What month is Sisters Day?

Sisters Festival is the 15th day of the 3rd month of the lunar calendar every year.

The Sisters Festival is a traditional festival of the Miao people in the Miao hinterland of Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, in places such as Taijiang, Jianhe, and Shi Bing. Local Miao young men and women will make friends during the festival by traveling to the party to sing songs, eat sister rice, jumping Lusheng pedal wood drum dance, and give each other tokens, so it is also known as "the world's oldest Valentine's Day.

While the Sisters' Festival has its wide influence and appeal, it is also facing serious challenges and tests in the wave of modern market economy: First, many people are working outside due to the necessity of life, and the number of Miao Sisters' Festival has been greatly reduced; second, the products are adapted to meet the market demand, and some embroidery varieties and crafts have lost the style of traditional crafts.

Third is the influence of foreign culture. Due to the rapid development and popularization of rural radio and television, many young people put their energy into modern culture and fashion, weakening the importance of the traditional culture of the people, many people do not love to sing Miao songs, gradually diluted the cohesion of the national culture.

Sisters' Day activities:

1. Sisters' Rice

In most areas, the girls voluntarily collect food such as eggs, meat, fish, wine, and sisters' rice, and then gather together to entertain the descendants who have been invited to the festival. When the latter arrive at home, the girls, as hosts, invite their sisters from the village to accompany them, and they drink wine, eat sister rice, and sing songs.

Sisterhood rice is dyed in different colors such as red, purple, green and yellow in the area of Laotun and Shidong, which is crystal clear, fragrant and delicious. In the rest of the area, it is dyed in black color, also known as black rice, which is made by picking a kind of fragrant young leaves from the mountain slopes and dyeing them.

2, song

Singing, men and women were seated in two rows, set up a position, opened the curtain of war on the song, song to pass on love. The content of the songs is very wide. There are ancient song interrogation and love songs, etc., the girls with the song interrogation of the origin of the Sisters Festival and the Sisters meal symbolize what, you sing my answer, the song is unending. At the end of the song, whoever can't answer the question, or whoever sings something that doesn't fit with what the other person is singing, or whoever answers a question that isn't what was asked, loses.

If the girls lose, we have to send the man a gift, such as hand circle, earrings, rings, etc.; If the man loses, previously sent the girl a silver hand circle, send a watch or a souvenir gift. The winning party should also return thanks to a gift of considerable value.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia - Guizhou Miao Sisters' Festival