I. Lisu
The main festivals of the Lisu people include the Bath Pond Meeting, Harvest Festival and New Year's Day. Every year on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar to hold the traditional knife pole festival, in the center of the festival venue, erected two about 20 meters of the thick long pole, the top like a ladder tied to the 36 long knives as a crossbar, the knife upward, known as the knife pole. At noon, firecrackers and drums ringing, five Lisu Hanzi dressed in red robes, wearing a blue cap, under the knife pole will be full of white wine a drink, jumped on the knife pole.
They hold the upper layer of the knife face, barefoot stirrups sharp blade, bravely climbed up, climbed to the top of the pole, take out the firecrackers, a time firecrackers sound cheers into a piece. Climbing pole down, people have to offer him wine, can climb the knife pole in the Lisu people are very respected.
After the end of the pole climbing, young men and women also threw a cigarette packet activities, men and women stand side by side, throwing each other, if the girl followed the young man's cigarette packet, and collected, it shows that the girl accepts the young man's feelings of adoration. Cush Festival, "Cush" is the translation of the Lisu language, "the first year" meaning. Cush Festival, is the Lisu people's festival. It is held between the first and fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar and lasts for two or three days. Equivalent to the Chinese New Year.
Second, the Dong
The Dong people around most of the Spring Festival, the time is also the first day of the first month. Some places at the end of October or early November to choose a day to celebrate the Dong New Year. April 8 or June 6 for the cattle festival, the festival is not allowed to use cattle. In addition, there are also the flower firecracker festival to grab the flower firecracker, eat new rice to eat new festival, stop the production activities, as well as the family name of the family name of their own festival, and catch the song, the girl festival, bullfighting festival, flower firecracker festival, and so on.
The annual flower gun festival of the Dong people is held on different dates in different parts of the country. In Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, it is held on the third day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the second day of the second month of February in Meilin, the third day of the third month of March in Fulu, and the twenty-sixth day of the tenth month of October in Linxi. The firecrackers are divided into the first, second and third cannons, and the package cannons are tied with an iron ring symbolizing happiness, and wrapped with red and green threads outside.
Burning gunpowder cannon as the impulse, the iron circle into the air. When the iron ring fell, people will take the iron ring as the target, swarming scramble, called "grab the flower gun". It is said that whoever grabs the firecrackers will have prosperity and happiness in the year. The gathering place also sings Dong opera, performs colorful tune, blowing Lusheng, "DuoYe", playing basketball and so on. The Flower Cannon Festival is the most lively festival of the Dong people.
Three, Hani
"Zalet" is the biggest festival of the Hani people, because in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, so it is also known as the "translation of La and real", that is, the October year. "Good Harvest" is one of the three major festivals of the Hani ethnic group in the area of Na Ruoh, Yuanjiang County, although not as grand as "Zalet" and "Bitter Zaza", but it is particularly important, the local Hani ethnic group believes that the new year has not yet begun, but this festival, the new year has not yet begun. However, this festival, the new year has not really come, the first of October is just a prologue.
"Good harvest color" is "dyeing yellow rice" means, the local Han Chinese called "yellow rice festival" or "February year The local Han Chinese call it "Yellow Rice Festival" or "February Year". The local Hani people use this festival to sacrifice the messengers of the god Cangmamitian, the cuckoo bird and the "Pen Bitter" bird, so the festival is held on the first call of the cuckoo bird and the "Pen Bitter" bird, and the festival ends on the day of choosing a Haiku day; The "矻扎扎" festival, "矻扎扎" in the fifth month of the summer calendar every year, is one of the important traditional festivals of the Hani ethnic group in the area of the Mourning Mountains in southern Yunnan, which lasts for 3-5 days, and its celebrations are extremely grand;
"Ye bitter Za", is a traditional festival of the Hani ethnic group around Xishuangbanna, from the first cattle day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year (the auspicious day of the Hani people), the festival lasts for 3-5 days, during the festival, people stop going up to the mountains for production and labor, and eat, drink and have fun in the house or go out to visit friends and relatives. During the festival, also held a horse race, playing gyro, dancing bamboo tube dance and other activities.
Four, Lahu
There are five unified festivals of Lahu, namely, Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Torch Festival, and August Moon Festival. Among them, the Spring Festival is the biggest festival. The origins of these festivals and the contents of the festivals have their own ethnic characteristics.
According to the Lahu calendar, there are 12 days in a round, 30 days in a month, and 12 months in a year. Later, according to the Han calendar, there are three years and one month, but they still do not run the month and the festival, so in the Lahu places, when it comes to the year of running the month, there will be the case of two festivals and two years. In some places, they celebrate the festival of the previous month, but not the festival of the following month.
Fifth, the Buyi
The Chabai Song Festival is a major festival of the Buyi. Every lunar June 21 this day, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan three provinces and districts on the border of the Buyi young men and women from all directions gathered in Xingyi County, Chabai field, held a grand song.
The song festival of the wave whistle (singing) is the social love activities of the young men and women of the Buyi ethnic group. Wave whistle to each other to throw chaff bag, bag decorated with a number of embroidered spikes beard, throw throw as if the colorful butterflies fluttering in the sky, very nice. In addition, there are also the Buyei's big year, Buyei March 3, Buyei April 8, June 6 and so on.