Bulang nationality is an indigenous minority with a long history in southwest China. What are the traditional festivals of Bulang nationality?

Bulang nationality is mainly distributed in some areas in the west and southwest of Yunnan Province. One of the largest gathering places is Brown Mountain in Menghai County, where the population of the Brown ethnic group accounts for 65% of the total population of the Brown ethnic group. At present, the total population of Bulang nationality in China is about 6.5438+200,000. The language of the Bulang people belongs to the Brown branch of the Mon-Khmer language family of the South Asian language family, which is divided into two major dialect areas: Brown and Awa. The Bulang people have no written language of their own.

Bulang people believe that people have all kinds of desires, which will lead to worse evil and worse good. So they believe in ghosts and gods very much and think that ghosts and gods can meet their basic needs. Of all the ghosts and gods, the biggest is Kula. Kula is a legendary monster with a snake body and a head. Whenever there is a flood or landslide, it will appear. If someone meets them, they will die. Therefore, the Bulang people sacrifice to Kula every year when the garden is closed and opened.

Speaking of Bulang festivals, many Bulang people have the same festivals as Han people, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. However, Bulang people also have some unique festivals of their own, such as opening day, closing day, torch festival and annual flavor festival, the most important of which is Bulang people's New Year. The Bulang New Year is in the middle of June in the Dai calendar, which is in the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the main activities of Bulang people include baptizing family leaders and splashing water, so it is also called the Water-splashing Festival. There are also Bulang people who want to pile sand and arrange flowers in the forest, so they are also called the Sand Pile Festival and the Flower Arrangement Festival. The Bulang people usually spend three days in the New Year. On the first day, I cleaned the house, washed clothes, set dishes and took a bath. The main activities of the next day are killing pigs and cows, preparing banquets, and making glutinous rice Baba and yellow rice. There are also drinks and other foods in China during the New Year.

The third grade is the real beginning of the new year. The villagers are going to take a Buddhist bath. The so-called bathing Buddha is to scrub the dust on the Buddha statue. At the same time, family members should bow down to the patriarch. Every household should prepare two copies of glutinous rice Baba, with wax strips and flowers inserted on it, and give them to their parents. One copy is placed on the bed of the head of the family as a sacrifice. The other one is for the head of the family. And baptize the head of the family. The so-called baptism is to wash your hair and feet with some clear water. At the same time, I wish the whole family a long and healthy life. Finally, sacrifice. At noon, everyone wore beautiful costumes to set off fireworks, beat gongs and drums, and sang and danced to welcome the arrival of the King of Heaven.