What are the festivals of ethnic minorities? Which provincial administrative divisions are they mainly distributed in?

Singing Ha Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of Jing people, and it is a way for Jing people to worship their gods and ancestors in the form of "singing Ha" (which means singing in Beijing) in a fixed activity place-hate. The time of holding programs in the villages of the three islands of the Jing nationality is different, some are on the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, some are on the tenth day of the eighth lunar month, and some are on the 25th of the first lunar month, but they are all divided into four processes: welcoming the gods, offering sacrifices to the gods, singing songs and seeing them off. On the day before the program, the villages welcomed their sea gods and ancestors into hatred. At 3 pm on the day of the festival, an old man read a eulogy, eulogized their merits and prayed for blessing. Later, people listened to the invited singers singing and stayed up for three days, three nights and one night. The main roles of singing Ha are "Ha Ge" and "Ha Mei". Ha Mei took turns to be the lead singer, while Hargo and another Ha Mei played the three-stringed lyre and Zhuzhou as the accompaniment. The content of singing is mostly Jing folk stories, love songs and so on. Old people and children listen to singing in the pavilion, while young men and women sing freely in the Woods and on the beach outside the pavilion and love each other. The calm island became very lively. After three days and nights, the singing ended, people sent their ancestors back, and the island was quiet again.

Eating New Year's Day

Eating New Year's Day is a traditional festival for Gelao people and some Miao, Yao and Zhuang people in Guangxi to celebrate the harvest. Some people choose to celebrate the festival in June of the lunar calendar, while others choose the day when late rice turns yellow. The content of the festival is "eating new rice", that is, tasting new rice. On that day, in addition to preparing chicken, duck and fish, every household had to pick some new food in the field to cook. After cooking, they offered sacrifices to the gods and ancestors before the whole family began to eat and chew. The specific forms of festivals vary from place to place. Winter Festival Winter Festival, also known as Children's Day, is usually on the first day of November in the lunar calendar. This is a festival for the Dong people in Guangxi, Guizhou and Hunan to celebrate the harvest and pray for happiness in the coming year. On the day of the festival, all the men, women and children in the village put on new clothes, killed chickens and ducks, took out sour fish and meat with unique flavor preserved in the past, and prepared glutinous rice cakes, inviting relatives and friends from all over the country and the whole family to celebrate together. From nine o'clock in the morning until the afternoon, the fragrance of wine and meat drifted from one village to another, and the sound of guessing boxing and wine could be heard everywhere, which was a festive scene.

Dragon Boat Festival

Duanjie, the biggest festival of the Shui people, is as grand as the Spring Festival of the Han people. Most of the Shui people in Guangxi celebrate this festival. According to the custom of the Shui people, every year from1February to February of the New Year (from August to1October of the lunar calendar), noon or Sunday can be chosen as the day to celebrate the Rui Festival. Generally speaking, the village takes turns to celebrate the holidays. Relatives and friends of people in four villages and four townships and people in the same village go to each family to eat New Year's Eve and drink New Year's wine, and every family has a symbolic meal. Duanjie is a festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, celebrate the harvest and wish happiness in the coming year. Every household is clean and vegetarian. Interestingly, fish is not only taboo, but also a necessary item for main course and sacrifice. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, wine, rice, melons, fruits, etc. It is necessary to add a vegetarian table according to the tradition of the aquarium. During the festival, people also wear festive costumes, visit relatives and friends, or go to Duanpo in groups to hold folk songs, horse races and other activities, which is very lively. Unfortunately, after the Shui people moved to Guangxi, due to the small population and scattered residence, the horse racing on the broken slope has not been organized.

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Dragon Boat Festival

Pink Dragon Festival, also known as temple fair, is an annual grand traditional festival of Maonan nationality. There are two festivals in May of the lunar calendar, with Tieao in Maonan Township as the boundary, Shangnan Township in the south and Zhongnan Village in the middle as the festival, and Xianan Township in the north as the festival. On the festival day, men, women and children wear holiday costumes to celebrate their own festivals. Every household steamed five-color glutinous rice and steamed meat with flour, turned back to plant willow branches or bamboo branches in nave, and densely glued five-color glutinous rice, named "Harvest Tree", which symbolizes the bumper harvest of farmers in that year. Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is a memorial to the three realms, thanking him for teaching Maonan people to raise cattle and grow rice. Therefore, all people in the village should go to the temple to worship the temple first, watch Master recite scriptures, sing sacred songs, dance and worship the gods, and feed the cows with five-color glutinous rice and wrap steamed meat to express their gratitude to Niu Yi for his hard work in pulling the plough and rake. After visiting the temple, the married women returned to their parents, brothers and sisters with exquisite bamboo baskets, colorful glutinous rice and steamed meat. Unmarried young men and women each wear exquisite flowered bamboo hats and new cloth shoes, and express their feelings with songs at the foot of each hillside. Nowadays, the atmosphere of the sweeping ceremony is weak. In addition to gathering friends for dinner, people have gradually carried out martial arts, playing top, kicking shuttlecock, climbing pole, Woodenhead opera, teacher play, duet and other cultural and sports activities, adding new colors to the ancient festivals.

