The festival custom of Danu Festival

The most important activities of Nu nationality festival are playing and jumping bronze drums. There are two kinds of bronze drums: (1) male bronze drums. (2) the mother bronze drum. The bronze drum performance needs five people. Two people play bronze drums, one with gongs, one with leather drums and one with bamboo hats. The gong sounded first, and then the bronze drums and leather drums sounded rhythmically. There are twelve sets of traditional bronze drums. From different angles, different methods are used to express the scenes of fighting with nature, such as farming and hunting. Its movements are rough and powerful, and its dancing is elegant and generous. Bamboo hat dancers, interspersed among the above four gongs and drums players, made humorous movements from time to time, which made the audience laugh. The drums are sonorous, the dance is simple and the style is rough and wild. Although the performers don't have much artistic sense, the dance steps practiced in labor are fresh and vigorous, and the dancers cooperate tacitly, winning applause from the audience from time to time. The best dancers can also get the reputation of "Drum King". At night, lanterns and torches wriggle along the mountain road and swim to the gathering place like a fire dragon. People are dancing the "Dragon Tie Jiu Dance" that only Bunuyao dances: monkey inspiration, rattan dance, animal hunting dance, mountain opening dance, pumpkin dance, tea party, harvest dance, horn dance, Lusheng dance, flower umbrella dance and so on. After the dance, the young people went to sing. They like to sing affectionate and funny songs, and some young men and women have formed a white-headed alliance because of singing. The old man sang the melody collectively. They asked me to answer, and their songs were full of respect for Milo. Besides singing Milotuo, they also sang drunken songs. After singing a paragraph, they collectively raised their glasses and cheered, but they still refused to leave until Samsung moved westward. "Bird-hunting" is a very distinctive festival activity of Danu Festival. Bunuyao people (and other branches of Yao) play with birds, shoot birds and raise birds. There are certain rules for shooting birds. At the beginning of bird fighting, opponents put the cages together until the birds on both sides flapped their wings, shook their feet and rushed out of the cage door to pounce on each other. At this time, the cage door was opened at the same time, allowing the two birds to fight each other. Whoever is killed, the winner will not pay the price. The winning bird is so popular that onlookers are bargaining for it. "Bow and arrow competition" is a channel for young men in Bunuyao to choose their spouses. On the day of "Danu Festival", the young man came to the stage with a bow and arrow in high spirits. Bunuyao's bow and arrow is made of bamboo, the bow nest is red and green maple, the bow is made of dense wood, the bow rope is hemp palm silk, and the arrow is made of old bamboo strips. The target is standing forty or fifty meters away. Among the onlookers, girls are the most dedicated. Whoever is good at archery can easily get the girl's token of love-a square towel embroidered with corns and bird's eyes. The horse racing in Danu Festival is the most intense and intense. This horse is a family heirloom of Bunuyao. Bunuyao has his own criteria for choosing horses: high head, bright eyes, thick legs and short body. The racetrack on Danu Festival is not on a smooth road, but on a rugged mountain road. Saddles are not allowed to be used while riding. This puts higher demands on the rider. Whenever riders save the day with superb riding skills, they all say that Milo gave them magic. The winner who arrives at the finish line first is often rushed by the girls to arrange flowers on the halter and get the colored towels they give to the riders.