Yao Traditional Festivals Yao Traditional Festivals Introduction

1, Yao tradition is Panwang Festival.

2, Panwang Festival, also known as "do Panwang", "return Panwang wish", "jump Panwang", is a grand traditional festival in honor of the ancestor "Panwang" of Pan Yao. It is a grand traditional festival in honor of the ancestor "Panwang", which was held regularly or irregularly before the 1980s during the farming period from autumn to the Spring Festival, and in 1984, the date of Panwang Festival of the Yao people was unified on the 16th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar every year.

3, Yao Pan Wang Festival has a fixed procedure, the first is to worship Pan Wang. The festival is to set up an altar and hang the statues of gods, the biggest one in the center is the statue of Panwang, and the left and right are the statues of Zhenwu, Gongcao, Tian Gong, and Earth Mother, and so on. At the beginning of the festival, three muskets are fired, followed by firecrackers. In the sound of firecrackers, the clan old walled old in front of the statue of God offerings such as pig head, glutinous rice, chicken, wine and other offerings, people face the statue of God, bowed his head in silent prayer, to show respect, remembrance.