Which ethnic group is the Catch the Autumn Festival?

Catch Autumn Festival is a traditional festival of the Miao people.

Catch the Autumn Festival is a large-scale folk festival held by the Miao people before the autumn harvest or the beginning of the autumn festival, which includes entertainment, market, male and female youth interaction and celebration of the imminent arrival of the harvest. In western Hunan Huayuan County and the surrounding Miao areas, every year on the first day of autumn, Miao compatriots have to hold a lively Catch the Autumn Festival. Catch the autumn festival, is the Miao folk in the autumn harvest or before the autumn held before the entertainment, mutual market, male and female youth interaction and celebrate the harvest is coming for the content of the large folk festival activities.

On the day of Autumn, the local people stop their farm work, put on their festive costumes, form groups, and come to the set of Catch the Autumn Festival from villages and villages in all directions, gather on the autumn slope, watch the entertainment programs of blowing the sheng, acting, martial arts, lion dance, dragon lanterns, and ladders of knives, etc., and participate in the entertainment activities of playing the swings, balls, etc., and at the same time, also carry out the exchange of materials, and young people take advantage of this once-a-year opportunity to find an object, to play the game, and to celebrate the coming of the harvest and so on. The young people take advantage of this once-a-year opportunity to look for an object and talk about love.

Legend of Catch Autumn Festival:

There is a folk legend about the origin of this festival. According to legend, there is a young Miao called Ba Gui Dajia, once out hunting, picked up a beautifully embroidered shoes, in order to find the girl who made the shoes, he built a swing that can sit eight people, and on the day of Autumn invite the latter, the girl to come to play with the entertainment. Finally, among the invited young men and women, he found the owner of the flower shoes, the seventh girl, and later, the two were married. Subsequently, year after year to hold this recreational activities, and finally evolved into the Catch the Autumn Festival on the origin of the Catch the Autumn.