This ancient ancestor worship ceremony was recorded in the creation songs of the Miao nationality, because the Miao nationality only has language but no writing, and the Miao nationality can sing and dance well, so songs became the best recording method of the Miao nationality. Lyrics describe maple as the tree of life of all things. After this tree of life was cut down by the goddess Niu Xiang in ancient times, its roots became loach, its trunk became bronze drum, its branches became magpies and pigeons, and butterflies were born in the center of the tree. The butterfly laid twelve eggs and became the mother of twelve eggs.
Mother Butterfly has been incubating eggs for three years, and has hatched eleven, including Leigong, ghosts, dragons and snakes, butch, jackal, Yongye (the earliest man), Niye (the earliest woman) and others, ghosts and beasts. But the remaining eggs, after three years of incubation, are still eggs. Mother butterfly had to ask the storm for help. The storm blew the egg off the cliff, the shell broke and a calf was drilled. The calf resented the mother butterfly for not hatching it herself, which made her very angry.
Yongye and Nieye used Niu Gengdi for farming, but they never had a good harvest. Ghosts and gods told Yongye and Ni Ye: Because that big cow angered Mother Butterfly, it didn't let the rural areas in Niu Gengdi grow good crops. Only by killing the cow and worshiping the mother butterfly can we get a bumper harvest. Embrace and kill cows to worship mother butterfly, and immediately usher in a bumper harvest. This is a legend about the origin of the Tibetan calendar festival.
Zang festival ceremony
The dragon-summoning ceremony is a grand ceremony for the Miao people in Leishan to sacrifice their ancestors, and all kinds of etiquette have corresponding regulations. The pig to be killed must be a castrated boar, and the hair vortex of the pig must be straight. When killing pigs, the pig's head should face east. After killing a pig, you should cut off a piece of meat from the pig's heart to worship your ancestors. The pig's four thighs should be cut off to give gifts to his son-in-law, in-laws, uncles and close relatives, and only his stomach and chest can be eaten by himself.
According to the ancient song Feng Ge handed down by Miao people from generation to generation, there were 12 hoses, 12 dried dragons, 12 hoses headed by buffalo and dried dragons headed by people. Miao people mainly farm, so Miao people recruit dragons, mainly "buffalo dragons". I hope that after recruiting hoses, people and animals will flourish and the grain will be abundant. Therefore, it is not only a custom, but also the Miao people's longing for a better life.