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What are the traditional festivals of Yao nationality?

1. There are many traditional festivals of Yao nationality, and there are small festivals almost every month, living in different places. Large-scale festivals include Folk Song Festival, Songtang Festival, Washing Clothes Festival, Gamba Festival, Wang Pan Festival, niujie Festival, Danu Festival, Adult Ceremony, Laos' conversion and begging worship.

2. Yao is one of the ethnic minorities in China. It is a mountain-dwelling nation, and its villages are generally built at the top of the mountain, halfway up the mountain and by the stream at the foot of the mountain. Yao men and women like to have long hair. It is recorded in ancient books that Yao men and women have long hair and tie their heads, which is called "vertebral bun". The hospitality of the Yao people, all guests who enter the Yao family, will be treated with respect and enthusiasm. Funny "hanging bags" and "melon wine" are typical etiquette for Yao family to entertain guests. Yao people in China are mainly distributed in Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiangxi, with Guangxi being the largest.