What are the traditional festivals of the aquatic people?

Duan Festival, the people of the water tribe, also known as "lend end" ("lend" water language "eat" meaning) eat end, over the Rui, is the water tribe people in Guizhou Province, Sandu Water Autonomous County, Duyun, Dushan, Libo and other places in the first year of the Lunar Calendar (lunar calendar in September) to celebrate the reunion, the old and welcome the new, to celebrate a bumper harvest and the festival, equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese people. The water people who live by the mountains and the water, through hard labor, will build their own homes into a land of fish, rice, flowers and fruits. They compare their hometown to a place "as beautiful as a phoenix feather". There are many stories about the merits of the people in the Shui ethnic folklore. Legend has it that a long time ago, the three brothers of the water tribe, washed to the three holes area by the great flood in their hometown, in order to overcome poverty. Hunger, decided to each end of a place, with hard work and wisdom to open up a new life. To the first month of the water calendar (September on the lunar calendar) village support that day three brothers resolutely tearful split. After a year of hard work, fruitful, gathered together to celebrate. Later, the people of the water tribe make according to the first Ohio, double Ohio, three abandoned (with the twelve geographic history of the day) of the order of rotation of the New Year, from the second half of August to the first half of October of the Lunar Calendar, every Ohio, there is a New Year's Eve villages.

On New Year's Eve, the villages of the "Borrowed End" take out their deep-rooted bronze drums and announce the start of the "Borrowed End" with the sound of the drums, which is a way of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. During the festival week, every household has chickens, billions of dollars; fish, meat. Welcome friends and relatives from all villages and some unknown guests. Eat new rice, drink wine *** with sharing the joy of the festival. Innocent children, to each house to share the contributions, everywhere you can see the children stepping feet, hands outstretched shouting "Hai have ah! Hai You!" (Give it to me, give it to me!) (Give me, give me, give me!). The child who receives the most sweets, fruit and dried fish is considered the most capable, healthy and happy. The girls wore a blue collarless half-length coat with a large lapel surrounded by lace, and green cloth pants. The girls wear a blue half-length coat with a big lapel and no collar surrounded by lace, long pants of green cloth, a flowery four-waisted belt, or a skirt, comb their long hair into a handful and put it diagonally on their heads, wear earrings, collars, bracelets, and other silver ornaments, and gather around the "end of the garbage" with the young men who are very energetic, blowing luli, blowing, pulling the huqin, and banging on the copper drums. The sound of the drums and the sound of copper are intertwined. Young men and women stepped on the drums, singing and dancing, with the drums fast and slow and change the dance, and finally the drums are as dense as rain to declare the end. Horse racing and bullfighting on the "end slope", a sea of people, the sound of drums and gongs shook the earth. When the handsome riders steered their horses and whips to the top of the slope, the cheers were loud and clear. At night, the excited people of the Water Tribe sat around the fire, ate glutinous rice balls, which symbolized a good harvest, drank glutinous rice wine, and from time to time uttered the words "Xiu! Xiu!" (Cheers! Cheers!) (Cheers! Cheers!) of laughter, everywhere immersed in the joy of the festival. Some aquatic areas do not celebrate the end of the festival but the "Hand Festival", which is called "Lend Mao" in aquatic language. Every year in October of the lunar calendar (the sixth month) to choose a dao day held. At that time, young men and women with flower cloth umbrellas, holding flower handkerchiefs and fans, to Mao Po singing, dancing, playing, playing. In the evening, they gather in the village square to play luli, blow, go to brass drums, skin drums, and drink lantern plays.

2. E Festival

It is the annual festival of the water tribe people in Libo County, such as Demen, Tianzhao, Taiji, Yaogu, Lajiao, Shuiqing, etc. The time is the first month of the water calendar. Time for the first month of the water calendar, the people in the middle of the night did not have a vegetarian feast ancestor, to fish as the upper supply of treasures, in addition to glutinous rice, sweet wine, the size of the pumpkin and so on. In the past, also held horse races, beat copper drums and other recreational activities. The way, content and Rui Festival similar.

3. Huaiyu

The water tribe voice translation, is the water tribe in Guizhou every year in the summer calendar in the middle of March after planting rice seedlings, held in villages as a unit to pray for a good harvest of agricultural ceremonies.

4. Maw Festival

The language of the water tribe is called "Lend Maw" (meaning "Eat Maw Festival"). It is the festival of the water tribe people in Libo County and Sandu County. The day to be selected after the end of rice-planting water calendar in September and October (lunar calendar, five, six) of the dao day. And to the Xinmao day as the last auspicious day, avoid Dingmao belongs to the fire of the four than the day of the festival, people dressed to "d field" on the singing, so "d festival" is also known as "Song Festival". Young men and women sing songs, talk about love. On the "d festival" there is a story: legend has it that a long time ago, there is a pair of fairy man and woman, the man called A La, the woman called A Xiang, they love each other as a married couple, the days of happiness and fulfillment. They often helped others, but were driven away by the King of the Spires. They loved their hometown so much that they could not bear to leave. So A La became Zheng La slope, A Xiang became to the well, from then on Zheng La slope forests are dense, to the well flow, the surrounding crops grow particularly well. People chose this auspicious day to sing and dance in their honor, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.

5. Suningxi Festival

Aqua folk festival. Time in the lunar calendar December ugly day. On the day of the festival, the whole village of children carrying special small bamboo, the formation of door-to-door to go to the symbol of longevity and happiness of glutinous rice, eggs, meat. Every family receives them warmly and makes them happy. At the same time, every family cuts colorful paper figures, wraps bamboo strips around the paper whiskers, and pastes them on the wall of the festival table. In the festival, the women are also exceptionally respected, the festival by their main steam Suning Festival this prayer for women's peace and well-being of the custom, some people call the women and children's festival of the water tribe, Sandu County and the Yong Township of the water tribe of the people are also used as a yearly festival.

6. Jingxia Festival

"Xia" is the water language "water god" means, Jingxia is also called "worship Xia", that is, to worship the water god, is the blood family as a unit, the villages and villages jointly held prayers. The original religious activity of praying for rain is held jointly by villages and cottages as a unit. The festival is mainly held in Jiuchian area of Sandu County and its adjoining areas. The Jingxia Festival is not celebrated every year, but two, six and twelve years apart. The specific time is projected by Mr. Shui Shu according to the Water Book. There are twelve Earthly Branches that take turns once a year, and there are also those that take turns once every six years in the Earthly Branches that take turns once a year. The main activities of the clans to equal amount of wine offerings set up on the altar (wine, glutinous rice quantity is not limited). Mr. Shuishu recites incantations to the sky and prays for rain. Finally, the head of each clan to carry rice wine to the designated location, to symbolize the water god "Xia Shi" pouring bias down, and finally mysteriously hidden, they believe that this ensures that the local year into a good weather, crop harvest.