The traditional festivals of the Jingpo ethnic group include the Meineng Song Festival, the Nengxian Festival, and the New Rice Festival, among which the grandest and most important one is the Meineng Song Festival.
1. Meinou Zongsong Festival
Meinou Zongsong Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and usually lasts for 2-6 days, and the time is taken as double, not single. Every year, Jingpo men, women and children, dressed in festive and colorful national costumes, gather at the Meinao Song Festival. After the sacrificial ceremony, Jingpo men, women and children step on the same beat into the dance, cheers, drums, gongs rhythmic, is a dance event song of the sea.
2. Nengxian Festival
Nengxian Festival is a festival for young men and women of Jingpo ethnic group to get together, sing and dance, which is usually held on the 10th day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar every year. Young men and women who have worked hard for a year hold the Nengxian Festival in a flat place by the mountains and the water according to the tradition. During the festival, young men and women dress up in festive attire and wear various decorations and gather together to compete in folk songs, shooting, slingshotting and knife dances.
3. New Rice Festival
Every autumn harvest season, the Jingpo people celebrate the harvest by tasting the new rice and worshiping their ancestors, holding the ceremony of invoking the soul of the grain, and blessing the coming year with good wind and rain. In ancient times, the new rice festival was first held in the mountain official's house, and then in the people's house on a day of their choosing. When eating the new rice, the mountain official's family would invite the head of each village under his jurisdiction, Dongsa and the prestigious old people to sacrifice to Mudei God and share the fruits of the year's labor.
Expanded Information
Jingpo's ancestors were related to the ancient dizu and qiang, and used to live in the southern mountainous areas of the Kham-Tibetan Plateau, and then migrated southward along the Hengduan Mountain Range in the 7th-9th centuries. 15-16th centuries, due to wars, a large number of eastern tribesmen migrated westward on a large scale; and a large number of them migrated to the Dehong area in the 16th century, living intermingling with the De'ang, Achang, Lisu, and Han ethnic groups. After the 16th century, a large number of people moved to the Dehong area, mostly living with the De'ang, Achang, Lisu, Han and other ethnic groups. The Jingpo tribe of Jingpo, Lang'e, Wa and Lazhi were originally different tribes of the same nation.
The Jingpo first inhabited the Tibetan Plateau and were part of the Qiang ethnic group, settling in their present location after several major migrations. The "munao" is a cultural phenomenon that reflects the history, culture and religion of the Jingpo people, which was formed during the long process of social history.
The Jingpo people are recognized as having two languages, Jingpo and Jawa, which are quite different. The Jingpo language belongs to the Jingpo branch of the Tibetan-Burmese language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family; the Zaiwa language belongs to the Burmese branch of the Tibetan-Burmese language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Jingpo language used by the Jingpo people is a phonetic script based on the Latin alphabet.
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