What are the minority festivals

Festivals have always appeared in our lives, and each place also has a different festival culture. So what are the minority festivals? Let me tell you.

What are the Minority Festivals

Traditional Festivals of Eight Minority Groups

Strong Song Wei Festival

Ge Wei is a song meeting and song festival of the Zhuang people. In the Zhuang language _ song dike have out of the field of the song of Pangyang _ song of the mountain rock cave _ slope dike _ Pangyang city and so on the name of the song dike. It is held on the slopes of mountains and forests in the spare time of farms or during the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, men and women of all ages go to the meeting in full costume, fewer than a few hundred people, more than tens of thousands of people. Usually, young men and women sing songs to each other, and also hold recreational activities such as throwing embroidered balls, touching colored eggs, and setting off firecrackers.

Yao Danu Festival

Danu Festival is a festival in Mashan, Du'an, Bama, Pingguo, Long'an, Dahua and other places call themselves? Bunu? The traditional festival of the Yao people. It is also known as the festival of the second nine, Zuniang Festival, Zhuzhi Festival, Yao year. Danu, Yao language meaning old mother of mercy. Legend has it that the 29th day of the 5th lunar month is the birthday of the first mother of the Yao people Mi Luo Luo, later out of worship, set the day for the birthday.

Yi Torch Festival

Torch Festival is the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other nationalities of the ancient traditional festivals, has a deep folk cultural connotation, known as ? Carnival of the East? Different ethnic groups hold the Torch Festival at different times, mostly on the 24th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar, and the main activities include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty pageants and so on. In the new era, the torch festival has been endowed with new folkloric functions and produced new forms.

Bai March Street

March Street is also known as ? Guanyin City?

March Street is also known as Guanyin City. Guanyin Street?

March Street is the traditional grand festival of the Bai people, and is also the Bai people's traditional folk material exchanges and cultural and recreational activities of the event, popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places.

March Street is held from March 15 to 21 of the lunar calendar at the foot of Dancang Mountain, west of Dali City. Initially, it is colored with religious activities, and later gradually changed into a grand exchange of materials. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Sichuan, Tibet, Jiangnan provinces have merchants to this trade. It is not only a place of exchange, or perform a variety of dances and horse racing, athletic garden.

Dai Water Splashing Festival

The Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival of the Dai ethnic group, as well as Thai-speaking peoples and Southeast Asia. On that day, people in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Cambodia and other countries, as well as in overseas Thai settlements such as Hong Kong's Kowloon City and Taiwan's New Taipei City's Zhonghe District get up early in the morning to bathe and salute the Buddha, and after that, they start celebrating the festival for several days in a row, during which they splash pure water at each other to pray for the washing away of water. During the festival, people throw pure water on each other and pray to wash away the bad luck of the past year. The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which corresponds to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and usually lasts for three to seven days.

Festival time:April 13?April 16

Mongolian Naadam Festival

Naadam? is a Mongolian word, also known as ? Nayar? It is also known as Nayar. Nadam? is the translation of the Mongolian language, meaning? It means "entertainment and games". to express the joy of a good harvest. Naadam? is a traditional festival with a long history in Mongolia, which occupies an important position in the life of Mongolian people.

The festival is held every year in July and August when the livestock are fertile. The Naadam? The festival is a cultural, sports and recreational event held to celebrate the harvest. Naadamu? , the meaning of the Mongolian language is entertainment or games. Nadam? General Assembly on the thrilling horse racing, wrestling, appreciated archery, there are strong fight chess, there are fascinating songs and dances. Horse racing is also one of the important activities in the conference. At the beginning of the race, the riders were lined up, all wearing colorful belts and scarves, overflowing with youthful vitality. The starting point and the end of the horse race inserted a variety of brightly colored flags, just waiting for the horn to sound, the riders will have to fly on the saddle, whip horse, a moment of red scarves flying, such as arrows. The first five to reach the finish line, the grasslands become the most acclaimed athletes. Archery, wrestling and other competitions also attract many herdsmen.

The five-day Naadam, which begins on the fourth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, is an event for the Mongolian people. The content of the Naadam assembly mainly includes wrestling, horse racing, archery, horse lassoing, playing Mongolian chess and other traditional ethnic programs, and in some places there are also track and field, tug-of-war, basketball and other sports programs.

Tibetan Fruit Festival

The Fruit Festival is a festival for Tibetan farmers to celebrate the harvest, popular in Lhasa, Shigatse, Shannan and other places in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Time in the annual Tibetan calendar in July and August, the specific date with the changes in the agricultural season and changes, generally in the barley after the yellow ripe, the first two or three days before the opening of the harvest held. Therefore, Wang Guo Festival schedule are to the township as a unit, according to the local crop ripening situation by the townspeople collectively agreed.