Fireworks Festival

Fireworks Festival is a traditional festival of the Dong, Zhuang, Miao and Mulao ethnic minorities, which is popular in Sanjiang, Longsheng, Rongshui and Hunan Tongdao in Guangxi. The festival lasts from the third day of the first month to the fifteenth day of May and the second day of February. The Fulu Fireworks Festival in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is the most lively, and the main activity is to grab fireworks. On the day of the fireworks, the nearby village organized gun teams to grab guns, each with a dozen or twenty people. Fireworks are small iron rings decorated with red and green wool and placed on the top of iron cannons. When the guns sounded, the hoop fell from the air, and the contestants strived to win, grabbing the fireworks and sending them to the designated place. Fireworks are divided into artillery, second artillery and third artillery. In addition to getting certain material rewards, grabbing fireworks also means happiness and auspiciousness. The next fireworks festival is organized by the winner of the first shot, which is called gun return. Tens of thousands of people of all ethnic groups watch guns, and young people also take this opportunity to make friends and fall in love. Fireworks calligraphy, originally a folk religious ceremony to pray for heirs, has now developed into a mass cultural and sports activity and a sports competition for ethnic minorities. During the Fireworks Festival, there are many colorful activities, such as singing operas, playing lusheng, singing duets and shooting birds.

Hmong

Miao Year is a traditional festival for Miao people in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County and some southeast areas of Guangxi. It is a custom for the Miao people in Rongshui to celebrate the Chinese New Year from 1 1 month 15 to1February 15 in the lunar calendar. Generally, it starts from the towns in the northwest and Gongdong, and takes turns to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the towns along the southeast. On the eve of Chinese New Year, every family kills pigs and sheep, transports fish to make wine, makes glutinous rice cakes, prepares rich food to worship their ancestors, and entertains visiting guests. After the New Year's Eve dinner, young people met to form a Lusheng team to play Lusheng in villages and lanes, singing and singing until all night. When chickens crow in the morning, the whole village fires guns to announce the New Year to ward off evil spirits, while women scramble to go to the well or "fetch water" to pray for the happiness of the whole family in the coming year. Rongshui Sirong Township is the most lively place for annual festival activities, attracting nearby towns and Miao people as far away as Rongjiang and Congjiang in Guizhou to watch it, or taking part in large-scale Lusheng competitions, wrestling, Touma, bullfighting, bird shooting and other colorful activities. Young people often take this opportunity to find their lifelong partners, and Miao Village is full of festive atmosphere.

Niuhun Festival

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Zhuang farmers in leye county, Longlin and other places celebrate the festival of cattle soul, while the Mulao and Miao people in Luocheng are called the festival of cattle life, which is advanced to the eighth day of April, but the form of the festival is similar. On the festival day, no matter how busy the farm work is, cows should be given a day off, and every household should kill chickens and ducks and steam five-color glutinous rice or glutinous rice. Early in the morning, clean the cowshed first, and feed the cows with colored glutinous rice (or rice cakes), eggs, brown sugar, corn and specially harvested fresh grass. After careful care, I thanked Niu Yi for his hard work over the years and expressed the deep feelings of local farmers for cattle. Before dinner, we should sacrifice to the cowherd god, and then the whole family will drink together to pray for good weather, abundant crops and safe and prosperous cattle raising.

