What's the festival on October 16th of the lunar calendar: Pangu Festival of Jing people.

Jing nationality is one of the ethnic minorities with a small population in China, but although the population is small, it still retains its own unique national customs in hundreds of years of history. The traditional festival with unique flavor is an example, so let's find out what the festival of the Jing nationality is on October 16th of the lunar calendar.

What festival is October 16th in the lunar calendar?

October 16th of the lunar calendar is Pangu Festival in Beijing.

Pangu Festival is a traditional folk festival of Jing nationality. The traditional activity of Pangu Festival is sacrifice. Every household kills chickens and pigs as sacrifices, offering sacrifices to Pangu, the ancestor of heaven and earth, and praying for the blessing of the ancestor God. The ceremony was grand, people prayed with piety, and the atmosphere was solemn.

Yao and Jing compatriots regard Pangu as their ancestor and think that Pangu is an omnipotent great man. Every year, October 16th of the lunar calendar is Pangu's birthday, which is called Pangu Festival. On that day, young Yao men and women were dressed up, singing and dancing, singing ancient songs, playing with sticks and setting off fireworks, which was very lively. Jing people should make a grand sacrifice to Pangu and pray for blessing.

The origin of Pangu's birthday is related to Pangu Festival.

During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, the officers and men conquered the iron-faced Yao and Hakka people, and the Pangu Temple was burned down, and the folk activities of Pangu ceased to exist. In the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, scholar Qiu Maosong found a stone tablet on the mountainside of Shiling Furnace Mountain, engraved with the inscription "Pangu Shengdi, king of heaven and earth". It is said that this stone tablet was left when the local terraced Yao people who worshipped Pangu fled in their early years.

Qiu thought this was the place where Pangu started the world in the ancient chaos, so he set up a medical altar here to practice medicine and save people. "King Pangu" gradually became famous, and later it was rebuilt many times and became a local scene. Furnace Mountain was later renamed "Pangu Wangshan". Today, August 12, Pangu's birthday, is actually the day when Qiu Maosong discovered the stone tablet, which is different from the original intention.