Zhongshan Township, qianxi county, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, ethnic festivals on June 6.

Traditional Festival of Guizhou Ethnic Minorities —— June 6th of Buyi Nationality

When "June 6th" is coming, every family should make new clothes and dress up for the festival. Festivals become exhibitions of costumes, and costumes become an integral part of festivals, adding luster and atmosphere to festivals. In the morning, every household cut white paper into paper horses, paper figures or banners, dipped in chicken blood, planted them in rice fields to pay homage to "white horses" and inserted white paper banners in them. This is a respect for them and will naturally protect the harvest of rice fields. Buyi people believe that "God of Heaven" and "God of Water" are the masters of human rain and drought. On this festival, every family sacrifices to the "God of Heaven" and "God of Water" with food, wine, chicken, knife heads, scented paper and candles in Tianhe, ponds and reservoirs, ditches and rice fields. Hold a "consultation activity" during the day, presided over by Zhai Lao, and negotiate with the villagers about the annual laws and conventions on rural crop protection and social welfare undertakings, which * * * will abide by; Middle-aged and elderly women pick out all the clothes, cages, quilts and other things used at home, and put them in clean water places such as rivers, ponds and ditches for cleaning and bathing, because this is the dragon bathing day, and washing all kinds of dirt and human dirt with dragon bathing can ward off evil spirits and keep them healthy. In the evening, the middle-aged and old male and female singers in the village get together, hold duets, sing and drink together, show their abilities, sing constantly, and often stay up all night for several days, with a warm and spectacular atmosphere.

On the night of June 6th, the elderly men and women gathered young men and women together to educate Buyi teenagers about family discipline by telling ancient stories, singing folk songs and using proverbs. Young men and women gather in groups in the wilderness or in the village to sing, whistle (fall in love) and throw flowers and bags. Buyi young men and women have always had the traditional habit that "everyone can sing folk songs and throw flowers". It is a custom of social and cultural activities to express one's feelings with bags. The flower bag is a small bag sewn with various colors of cloth, shaped like a small square pillow, with five-color whiskers at each corner and a length of about 20 cm. A flower bag weighs about half a catty to 1 catty, and contains more cottonseed, bean seeds, cereal seeds and chaff, which means that young men and women love each other like cottonseed to sprout, grow, blossom and bear fruit in spring.

The areas where the "June 6th" festival is held mainly include: Guyang Town, Baiyun Mountain Town, Chang 'an Township, Yashui Town, Dalong Township, Wang Si Town and Bagu Town in duyun city, Shangsi Town, Sixia Town, Mawei Town, Kerry Town, Dongling Township and Queens Township in dushan county; Sanchahe, Zhexiang Town, Zhenfeng County, Southwest Guizhou; Mucheng Village, Duanqiao Town, Zhenning Autonomous County and Guanling Autonomous County, Anshun City; Huaxi District, Guiyang City and other places.