What are the traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality?

Taste the New Year Festival, Frog Women's Festival, Chili Festival, Flower Women's Festival, Drug King's Festival, etc. 1, Pinxin Festival: a traditional folk festival of Zhuang nationality. It is held every year when the new valley is mature in July and August of the lunar calendar. Generally, every household has lived alone, and will invite nearby relatives and friends to get together. Every household cooks rice with new rice, kills chickens and ducks and prepares pork for ancestor worship.

Taste the New Year Festival, Frog Women's Festival, Chili Festival, Flower Women's Festival, Drug King's Festival, etc.

1, Pinxin Festival: a traditional folk festival of Zhuang nationality. It is held every year when the new valley is mature in July and August of the lunar calendar. Generally, every household has lived alone, and will invite nearby relatives and friends to get together. On that day, every household cooked rice with new rice, slaughtered chickens and ducks to prepare pork, and offered sacrifices to ancestors and various gods in return for their protection and harvest.

2. Traditional folk festivals of Zhuang nationality. Commonly known as grasshopper festival. The festival lasts from the first day of the first lunar month to the 30th day (in some places, it lasts until the 15th day), and it is held jointly in large villages or several villages. There are sacrificial ceremonies such as "inviting frogmen", "singing frogmen", "filial piety frogmen" and "burying frogmen". Throughout the festival, praise the frog god for bringing rain to the world and blessing the harvest. It is a song and dance event to entertain the gods.

3. Eating Festival: a folk festival of Zhuang people in Longzhou County and Pingxiang City. Chi Li Zhuang language means "celebrating" or "making up for the Spring Festival". According to legend, when the Spring Festival approached, French invaders invaded the frontier. In order to crack down on invaders, local young adults took up arms to defend their homes, so they failed to celebrate the Spring Festival on time. On the 30th day of the first month, the soldiers who went to war returned home in triumph. The villagers slaughtered chickens and sheep, made glutinous rice cakes, warmly entertained them, celebrated their victory, made up the Spring Festival, and followed suit. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.

4. Huapo Festival: a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality. According to folklore, Liu Jia, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, was born from flowers. Later, the director sent flowers and children. All people came to this world from the flowers in Liu Jia Garden, so they are considered as the goddess of flowers. February 29th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Huapo God. Zhuang women hold sacrificial ceremonies. Women of the same generation in the village formed sisters with different surnames, raised funds to prepare chickens, ducks and incense sticks to sacrifice to the flower gods, and then went to the wild in droves to collect flowers and wear them, praying for fertility and wishing their children healthy growth.

5. Wang Yaojie: Also known as Pharmacist's Day. Traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality. Legend has it that the drug king is a powerful drug god. He discovered herbs, cured people and taught people the knowledge of planting, collecting and treating diseases. In the past, all the larger villages in Zhuang area had Yaowang Temple. Every May, Dragon Boat Festival is held to offer sacrifices to the King of Medicine, and activities of collecting medicines and preventing diseases are carried out. For example, Zhuang people in northern Guangxi went up the mountain this day to collect Chinese tallow, Hypericum japonicum, cucurbit tea, Acer truncatum and other herbs to boil water and take a bath.