The Hmong Huashan Festival is a major annual Hmong Traditional Festival of the Hmong people. Every year at this festival, the Hmong people from all villages gather in an open land and hold activities. Among them, the flower pole is an important symbol of this festival. This festival is very characteristic of the Miao nationality. It should be publicized and carried forward. So what is the origin of the Flower Hill Festival?
"Flower Hill Festival" is also known as "Stomping Flower Hill Festival", is a traditional festival of the Miao people, "Flower Hill Festival" organizers to set up a flower pole on the mountain, the people who came to participate in the festival gathered around the flower pole, the people who came to participate in the festival. The organizers of the festival set up a flower pole on the mountain, and the people who come to participate in the festival gather under the flower pole to perform activities such as sacrificing to the flower pole, singing ancient songs, climbing the flower pole, dancing with Lusheng, performing martial arts, bullfighting, and singing songs to each other.
The Miao people in Northeast Yunnan and South Yunnan celebrate the "Flower Mountain Stomping Festival" on June 6 of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that in ancient times, when the Miao people were defeated in war and displaced, they remembered the suffering of their ancestors who had fled to the east and dispersed to the west, and they were saddened by their grief and wept. On the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar year, the ancestors showed their spirits and advised them not to be too sad, but to go to the top of the high mountains to play the reed-sheng, sing and dance for us to see. After that, a flower fell from the sky and hung on a tree.
Everyone sang and danced around the tree, and the crops grew exceptionally well that year. Since then, every year on June 6, the Miao family have to wear holiday dress, to the mountains to plant a flower tree, held on the song, dance Lusheng dance, bullfighting, lion dance, climbing flower pole and other activities. Among them, the striking is climbing the flower pole, who climbed high, a pig's head and good wine award to who.
There is also a legend that in the past, the Miao tribes were invaded by foreign tribes, the Miao people under the leadership of the leader of the Chiyu rose up against the end of the defeat due to the outnumbered, the Miao people were forced to move around. In order to recruit their own people, the Hmong chieftain Chi in the mountains erected flower poles, so that the reed-sheng hand blowing reed-sheng. Miao people hear the familiar sound of the sheng, have converged from all directions to the flower pole, began to live again. Since then, the Miao people will be held on this day every year, "Flower Mountain Festival", to commemorate the Miao chief Chi, celebrate the Miao people to rebuild a new life.
Now, "Huashan Festival" has become an important event for the Miao people to interact with other ethnic groups. Every time "Huashan Festival", people from all ethnic groups from all directions gathered to Huashan field, cultural and artistic performances, to carry out a variety of economic and trade activities. The "Huashan Festival" has become an important festival cultural heritage of the Miao people.