Taijiang Sisters Festival will be held in 2023.

The 2023 Taijiang Sisters Festival will be held from May/KLOC-0 to May 6, 2023.

Miao Sisters' Day is a traditional Miao festival in Laotun and Shidong areas of Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, and it is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. The Miao Sisters' Festival focuses on young women, and its main activities include showing songs and dances, costumes, traveling, eating sister meals, and exchanging keepsakes between young men and women. The festival is large in scale and rich in content.

Eating sister meals is an important etiquette of Miao sister festival. Sister banquet is also a token that girls give their lovers to express their affection, and it is the most important symbol in festivals. The schedule of Taijiang Sisters Festival in 2023: The opening ceremony will be held on May 1 Sunday, and 10,000 people will perform in costumes on May 2, and the Wengni River will be sung by 10,000 people on May 3. From May 4 to May 6, a series of activities such as silver embroidery, cave donation and sisterhood will be held.

The Historical Origin of Sisterhood Day

According to legend, in a Miao village in Taijiang County, the men in the village go hunting far away every year and never come back for a long time. There are many women and children and 70 sisters as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade in the stockade. Women come back from work, raise children and live an endless life. Sisters go up the mountain to pick fruits and work in the fields. At home, sisters also spin, weave, brocade and embroider.

However, the sisters born after 70 always feel that something is missing, and their hearts are always restless, because they have reached the age of cardamom. So the two sisters invited each other to open a field. They chose a place rich in water resources and turned their minds to land reclamation. They opened and opened a large area, and the ridge on one side could not be seen from the other.

Seeing the sisters' thoughts, the old people suggested that they keep the inexhaustible glutinous rice and glutinous rice wine, make glutinous rice with polished rice when it blooms next spring, and then hold a banquet in the fields to catch fish, shrimp and snails, and greet young men from afar to eat sister meals, drink and dance, make friends and choose a spouse. After eating sister meals, a special festival will be formed.