On the origin of Danu Festival, legend has it that in ancient times, there were two as high as the treasure mountain, a mile apart, the left one is called Bulosi Mountain, the right one is called Milo Tuo Mountain. These two mountains move closer to one foot each year, after nine hundred and ninety-five years, they are close to nine hundred and ninety-five feet, and then move closer to five feet, the two mountains are next to each other. On May 29th of the lunar calendar, the sky suddenly sounded a resignation screen and then the two mountains at the same time cracked open two slits, out of the mountain from the Brocade a tall man, out of the mountain from the Milo Tuo a strong woman. This day is the birthday of this man and woman. Later they became a beautiful couple, and the man's name was Bulosi, and the woman's name was Milotuo. They had offspring and sent each of their three daughters out to make a living. The first daughter carried a plow and harrow to the plains to plow and harrow fields, and later had children and grandchildren who became the present Han Chinese. The second daughter carried a load of books to study, and her descendants became the present Zhuang. The third daughter took a bucket of grain given to her by Miluo Tuo and went to the mountains to clear the land for planting. Grain germination, wild cats came out to dig; grain leaves, Kangxiang sheep came out to nibble, rice is ripe, tits fly to peck, hard work for a year, even the seeds were not received back. No way, the three daughters back to Milo Tuo crying, Milo Tuo treasured for many years of a copper drum to her. The third daughter brought the drum back to the mountains, when bored, a drum, the sadness of the clouds suddenly disappeared, birds and animals to eat the crops, the drum up, the birds and animals will be scared away. From then on, the three daughters passed on their family name in the mountains and became the present Yao people. So the Yao people have been living in the mountains for generations, and the copper drums have become the heirloom of the Yao people.
Milo Tuo old, one day she called the three female JL back and said: "May 29 is my birthday, to that day, you come to me 'make up food'." She also specifically instructed the third daughter said: "You do not have any sumptuous gifts, when the Hou just brew a jar of millet wine, bring four two new hemp to the top as an offering can be. On the first three days of May 29th, you will bring a bronze drum to make a scene." The three daughters did as they were told. So the Yao Danu Festival, from the beginning of May 26th, to the end of the 29th, every family to four two new hemp as a sacrifice, to show that "never forget" the mother of the nation's birthday.
Every Danu Festival, the Yao people, regardless of gender, young and old, are groomed up. Especially on May 29th, every family should kill chickens and slaughter sheep, open the fragrant millet wine, rushed to a predetermined location to participate in the activities. Everyone puts the food they brought together for a gathering, which is very lively. In the colorful festivals, especially the copper drum dance, "Xinglang Tiejiu" dance, point the most interesting cannon.
Copper drums, is popular in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and other ethnic minority areas of percussion instruments, appeared in about the middle of the Spring and Autumn period. Key drum all copper casting, size varies, the largest diameter of more than one hundred centimeters, the smallest is only more than ten centimeters, the drum cavity hollow, bottomless, both sides of the copper earrings, the drum surface and the drum body are engraved with exquisite patterns. Copper drum dance is both a folk dance and a competition. Each time two men and one woman, one of the men beat the copper drum, copper drum hanging on a wooden frame, he beat and dance according to the traditional drum beat and rhythm; another another stand on the edge of the field to play the leather drum to accompany, some of the leather drummers to show their skills, and suddenly sideways, and suddenly back, dance strong, rough, symbolizing farming, hunting, and fighting against natural disasters. The woman is holding a rain hat in the back of the brass drummer for him to fan the cool, while dancing and fan, the two people with coordinated action. After the performance of each group, the crowd competed to the best drummer toast congratulations, gifts to commemorate, and give the drum king's name,
"Xinglang Tiejiu" dance, is "celebrating the Danu Festival and jumping to commemorate the meaning of the dance, circulated in the Guixi Bunu Yao region. It consists of ten separate dance passages: monkey drum dance, rattan crutch dance, animal hunting dance, mountain dance, pumpkin dance, tea picking dance, harvest dance, cow horn dance, lusheng dance and flower umbrella dance. These dances have a strong flavor of life, and their movements are rough and spirited. When the festival night sky, Yao men, women and children will play lanterns, torches, to the square to gather, in the pleasant sound of dancing up.
Songs, held after the dance. Young people sing the love tired lingering "interesting song", strong, old people sing the flavorful "drunken song". Afterwards, young people will invite their lovers to another place to sing love songs, through the song, *** booking "white head" of the alliance. The old man sang every section of the "drunken song", will collectively raise a glass of wine and cheers, until midnight square return.
Duan Yao in the festival there is also a "laugh wine" custom, that is, drinkers drink to a certain extent, they will speak to each other a relatively short paragraph or hum a relatively short song, and then we will drink a mouthful of wine, broke out a burst of laughter. Their words and songs, the use of metaphorical techniques, with the irony of the other side of the meaning, but the ridiculed person is not angry, but with the same hand expectoration "counterattack", causing the whole audience to roar with laughter.
The point of the cupola: people pre-made gunpowder loaded into a small iron cylinder, and loaded with cannon twists, according to certain intervals on the ground dozens or hundreds, and then by a number of male and female rivals to the point of the race. They start at the same time to point the cannon twist, has been pointing to the first sound of the cannon cut off, to see who point the cannon more.
Playing gyro, is a sports activity. The gyro is made of hard wood. Have a head and feet, will rotate, a large one has a few pounds, and with the color dyed red, yellow, blue, green, green colors, groups of rotating, colorful, dazzling.