Traditional festivals of the Jingpo people:
1. Menao Festival
"Menao Song" means "dancing in a big 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 are the most important events in Yunnan Province. Taste the New Festival, is a traditional festival of the Achang people in Yingjiang, Lianghe, Long and other counties of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. Achang people's traditional festivals, which are held annually on the 10th day of the third month of the lunar calendar and the ? August 15 is held.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the Achang people had an aged old woman, every mid-August harvesting season, she always took great pains to carefully choose various kinds of cereal seeds to stay, and forwarded them to the people of various villages and cottages. She was y loved and respected by the people for helping them improve their farming techniques.
One year in August, the old woman suddenly died before the harvest, in order to make up for the old man was unable to wear new, taste new and passed away the biggest 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. New Rice Festival
New Rice Festival Jingpo interesting harvest festival. Every year in August and September of the lunar calendar, when the rice is ripe in the fields, every family will celebrate the "New Rice Festival".
At the New Rice Festival ceremony, an elder tells the story of the origin of the grain. It is said that a long time ago, the Jingpo people planted grains, but the spirit of the grains went up to the sky and the grains on the ground did not grow well, so the family dog barked day and night and finally called the spirit of the grains to the ground, and from then on the grains planted by the Jingpo people grew vigorously and abundantly.
Therefore, the Jingpo people look at the dog in a different light. On the day of the New Rice Festival, the dogs are to be given food first, followed by the cows, and then the old people. On the day of the New Rice Festival, people drink and laugh while summarizing the agricultural affairs with the main one and discussing the proper time for planting. The use of water for soaking fields. The skill of planting rice seedlings, the method and time limit for sowing seeds on dry land, and the design of open fields. The learning of seed rotation, etc.
4. Flower Picking Festival
The festival is called "Sishenxian" or "Jida" or "Ninta" in Jingpo language and is usually held during the Spring Festival. At that time, young men and women from the same or neighboring villages meet together, bring food such as shredded poi, rice, eggs, etc., and go up to the mountain together to find a suitable place to play, sing and dance, laugh and joke, and play various games such as "yangdan".
Couples talk about love, gifts, the rest of the men, women and children, each person out of some wine and meat and other food, *** with cooking. The old man sings to the young people to listen to, the lyrics are mostly auspicious words. After the meal, everyone sings and dances and has fun together. In the evening, young men and women meet each other, sing and chant in public houses and other places, and have fun until late at night.
5. 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 2nd 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 hold the Nengxian Festival in a flat place by the mountains and the water in accordance with the tradition.
During the festival, young men and women dress up in festive costumes and wear all kinds of decorations, and gather together to compete in folk songs, shooting, slingshotting, and knife dances.
Expanded Information:
Jingpo,? one of China's ethnic minorities. It is mainly distributed in Yunnan? Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in the mountainous areas, with a few scattered in the ? Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and Myanmar? Kachin State, with a total population of 130,212 (2000), including four sub-divisions: Jingpo, Zaiwa, Lezhi, and Langruo. "There are four branches, of which the "Jawa" branch accounts for about 80% of the total population of the Jingpo ethnic group.
The Jingpo people are mainly engaged in agriculture, cultivating rice, corn and dry grains. They have their own language and script. The Jingpo people are known for their hard work, hospitality and valor. They have a household idiom: "Be as brave as a lion." They conquer nature with their hard-working hands and fight against evil forces with their big long knives.
The oral literature of the Jingpo people is well-developed, especially the Lepao Jaiwa, an epic poem of creation that combines poetry, song and dance, which contains people's understanding of all aspects of the natural world and human society, and is loved by the people of this ethnic group.
Besides long narrative poems, other folk songs of the Jingpo people are also very rich. Mountain songs are divided into the loud-singing "Naomao" and the small-singing "Naosaku". The rice-pounding song, or labor song, is called "Yue Lu" by the Jingpo branch and "Gu Agang" or "Gu Tong Zhi" by the Jawa branch, and is sung by one person in the main voice and one person in the backing voice, forming a chorus. The most distinctive customary song is the "Lama Luo Tong".
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