What are the traditional festivals in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County?

The traditional festivals in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County are:

One, New Year's Day

On New Year's Eve, they say that each person drinks a bowl of thin rice, which indicates that the wind and the rain are good, and that there is an abundance of grains. There is also a "water scooping" custom: the girls scoop up water to scoop up to the well water white bubbles as the most auspicious.

In the New Year, Dong compatriots practiced "playing the same year". This activity is similar to the Han Chinese "reunion". When the team of "playing the same year" arrives at a place, the women there will form a line and ask each other all kinds of questions in the form of singing, and the other side will answer quickly, just like the song in the movie "Liu Sanjie", singing and singing, which is very interesting.

Second, the flower gun festival

The Dong's annual flower gun festival, held on different dates. Take the Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, is the third day of the first month (lunar calendar, the same below), Meilin is the second day of February, Fulu is the third day of March, and Linxi is October 26th. Firecrackers are divided into the first, second and third cannons, packages of cannons are tied with an iron ring symbolizing happiness, outside the red and green thread wrapped. The gunpowder cannon is used as the impulse when it is set off, and the iron ring is rushed up into the air. When the iron ring fell, people will take the iron ring as the target, swarming scramble, called "grab the flower gun". Popular legend has it that whoever snatches the firecrackers, who in this year will be prosperous, happy and healthy. Therefore, when grabbing the firecrackers, everyone is brave, everyone competes for the first, aiming to get the firecrackers, for the village to win the honor. There is no time limit to grab the firecrackers, and whoever can hand over the firecrackers to the commanding station first is considered the winner. At the end of the competition, all kinds of amusement activities began. The lusheng team races lusheng on the lusheng field; the old people fight under the trees and talk about family matters; young girls and boys take this opportunity to sing and talk about love. The Dong family cottage is full of joyful festival atmosphere.

Three, catch the community

The Dong family has the habit of catching the community. Catch the community is not in the village, but in the field, such as grazing ping or dam, as a social field. Every year to the day of the community, men, women and children from all directions to the community. Children watch the fun, adults buy things and exchange agricultural products. Girls and youngsters wear new clothes. The girls wear all kinds of silver jewelry, put on embroidered waistbands and braided belts, carry embroidered purses with sour fish, sour meat and glutinous rice in them, and in groups of three to five, with smiling faces, they invite their descendants*** for lunch on the social field. The latter, in turn, buys candies and gives them to the girls. Those who knew each other for the first time sang songs to each other, and those who had been dating each other for a long time renewed their love and agreed on a time for the next meeting. In the evening, the latter also invited the girl to the walled village guests to eat social meal. After the meal, young men and women into the song hall song. Nowadays, the festival has become a festival for young men and women to socialize, and the social field has become a place for lovemaking.

Four, bullfighting festival

Annual lunar February and August of the Ohio. The Dong people like bullfighting, each village has kept a "buffalo king" for the competition. "King Bull" circle built near the drum tower, clean and ventilated, known as the "Cow Palace". The buffalo king is served by a person who cuts grass and carries water and mixes ingredients, and is often supplied with food such as honey, lard, and rice wine. "Cow King" is a large and robust body, body roll melon flow oil, horns thick sharp, like open steel fork.

Before the festival, young people play the lusheng and go to other villages to invite their rivals. After the "send about", they will go to the "cow Palace" before playing the reed-sheng, worship 3 days, for the cow "heart". Once the festival arrives, the crowd gathers around the bullfighting arena, and the competing "bull king" starts to "step on the field" to the accompaniment of the lusheng: young people hold up the "horse sign" with the "bull king" written on it. The young people hold the "horse license plate" with "bull king" written on it and walk forward with their heads held high, "bull" full of vigor. After the "horse" followed by a wooden "weapon" holding the guard and drum band. "Bull King" horns set with a bright iron set, head draped in red satin, back pack "double dragon grab treasure" bull king tower, tower inserted with four flags and two long pheasant plume, like the ancient general. Cow neck hangs a string of copper bells, hanging in front of the chest, loud sound. At the end of the "stampede", the bull king retires. Three iron cannon blast, the official bullfighting began. Cowherd to light two fires were thrown to the front of their own "bull king", while releasing the reins in the hands of the two bulls rushed to the other side, the masses knocking gongs and shouting in support. The colorful flags of the losing side should be allowed to be "snatched" by the girls of the winning side. The winning "bull king" red and colorful, re-entry to receive cheers. If the fight is difficult to distinguish, we must use the brown rope to pull the cow's hind legs, shake hands and make peace. A few days later, the winning girl to return the losing side of the colorful flag, the losing side of the young man hosted a banquet, accompanied by singing "big song", and gifts "redemption flag". Which cottage "bull king" can win, is the honor of the whole cottage, so after the bullfighting mass song and dance drinking feast to celebrate. In recent years, the Dong "cattle king" in Guizhou Province, but also to some big cities to perform the fight, so that this special entertainment culture more famous.

