What are some of the traditional folklore for which the nation is known?

The traditional festivals of the Miao people include the Miao New Year, April 8, the Dragon Boat Festival, the New Eating Festival, and the Autumn Catching Festival, among which the Miao New Year is the grandest. The Miao New Year is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese, and is usually held after the fall. In the morning of the festival, people will do a good job of delicious food set up on the stove by the fire to sacrifice to their ancestors, and wipe wine on the nose of the cow to show their appreciation for their hard work for a year. Young men and women in full costume dance the Stomping Hall Dance.

The Year of the Miao

The Year of the Miao is a traditional festival in which the Miao people of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region celebrate a good harvest and pray for good weather in the coming year. It is usually held after the harvest season, some on the Ohi day in October of the lunar calendar, and some on the Mao (rabbit) day or U (ox) day in the ninth, tenth and eleventh months of the lunar calendar. It is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese.

On the morning of the festival, the younger generation will do a good job of delicious food, piously placed on the stove by the fire to offer ancestors. Some wine is rubbed on the nose of the ox as a reward for its hard work throughout the year. The girls, dressed in brightly colored, differently styled, embroidered or embroidered batik dresses and pants, or long and short pleated skirts, and wearing eye-catching earrings, bracelets, and other silver ornaments, and the handsome young men dance the Stomping Dance (men play the Lusheng and women dance in an arc). At night, the sound of big copper drums spreads throughout the village. Outside the village young men carrying horse lanterns and playing flutes came to the village near the "Yufang" field to go to Yufang (also known as "sitting sister", "sitting village", "stepping on the moon", etc., i.e. young men and women). " and so on, that is, young men and women's social love activities), villages and cottages singing constantly. Through the song, the love of men and women will be by the love object - embroidered with mandarin ducks of the brocade flower belt connected together.

If the Year of the Miao meets the Year of the Eat Drum Tibetan, it is even more grand "drum" for the meaning of "big family", "drum Tibetan "is held by the family people *** with the ancestor worship ceremony, held once a number of years, seven or eight years, ten years. "Drum Tibetan" before the "drum Tibetan" cattle (for the drum Tibetan God fed three years of big bullock) line up to fight. At that time, we elected the "drum Tibetan head" a host ceremony, kill cattle ancestor, but also kill chickens and ducks. The whole drum relatives have to come to participate in the activities lasted more than ten days.