Traditional festivals and customs of Miao nationality

Popular in Miao areas of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Guangxi. The dates of the Year of Miao vary from place to place, but they are all held after the millet is harvested, that is, on the day of Chen (Dragon), Mao (Rabbit) or Ugly (Bull) in September, October or November of the lunar calendar. In the first few days after the Year of Miao, every household should clean the house and actively prepare for the Spring Festival.

2. Dragon Boat Festival

This is a traditional festival for Miao people to race on the water. It is popular on both sides of Qingshui River at the junction of Taijiang and Shibing counties in Guizhou, and on both sides of Bala River in Taijiang, which flows into this river. The Miao language in eastern Guizhou is called "qab Niang x vongx". There are sixty or seventy Miao villages, such as Pingzhai and Liaodong, each of which has one or two dragon boats for rowing competitions.

Every year, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, or from the 24th to 27th, Miao people living on both sides of the strait hold grand dragon boat races in turn. Dragon boat races are also popular in Fenghuang, Luxi, Jishou, Baojing and Huayuan in Xiangxi, Hunan Province, which are divided into men's teams, women's teams and mixed teams. The scene is very lively. Although the Dragon Boat Festival of Miao nationality is a festival with dragon boat race as the main content, it is also a festival for ethnic culture and entertainment, social interaction between young men and women, visiting relatives and friends of middle-aged and elderly people, talking about the year and production experience.

3.4.8

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is a traditional festival for Miao people in Guiyang, Ping Huang, Songtao and Xiangxi, Hunan. This festival is to commemorate the Miao hero Yayi. During the festival, Miao compatriots will steam rice with flowers and gather in a fixed place, blowing sheng, to dance or sing love songs. The Miao people in Beijing also celebrate April 8.

4. Eat New Year's Day

Mainly popular in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County of Guangxi. Every year in June and July of the lunar calendar, when rice is heading in the field, every household in Miao village celebrates the "Eating New Year's Day" on the fifth day (some in the afternoon or morning). By then, every household will have cooked glutinous rice, a bowl of fish and a bowl of meat. And put them on the ground (or some on the table), pick 7-9 rice buds in your own rice field and put them on the edge of the glutinous rice bowl.

Then burn incense and paper, and the elders pinch some fish and glutinous rice and throw them on the ground, and drop a few drops of wine to show their respect and pray for a bumper harvest. Then tear off the picked rice buds, hang two on the shrine, and tear the rest for the children to eat, and the whole family will eat happily. The next day, men, women and children in each village put on new clothes to watch the Lusheng party, participate in Lusheng dance and participate in Lusheng dance. Some pull horses in the racetrack, and some take buffaloes to the bullring for bullfighting. This festival usually lasts for two days.

5. Huashan Festival

This festival, also known as "stepping on the flower mountain", "jumping on the flower field", "stepping on the field" and "stepping on the mountain", is popular in Miao areas in northwest Guizhou, south Sichuan and southeast Yunnan. Because Miao people live in different places and have different costumes, the dates of Huashan Festival are different and the names of the festivals are different. Some are in the first month of the lunar calendar, some are in June and some are in August. In Tiekui area, northwest Guizhou, the fields jump from the sixth day to the eighth day of the first month, the peach fields from February 14 to 16, and the rice fields from July 16 to 18.

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There are many traditional festivals of Miao nationality, such as Miao Year, April 8th, Dragon Boat Festival, Eating New Year's Goods Festival and Catch Autumn Festival, among which Miao Year is the biggest. Miao year is equivalent to the Spring Festival of Han nationality, which is usually held after autumn. On the morning of the festival, people put the prepared delicious food on the stove near the fire pit to worship their ancestors, and put wine on the noses of cows to show their gratitude for their hard work for a year. Dressed young men and women are dancing in the hall. Except for historical festivals, most festivals are held in the slack season after autumn harvest or before spring ploughing.

However, due to the influence of natural factors, social and clan differences, Miao traditional festivals have obvious regional characteristics and show different characteristics.

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