What are the customs and habits of Jinuo people?

Ironing Festival: The biggest festival of Jinuo people, usually held in December of the lunar calendar every year and lasting for three days. On the first morning of the festival, there will be a cattle race ceremony. In the afternoon, the elders in the stockade sounded cowhide drums, and people danced rough around the drums with the drums.

New Rice Festival: Every year in July and August of the lunar calendar, when the grain is about to mature, Jinuo people will collect some new millet, vegetables and melon beans from the field, kill some chickens, invite friends and relatives to taste new rice, old wine, fresh meat and vegetables at home, and hold some ceremonies at the same time. People often sing all night while eating.

Torch Festival: an annual traditional festival of Jinuo people, which is held in June of the lunar calendar every year. Before the festival, Zhuoba and Zhuosheng sent people up the mountain to cut down pines and cypresses and set fire to the village square. On this day, the whole village stopped collecting taxes, men, women and children put on holiday clothes, housewives were busy preparing holiday dinners, and relatives and friends visited each other.

Traditional festivals of Jinuo people. Jinuo people think that young men and women are not mature psychologically and physically until they are 15 or 16 years old, so they cannot bear and enjoy the obligations and rights of commune members, and are not allowed to go out and fall in love at night. After the bar mitzvah, they can enjoy full membership.