Mongolian festivals
The traditional festivals of the Mongolian people include the New Year of the Old Lunar Calendar, which is known as "Chagan Sareen" in Mongolian, the white month. Mongolian New Year's Day is also called "White Festival" or "White Moon", which is closely related to the whiteness of milk. In addition, there are Zulu Festival, Maier Festival, Ovoo Festival, Mane Festival, Naadam Festival, Horse Milk Festival and so on.
Nadam
Mongolian means "game" or "entertainment". Originally referred to the Mongolian traditional "men's three games" - wrestling, horse racing and archery. With the development of the times, gradually evolved into today's including a variety of cultural entertainment content of the grand celebration and material exchange activities. Historically, Naadam was not limited by time, and was usually held on occasions such as sacrifices to the mountains and waters, military expeditions, triumphs, emperor enthronement, the first month of the year, and large-scale festivals.
Today's Naadam, held in the summer and fall each year, the scale of the year's pastoral production generally depends on the situation, a small harvest small open, large harvest large open. Activities in addition to the traditional "men's three athletics", there are cultural performances, track and field competitions and various types of economic and cultural exhibitions, as well as ordering negotiations, material exchanges.
Horse Milk Festival
Traditional Mongolian festival. To praise the horse and drink horse milk wine as the main content, so the name. Mainly popular in Inner Mongolia Xilingol grasslands and Ordos pastoral areas. Usually held in the second half of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the date is not fixed, for one or two days. In order to celebrate the harvest, each other blessing, in addition to prepare enough horse milk wine, but also to the whole sheep seat hospitality guests, and held horse racing, please folk singers sing toast to the old Mongolian doctor dedication and Ulanmu Riding Horsemen cultural performances or movies and other activities. It is rumored that the Naadam event originated from this.
Sacrificing Ovoo
There are a lot of traditional Mongolian sacrificial activities, such as sacrificing to the sky, sacrificing to the fire, sacrificing to the ancestors, sacrificing to the Ovoo and so on. Among them, Ovoo Sacrifice is a common sacrificial activity in all the areas inhabited by the Mongols.
"Ovoo" is the phonetic translation of Mongolian, also known as "Ebo", "brain bag", etc., the Chinese meaning is "high pile of child ". Originally refers to the nomadic junction and the road with the stone or soil piled up to mark the stone or soil pile. As recorded in the Qing dynasty canon: Mongolia "nomadic junction, there is no mountain, no river for the record, the base stone for the record, called the Ovoo".
Later gradually regarded as the abode of the gods, as a cult to be sacrificed and worship. Thus, the original boundary markers, road markers have become a place to worship the gods of the mountains, road gods, village protection and other deities. And it can be built according to the need to choose the site. In the past, the Inner Mongolia alliance banners, sumu and temples, etc. have their own communal Ovoo, rich people also built a family Ovoo, each Ovoo also has its own name.
Ovoo are generally built on higher ground above the hill. Most of the stones piled up and become, but also some with wicker surrounded, filled with sand. Generally presented as a round package or dome square base. Inserted a number of streamers or tree branches, hanging various colors of the flag or silk cloth strips. Inside the package, some placed grains, some placed bows and arrows, some buried in the statue of Buddha. Ovoo size, number varies. Generally more than a single body, there are 7 or 13 side by side to form a group of Ovoo, the main body in the middle of the Ovoo than on both sides (or around) to be larger.
In the past, the sacrifice of Ovoo activities in the lunar calendar from five to seven months of abundant water and grass, cattle and sheep fat season. At that time, the Sumu, the flag and even the nearby flag counties of the masses have to support the old and the young, carrying the Hada, the whole mutton, milk wine and milk food and so on rushed to the Ovoo.
First, they offer the hatha and offerings, then the lama recites prayers and the crowd kneels down to worship, and then they add stones or willow to the Ovoo to make repairs, and hang new streamers and strips of five-colored silk cloth. Finally participate in the sacrifice of the people around the Ovoo from left to right turn three times, praying for God's blessing, blessing people and animals. After the ceremony, often held horse racing, wrestling, archery, throwing Bru and other traditional sports activities.
Two, the Korean
Their festivals are basically the same as those of the Han Chinese, mainly the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Elderly People's Day. There are also three family festivals, i.e., the baby's first birthday, H? Chí Minh Festival (60th birthday), and H? Chí Minh Festival (60th wedding anniversary). On every Hui Jia Festival and Hui Marriage Festival, children, relatives, friends and neighbors bless and wish the old man's birthday.
