What is the 8th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar?

"August 8" Miao Festival, is a traditional festival of the Miao people in Xingren, Guizhou Province, China. The same name "Guizhou - Xingren - carp" August 8 "Miao Style Festival". Originated from a beautiful Miao folklore.

According to legend, in ancient times, heavy rain fell from the sky for a hundred days, and the earth was a sea, and the people were devastated. Only the hard-working and courageous Miao teenagers A Yi and beautiful and kind A Lan girl with a faithful hound Aga parasitic in a large wooden basin, drifting with the waves ...... they are heart to heart, defying the difficulties and dangers to overcome the disaster, hold to the fertile soil, carefully planted, day and night care. Finally ushered in the newborn.

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August 8 "Miao Style Festival is the traditional festival of the compatriots of the Miao people in Xingren County, commonly known as the" Taste of the New Festival ". Every year on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Miao compatriots will get their own harvest of food, chickens, ducks, poop, etc. to a spacious place, the village old and young, friends and relatives gathered together, raise a cup to celebrate, singing and dancing, talk about the past and present, and wish each other a good harvest, all things go well. Come together to eat a reunion dinner, *** with the "taste new", to share the joy of the harvest.

Every year on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, under the value of rice yellow ripe harvest season, the county and the surrounding Miao compatriots, overflowing with the joy of the harvest, every family kills chickens and slaughtered ducks, baked a pot of hot new glutinous rice wine, cooking a cauldron of fragrant flower glutinous rice, or to invite guests, or to visit friends and relatives.