Origin of Lu Ban Festival

Legend has it that the earliest person to learn carpentry skills was a Mongolian young man named Senle. He was a diligent learner and clever. He was determined to worship the master carpenter Lu Ban as his teacher, and he traveled all over the mountains and mountains, and all over the towns and villages, and finally one day he really met Lu Ban. The ancestor saw this Mongolian descendant worship pious, learn the art of very serious, very favorite, so he taught his skills to him. When Chanticleer advanced

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full of masters, Lu Ban appreciated him so much that he specially gave him a copy of the Wood Scriptures. The master said, "Study diligently with a clear mind and practise hard with skill. My life's high skills are written in this book, I hope you go back, pass the skills in the book to your family brothers, so that they also like you to become a highly skilled carpenter." Immediately holding the precious book of the Wood Scriptures in his hand, Ch'ang Le bowed down to Master Lu Ban and thanked him for his kindness.

Chen Le returned to his hometown in Yunnan, and never forgetting the teachings of his ancestor, he changed his name to Ch'an Ban and recruited many disciples. This way, from generation to generation, the Mongolian people in Yunnan Province also generally mastered the carpentry skills, but also learned the masonry, stonework, bamboo and other technologies.

Because Luban's ancestral gift of the Wood Scriptures and the day of Chamban's annual apprenticeship is the second day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, so Chamban will be this escape sans for Luban Festival. Every year on this day Chamban will personally teach "Wood Scripture", and called to the division of the apprentice for sawing, planing, cutting, drilling, scratching, carving and other technical competitions. He also chose the best sandalwood and sculpted a statue of Master Lu Ban himself, so that his disciples and grandchildren could worship him and always remember Lu Ban's teachings and grace.

The Luban Festival, a traditional festival of the Mongolian people in the western city of Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, is held on the second day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for one day. The Mongolian people living here learned building techniques from other brotherly peoples. The houses they built are not only chic and beautiful, but also durable, and are quite praised by the people of various ethnic groups in the neighborhood. In order to commemorate and celebrate the achievements in civil engineering construction, they designated the second day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar as the Luban Festival.

Festival day, go out to build the mud, wood, stone mason, no matter how far the road to come back home to celebrate the festival. All villages to kill pigs and sheep, stage singing. People also put the sandalwood carving Lu Ban statue picking up, beating gongs and drums, traveling straight to the villages, and then, everyone gathered on the field, singing and dancing. Their favorite dance is called "jumping music". When jumping, first by the male youth as a pioneer, they embrace the dragon head ukulele, playing and jumping, behind the crowd of people divided into two rows, sometimes in a circle and sometimes interspersed with each other, the team shape changes, and singing and dancing, the scene is very active.