What are the traditional festivals of the Hezhen people? Wurigong Festival Wurigong Festival is a new festival for the Hezhen people, which was born in 1985. "Wurigong" means entertainment or cultural and sports conference. It is held every two years, usually in the fifth and sixth months of the lunar calendar, and lasts for three days.
The content of the festival is rich and varied. In addition to various national sports and competitions, there are also the most lively mass gatherings and banquets. The Hezhen Spring Festival is the most joyful festival of the year for the Hezhen people. The Spring Festival of the Hezhe people is called "Fo'e Shikes" in the Hezhe language, which means New Year's Eve. People wear animal skins and other clothing embroidered with beautiful patterns, geometric patterns, flowers and birds on hat ears, collars, cuffs, trouser legs, aprons, and shoe uppers.
During the New Year festival, most people will make a "fire-spitting feast" or make pancakes with a kind of wild fruit "thick plum" and fill them with fish, animal meat and other foods. To treat distinguished guests, kill the fish alive or grill the fish strips and serve them with this "talaha". Everyone is busy, cooking New Year's dinner, cutting window grilles, and putting up lanterns. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with clouds and go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings. The hospitable Hezhe people set up a "fish feast" to entertain the guests.
The "Tala Chang" (raw fish) with sour and spicy flavor, the crispy "fried fish hair" and the transparent and bright red salmon roe are very delicious. The respected folk poet (Imakan) uses poetry to offer his best wishes to everyone during the Spring Festival. The old people toasted to him, listened to his stories, and returned home happily. The women "touch blindly" and throw bones. Teenagers are obsessed with skiing, skating, target shooting, pitch ball and other competitions. There was singing and laughter everywhere.
River Lantern Festival. "River Lantern Festival" is a traditional folk festival of the Hezhe people. Every year on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the Hezhe people who have made a living by fishing for generations will put out river lanterns and worship the river god on this day to pray and bless the people. Peace and good fishing harvest. As one of the main areas where the Hezhe people live, Raohe County has also established the Hezhen Research Association with the enthusiastic encouragement and specific support of the local government, which has laid a solid foundation for the discovery, arrangement, inheritance and development of the Hezhe traditional culture. . At the same time, the Hezhe people's singing and dancing, religion, traditional skills and food culture have also been vigorously promoted.
The Deer God Festival originated from the Hezhen people’s worship of the Tiger God in their early years. They relied on the blessing of the Tiger God for a good harvest of prey, and gradually formed a wind festival with national characteristics. Every year on September 9th, the Hezhe people celebrate the Deer God Festival. The purpose is to sacrifice the tiger god, celebrate the success of the hunt, and wish the tribe a prosperous population. Because the whole village must follow the shaman to dance the Deer God Dance during the tiger sacrifice, it is also called the Deer God Festival. On this day, the whole village went out, lit bonfires, served wine and meat, sang and danced, and performed the Deer Dance to worship the Tiger God. As soon as the Deer God Festival arrives, the shaman in the village will put on sacred clothes and beat the sacred drum. The men, women, old and young in the village will sing and dance to the "dong dong" drumbeat.
Tiaolu Shen Festival is a traditional religious festival of the Hezhe people. Every year on the third day of March, the Hezhe people gather together with the entire tribe to ask the shaman to dance to the gods, begging the gods to bless the whole tribe in safety throughout the year. The so-called Road God is called "Uszhuye" in Hezhe language, which means "ask God to bless you and bring prosperity to people and wealth". On March 3 every year, the Hezhe people, under the leadership of the shaman, dance to the road to drive away evil spirits and keep the village safe and free from disasters. Also known as "Dance of Peace".