Zhaotong Miao Huashan Festival is what festival Zhaotong Miao Huashan Festival is how to come

In the very early days, there is a Miao couple, married for many years, - no children. At this time, the couple went out to seek medical help, they walked, asked ah, no results. After a long time, one day, they suddenly came to the Heavenly Court, and the couple went to ask the Heavenly Emperor. He told them, "When you two go back, go to the top of the mountain and put up two flower poles to represent you husband and wife. The two flower poles were to be set up on two separate hills, named "Flower Hill". After the flower poles are set up, people from all directions are invited to play Huashan, when the male side should burn incense and the female side should light wax. Playing Huashan starts from the first day of the first month and lasts until the peach blossoms bear seeds. After playing Huashan, you will be able to have children. The couple thanked the emperor and went home happily.

The couple went home, according to the way the emperor told, in the first month of the first - before the establishment of two flower pole, and invited people from all directions in the first month of the first - to play the flower mountain. At that time, Huashan was bustling with the sound of gongs and drums, suona and lusheng that shook the sky and broke through the clouds, so the Heavenly Emperor sent the immortals down to check it out, and found that even the God of Thunder and the King of Dragons had come down to play Huashan. There was no one in the Heavenly Court to perform clouds and make rain, and the world was already in a great drought, with rice seedlings withered and grains did not grow. When the Heavenly Emperor heard of this, he recalled the God of Thunder and the Dragon King and sent the immortals to tear off the flower poles. When the flower stalks were torn off, they sprang up again from the ground and grew upward to the sky. The emperor also sent the gods with gold hoops to hoop the flower pole, hoop - section of the flower pole to shorten a section, hoop to only - two feet, with twelve gold hoops to hoop the flower pole, and then pulled out, thrown under a large rock, to the Spring Festival of the next year, the Miao people and the flower pole transported to their homes, to the night of New Year's Eve, the flower pole transported up to the mountains to stand up. In order not to affect the agricultural production, play flower mountain from the first day of the first month to the ninth day of the first month on the end. At that time to play the flower mountain, mainly to pray for the birth of children, flower pole to do two, can only do - zhang two feet high. Afterwards, Huashan Festival has become a grand traditional festival of the Miao people.

What are the activities of Zhaotong Miao Huashan Festival

Song Race

Dressed in festive attire of the "Flower Field", lanterns hanging high, colorful banners flying. Lanterns hang high, colorful flags fly and flower poles stand. Dressed in a pair of lapel short clothes, head wrapped in long green cloth, the waist bundled with a large cloth belt of men and dressed in festive attire, well-groomed women, blowing the reed-sheng, suona, beating the bronze drums, singing and dancing, from all directions gathered at the venue. The Lusheng Dance runs through the beginning and end of the festival, and the Song Race is the main program of the festival. Reed sign dance gives a kind of easy a carp hit, the body inverted one hundred and eighty degrees, the cycle of repetition has been climbed to the top of the pole debut. Performers feet clamped flower pole hanging upside down, blowing the reed stick down, a few feet from the ground, a somersault flip down, light and free, race over the skills of gymnasts, won the applause of the whole audience, women's performance of hemp through the needle race, interesting, the race rubbing hemp rope, threading the needle quality, speed. The crystallization of hard work, wisdom for them to bring holiday joy.