What folk activities and festivals are there in Guizhou?

Guizhou is located in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest, with a unique natural climate and environment. Since ancient times, it has been a place where southern ethnic minorities gather. For thousands of years, with the development of different cultures, unique national cultures and customs have been formed. Here, I would like to share with you several Guizhou folk festivals worthy of attention.

1, Lusheng Festival in Gannan Township, Zhou Xi

Miao Lusheng Festival in Gannan Township, Zhou Xi is one of the largest Miao land activities in Qiandongnan Prefecture. It is the representative of Miao costumes and Lusheng dance culture in Zhou Xi. Its main activities include getting up at night, Lusheng dancing, singing Miao love songs, bullfighting, cockfighting and horse racing. The scene is spectacular.

Time: January

2. Taijiang Sisters Day

Sister Festival is a traditional festival of Miao nationality, and Taijiang area is the most representative and influential. Every day, young men and women will wear festive costumes, and the Miao YMCA will invite lovers to visit each other, eat sister meals, dance lusheng and wooden drums, and give each other tokens. Also known as "the festival hidden in flowers", it is "the oldest Oriental Valentine's Day".

Time: March of the lunar calendar

3. Zhaoxing Grain Rain Festival

Grain Rain Festival is an important festival for Dong people. Every year in Grain Rain Festival, Dong people hold important activities. Dong dialect calls it "long and tender", which means "eat black rice and sow rice seeds". This is a festival to promote farming culture and love. That night, the whole stockade was boiling, the streets and alleys were full of people who wanted black rice, and everyone's face was blackened, which turned into a debt-ridden carnival night.

Time: March of the lunar calendar (Grain Rain)

4. Buyi people March 3.

Buyi festivals are generally named after time, and "March 3" is the third day of March. March 3rd is a festival for Buyi people to worship their ancestors, similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day of Han nationality, which lasts for 30 days before and after the festival. During the festival, every family cooks colorful flowers and rice to offer sacrifices to social gods and ancestors. 20/KLOC-0 was included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects on March 3rd, April. The best experience area on March 3rd is the Buyi area in southwest Guizhou and south Guizhou, such as the Buyi ancient villages in Ceheng, Wangmo and Nanlong.

Time: the third day of the third lunar month.

April 8 5. April 8 of the Miao nationality.

It is mainly a Miao festival in Guiyang, also called Yanu Festival, to commemorate the national hero Yanu Festival. Now, this festival is a festival to fully display the local Miao culture. On April 8, the best place to experience it was Gaopo Miao Township, Huaxi District, Guiyang. The Miao people here have become the Miao people with back cards because of the popular custom of getting married with back cards. On April 8, the Miao people in Gaopo Township dressed up and held ethnic activities such as shooting back cards, which was very lively.

Time: April 8.