What are the customs of Wenshan people in Yunnan?

There are 11 hereditary ethnic groups in Wenshan Prefecture, and in the long-term historical development, each ethnic group has formed their own unique festival culture and customs.

1. Yi Flower Face Festival

Location: Puzhehei, Qubei, Yunnan

Activities: The Qubei Ethnic Minority Flower Face Festival will be held on May 2 in the Puzhehei Tourist Area of Qubei County.

The festival will include a carnival of face-painting, ritual performances by Bhima, ancient songs and dances of the Yi ethnic group, face-painting and traditional sports competitions of the ethnic minorities, such as kicking, gourd-sheng performances, gyro-playing, fishing, dragon boat races, and animal fights, among other activities. At that time, people dip their hands in pot smoke and watercolor, smear each other's faces, sing and dance, and wish for peace. It is believed that the more flowers the face is smeared, the more auspicious it is. Nowadays, the raw materials for face-painting have been expanded from single pot smoke to colorful materials.

2, Jumping Palace Festival (the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar or the sixth month of the lunar calendar)

Jumping Palace Festival is a grand national ceremonies to remember the ancestors, offerings of gold bamboo traditional festivals. Whenever the festival comes, the Yi men, women and children of all villages gather on a lawn planted with golden bamboos outside the village under the leadership of Pabi (i.e., the head of the clan, the lord of the village, or the head of the palace) and his wife, the head of the palace, dressed in festive attire.

On the first day, pigs were killed and sheep slaughtered, copper drums were beaten, wooden drums were played, rusheng were blown, songs were sung and dances were performed, as if drunk, to dedicate the Golden Bamboo in a grand ceremony. On the second day, the head of the palace, dressed in battle robes, commands two teams of heavily armed warriors in ancient costumes to maneuver and fight against each other at the palace apron, bringing the festive atmosphere to a climax.

3, Panwang Festival (winter farming)

The time of the Panwang Festival is not the same for Yao people around the world, and the festival can be carried out by a single family or held together with the same clan. But no matter which form, we have to kill animals and set up banquets, enjoy the hospitality of friends and relatives, and congratulate each other. The festival usually lasts three days, some even up to seven days.

Trivia: The origin of Panwang Festival, according to legend, the ancient Yao people, under the leadership of Panwang, led a rich, stable life, soon, after the death of Panwang, foreigners found the land, want to occupy. So, the Yao people had to leave their homes, and when they encountered strong winds on the way to escape, they prayed to God for blessings, and sure enough, King Pan manifested his spirit, and let everyone get through the difficulties safely. Since then, the Yao people have had the folk custom of sacrificing to Pan Wang.

4, beat back festival (the third to fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar)

The beat back festival is popular in Wenshan Prefecture, part of Funing County, is also a festival of the Miao male and female youth. During the festival, young men and women gather on a hillside, and when the back beating begins, the men swarm out and rush to the girl of their choice, holding the girl's neck with one hand and blindfolding her with the other, while the other young men go to beat her back. The girl is also not willing to show weakness, to break free at the same time, catch the young man, to his own way, but also his own body. Playing tired, double each looking for a place to play earth phone, pouring out each other's honeyed words of love, very emotional oh.

Trivia: earth telephone, with two bamboo tubes, the center with a long line, each on one side of the bamboo tube speech, singing can be heard.

5, step on the flower mountain (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the first three, the first six)

Step on the flower mountain is Wenshan Prefecture within the Hmong people's grand traditional festivals, where the Hmong live in the counties, the days are to set up the flower poles, held in a grand step on the flower mountain activities. This is not only a good time for young Miao men and women to talk about love, but also an important place for the Miao people to carry out recreational activities.

6, Longduan Street (the first month of the lunar calendar to March each year during the agricultural leisure)

"Longduan Street" is also known as the "flower street", is living in Wenshan Prefecture, Guangnan, Funing, and other places of the Zhuang people once a year the grandest of the national traditions of the festival, lasts from 3 to 5 days. It lasts from 3 to 5 days.

"Longduan" is a Zhuang word meaning street in the field and lawn. At that time, the local young men and women to song contest, through which to talk about love, when the song came to an end, has chosen a good lover of the unmarried men and women, a pair of each other to follow each other, step into the woods.

7, Babao Running Horse Festival

Also known as the small year, but also "six Lang Festival", "seven Lang Festival" of different titles. It is the grandest annual festival of the Nong branch of the Zhuang people in Wenshan Prefecture. During the festival, every family slaughtered cattle and chickens, dyeing five-color glutinous rice, first by the village head of the Zhuang

Baobao Running Horse Festival clan leader Nong Zhigao, and then, each family can be set up in front of the door of the bamboo couch offering, praying for prayers, extremely lively.

Baobao Running Festival (the first day of the first month of the chicken)

Annual session, which lasted three days, there is a story about the Festival, the legend says that a long time ago, there are three brothers of the local wood, they unite the indigenous people of Baobao area *** with the development of the Baobao, so that it has become a land of fish and rice. Later, people to commemorate the three brothers of the wood, to facilitate the first day of the first month of the first chicken (i.e., the 3 brothers festival) held a grand horse running activities.