According to legend, as early as the end of the 5th century AD, the Tibetan King Boudhogunjian to ensure a good harvest of food to Yongzhong Benjamin Buddha for advice. Buddha Shi decree, let the farmers around the field circle, by the hand holding incense burner, holding up the flag pole of the people as a guide, by holding up the wrapped around the hatha sticks and sheep right leg of the Church of the Lord to lead the way, leading to hold the barley cob or wheat cob of the village townspeople around the head of the ground several times after the cob of all kinds of grain inserted in the grain silo and shrines, and prayed for wind and rain, a good harvest. Then eat a hearty picnic. Once the festival is over, the intense labor of the fall harvest officially begins. The festival is celebrated to pray for a good harvest. Wangguo Festivals is the greatest joy for Tibetan farmers after working hard for half a year. Tibetan language? Wangguo Festival in Tibetan? Wang? means "the field", "the field", "the field", "the field", "the field". "Field" means "field". The name of the festival means "field", "field", "field", "field". Fruit? What do you mean? "Turning in a circle"? The festival of the fruit. The Fruit Watching Festival. is the song and dance around the harvest field.

Hmong Jumping Flower Festival

The Jumping Flower Festival is the grandest and oldest traditional festival of the Miao people in Anshun. Legend has it that the Hmong hero Yang Lu Xing started it, and to this day the Jumping Flower Mountain outside the north gate of Anshun is still named after him. Jumping flower? The word is still a Chinese name, because the slope is planted with flowers and trees, and the meaning of the Miao language is not exactly the same, the Miao language jumping flowers for? Ou Dao? in Hmong, meaning "to catch the slope". Catch the slope. Flower jumping dates are all held in the first month of the lunar calendar, there are still 24 fixed flower jumping slopes. During the festival, the Miao people, especially young people of both sexes, dressed in festive attire, unmarried men back dozens of beds and even dozens of beds of exquisite back fan fan, such as not find an object woman can ask brothers instead of the women are wrapped in packages of silver bells, silver beads, silver chains and other decorations. Men blowing the sheng dance, women shaking the bell and sticking to the dance with the Pa, dancing around the flower tree. There are flower pole-climbing competitions, crossbow shooting and needlework competitions, martial arts performances, bullfighting, bullfighting and other cultural and sports activities.

Each flower slope jumping flower date for three days. The first day of planting flower trees, Miao people see the flower tree and make preparations, the next morning empty cottage to go; the third day, the end of the jump flower, guests near the Miao cottage accommodation, drinking and blowing sheng to get the string joy, through the sky. Flower tree by the old walled village sent to the home of the long-term infertile, infertile people see the great joy, feast guests. Young men and women use this to choose a spouse, the old man playing the sheng and flute to celebrate a good year. Now jumping flower festival has become the people of all ethnic groups to participate in the grand festival, when the city of Anshun, neighboring villages flocked to.

What are the minority festivals in Sandu County

Duan Festival:

Also known as ? the longest festival in the world? Water language called "borrow end", "over the end". According to the provisions of water books and water calendars, the Duan Festival is held at the end of the year and at the beginning of the year when the grains are ripe in the water calendar, when the big season is harvested and the small season is reported at the end of the year and at the beginning of the year. Therefore, the Duan Festival is a grand festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, celebrate a good harvest, worship ancestors and wish for happiness in the coming year. The festival period corresponds to the eighth to tenth month of the lunar calendar.

Mao Festival:

Also known as "Song Festival", "Oriental Valentine's Day", and "The Day of the Lover", it is the most important festival of the year. Oriental Valentine's Day? , an important folk festival of the Water Tribe. Every year, the water calendar in September and October (the lunar calendar in May and June) choose a d day held. On that day, young men and women with umbrellas, hand holding a flower Pa to Mopo singing, singing, dancing and playing. In the evening, people gather at the village square to play copper drums, leather drums, suona, and traditional lantern plays. Guests are also invited to feast.

Eating New Year Festival:

The Eating New Year Festival is a traditional agricultural festival held by ethnic minorities (such as the Miao, Dong, Gelao and Jinuo ethnic groups) in southern China to celebrate a good harvest and pray for a good harvest in the coming year. Most of the festivals are held between the sixth and ninth month of the lunar calendar, when the crops are ripe or when the crops are about to be harvested. During the festival, activities related to the life of ethnic minorities, such as party-viewing, rituals and bullfighting, will be held.

June 6:

The Buyi people attach great importance to this festival, which has been called the "Little Year". The festival is coming, the villages have to kill chickens and pigs, with white paper made of small triangular flag, dipped in chicken blood or pig's blood, inserted in the crops, the legend says that this, "Tianma" (locusts) will not come to eat the crops. In the Miao, "June 6" is the festival of ancestor worship.

July 30:

July 15 of the lunar calendar (some places, especially in southern China, is the 14th day of the seventh month, according to legend is the end of the Song Dynasty, the Mongols invaded a place, the inhabitants fled the disaster and an earlier day to celebrate the festival), the Taoist known as the Festival of the Middle Ages, the Buddhist known as the Bon Festival (referred to as the Bon Festival), the folk are commonly known as the festival of the ghosts, the half of the month of July.