What are the festivals of the Kyung ethnic group?

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, the whole village goes to Hatting, where there are ancestral tablets, to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. In the morning of the first day of the first month of the new year, people will take incense and candles to the well to offer sacrifices, which is called "buying new water". On the second day of the first month, people start to visit friends and relatives and pay New Year's greetings to each other. The first fifteenth day of the first month is called "over the small year", this day with chicken, pig, fish and then sacrificed to the ancestors. People are taboo on the first day of the first month, fifteen into the door to borrow fire, borrow salt, otherwise it is regarded as other people come to the family's money to tear away. After the fifteenth, all the activities of the New Year's Day are over.

Eating New Rice Festival: In the afternoon of the tenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, each family cooks new rice for worshiping the "Tiantou Gong" and the ancestors, and then the whole family eats the new rice, and they have to eat it with the door closed, so that no outsiders can see it.

Midwinter Festival: The Jing people celebrate the Midwinter Festival on the 15th day of the 7th month. On this day, in the morning, cook glutinous rice and glutinous rice sugar porridge to worship ancestors, at noon, slaughter chickens, ducks, pork, etc. to worship ancestors, and then eat and drink wine. The people believe that unprovided for wild spirits will invade the village if they lack food and clothing, so they ask a priest to give them food and clothing on the 15th day of the 7th month, which is called "Shiyu". In front of the Ha Ting, an empty ping was set up with two rows of banana leaves on both sides, fried corn, rice balls, cakes, clothes, money and paper treasures, several people wearing masks and pretending to be hungry ghosts, and a priest came on stage with a sword in the sound of gongs and drums and ordered the hungry ghosts from all directions to gather in front of the "invocation list", read the list and recited the words to the hungry ghosts, so that the hungry ghosts could all share their food and clothing and refrain from disturbing the villages. Divination with a cup and mussel, winning mussel, that is, hungry ghosts have been fed. Then the master gave the order, the hungry ghosts will be playing with the children onlookers rushed to the food grabbed, the folk believe that the children grabbed the "absolute ghost" food for the "blessed". Grabbed the food, a banana boat into the sea, banana boat with banana poles put together, two meters long, one meter wide, inserted on the red triangular paper flag, loaded with a few handfuls of rice, some of the medieval clothes, medieval money, paper treasure, banana boat into the water, sounding firecrackers, burning the "invocation list" and the medieval clothes, medieval money, paper treasure, will be ghosts sent away.