What exactly is the Hmong March 3 festival? What are the traditional ceremonies?

The day of March 3 of the Miao people is known as the Pick Onion Festival, which evolved from the ancient festival of love between young men and women of the Miao people.

On this day, the Miao girls will change into nice clothes, the boys will also dress up, while the boys come to the singing field together with wooden leaves in their mouths, we celebrate the spring planting, while on the task of finding their sweethearts, when one of the boys invites the girl to sing to the girl, it proves that the man has an interest in her, and the girl, if she doesn't pick up the song, the man will have to take the initiative to quit! To find other interested girls, and if the girl took the song, it means that the girl is also fond of the guy, the two people can continue to sing love songs to each other.

Each family will also make five-color rice, made of special dishes, and the Miao women's wax dyeing skills level is very high, can dye a variety of exquisite patterns and birds and flowers of the dress, handkerchiefs and scarves and hats.

This day is also known as Hmong Valentine's Day.

And the origin of this day is a very beautiful legend, according to legend in a long, long time ago, the Hmong native official's daughter Adano fell in love with the Hmong family of a cattle rancher Yan Nuo, the native official is particularly angry, said the phoenix bird, how can and staring at the sparrow **** dance, so they will be their own daughter locked up in the hammock, and will not let her go out. At the same time, the man's old man also advised the boy that the honeysuckle and the ground eight vegetables can not be the same heart. But the boy went to his room to see Adano every day when he drove the cows home.

Every time, Adano will use the song to express their feelings, she will sing, the two people with the song to carry on the conversation, agreed to meet on the day of the Ching Ming Festival, and the day of the Ching Ming Festival came, the two people will be cheerful out of the door, just in the wengpai slope above the meeting of the two people's love, touched the Huixiang immortal nun, and changed to help them achieve the marriage, the matter has been widely This thing has been widely rumored, and at the same time, it has been passed on as a good story, and thus every year during the festival, the Miao girls will dress up well, and then the boys will also dress up to attend, and they sing to each other, which is very lively and happy.