Three, the Dai
The major festivals of the Dai people are the Water Festival, the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival, all of which are related to Buddhism. The Water Splashing Festival is the grandest festival of the Dai people, and it is also the festival with the greatest influence and the largest number of participants among the ethnic minorities in Yunnan. The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and usually lasts for three to seven days. The first day is called "Mai Day" in Dai language, which is similar to the New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar; the second day is called "Worry Day" in Dai language (Empty Day); the third day is the New Year, which is called "Bao Nang Ma", meaning the first day of the year, which is considered as the best and the most auspicious day. The third day is the New Year, called "BaNanMa", meaning the first day of the year, people regard this day as the most beautiful, most auspicious day.
Four, Zhuang
The traditional festivals of the Zhuang people mainly include March 3 Song Festival (Dragon Festival), Small New Year (called "Men's Day", also known as "Shouting Souls Festival"), Longduan (Zhuang, the meaning of catching up with the field dams) Festival, Chinese New Year, Duoji Festival, Huachao Festival, Eat Li Festival, and the "Baoji Festival", which is the first day of the Chinese New Year. Flower Dynasty Festival, Eating Festival, Ant-turning Festival (Frog Festival). In addition, the Zhuang annual fixed religious festivals are many. For example, some of the Zhuang people offer "Old Man Hall" in the first month of the year (also in May), and in February (also in the sixth day of June or October), they celebrate the New Year. Every year in February, "sacrificing the dragon" is the *** with the branches of the festival.
"Sacrifice of the dragon" by the village of two or more families to take turns to bear the sacrifices needed to sacrifice the calendar of chickens, pigs and so on; sacrifice day, outside the walled city or riding a horse, wearing a hat is not allowed to pass through the heart of the walled city, it is customary to think that every year to kill a pig "sacrifice of the dragon" can make the peace of mankind, animals, and so on. Cereal harvest. March sacrifice to the God of Thunder, and after planting rice seedlings and sacrifice "Tian Gong". July "receive ancestors". In August, each village offers land. In December, they send off their ancestors.
Fifth, Dongxiang
Dongxiang and other religious ethnic groups, there are three major annual festivals, namely, Eid al-Fitr, Gurbangui Festival, Shengji Festival, are derived from Islam.
Sixth, Brown People
Hou Nan Festival is a grand annual festival of the Brown people, which is held 7 days after the Qingming Festival in March of the lunar calendar, i.e., April 13th-15th of the solar calendar. During the festival, the main activity is to splash water on each other, and its ceremony is held in full accordance with the ancient and traditional way of the Brown people - the custom of welcoming the sun, so it is called the festival of welcoming the sun.
Seven, Nu
The main festivals are: Spring Festival, Nu said "Jijiam", also known as Qaishi Festival; Fairy Festival, also known as the Festival of Flowers, is the Nu ethnic minority living in the Gonshan area of the traditional festivals, festivals for the lunar calendar every year on the 15th day of the third month of March 17th; sacrifices to the God of the Valley, the Nu said " Ru for ", the original Bijiang County Pi River around the Nu people's traditional festival, time for the annual lunar calendar on December 2, 9, held sacrifices, praying for the blessing of the Valley God.
Eight, Tatar
Tatar language called "Gulbang Aiti", is the transliteration of the Arabic loan word, Arabic "Kalbang", meaning "sacrifice ". Gulbang Festival, is in the Islamic religious calendar on December 10, that is, "Meat Ceremony" after 70 days. Gurban, Eid al-Fitr, the three major festivals.
Nine, Hui
The Hui have three major festivals, namely, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Adha. These three holidays are religious holidays. Eid al-Fitr, is the translation of the Arabic language "Erd-Fisl", so also called "Erd" festival, in Xinjiang, there is also "Meatz" festival called. Gulbang Festival, the 70th day after Eid al-Fitr, i.e., December 10 of the Islamic calendar, is the Gulbang Festival.
Gurbon, also known as Eid al-Adha, is the last day of the Hajj pilgrimage for Muslims to Mecca (Mecca: the holy land of Islam). On this day, they should bathe and purify themselves, burn incense indoors and fast for half a day. In the morning, people should go to the mosque to participate in the rituals, bowing to Mecca, the imam slaughtered animals, will be slaughtered part of the beef and mutton given to friends and relatives, help the poor;
Sanctuary of the Festival, is to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, this day is the Islamic calendar March 12, is also the day of Muhammad's death. The commemoration is usually held in mosques, where scriptural speeches are recited and holy achievements are recounted. Some places also hold a grand Ermeli meeting (good deeds banquet) on this day, feast guests.
