What are the festivals of Oroqen people

Festivals of Oroqen people: Bonfire Festival, Worshiping Fire God, Spring Festival, Wiping Day, Dragon Boat Festival.

1, Bonfire Festival

Every year on June 18 is the traditional festival of Oroqen people, Bonfire Festival. On this day, Oroqen people will light bonfires, sing and dance to celebrate their own national holiday. The Oroqen people have a long history of worshiping the god of fire.

2, worship the fire god

Every year on the morning of the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival, Oroqen families will worship the fire god, burn incense to the bonfire, and throw in a piece of meat and sprinkle a cup of wine, when the guests come to pay homage to the New Year, they also have to worship the fire first, and then throw in a piece of meat and a cup of wine to the fire (mostly by the guests bring their own).

3. Spring Festival

Spring Festival is a traditional major festival of Oroqen. Meat, rice and noodles for the New Year are prepared a month before. People who hunt outside and go out to do business are rushed back home before New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the sun goes down, every family, in front of the door lit a bonfire, symbolizing a red-hot, beautiful life.

4, wipe the black day

New Year's Eve 16 this day, Oroqen people with pots of ash on the face, it is said to be able to drive away demons and evil spirits, to protect the peace. On this day, no matter men and women, young and old, with both hands smeared with ash, go from house to house to smear each other's faces. When wiping the face of the children can not be wiped for their fathers, the eldest son and daughter-in-law can not smear each other outside of the others can be casual, but in the face of the elders to wipe the first to kowtow.

5, Dragon Boat Festival

Oroqen people also have Dragon Boat Festival, every Dragon Boat Festival early in the morning, groups of Oroqen people will go to the forest to pick up with dew Artemisia absinthium, wildflowers, birch twigs, etc., or hang or put on their own doors and windows.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Oroqen