What are the customs in Guilin?

Resource July Half River Lantern Song Festival

Resource County Lunar July Half River Lantern Song Festival (July 13-15), has a long history, is the local folk annual folk customs and traditions of the national festival. Every half of July, to sing and release the lamp to send the memory of ancestors, disaster avoidance sentiment. People bring their own lanterns and float them along the river, creating a magnificent scene of "ten thousand river lanterns floating along the Zijiang River" with brilliant lights at night. During the festival, local specialties, folk snacks, economic and trade negotiations, a variety of situations, there are top bamboo poles, lion dance, dragon dance, tug of war with elephants, cockfighting, fighting sheep, goat birds and other simple folk sports, recreational activities. "July half" to visit the resource county can be full of mountainous regions of northern Guilin folk customs.

Longsheng Red Clothes Festival

Longsheng County is a multi-ethnic autonomous county, Hongyao is a branch of Longsheng Yao. Red Yao women love to wear their own woven red shirts, so called Red Yao, every year on the 15th of March or the 8th of April in the lunar calendar is the Sishui Township Red Yao compatriots will be, also known as the Red Yao compatriots annual Red Clothes Festival.

Folk Songs

Yangshuo has 11 ethnic groups, including Han, Zhuang, Yao, and Miao, and each ethnic group has its own customs and festivals, but one of the characteristics of the same **** is that they are good at singing songs. Regardless of the wedding, funeral, or festivals, every set up a singing platform, a higher than low, until all night long still refused to go away. These songs talk about love, talk about the separation of life and death, advocate loyalty and filial piety, and also talk about the past and the present narrative. Singers are as few as three, five people, more than dozens of people, singing or excitedly high, melodious; or deep and gentle, such as sobbing; or light singing, leisurely and free ...... Especially in the Zhuangxiang township of Gao Tian's Mid-Autumn Festival song, Foley Longwei Yao people's "song hall wish" will be the most rich in features.

Welfare May 8 Festival

Yangshuo County, Welfare folk traditional festival, the Chinese lunar calendar every year around the eighth day of the fifth month, by the folk organization in the town of Welfare to carry out folk arts, sports and sacrificial activities.