Wang Pan Festival

Wang Pan Festival is a grand traditional festival for Yao people in Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan and Guangdong to commemorate their ancestors. Now it is held on October 16th of the lunar calendar every year, usually for three days and three nights, or seven days and seven nights. It can be completely owned by a family, or it can be owned by joint family or a family of the same clan. During the festival, every household kills pigs and sheep, prepares rich food to entertain relatives and friends, and everyone puts on holiday costumes and holds colorful celebrations. The main contents include dancing and inspiring, singing heavenly king songs, historical songs, love songs, making songs, setting off fireworks and acting, among which dancing and inspiring and singing heavenly king songs are essential activities. Young men and women also set up karaoke bars outside the village, singing to each other until all night, and some also took the opportunity to express their feelings through songs and find suitable people. Wang Pan Festival has outstanding national characteristics, a long history and wide spread, which shows the Yao people's yearning for a better life.

Pohui

Water-splashing Festival is a traditional festival of Miao nationality, which is held once a year 1 month 16 and August 16. The most famous place is Gulongpo, Xiangfen Township, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County. At that time, dozens of young men and women in Fiona Fang will wear festive costumes and play lusheng, and gather in Gulongpo. The slopes will be crowded with people, red and green. Besides burning incense and setting off firecrackers, there will also be cultural and sports activities such as dragon dancing, playing with lions, stepping on the hall with lusheng, Touma, bird shooting and horse racing. Among them, the horse fighting attracted a large audience with fierce fighting and thrilling stimulation. Dozens of stallions competed for the championship in turn, and the winner was not only rewarded, but also a hero in everyone's mind. Songkran Festival is also a festival to visit relatives and friends. For young lovers, it gives them another chance to talk about their feelings.

March 3 rd festival

The third day of the third lunar month is an annual folk song festival of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi. In Baise, Hechi, Liuzhou, Nanning and other places where the Zhuang people live in compact communities, there are colorful singing activities. On this day, every household has prepared a rich holiday food. Young men and women put on holiday clothes and bring colorful glutinous rice, eggs and other foods. Young women also flocked to Xu Ge (usually the slope of the copper mine) from all directions to enjoy the duet. Generally, the theme is love, but also history, production, customs, common sense and so on. The forms of duet are individual duet and collective duet, as well as specific chorus. Zhuang youth can sing well and export into songs. When they meet their opponents, they can duet for a day and a night, and the game is inseparable. Besides expressing their feelings, young men and women often throw hydrangeas and touch eggs to choose their spouses and have sex. In addition, fireworks, dragon dances, lion dances, performances and other cultural and sports activities were held, and some local people also paid homage to their ancestral graves and went out for an outing on March 3. The March 3rd Song Festival has been passed down for thousands of years, and its ethnic and diverse festival contents and forms fully reflect the intelligence, ideal pursuit and healthy aesthetic taste of the Zhuang people.

Palace jumping festival

Gongtiao Festival, also known as Bow Jumping Festival, is the biggest festival of the Yi people in Napo, Guangxi and Funing, Yunnan. According to legend, it is to commemorate the warriors who returned home in triumph in ancient times. It's been around for thousands of years. The specific time of festivals in each village is similar, which is the first day of April in the lunar calendar. The contents include offering sacrifices to ancestors, gods and ancestors, preaching national history, singing and dancing, performing entertainment and so on.

A village held a public dance festival, and several nearby villages came to participate. It was very lively. During the festival, all the men, women and children in the village put on festive costumes. Bimo (the wizard, meaning teacher in Yi language) preached the achievements of his ancestors, led everyone to worship, and then drank and sang. Everyone played bronze drums and lusheng, followed the traditional dance pace around the golden bamboo grove, from slow to fast, from low tide to high tide, and celebrated heartily. Young people performed dances such as Jumping off the Gate and Crossing the Broken Bridge, which symbolized hunting and killing the enemy, expressing their memory of their ancestors' heroic and martial spirit and their victory in resisting national oppression. Surrounded by holiday food, everyone can eat and dance, punctuate Bimo's chanting, praying and blessing ceremonies from time to time, and hold horse races and various performances during the period. After dark, young men and women flocked to every property, taking turns dancing, praying and even partying all night.

Tiaopo

Slope jumping is a festival for Miao people to engage in recreational activities; Popular in Miao areas of Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou. During the Spring Festival every year, all Miao people, men, women and children, wear festive costumes and happily gather in the nearby "slope field" to celebrate the festival. From morning till night, the slope is full of laughter. Lusheng dance, singing, flute playing, cockfighting and bird shooting are all activities, and the most exciting and attractive pole climbing is the central content of the program. Young people danced around a wooden pole about 2 feet high in Poyang Lake, cheering for the competition with music, while the contestants showed their strong physique and superb climbing skills and climbing.