What's the festival on April 8th? Songtao Miao traditional festival.

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is a traditional Miao festival every year. On this day, the Miao people in Songtao area will hold various activities, and singing and dancing are essential. Next, let's learn about the special activities of the Miao people on the eighth day of April and the Miao festival!

Miao traditional festivals

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is a traditional festival of Miao people in Songtao area every year. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was an "Yayi" Miao leader with both wisdom and courage who led the Miao people to fight against the cruel rulers. After the uprising, the insurgents won again and again and arrived in Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou. On April 8 of the following year, Yayi died unfortunately near Guiyang Fountain. In order to commemorate this national hero, remember the achievements of Yayi and carry forward the spirit of national heroism, the Miao people hold a series of grand commemorative activities on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year.

Festival activities

Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Miao people hold a grand commemorative event. Wearing silver ornaments and new clothes, they gathered in the festival venue from all directions on April 8 to hold Nuo opera, climbing the knife ladder, setting fire, dancing lions, playing flower drums, singing competitions, playing suona, blowing wooden leaves, playing swings, inviting dragons to receive dragons, martial arts and so on.

In recent years, with the in-depth development of reform and opening up, commemorative activities have added new contents such as economic and trade negotiations, artistic and cultural discussions, and tourism. Today's traditional Miao festival, April 8th, has become a comprehensive activity for Miao people to show their national culture, strengthen national unity, attract investment, promote economic development and build spiritual civilization, attracting more and more people from all walks of life to participate, and the content of the activities is also increasing year by year.

Commemorative activities on April 8

Songtao Miao people's commemoration of April 8 has never stopped since ancient times. Even after the Qing Miao uprising, the Miao people in Songtao still take various ways to commemorate this event on April 8 of the lunar calendar every year. After liberation, inspired by the Party's ethnic policy, the traditional Miao festival was held more grandly on April 8th.

In recent years, the Songtao Miao people have held the commemoration activities of the Miao people in the Hunan-Guizhou border region on April 8 in Sheji and Daxing. At the same time, grand commemorative activities were held in Pan Xin, Niulang and Xiangshui Cave. In addition to the Miao people, there are Miao people in Hunan and Sichuan, as well as scholars, businessmen and tourists from Shanghai and Beijing, attracting a large number of foreign tourists from Japan and South Korea.