Gelao traditional festival: the joyful Lantern Pole Festival?

Renhuai City, a sub-prefecture-level city located in the northwest of Guizhou Province, backed by the historic city of Zunyi, is the hometown of Moutai, known as "China's Wine Capital" of the reputation, and not only wine here, but also colorful multi-ethnic cultures, is located in the southwest of Renhuai City, Maoba Town, is a Han Chinese, Miao, Gelao, Buyei, Yi and other nine nationalities live together in harmony. *** with the intertwined life, living in harmony with the region, today's minority festivals to introduce you to one of the Gelao's important national holiday - Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Pole Festival is one of the grandest national festivals of the Gelao people in the Mute Pond ethnic point of Maoba Town. At the end of each year, everyone elects a respected leader to be the head of the meeting, who convenes the chiefs of each clan to discuss and decide on the number of participants and the scale of the event, and according to the situation of the rich and poor, notify each household to prepare half a catty to five catty tea oil and smack wine (commonly known as altar wine), in order to be prepared for the festival. People to almost, will be the first with meat and wine sacrificed to heaven and earth, by the young and strong people will be prepared in advance of the lamp post in the fort, with a rope to the point of tea oil lamps on the top of the lantern, and then firecrackers, announced the beginning of the festival of the lamp post.

The lantern pole is made of straight and sturdy cedar wood, more than two feet high, with a crossbar at the top and an iron ring on it, which can be threaded into the rope to raise and lower the lantern to add oil. The lanterns are made of oiled paper or cellophane, with small wooden shelters to protect them from the wind and rain. Lanterns will start from the first day of the first month, until the night of the first month of the fifteenth, are not allowed to go out in the middle of the night.

During the daytime and the first half of the night during the Lantern Festival, people carry out all kinds of festive activities under the lanterns, some playing gimlet eggs, some swinging on swings, some singing songs, some dancing with Lusheng, some praying to the gods and praying to the gods, and some drinking altar wine. After the fifteenth day of the first month, the activities stop, but the lamp post continues to stand, waiting for the next year, according to the Gelao family old man said, the lamp post symbolizes the Gelao people integrity and courage, the future is bright.

Playing gabion eggs gabion eggs made of gabion strips, egg rows, filled with fluffy substances, varying in size, divided into A and B two parties, but the number of participants is not limited. When the two sides against each other, the gabion eggs will be bouncing around, and those who miss the ground will be the losers. When the game, the onlookers such as a block, the atmosphere is warm.

The majority of participants in this activity are teenagers. Swinging leisurely, like colorful butterflies, laughing and joking.

Singing mountain song singers set up, you a song, I a song, the question and answer freely, wonderful fun.

The Gelao people use a five-pipe reed-sheng to dance. Those who know how to play the reed-sheng are in the front, those who don't know how to play the reed-sheng are in the back, and the sheng rings and dances, and the songs and dances are accompanied by each other. The dancers dance to find their soulmates and make a good relationship.

Praying to the gods, the elderly light incense and candles, kowtow to the lamp post and bow to the gods, wishing for the safety of their loved ones, a bountiful harvest, and the prosperity of six animals.

Drinking altar wine festival afternoon, everyone lifted out their altar wine, in the wine altar inserted a through the bamboo joints of a small bamboo pole sucking. Men and women, old and young, you pass me, invite each other as guests. Those who have no capacity for alcohol taste and savor it, and those who have the capacity for alcohol openly drink and get drunk.

For the origin of the lamp-post festival, there is a story circulating in the area that, according to legend, during the Duanping period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the young head of the Gelao ethnic group, Gelo Lavao, led everyone to open ditches and repair weirs, and worked hard to cultivate the area, and obtained a good harvest for several years in a row. On the first day of the first month, the headman held a wedding, everyone celebrated for him, set up a big wooden pole on the Longfeng Fort, made a big lantern, hung it on the top of the pole, the light shone in all directions, Gelao men, women and children sang, danced and played the reed-sheng under the light, and celebrated until the fifteenth day of the first month, and this celebration became a habit over time and was passed down from one generation to another, and if the legend is true, the Lantern Pole Festival has been practicing for at least seven hundred years. If this legend is true, the festival has been practiced for at least seven hundred years, which is quite a long history.

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