The custom of maid's good day

Whenever the first day of the first lunar month dawns, people knock on bronze drums and go to the fields in droves to look for hibernating frogs. It is said that the person who first discovered the frog was lucky, and was called the son-in-law of King Lei and became the leader of the frog that year. The leader will lead everyone to light smoke cannons and report the good news of human sacrifice to King Lei. People take frogs back to the village and put them in sedan chairs. From the first day to the end of the month, children carry frogs around the village during the day to congratulate every household; At night, they were carried to the pavilion, where people danced and sang to show their vigil. On the 25th day after the wake and the country tour, Maidguai Festival reached its climax. On this day, people choose auspicious time to carry sedan chairs to the place where frogs were buried and open the treasure coffin where frogs were buried last year. If the frog's bones are golden yellow, it means that this year is a good year, and the whole audience suddenly rang like bronze drums and cheered in unison. If the frog bones are gray or black, it means that the year is not good, so people burn incense to pray for disaster relief. Then the burial ceremony of the new frog was held. After the funeral, men, women and children sang and danced around the bonfire, sending the grasshopper's soul to heaven. That night, people reveled all night.

The next day program:

Looking for the grasshopper (frog)-Sacrificing the grasshopper (in a small coffin)-Visiting the grasshopper (going door to door to worship the grasshopper)-Mourning the grasshopper (at the same time, opening the coffin to check the bones of the grasshopper who died in previous years, and testing the bone color, yellow is auspicious, and black is fierce)-Bonfire bronze drum folk dance (grass skirt mask dance, grasshopper dance performance, bronze drum competition)

(Atlas source)