Traditional Festivals of the Buyi People

Necessary in traditional festivals is the song festival. Especially the ethnic minorities in our country, they like to sing and dance to express their feelings. But behind every traditional festival there is a beautiful story, which is passed down to this day in honor of that story. Buyei Culture The Buyei culture presents us with a unique traditional festival, that is, the Chabai Song Festival, and I'll take you to listen to that beautiful and touching emotion.

Introduction

The Chabai Song Festival is a commemorative festival of the Buyi people in Xingyi County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, and is held annually from the 21st to the 23rd day of the sixth lunar month in the Chabai field of Dingxiao Township, Xingyi City. The festival is named in honor of a pair of local young men and women who died for the people and against violence in ancient times.

Every year, these days, around the near and far counties and neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yunnan Province and other masses of 30,000 to 40,000 people, came to participate in the Song Festival, the scale of the grand, the atmosphere is warm, spectacular. The main activities of the Chabai Song Festival include song festival competition, recognizing relatives and friends, eating soup pots, catching up with the table and sacrificing to the mountains, etc. It is usually held for three consecutive days, and the first day is the best.

Traditional festival significance

People in order to commemorate the love of dedication, defying the violence of the Buyi couple, they lived in the tiger field dam renamed "Chabai field", and the white sister martyred on the day of the twenty-first day of June of the lunar calendar as the "Chabai Song Festival! "The festival is held on the 21st day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, which is the day the white girl died.

During the festival, the old and the young, in groups, rushed to Chabai Zhai around. The main content of the festival is the song contest. Songs, also known as four, six, eight sentences, mostly love songs, pay attention to the question and answer, and strictly require rhyme, the answer to the singer must ask the last lyrics of the singer as the beginning of their own song, and rhyme with the lyrics of the rhyme. If a person answers a question incorrectly or sings out of rhyme, he or she will be treated as an amateur by the crowd, and no one will be willing to sing with him or her anymore.

Legend

The Chabai Song Festival originated from the Buyei oral folktale "Chalang and the White Sister". Legend has it that a long, long time ago, on the banks of the Nanpan River, there was a large earthen slope called Huchang. A hunter's son, Chalang, and a family's daughter, Bai Mei, grew up playing together, and they were inseparable, as close as brother and sister. When they grew up, they loved each other in their hearts, so they gave each other tokens of affection, and made a promise for life. At this time, the walled village appeared in the tiger monster, it took livestock, snatched the doll, a time when everyone talked about the tiger. Brave Chalang organized the whole village of students, the tiger monster killed, please the village of young and old to eat tiger meat, drink tiger soup.

A rich man in the village has fallen in love with the young and beautiful white sister, let the matchmaker to the white family to propose marriage, the white sister balked. But the rich man is not dead hearted, sent people to leave a message that no matter whether the white sister from or not, will be in July 28th to marry her home. In the face of the rich man's forced marriage, Bai Mei and Zhalang agreed to rush to get married before that day. When the rich man learns of this, he comes up with a plan: while Chalang and Baimei are working in the fields, he sends his men to shoot Chalang with arrows and then snatch Baimei back to his home. When he returns home, he invites his brothers to discuss the plan and decides that he will go to the rich man's house to trick his men into fighting with him, and the rest of them will take advantage of the empty space in the manor to rescue the white sister.

The white sister was rescued, but Chalang was caught by the rich man because of the arrow wound, tied to a large sugar pear tree was killed. The white sister learned the news after the pain, go home to say goodbye to their parents to take advantage of the darkness to return to the rich master compound, in the woodpile put a fire. The fire got hotter and hotter, and the rich man heard the news and rushed to catch the white sister. Seeing that the whole village will be reduced to ashes, the white sister jumped into the fire, for the martyrdom of Chalang.