Nu what is the festival

Nu Fairy Festival, also known as the "Flower Festival".

Nu Fairy Festival, popular in the Nu ethnic area around the Gongshan Mountains in Yunnan Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritage.

Nu Fairy Festival, also known as the "Flower Festival", the origin of the Nu Fairy Festival, one theory is derived from the primitive worship, another theory is the Nu early matriarchal clans to honor the female a legacy. Held annually on the fifteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, continues for three days.

The festival includes three major categories: worshiping the fairy cave and welcoming the holy water, singing and dancing for blessings, and sports competitions.

On May 20, 2006, the Nu Fairy Festival declared by the Dulong Nationality and Nu Autonomous County of Gongshan, Yunnan Province, was approved by the State Council to be included in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages, No. X-24.

Significance of the Nu Fairy Festival:

Nu is one of the minorities in China that have a relatively small population and reside across the border, and its traditional culture is very easy to understand.

The Nu people are one of China's less populous ethnic minorities who live across national borders, and their traditional culture is extremely vulnerable to the impact of external factors, and the inheritance of the Festival was once interrupted until it was restored after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee.

The Fairy Festival of the Nu ethnic group has a wide social base, reflecting the primitive religion, especially the consciousness of nature worship and reproduction worship, and the influence of Tibetan Buddhist culture, which has an important value for the inheritance of the traditional culture of the Nu ethnic group.