What festivals do Hezhe people have? Brief introduction of Hezhe festivals

Compared with other brothers, Hezhe people have few festivals. The important festivals of Hezhe nationality are generally the same as those of Han nationality, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, February 2nd, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. But the Spring Festival is especially grand.

Wushu Festival

The Hezhe language "Wurigong" means "to celebrate a beautiful day". Born in 1985, it means entertainment or cultural and sports meeting. Held every two years, in the middle of May of the lunar calendar, the festival lasts for 2-3 days. The locations alternate between Hezhe communities in Tongjiang City and Raohe County. During the festival, there are mainly sports competitions, such as swimming, boating, casting nets, tug-of-war, plucked clavichord and archery. These competitions are all related to the fishing and hunting life of Hezhe people. Among them, the most national feature of grilled fish is the practice and reappearance of grilled fish technology on land.

Spring Festival; Spring Festival; the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

Hezhe people attach great importance to festivals, and the "Old Year" is regarded as the biggest festival. The night of "Shkes" is dedicated to the portraits of three generations of ancestors, five gods, kitchen god and Vulcan of "Bebumafa". In their stories, there are many legends about the "old calendar year". Other festivals are not as grand as "Old Days". The Spring Festival is the happiest festival of Hezhe nationality in a year.

God of jumping

Also known as the "God of Peace". Hezhe traditional religious festivals. Every year on March 3rd and September 9th, Hezhe people will hold a god jumping activity. In Hezhe language, the so-called "road god" is called "witch", which means "pray for God's blessing and prosper people's wealth". The specific date of practicing the law is decided by the shaman.

On the day of the sacrifice, in the early morning, the shaman offered sacrifices to the gods at home. Everyone sprayed some water on the shaman, and counted the young people holding sticks and idols high, playing drums, singing and dancing with the shaman at home.

2 February

Hezhe traditional sacrificial festivals. It is held every year on the second day of the second lunar month. Hezhe people should sacrifice the pig heads left over from previous years to God and pray for a bumper harvest in fishing and hunting.