The Manchu people celebrate the Golden Festival to celebrate the birth of the Manchu people. It is held on October 13th of the lunar calendar every year. On the day of the festival, Manchu people gather together one after another. Many Manchu people also wear cheongsam and mandarin jackets, dance traditional folk dances, sing folk songs, and carry out various celebration activities.
October 13th of the lunar calendar is the day of the Manchu "Gold Awarding Festival". The "Gold Awarding Festival" is the most memorable day for the Manchu people, because it is the birth anniversary and naming anniversary of the Manchu people, and it is a festival for the entire ethnic group. On this day every year, Manchu compatriots across the country celebrate their festivals in various ways. "Gold Awarding Festival" has nothing to do with gold and silver treasures, and is transliterated as Gold Awarding Festival. Therefore, the "Gold Awarding Festival" is the "birthday" of the Manchu people.
Qing Taizong Aixinjueluo Huang Taiji revised the name of the clan to Manchu. Huang Taiji officially announced that from now on, Manchuria, as a whole nation, and the Manchu people will commemorate this day and celebrate it grandly as a festival. On October 13th, the Manchu people gathered together to celebrate their festival with singing and dancing. Many Manchu compatriots wore national costumes, danced traditional folk dances, sang folk songs, and carried out various celebration activities.
At the same time, whole roasted pigs, cakes, golden silk cakes and other foods are also prepared for everyone to taste. Many Manchu writers, calligraphers, painters, artists, and photographers wrote poems and paintings for everyone and performed exquisite skills, making the celebration very lively and interesting.
Huairou Gold Awarding Festival Activities:
December 8, 2007, the 13th day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, is the Manchu traditional festival "Gold Awarding Festival". More than 600 Manchu compatriots in Beijing gathered at the Huairou International Conference Center to sing and dance together to celebrate the 2007 Manchu "Gold Awarding Festival". The Manchu people celebrate the 13th day of the 10th lunar month as the birth day of their nation. In 1989, my country designated October 13th of the lunar calendar as the birth day of the Manchu people. From then on, the anniversary of the Manchu clan name was called the "Gold Awarding Festival".
Tanghechuan, a mountainous area in the northern part of Huairou, is a gathering place for Manchu civilians in the Beijing area. It has a history of more than 360 years. There are 29 Manchu villages in the region, with a Manchu population of more than 20,000. Laogoumen and Changshaoying are the only two integrated Manchu townships in the city. The 2007 Beijing Manchu "Gold Awarding Festival" celebration was jointly organized by the Huairou Manchu Folk Culture Research Association and the Beijing Ethnic Friendship Association***.
Mr. Shu Yi spoke on behalf of the Manchu compatriots in Beijing. Actors from the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble, the Minzu University of China, the Beijing Dance Academy, and the Changshaoying Manchu Township Tanghechuan Manchu Art Troupe performed Manchu dance and Peking opera for the guests. A cappella singing and other wonderful cultural programs. More than 10 Manchu painters, artists and calligraphers from Changbai Painting and Calligraphy Academy also displayed calligraphy and painting works using Manchu characters, Jurchen characters and Manchu seal scripts.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Gold Awarding Festival