What month is the 2023 Taijiang Sisters Festival?

2023 Taijiang Sisters Festival is from April 30, 2023 to May 6, 2023.

The Miao Sisters Festival, a traditional festival of the Miao people around Laotun and Shidong in Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. The Miao Sisters' Festival is centered on young women, displaying songs and dances, costumes, touring the square, eating sisters' rice and exchanging tokens between young men and women as the main activities, and the festival is large in scale and rich in unique contents.

Eating Sisters' Rice is an important ritual of the Miao Sisters' Festival. Sisters rice is also a token that girls give to couples to express their love, which is the most important symbol of the festival. 2023 Taijiang Sisters Festival schedule: May 1 for the opening ceremony, May 2 ten thousand people dressed in costume tour, May 3 ten thousand people singing Weng you River, May 4 to May 6 silver embroidery Shi Dong, sisterhood deep series of activities.

Sisters Festival history

Legend has it that a large village of the Miao people in Taijiang County, the men in the village every year to go to a faraway place to hunt for a long time do not come back. The village also had a large number of women and children and 70 flowery sisters. When the women return from their labor, they raise their children and live a life they can never finish. The sisters went to the mountains to pick fruits and work in the fields, and at home they spun yarn and wove cloth and brocade and embroidered flowers.

But the 70 sisters always felt that something was missing, and their hearts never felt happy, because they were already in their teenage years. So the sisters invited each other to go to the field, they chose a place with abundant water, and turned their minds to open up the land to create a field, open, open, open, open up a big field, from this side of the ridge can't see the other side of the ridge.

The old people saw the sisters' thoughts and advised them to save the endless glutinous rice and glutinous rice wine, and when the spring flowers bloomed in the next year, they would make glutinous rice with refined rice and then catch fish, shrimp and snails in the fields and set up banquets to greet young men from afar who would come to eat sister rice, drink and dance, and make friends and choose their spouses. Afterwards, eating sister rice has formed a specific festival.