Ten, the Manchu
Manchu by the influence of the Han culture, festivals and the Han people are similar to the importance of the Lunar New Year. The first month of the 15th Festival of Lights, the 25th day of the first month to pray for the coming year, "Tim Cang Festival", the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar is "Lock Dragon" day, and the end of the fifth in May, June 6, "King of the Bugs Festival", August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival; Tim Cang Festival; the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar is the "Dragon Locking" day. Fifteenth Mid-Autumn Festival; Tim Cang Festival, every year on the 25th day of the first month, the Manchu rural families pay attention to the sticky sorghum rice, placed in the warehouse, with broomcorn stalks woven a small horse inserted in the rice bowl, meaning that the horse to the home of the pack food, food and clothing.
The first day, and then add new rice, even add three times. Some people also use sorghum straw to make two hoes inserted in the rice. This festival is still retained in the rural areas of the Northeast; Bug King Festival, June day, easy to pests, living in Liaoning Province, Xiuyan, Fengcheng area of the Manchu in the past on the sixth day of June, a family out of a person to the Bug King Temple pilgrimage, killing pigs to sacrifice, begging for the Bug King to avoid disasters, to ensure that the ground harvest is good. Nowadays there is no Bug King Festival ritual sweeping activities, but families still have to dry clothes on this day to prevent insect infestation.
Eleven, Li
Li festivals and the Li calendar have a close relationship. Before the liberation of the Li festivals, in the neighboring Han areas and Li and Han mixed areas, most of them use the lunar calendar, festivals and the same as the Han, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and so on. As far as the Li are concerned, the grandest and most common festivals that are celebrated are the Spring Festival and March 3rd.
Twelve, the Naxi
Naxi people's festivals are many of the same as the Han Chinese, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., but the content of the Spring Festival activities are different from the Han Chinese, with a strong ethnic characteristics. Like many ethnic groups in the southwest, the Naxi also have a torch festival.
And the traditional festivals of this ethnic group, the most important is the Sanduo Festival on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, Sanduo Festival is the Naxi people to worship the nation's greatest protector of the gods - "three gods" of the grand festival, but also the Naxi people's legal national festival. The festival originated from the Beiyue Temple Fair in Yulong Village, Baisha, which is called "Sanduo Song" in Naxi, that is, "Sacrifice Sanduo". The rest of the mules and horses will be, agricultural tools will be, the Dragon King will be and the mountain will be.
Thirteen, Salar
Salar mainly Gurbang Festival and Eid al-Fitr Sacred Chronicle Festival.
Fourteenth, the Uzbek
Uzbek mainly have Eid al-Fitr, Gurbang Festival, Nowruz.
Fifteen, the Dulong
The Dulong have only one traditional festival, which is known as "Kacak wah" or "Deli wah", meaning the annual festival, and it is held in the middle of the lunar month, with the specific time set by each family or clan, and the length of the festival depends on the preparation of food. During the festival, people hold ceremonies to worship the mountain gods, sing and dance.
Sixteen, Tibetan
Transmigration
Transmigration is a traditional festival of the Tibetan people, also known as the festival of the Buddha, honoring the mountain god. Popular in Ganzi, Aba Tibetan area. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar birth, there are nine dragons leaf water for its bath, so it is also known as Mu Buddha Festival. Every year on this day, Ganzi Tibetan area near and far the masses dressed in national costume, gathered to the running horse on the mountain and folding more river.
People first go to the temple to burn incense and pray, burning paper money. Then they turn to the mountain to offer sacrifices to the gods and pray for their blessings. After turning to the mountains, tents are set up for picnics and Tibetan opera is performed. Singing folk songs, dancing potshuang dance, string dance, riders also horseback archery competition. During this period, people also hold material exchange activities and other cultural and sports activities.
Flower Picking Festival
Flower Picking Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival held around Boyu in Nanping County. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for two days. Legend has it that a long time ago, Boyu was a deserted mountain valley, where people made a living by collecting and hunting, and made clothes from leaves and animal skins.
One day, from afar came a girl called Lianzhi, she is beautiful and kind, dexterous, taught the local people to open up the land and planting and weaving sewing, but also pick the lily for people to cure. One year, on the fifth day of May, Lianzhi went up the mountain to pick flowers and was swept down the cliff by a hurricane and fell to her death. People were so sad that they went up the mountain to pick flowers on that day to honor her. Over time, the Flower Picking Festival was formed.
Yellow Tibetan New Year's Day
The Tibetans call New Year's Day "Losar". The Tibetan calendar year in ancient times used to ripen wheat for the first year or wheat harvest for the first year, is in the summer and fall. According to records, before 100 B.C., the Tibetans have their own calendar, which is based on the moon's cycle to calculate the day, month and year. In the 7th century A.D., two princesses of the Tang Dynasty, Wencheng and Jincheng, entered Tibet successively to marry and ally, bringing the calendar of the mainland.