V. Sowing Festival

The Dong people who live on the border of Hunan, Guizhou and Guizhou will hold the traditional Sowing Festival on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.

Since people's hobbies are different, the contents and ways of activities in each village are also different. Some villages set off firecrackers on this day; some step on the reed-sheng, sitting in the song hall; some go to the relatives to invite guests. The most interesting event is the "Spring Bull Dance". Then the farming team also performs the agricultural activities of grain planting. The whole performance site is treated as a field, and several people who play the role of farmers, some carry plows and harrows, some carry hoes, and some carry bamboo baskets. They put the field, plowing, rice planting, harvesting, action realistic, beautiful, with song and dance to show the joy of Dong family farming atmosphere.

Sixth, the Girl's Day

In the Xiangqian-Guizhou border ethnic minorities, the "Girl's Day" on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. According to legend, this custom comes from the Yang surname of the Dong ethnic group. Every year on this day, the married girl must return to her mother's home to celebrate the festival with her own sisters and aunts. At that time, the sisters sing, laugh and **** together to make a kind of festival food - wu rice patties. When they go back to their in-laws, but also with a lot of rice patties, to give to friends and relatives to eat, or to compensate for the "Girls' Day" the day of the lads of loneliness. April 8 to eat Wu rice (also called black rice) is an ancient very old custom, said to be in honor of the Dong heroine Yang Bamei. Wu rice is with a kind of black pulp leaves impregnated with water, the Dong district specialties of the "glutinous rice" dyed black, steamed and made.

Seven, tasting new festival

"June 6, early harvest ripe". The Dong ethnic minority areas take this day as the new tasting festival, and some places choose an auspicious day to taste the new.

Hunan Channel Tasting Festival day, the dog is the guest of honor, the new rice is cooked, so that the dog tasted after the talent to taste. Because legend has it that in ancient times, the floods, the extinction of the grain seed, is a white dog across the ocean, in the Queen Mother of the West of the sun in the paddock to play a roll, full of sticky grain, in the back of the body when the grain is washed away by the water, only the dog cocked in the water at the tip of the tail with a few grains of grain. Humans rely on these few grains to develop to the present day. In order not to forget the work of the dog, so the new grain debut to invite the dog to taste first. The Tasting Festival is a ****same festival in the Dong ethnic minority area, and the contents of the festival are very similar in different places.

Liping County called the "Tasting Festival" as "Tian Kuang Festival", commonly known as June 6th. Many Dong villages make dumplings on this day, which is also called Dumpling Festival. Especially Zhaoxing, Ceng Long, Long E, ShuiKou, DongLang, XinPing and other townships of the Dong people have a particularly grand, second only to the New Year.

Eight, catching the song

July 20 of the lunar calendar, is the Jianhe County, Guizhou Province, the high dam area of the Dong people's grand festival - catching the song. On this day, the girls and young men are neatly organized, about partners, three or two rushed to the high chanting song field. Before this day, the young people usually finish their farm work in advance, and at the same time actively collect, rewrite or make up a large number of mountain songs or love songs; so that they can compete with the strongest singers. At noon, the green grass slope at the head of Gaoba Zhaitou, the center of the Song Catchers' Meeting, becomes a sea of songs. There were many songs, love songs and mountain songs with different tunes. Young men and women take the opportunity of the Song Festival to find their new friends and old friends, to express their feelings, to talk about heaven and earth, or to sing intoxicating love songs alternately until the dawn of the next day. There are many young people are through the song will become a happy partner. Legend has it that the Gaoba Song Catchers' Meeting sprang up in honor of a Dong female singer who was devoted to love.

Nine, winter festival

also known as the "winter solstice", this day all the Dong people in the region are the Dong New Year, equivalent to the Spring Festival, the activities of all regions are lively and colorful activities, such as the race of the Lusheng, Doye, Dong opera, singing, etc., in Nanning, Guangxi did not go home to live in the Dong New Year of the friends, every year, the "Winter Solstice". "On the winter solstice, many Dong compatriots in Nanning will gather together to sing and communicate with each other.