Binyang County has many types of ethnic folk literature and art in various forms. In terms of drama, there are Shigong Opera, Silk String Opera, Tea Picking Opera, etc.; in terms of songs and dances, there are Fairy Horses and Colored Phoenix Dance, Eagle Song Drinking Dance, Group Drum Dance, Dragon Dance, Lion Dance, Pixiu Dance, Horse Dance, Unicorn Dance, Crane Dance, Butterfly Dance, and Clam Dance. etc.; in terms of entertainment and sports, there are colorful games, dragon dance, fireworks, lanterns, and martial arts teams.
In terms of music, there are octaves, folk songs, horse songs, nong songs and various forms of soundtrack performances; in terms of mass literary and art societies, there are song markets, market meetings, poetry societies, etc.; in terms of arts and crafts There are paper cutting, brocade, embroidery, ceramics, bamboo weaving, paper fans, cake molds, clay sculptures, children's toys, Lantern Festival lanterns, etc.
Special Festivals
1. Tiankuang Festival
The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is the Tiankuang Festival. Farmers in Binyang County call it "Chixin Festival", which means Start eating new grains and new taro. As the proverb goes: "Six of the six counties open a taro house", which means digging taro. In the past, farmers often went to Ritou Ridge to worship their land. After agricultural cooperativeization, then. Killing chickens and ducks and adding vegetables to welcome the summer harvest, summer planting, and sending summer grain into storage.
2. Ghost Festival
The 14th day of the seventh lunar month is the Ghost Festival, also called the Ghost Festival. It is the most important festival in Binyang County after the Spring Festival. Starting from the 13th day of the lunar month (sometimes from the 7th day of the lunar month), rural areas began to offer sacrifices to their ancestors in the halls. On the 14th, 15th and 16th days, when relatives come and go, each household kills chickens and ducks, makes cakes, and burns inscriptions in front of the ancestors' tablets, which is called ancestor recommendation.
Some people burn incense in the wild to offer sacrifices and scatter rice and porridge, which is called "spreading rice with water", which is also called sending ghosts away. Later, the number of worshiping gods and sending ghosts gradually decreased, and only ducks were killed and vegetables were added to the feast.
3. Stove-Giving Festival
The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month (in some villages it is the 23rd) is the Stove-Giving Festival, which is the customary stove-gifting day. On this day, glutinous rice balls or other sacrifices are sent to the Kitchen God (the Kitchen God) to heaven, and we pray that he will speak more good words when reporting the good and evil in the world, so as to avoid the punishment of the Emperor of Heaven. From now until New Year's Eve, you can repair the stove to prepare for the New Year. Later, this custom was gradually ignored by people.
4. Panwang Festival
Panwang Festival is a grand traditional festival popular among the Yao people in Zowei Town, Binyang, to commemorate their ancestors. In early 1984, representatives of the Yao people gathered in Nanning, Guangxi, to discuss the Yao people's anniversary celebrations and activities. Everyone unanimously agreed that the Panwang Festival based on the "Mian" people's sacrificial festival to Panwang would be a unified festival of the Yao people. And it is determined that it will be held on the 16th day of the lunar calendar (Panwang’s birthday) every year.