Huashan Festival Introduction: Huashan Festival is also called stepping on Huashan Mountain and jumping on Huashan Mountain. Traditional Miao festivals. Popular in the central and western parts of southern Sichuan and southeastern Yunnan. Festivals vary from place to place and are usually held between the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. During the festival, Miao people gather in traditional jumping hurdles in costumes. Young men and women dance on the flower pole in the center of the hurdle, and young men also hold pole climbing, horse racing, archery, singing, dancing and beauty contests. The number has already reached hundreds of thousands.
Origin of Huashan Festival: Huashan Festival is a traditional festival of Miao people in northeastern Yunnan and southern Yunnan. It originates from courtship activities of young men and women and is held every year from the third day to the seventh day of the first lunar month. In the long social and historical development. Due to the war between tribes, Miao people have been in a state of emigration for a long time.
The direction of migration is from east to west and then from north to south. As for the local movement in a small range, it is multi-directional. Every time Miao people move to a place, the length is three to five years, and the short is one or two years. In this way, they walked around the mountain and slowly penetrated into most parts of the province like quicksand, and some of them went abroad and entered Southeast Asia.
This long-term mobility is rare among other ethnic groups. Miao people first moved to Yunnan in the Tang Dynasty, and moved in large numbers after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In Manas Mountain, Yongshan County, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province and Sichuan Province are adjacent, and Miao compatriots are relatively concentrated. People come across provinces to participate, often reaching tens of thousands. The scale is grand and the people are beaming. The Huashan Festival held in Pingbian Miao Autonomous County is also very large, and Miao compatriots from Wenshan, Maguan, Hekou and Mengzi are competing to participate.
Huashan Festival is not an ordinary traditional Miao festival. In addition to its unique customs, Huashan Festival is also a festival for finding spouses and falling in love. Single young men and women can get to know and understand each other by singing and dancing together.