Jingpo Spring Festival Customs

Jingpo Spring Festival Customs: Shooting Lotus Bags, Playing Money, Playing Gyro.

Shooting the purse is a traditional program of the Jingpo people. During the festival, the girls hang their embroidered purses on bamboo poles with fine velvet and swing them from side to side with tree branches, so that the young men can shoot, and whoever shoots the purse first will sprinkle the water to the mouth of whoever hits it first. The purse usually contains a coin, a few grains of each grain and a few decorative beads as a symbol of happiness.

Jingpo people will also be held during the Spring Festival target shooting contest, the first morning of the first month people have gathered to the field, women will be a small packet of coins tied into a packet of thread after hanging in the 30 to 40 meters on the tip of the bamboo, the men will raise a gunpowder gun to play the packet of money, which is commonly known as playing the money, if the money down, it is the men win, hit down, then it is the women win.

The gyro-playing program also continues to this day. Starting from the afternoon of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, men and women, young and old, who are willing to participate, can bring their own gyros to a more open place, and begin to compete in the gyro skills.

Origin of the Jingpo People:

The origin of the Jingpo people is related to the ancient Qiang people on the Tibetan Plateau. In the Tang Dynasty, its ancestors to seek the transmission of barbarians, Gao Li Gong people in Chinese history, since the Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty to the establishment of new China, and successively appeared Echang, Chai some, wild people and other names. After the founding of New China, it was recognized as Jingpo ethnic group through ethnic identification.

The ancestors of the Jingpo people used to live in the southern mountainous areas of the Kham-Tibet Plateau, and moved south along the Hengduan Mountains in the 7th-9th centuries. The eastern Jingpo is east of the Lancang River, in the Jinsha River area, and the western Jingpo is west of the Lancang River to the territory of Myanmar.