2019 Jumping Flower Festival in what month and day of the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar

Jumping Flower Festival

Jumping Flower Festival is the most grandest and longest history of the traditional festivals of the Miao people in Anshun. Legend has it that the heroic figure of the Miao people Yang Lu Xing, so far outside the north gate of Anshun jumping flower mountain is still named after its name. The word "jumping flower" is still the name of the Han, because the slope is planted with flowers and trees, and the meaning of the Hmong language is not exactly the same, the Hmong language jumping flower for "Ou Dao", meaning "catching the slope".

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Jumping Flower Festival was originally elected by the local Hmong people host, flower slope flower field site selection, the open wilderness is appropriate. On the day of the festival, the tall "flower tree" Phi red with color in the middle of the field, flower tree under the square table placed cigarettes, tea, wine, lusheng and other items, and to flower tree as the center of a variety of colorful activities. To participate in the flower jumping, not only the local Miao people, dozens of miles around and even hundreds of miles away from the Miao as the main ethnic groups also have many people dressed to jump flowers, sightseeing.

At the beginning of the event, a toast is initiated by an authoritative Hmong village elder or host, and then a middle-aged man starts the event by playing a joyful and cheerful Lusheng dance song, followed by a number of young people dancing in a limp circle around a flower tree symbolizing unity, prosperity, and good fortune. These various styles of flower slope dance and cheerful Lusheng dance music, very vivid, some warm mood, fast rhythm, dance posture, full of optimism and upward passion, giving people a wonderful feeling; some rhythm is soothing, such as a trickle of water, giving people a joyful and celebratory atmosphere.

Since ancient times, the Miao people have used this kind of blowing Lusheng accompanied by dancing to entertain and celebrate. No matter what kind of flower slope dance and lusheng dance music, both give a consistent national characteristics, but also give a different content and style, fully embodies the optimism of the Miao people's spirit and wisdom, showing hard work, kindness and bravery of the national character. For the young reed-sheng player, blowing a good variety of reed-sheng dance music, and jumping out of the moving dance, but also in the jumping flowers on the field to show their talent a great opportunity; blowing beautiful, beautiful dance, not only can win everyone's applause, but also will get the admiration of the girls.

Jumping Flower Festival dates are all in the first month of the lunar calendar, during the festival, the Miao people, especially young people of both sexes, dressed in festive costumes, unmarried men on the back of a dozen beds or even dozens of beds of exquisite back fan fan, such as is not found on the object of the woman can ask the brothers to take the place of the women are wrapped in parcels on the silver bells, silver beads, silver chains and other decorative items. Men blowing the sheng dance, the woman shook the bell to execute the dance of the Pa attached to the dance, dancing around the flower tree. During the festival, there are climbing flower pole competition, than shooting crossbows, than the needle and thread craft, there are martial arts performances, inverted cattle, bullfighting and other cultural and sports activities.