Sisterhood day
Taijiang Sisters' Day, also known as "the ancient Valentine's Day in the East".
March, which is full of spring flowers every year, is the day to hold Taijiang Sisters' Day. This day is decided by the sisters. They can invite their lovers together, have a long table meal together and be affectionate to each other. Unmarried young men and women take this opportunity to invite each other to step on wooden drums in the suburbs, sing songs and find loving partners. So year after year, generation after generation. Sister Festival in Taiwan Province Province, which originated in ancient times and flourished in contemporary times, has been listed as one of the national intangible protection heritages.
Spring is not only the season when a hundred flowers blossom and everything is born, but also a wonderful time for couples to explore flowers, express their love and romantic life. Therefore, the annual Taijiang Sisters Festival is very interesting, with beautiful women like clouds and great excitement.
Time: March 15 to 17 in the lunar calendar (back and forth)
Representative: Taijiang County
Main activities: singing, stepping on sheng, drumming, begging for girls' meals, traveling, etc.
Lusheng Festival
It is popular in Zhou Xi area at the junction of Kaili, Majiang and Danzhai counties in Guizhou. Festivals vary from place to place, usually in the first month, February or March of the lunar calendar; Individual regional elections will be held in July. Mainly to worship ancestors and celebrate the harvest. Generally speaking, a ceremony will be held before the festival. At the same time, every family worships their ancestors in their own homes. Then, the girls in each village put on their best clothes and brought silverware, and the boys came to the Lusheng venue from all directions with Lusheng. The youths in each village form a circle and blowing sheng dances for four or five days. The atmosphere is very warm, it is a kind of singing and dancing.
Time: the 16th day of the first lunar month.
Representative area: Zhou Xi.
Main activities: parade in costumes, dancing, singing, stepping on sheng, etc.
Among the festivals of the Dong nationality, the Year of the Dong nationality is the biggest and most grand festival, just like the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. On 20 1 1 year, the Year of Dong was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At present, Liping, Congjiang, Rongjiang, Jianhe, Jinping, Sanjiang and Guangxi in Guizhou still have the custom of celebrating the Year of Dong. Dong people believe that after autumn, when crops are abundant, livestock are prosperous and farming is finished, it is the time when the year of labor passes and the new year comes. Think that the old year is over and the new year is coming. The valley of Man Cang is full of livestock and poultry, and every family kills pigs and sheep to celebrate. It continues to celebrate the Dong people's New Year every year. During the festival, the splendid and profound Dong folk culture will be displayed, which is one of the most lively festivals of Li Dong Pingxiang every year.
Time: Dongnian is held in various places, mainly from October to November in the lunar calendar.
Representative areas: Liping, Rongjiang and Congjiang.
Main activities: Sacrifice, New Year's Eve, tasting Dong fruit, eating "frozen", Lusheng competition, performing Dong opera, singing Daqu, visiting relatives and friends, etc.
Dongnian
Miao Year is the biggest festival of Miao people every year, and it is also a grand festival to celebrate harvest, sacrifice ancestors and give thanks to the world. The exact date of each stockade seedling year is different, but it is usually in October and mid-October of the lunar calendar. Every Miao year, golden corn and red pepper are hung in front of the diaojiao building. Every household goes fishing in the fields and eats glutinous rice wine to prepare enough glutinous rice wine for the Miao people for the New Year. Women embroider on embroidered clothes and decorate new clothes with silver bells and pieces. You must dance the bronze drum dance during the Miao festival, which usually lasts for five to seven days. If 13 has a lot of encouragement, such as Mu encouragement in Wuliu Village, Langde Town, it will be very lively.
Time: from the first day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth (the time fluctuation is for reference only)
Representative area: Amon
0 10- 10 10 Dong people in Qiandongnan worship "Sa" and have a tradition of ancestor worship, especially the "Sama Festival" in Rongjiang. Sama, like Mazu worshiped along the coast, is the mother of Dong people's family beliefs and the patron saint handed down from generation to generation by Dong people.
In Sama Temple in Sanbao East Village of Rongjiang, there is a pile of pebbles in the center of the house with a big black umbrella in the middle. Umbrella is the symbol of Samar, and stone is the symbol of Dong family's children and grandchildren, which means that under the protection of Samar, future generations will be safe and the village will be auspicious every year.
On the first day of the first month of each year, Sama Festival begins in Sanbao Dong area. During the festival, people, led by their elderly mothers, first go to samar Temple to burn incense and hold a ceremony to worship Lisa. Then the old man took a black umbrella and led everyone to cruise in the stockade to show that wherever samar went, everything was safe and everyone was angry and made money.
After the ceremony, some people put on grass clothes and skirts, painted their faces and began to enjoy themselves. From morning till night, the whole stockade is immersed in the joy of drinking and singing, which is a little more lively than the Spring Festival.
Time: January
Representative area: Rongjiang.
Main activities: Sacrifice, singing and dancing.
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