on the 24th, families prepare wine and meat and go to the cornfield to sacrifice the mountain and slaughter a chicken, praying for a good growth of crops such as maize, wheat, and arid valleys.

When the Brown people celebrate the Torch Festival in Yongde and other places, all married girls go back to their families to celebrate the festival. The whole family celebrates by killing chickens, eating meat and drinking wine. On that day, families prepare torches. At night, they light the torches and shine them around the house, then the old people, sprinkling them with rosin powder and saying, "The fleas and mosquitoes are burning up, and so are the natural disasters." Then they held up torches to illuminate the fruit trees in front of the house to show the burning of the pests.

5. Kovasha

Kovasha: also known as the "Closed Door Festival", is a traditional festival of the Brown ethnic group in Xishuangbanna and other places in Yunnan. Every year from September 15 to December 15 is the Dai calendar "closing time". Brown people in Xishuangbanna and other places is to focus on agricultural production. Every family gives one and a half yuan, two buckets of rice, a pair of wax strips and a handkerchief to the village chief to pray for blessings for the Buddhist temple and to invite the village chief, Buddha and monks*** to celebrate the festival. During these two days, people in the village stopped all productive labor, and adult men and women went to the Buddhist temple to listen to Buddhist scriptures and pray. After the festival, the village banned young men from stringing girls.

6. Land Abuse Festival

Land Abuse Festival: A traditional festival of the Brown people in Yongde, Yunnan. It is held every year in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. The Land Abuse Festival is held every 365 days.

Budding Festival: A budding event of the Brown ethnic group in Xishuangbanna and other places in Yunnan.After the age of 14, young Brown men and women will form a social group and hold a graduation ceremony. At nightfall, young adult men and women are invited to a fireplace where young people gather. The girls use twigs to burn black smoke in an iron pot called a khao gai and then help the young men dye their teeth one by one. Once stained, the men and women are considered adults and can then earn the right to fall in love and get married.

8. Chinese New Year

New Year's Day: Brown people in the Dai language is called "Jingbimai", is the Brown people's most grand festival. On this day, every family eats brown sugar and glutinous rice, wrapped in banana leaves. Each piece is decorated with a pair of wax strips and two flowers, which are locked away in the president's house: one is placed in a "tire roll" that hangs above the family sofa. The other is dedicated to "Gokalore". Each male parent removes his turban and kowtows to the parent who represents the entire "family".

Symbolically, the head of the family is baptized with water from head to toe, congratulating him on his longevity, good luck and peace. The parents also blessed the man: "The children of the whole family come to pray on New Year's holidays, this is an ancient ritual handed down from their ancestors and must not be forgotten. The old times are gone, the new year has come, and the children and grandchildren have come to celebrate the New Year. You are all blessed. I wish you a good harvest of people and animals and prosperity." The head of the family, Jubi, prays and offers prayers and sacrifices for the "Tegagon" instead of the socks. The village is organized into families, and the water-dropping ceremony is repeated at sunset.

9. Deadline

The Browns, like the Dai, are also known as "Good Vasa." On this day, the family gives the head of the household a flower and a pair of wax strips, makes an offering for "squeaky tires," and holds a foot-washing ceremony for the head of the household to express their blessings.

The whole family, men, women and children, also offer two pairs of wax strips to the ghost "Sukuma" with the door, stairs and furniture to pray for the safety of people and animals in the coming year.