The origin of festivals
Most national festivals are based on folk stories, and ethnic minorities also have their own festivals to commemorate the people and events in the stories.
Festival custom
Yi ethnic group
Torch Festival: June 24th to 25th, customs: lighting torches, wrestling, bullfighting, singing and dancing.
Flower Arrangement/Singing Festival: On the eighth day of February, custom: collect azaleas and plant them everywhere. Young men and women dress up and dance with their left feet.
Secret Festival: the eighth day of February, custom: offering sacrifices to dragon trees and having a picnic.
Dragon Boat Festival: the eighth day of February, custom: Lusheng dance.
Clothing Competition Day: March 28th Custom: Clothing Competition
March meeting: March 28th, custom: market, dancing.
Bai (ba)
March Street: March 14 to 16, customs: material exchange, horse racing, dragon boat racing, singing and dancing.
Around the Three Spirits: April 23 to 25, custom: go around the mountain, worship ancestors, jump the whip of the overlord and inspire octagonal.
Torch Festival: June 25th, custom: exorcise evil spirits and seek happiness, and pray for a bumper harvest.
Main festivals: different dates, customs: offering sacrifices to the Lord, chanting and singing, burning incense and kowtowing, singing and dancing, playing and competing, etc.
Shi Baoshan Song Festival: the third day of July and August, custom: playing and singing Bai love songs.
Miao ethnic group
Huashan Festival: 1 3rd, customs: singing, dancing lusheng and climbing flower poles.
Naxi language
Milla club/baseball club: May 15, custom: horse racing and farm tools exhibition.
Sacrifice to heaven: the festival period is uncertain, and the custom is: pray for prosperity in the new year, eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits
Mule and horse convention: March and July, custom: livestock trading.
Three festivals: the eighth day of February, customs: horse racing, "Li Ali" jumping and picnicking.
July meeting: in mid-July, custom: big livestock trading, singing.
Mosuo
Mountain God Festival: July 25th, custom: worship the goddess, dance, shoot arrows, and make friends with Asha.
Jingpo
Song of Eyes and Brain: 1 month15th, custom: dancing.
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Birthday of Buddha: April 1 day -4.
Divine dance: Tibetan New Year's Eve, custom: Divine dance program.
Jockey Club: On the fifth day of May, customs: pitch tents, have picnics, entertain guests and race horses.
Enlightenment Day:1October 25th.
Duanyang Festival: the fifth day of May, customs: horse racing, pot dance, string dance, picnic.
Snowdon Festival: the end of June and the beginning of July in Tibetan calendar. Custom: Bathe in Buddha's light, dance Tibetan opera and cross Karin.
Cloth (BY)
Niuwang Festival: April 8, custom: eat Niuwang cake, feed cows, sing and dance.
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Water-splashing Festival, custom: singing and dancing, dragon boat racing, splashing water and flying high.
Flower picking festival, custom: picking flowers and offering sacrifices to Buddha.
Dragon Boat Festival: January in the solar calendar, custom: offering sacrifices to the dragon god.
Hani ethnic group
Zarizo: 1 month 1 day, customs: ancestor worship, singing, swinging and banquet.
February is the Year of the Loong. Custom: offering sacrifices to mountains, ancestors and social forests.
New rice festival: the first and second dragon days in August. Custom: Taste new things, offer sacrifices to heaven and relatives.
Kuzaza: June, custom: singing and dancing, offering sacrifices to the gods.
October: October, custom: ancestor worship, street banquet.
Girls' Day: February 2nd, customs: picnic, singing and dancing.
Mother's Day: The first day of March is the Year of the Ox. Custom: Sacrifice to mother and sing songs of missing mother.
Zhuang people
Dragon Festival: March, custom: material exchange, young men and women singing and socializing.
Wazu
Knife and pole festival: February 8, custom: jumping on the knife mountain.
Singing contest: the twelfth lunar month or the first day of the first month, customs: singing contest and bathing.
Bathroom party: Spring Festival, custom: shower and make friends.
the Huis
Eid al-Fitr: the first day of the month of Muhalan, customs: worship, giving "oil incense" and so on.
Eid al-Adha: Back to December, customs: group worship, slaughtering cattle and sheep, etc.
Lahu people
Hulu Festival: October, custom: Lusheng dance, material exchange,
Expansion Festival: the first day of the first month, customs: collecting fresh water, dancing lusheng and hunting.
Sacrifice to the sun god: establish a summer day, custom: worship the gods and pray for a good year.
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On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, customs: pulling wooden drums, racing cattle and dancing.
Yao (the legendary leader of the tribal alliance in the late period of the patriarchal clan society in ancient China)
Wang Pan Festival: May 29th, custom: ancestor worship, singing and dancing.
Pumi
Turn the mountain: May 5, custom: turn the mountain, sing and dance, fire a gun.
Achang
Huijie: On September 15th, customs: playing with dragons, dancing with white elephants and dancing with drums like feet.
Jino (JN)
Sacrifice: March, custom: drum dance, bamboo pole top.
Sui dynasty
Festival: from late August to early October, custom: bronze drum dance, singing to find someone.
Delong
Kakwa: In the twelfth lunar month, custom: running cows, offering sacrifices to heaven, jumping over pots and pans and inviting guests to each other.
Aihuazu
Yekuza: In June, customs: swing, dance and have dinner.
Female (female)
Flower Festival: March 15, custom: picking flowers to worship fairies.
Nu nationality year: the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. Customs: archery, shooting stone targets, singing (guessing boxing), swinging, dancing, etc.
the Mongol nationality
The traditional festivals in Mongolia mainly include the Lunar New Year, and the Mongolian language is "Chagan Saren", that is, Bai Yue. Mongolian New Year Festival, also called "White Festival" or "Bai Yue", is closely related to the whiteness of milk. In addition, there are Nadam, Horse Milk Festival and so on.