Which nationality is Lusheng Festival?

Lusheng Festival is the most common and grand traditional festival of Miao nationality, which is popular in Guizhou Province. Its main activities are stepping on churches and competing lusheng. During festivals, people often worship their ancestors and celebrate the harvest.

Lusheng Festival in different regions has different origins and different holding times. Lusheng Festival is usually held between the beginning of September in the lunar calendar and the end of February the following year, with a long time span.

When the Lusheng Festival is held, it usually lasts for four or five days. Miao people will form a circle, and blowing sheng will dance, play suona, or talk to each other and exchange goods. The atmosphere is very lively.

Other Miao festivals

Miao people are divided into twelve months in a year in chronological order, and each month has more than one festival. 1-15th (from the first child day to the second cloudy day) of the lunar month, in which1day is the day of the year, and the Miao people do not go out (far away); The 1 ugly day is the annual festival of the earth. During the period from 1 ugly day to the second ugly day (2- 14), people visited relatives and friends, congratulated each other on the New Year, sang duets, played with dragon lanterns and played with lions.

The second day of the second lunar month (15) is the last year (burning dragon lanterns). The first ugly day of the partial moon (bull moon or ugly moon) is the friendship day, also known as the dragon head festival. Miao people sacrifice to the land gods and collect dragons safely. The first day of June+10 (Tiger Moon or silver moon) in 5438 was a festival of material exchange and social interaction between men and women (China called the Third Street Festival on March).

The first Sunday in February (Rabbit Month or Uzuki) is the Ox King's Day (called April 8th in China), when men and women get together to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. The first and second days of March (Dragon Moon or Chen Yue) are the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival respectively. The Dragon Boat Festival was later called Qu Yuan Festival, also known as Qu Yuan Festival and Songshi Festival, in memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan (whose surname is Qu Shi).

April 1 day (Snake Moon or Mitsuki) is the Dragon Festival (called June 6th and June Field in China), and it is also a new eating festival (barley ripening). The 1 sub-day in May (horse month or noon month) is the Small Year Festival (called Seven Sisters in Miao language, namely the Big Dipper). The second day of June is the Duck Festival, and the second day is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

July 1 Shenri (Monkey Moon or Shenyue) is the wine festival (harvesting glutinous rice to make sweet wine and rice wine). August (chicken moon or full moon) is a festival of sacrifice (mainly for ancestor worship, eating pigs, jumping incense, mourning, Anlong and other activities). ). September (dog month or full moon) hunting festival, choose a day to worship the three gods of Meishan and start hunting. 10 (Year of the Pig or Haiyue) is the festival of eating pigs and soaking pigs (killing pigs in that year), the festival of kitchen gods (offering sacrifices to kitchen gods) and New Year's Eve (called October Miao Spring Festival in Chinese).