Traditional festivals of Qiang nationality

The traditional festivals of the Qiang nationality include the Qiang calendar year, the Mountain Festival, the Song Introduction Festival, the Song Passing Festival and the Cow King Festival.

1, Qiang calendar year

The most important traditional festival of the Qiang nationality is the Qiang calendar New Year. The time is the first day of October in the lunar calendar, usually 3-5 days. Stop working and go out during the festival. Gather at home and make calves, lambs, chickens and other sacrifices with flour to worship ancestors and gods.

2. Mountain Festival

Also known as worship of mountains and worship of heaven. Taking the village as a unit, the dates from March to June of the lunar calendar are different, and some of them are held once a year/kloc-0 or 2-3 times. The procedure of offering sacrifices to mountains is extremely complicated. Because legends and totems are different, the sacrifices are also different.

3. Lead Singing Festival

Festival customs of Qiang nationality. Mainly popular in the northern part of Maoxian county, where the Qiang people live in compact communities. It is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and only women participate.

4. Song Club

It is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. From this day on, for four days in a row, the man cooks and takes care of the children, and the woman first goes to the stone pagoda goddess salon in the sacred mountain to offer sacrifices and sing songs, then has a picnic and returns at dusk.

5. Niuwanghui

Traditional festivals of Qiang nationality. It is held every year on the first day of November of the lunar calendar for one day. On this day, let the cows rest and feed them with steamed bread and wheat straw.