Traditional Festivals of the Jingpo People:
1. Menao Festival
"Menao Song" means "dancing with a large group" in Jingpo. It is the biggest traditional festival of the Jingpo ethnic group, which is usually held on two days within nine days after the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and the festival lasts from three to five days. The dancers are fewer than a hundred people, more than a few thousand people, from early morning to sunset, to sunset to early morning, all night long to dance, during which the dancers can automatically retire when they are tired to rest for a moment, and then continue to dance.
Meinao as a large-scale mass singing and dancing activities, its long history, history, every year of good harvest, expedition, triumph, marriage, sacrifice to the gods and other important activities, are to jump "Meinao". Whenever the Meinao festival, villages and cottages of Jingpo people dressed in festive costumes, have flocked to the Meinao Square from all directions. The square is crowded with people, and the atmosphere is warm and cheerful without losing the solemnity and simplicity of the characteristics.
2, Sowing Festival and Tasting Festival
Sowing Festival and Tasting Festival, is the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province Yingjiang, Lianghe, Long and other counties of the Achang ethnic people's traditional festivals, held every year on the 10th day of the third month of the lunar calendar and the 15th day of the eighth month.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the Achang people have an old woman, every mid-August harvesting season, she always take great pains to carefully choose a variety of cereal seeds to stay, and forwarded to the people of the villages. She was y loved and respected by the people for helping them improve their farming techniques.
One year in August, the old lady suddenly died before the harvest, in order to make up for the old man failed to wear new, taste new and died of the greatest regret, people in her spirit of offering fragrant rice and new clothes. After that, on August 15 every year, Achang families used the newly harvested grain, vegetables, fruits and melons to cook, thus forming the Tasting the New Festival. In the following spring, people again sowed the seeds she left into the ground, forming the Sowing Festival on March 15 every year.
3. Nengxian Festival
It is a festival where young men and women of Jingpo ethnic group mainly gather, sing and dance. It is usually held on the 10th day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. In this season, when spring returns to the earth and everything grows, young men and women who have worked hard for a year take advantage of this good time for farming, and in accordance with the tradition, hold the Nengxian Festival in a flat place by the mountains and by the water.
During the festival, young men and women dress up in festive attire and wear a variety of decorations, and gather together to compete in folk songs, shooting, slingshotting, and sword dances.
Jingpo customs:
1, Jingpo clothing customs
Jingpo men like to wear white or black lapel garden-collar tops, wrapped in cloth decorated with lace patterns and colorful beads of small velvet, and when they go out, often wear a belt knife and tube pad.
2, Jingpo new rice festival food customs
Autumn, rice is ripe, Jingpo farmers cut the first bundle of rice pounded into rice, please neighbors of men, women and children to the home **** taste new rice, celebrate the new rice festival.
3. Building Customs of the Jingpo People
The houses of the Jingpo people are built with bamboo and thatch. It is divided into two floors, with people living upstairs and pigs and chickens being kept downstairs. The bamboo building is divided into two halves with the ridge as the boundary, half of which is the place where the host family lives and cooks food, and the end that is inside is the upper part, which is occupied by the elders; and the end that is outside is the lower part, which is occupied by the younger generation. The other half is used for entertaining guests and stacking sundries.