What is the Hmong ancestor festival?

Gu Zang Festival is the Miao a relatively grand ancestral activities, this ancestral activities are generally led by the people of the gou dirty organization, the organization of the object is a generation of the relationship between the better several tribes. The first time I've ever seen a man with a gun, I've seen a woman with a gun, and I've seen a woman with a gun, and I've seen a man with a gun. The Gulu festival is usually held once a year, basically in the spring or the fall harvest season. And the big bullock dirty festival is generally 13 years once, the reason will be 13, take the meaning of reincarnation, turn to which a cottage which cottage as the host.

A Hmong Creation Song

There is no clear text about the origin of the Gulu festival, but it exists in the Hmong Creation Song. Because the early Hmong had only language and no writing, singing became the main way of recording their culture. In the Hmong creation song, there is a mother butterfly who has nurtured 12 eggs, but the last one could not hatch no matter what. So the mother butterfly had to ask a storm to come and help, and the egg was pushed by the storm onto a cliff and cracked, and then a calf hatched out of the egg shell. But the calf felt angry that there was no mother to hatch itself out, so it made the mother butterfly angry.

II. The Origin of the Hmong People

Then the other children of the butterfly mother did not have a good harvest no matter how they planted their crops, and then someone told them that it was because the calf had made the butterfly mother angry, and so the cow was not allowed to plough the land and plant a good crop. The only way to get a good crop was to kill the calf and worship the mother butterfly. After that people killed the calf and got a good crop. So this is the origin of the Gulu Festival, people on this day will kill the cow and eat the cow to sacrifice to the ancestors. The Miao's Gulu Festival is a huge event that lasts for four days. The first day of each village with their own wine, pigs and cows and other gifts to visit each other. On the second day, they danced and blew around the cows. On the third day, the oxen are led around the river three times. On the fourth day, the cows are slaughtered and food is made.

Third, the historical significance of the Gudong Festival

The Gudong Festival is a traditional festival that is very ethnic in character and exists only in the Miao region, so the Gudong Festival has its own uniqueness. The festival is the Hmong people's expectation of a good harvest, but also the feeling of yearning for a better life.