What is the folklore of Binyang

Binyang County ethnic folk arts and culture are more varied and diverse. Theatre includes Shigong Opera, Silk String Opera, Caicha Opera, etc. Songs and dances include Xianma Caifeng Dance, Eagle Song and Drinking Dance, Group Inspiration Dance, Dragon Dance, Lion Dance, Pixi Dance, Horse Dance, Unicorn Dance, Crane Dance, Butterfly Dance, and Mussel Dance; and in the area of recreational sports, there is the Colorful Racking Tour, the Dance of Cannonballs, the Robbing of Firecrackers, the Colorful Lanterns, and the Wushu Teams.

The music aspect has the eight notes, folk song, horse song, Nong song and various forms of music performance, etc.; the mass culture and art society aspect has the song market, market meeting, poetry society, etc.; the arts and crafts aspect has the paper-cutting, the Zhuang brocade, the embroidery, the ceramics, the bamboo weaving, the paper fan, the cake mold and the clay molding children's toys, the lanterns, and so on.

Featured Festivals

1, Tian Kuang Festival

The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is the Tian Kuang Festival, which is called "Eat New Festival" by the farmers in Binyang County, meaning that it means to start to eat new grains and new taro. Proverb: "six counties six, open taro house", that is, digging taro. In the past, more farmers to the Ritu Ling to worship the land. After the cooperative agriculture, then. Kill chickens, ducks with vegetables, to meet the summer harvest, summer planting, send summer grain into the reservoir.

2, Zhongyuan Festival

The 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar for the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival, is Binyang County, second only to the Spring Festival of the big festival. Since the thirteenth day (some from the seventh day), the rural areas began in the hall with offerings to the ancestors. Fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, relatives, each family kill chickens and ducks, making cakes, burning money in front of the ancestors, so-called recommended ancestor.

Some in the wild incense offering, spread hair rice porridge, called "water rice", also known as sending ghosts. Later, to honor the gods to send ghosts gradually reduced, only to kill ducks and vegetables to drink.

3, send stove festival

The 24th day of the 12th lunar month (some villages is the 23rd) for the send stove festival, for the customary send stove day. On this day, with dumplings or other offerings to send Zao Wanggong (Zao Shen) to heaven, praying him to report on the good and evil on earth to speak more good words, free from the punishment of the emperor. From then until New Year's Eve, the stove could be repaired in preparation for the New Year. Later on, this custom gradually fell out of favor.

4, Panwang Festival

Panwang Festival is popular in Binyang Zou Wei Town Yao people commemorate the ancestors of the grand traditional festivals. 1984 early, Yao representatives gathered in Nanning, Guangxi, *** with the discussion of Yao celebrating the anniversary of the day and the activities of the matter, we all unanimously in favor of the "Mian" lineage of the festival of sacrifices jumping Panwang as the basis of the Panwang Festival for Yao people. They unanimously agreed that the Panwang Festival based on the sacrificial festival of the "Mian" clan should be the unified festival of the Yao people. The festival is held on the 16th day of the lunar calendar (Panwang's birthday) every year.