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June 6th is a traditional festival of Buyi people. Due to different living areas, the dates of festivals are not uniform. In some areas, this festival is on June 6th, which is called June 6th. In some areas, China New Year is celebrated on June 16 or June 26th of the lunar calendar, which is called June Street or June Bridge. Buyi people attach great importance to this festival and have always called it "off-year". When the festival comes, every village will kill chickens and pigs, make pennants with white paper, dip them in chicken blood or pig blood and put them in crops. It is said that if you do this, "Tianma" (locusts) will not come to eat crops. On the morning of the festival, several venerable old people in the village led young adults to hold traditional activities of offering sacrifices to the ancients and sweeping the village to drive away ghosts. Except those who attend the sacrifice, all the other men, women and children, according to the Buyi custom, should wear national costumes and take glutinous rice, chickens and ducks, fish and water wine to the hillside outside the village to "hide from the mountains" (the local Han people call it the June market). After the sacrifice, the priest led everyone to the villages to sweep the graves to drive away the "ghosts", while the people in the "Tibetan Mountain" talked about the past and sang about the present outside the villages, as well as various entertainment activities.

When the sun goes down. People who "hide from the mountains" sit on the floor one by one, uncover rice baskets, take out mellow wines and delicacies, and invite each other to visit. Wait until the mountain god rings "divide the meat! Divide the meat! " After shouting, people selected able-bodied men, divided them into four groups, carried four legs back to the mountain god, and the rest of them carried them home together, and then each household sent people to the stockade to collect the beef sacrificed to the mountain god. In festive entertainment, throwing flower bags is the most interesting. The flower bag is made of various colors of cloth and looks like a pillow. It contains rice bran, adzuki beans or cottonseed. The edge of the flower bag is decorated with lace, and when the flower bag is thrown "with whiskers", young men and women stand aside and throw at each other several meters apart. Its methods include right throw, left throw and overhead throw, but horizontal throw is not allowed. It is required to throw far, quickly and firmly. Flowers are flying in the air. They are really beautiful. If a young man throws a flower bag at his beloved, and the bag falls to the ground over his shoulder, the girl will give him gifts, such as collars, rings and bracelets. This is regarded as a token of love, and the young man will keep it for a long time.

June 6th has a long history. Legends about its origin vary from place to place. One of them is that in the ancient times of flood and famine, Pangu, the ancestor of Buyi nationality, accumulated experience in planting rice in his work and harvested crops every year. Later, he married the daughter of the Dragon King and gave birth to a son named Hong Xin. Once the son offended his mother, the dragon lady returned to the Dragon Palace in a rage and never came back. "Pangu" had no choice but to remarry. Pangu died on June 6th, one year. Xinheng was abused by his stepmother and almost killed. He couldn't bear it, so he sued his stepmother and vowed to destroy the rice seedlings she cultivated. When her stepmother learned about it, she regretted it very much and finally made up with Hong Xin. On June 6th every year, the day Pangu died, she killed pigs and ducks and made sacrifices to Pangu. Therefore, the Buyi people hold the activity of offering sacrifices to Pangu on June 6th every year, to show the continuation of future generations and the bumper harvest of crops.