What is the traditional festival of the Hmong?

The traditional festival of the Miao people is the Dragon Boat Festival.

It is a traditional festival of the Miao people for rowing boats on the water, and it is popular on both sides of the Qingshui River at the junction of Taijiang and Shibing counties in Guizhou, and on both sides of the Bala River in Taijiang, which feeds into this section of the river and is known as Ha Yang Yong in the Miao language of Qiandong. Here in Pingzhai, Liao hole and other sixty or seventy Miao villages, each family has one to two rowing competition with the dragon boat.

Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, or the twenty-fourth to twenty-seventh day of the five days, the Miao people living on both sides of the river take turns to hold a grand and grand dragon boat race. In Hunan Province, Xiangxi, Phoenix, Luxi, Jishou, Baojing, Huayuan and other places, also popular dragon boat, and divided into men's team, women's team, mixed team competition, the scene is very lively.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Miao people is a festival with dragon boat racing as its main content, but it is also a festival of national culture and entertainment and social activities for young men and women, and a festival for middle-aged and old people to visit their relatives and friends, and talk about the year and production experience.

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There are also a number of festivals throughout the Miao ethnic group. For example, the "Dragon Festival" and "Cherry Blossom Festival" in western Hunan; the "Spring Festival" on March 3 in Chengbu, Hunan; the "Strike Valley Festival" on the day before the September frost; the "Strike Valley Festival" in Guizhou; the "Cherry Blossom Festival" on the day before the September frost; and the "Cherry Blossom Festival" on the day before the September frost in Chengbu, Hunan. The "Strike the Valley Festival" on March 3 in Chengbu, Hunan Province, and the "Jingqiao" festival on the second day of February in Kaili, Guizhou Province, and the "Sisters' Rice" festival on March 15 in Taijiang and Shibing, and the "Climbing Fragrant Furnace Mountain" festival on June 19 in Kaili, Guizhou Province. Climbing incense burner mountain"; from the river on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, "planting cotton"; Guiyang Huaxi's "July rice flower field" and so on.

Some of them are commemorative, some are young men and women's gatherings, and some are prayers. In addition, the Miao people in Phoenix, western Hunan, every year on the sixth day of the sixth month, men, young and old are dressed in colorful costumes, gathered in the song field, or blowing suona, or playing flower drums, or singing Miao songs. A day of singing and dancing in honor of their ancestors. In addition, there is also the Qingming Festival, preserving the style of sweeping the grave and standing low.