Since then, the ancient Tibetan calendar was combined with the Chinese and Indian calendars to form a unique calendar in which the heavenly stems, the earthly branches, and the five elements were combined into one in the Yuan Dynasty. About the thirteenth century, the Sakya Dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty set the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar as the beginning of the new year, which has been inherited to the present day.
Tibetan festivals are numerous, among which the Tibetan New Year is the most solemn and of national significance. The Tibetan New Year is equivalent to the Chinese New Year and is the biggest festival of the year. From the middle of December of the Tibetan calendar, people prepare for the New Year to eat, wear and use the festival supplies. Thousands of farmers and herdsmen flock to Lhasa to buy all kinds of New Year's goods. This is the busiest season of the year in Lhasa.
The Tibetan New Year begins on December 29 of the Tibetan calendar.
The Tibetan New Year's Eve is a very busy day.
The first day of the Tibetan New Year is ushered in in the early hours of the morning with the auspicious singing of "Zenga". Tibetans on the first day of the New Year will come to a "water race", each household to come out of a young man to the river, wellhead or tap water, "grab" the first water. According to Tibetan tradition, who grabbed the first bucket of water on the first day of the Tibetan calendar, is the "gold water", the second bucket of water is called "silver water", heralding good luck, luck, wealth.
When the sun rises, people dressed in the order of the eldest and youngest have eaten several festival food. At that time, the neighbors will go from door to door Kima, barley wine, chanting along the long history of the "Zhaxi Dele Pin Songtso", "Emma Pachuo Gongkangsang" and other auspicious, health, happiness and harmony of the wishes. Thereafter, the family gathers behind closed doors. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many farmers and herdsmen who believe in Buddhism also make a pilgrimage to the Da Zhao Temple in Lhasa to pray for peace and health in the New Year.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the activities of visiting friends and relatives make the streets and alleys lively, but also become the time for people to show their New Year's fashions, and everywhere is "Losa (New Year's) Zaxi Dele!" The sound of blessings.
The activities of the third day of the Lunar New Year are based on religious, cultural and sports content, turning on the road, the roof is filled with thick smoke, young people on the roof and mountain tops insert colorful streamers to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, and the majority of farmers and herdsmen will also be held in the new horse saddle ceremony, horse racing, tug-of-war, throwing, and other colorful and entertaining activities. The Tibetan New Year celebrations will continue until the 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar.
Tibetan Lunar New Year
Because in the first month of the Tibetan calendar, farmers in Houzang (Tibet's main grain-producing region, meaning the area around Rikaze) have to start spring plowing, the Tibetan ancestors around Houzang set December 1 of each year as the Tibetan Lunar New Year a long time ago.
The custom of celebrating the Tibetan Lunar New Year is generally observed only in the area around Shigatse, Tibet, which includes Nimu County in Lhasa, Tibet, while in most parts of Tibet, the New Year is celebrated on January 1 of each year in the Tibetan calendar.
Tibetan festivals are numerous in nature, and the Tibetan Lunar New Year is the most solemn and nationally significant festival in the area of Houzang. Starting from the middle of November in the Tibetan calendar, people begin to prepare the festive items to eat, wear and use for the New Year.
While the real Lunar New Year falls on December 1 of the Tibetan calendar, the festivities begin on November 29 of the Tibetan calendar. Starting with the "Gutu" family reunion on this night, a series of joyful activities for the Tibetan Lunar New Year officially kicks off. The celebration of the Tibetan New Year is basically the same as that of the Tibetan New Year in other parts of Tibet, and its joyful activities will continue until the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar.
Saga Dawa Festival
April 15 is the Tibetan festival of Saga Dawa. There are two ways of talking about it: one says it commemorates the day Sakyamuni became a monk; the other says it commemorates the day Princess Wencheng arrived in Lhasa. Religious commemorations are held throughout Tibet on this day. Some Tibetan people in Yunnan also have to go to the Dharma Mountain in Weixi County to pay homage to the "turn Ge La" (around the mountain) ceremony.
Daughter's Day
The Tibetans in Wenxian County in Gansu Province celebrate their "Daughter's Day" on the fourth and fifth days of the fifth lunar month. During the festival, the girls, accompanied by their brothers, put on colorful costumes, bring delicious delicacies, go up to the mountains to pick tea and sing songs, and young men toasting each other, praying for good luck.
Wangguo Festival
"Wangguo Festival" (meaning turn the field) is one of the traditional Tibetan festivals. The period of the festival ranges from one to three days. Every year in July, the grain harvest is expected, Tibetans will carry the scroll around the field, wishing for a good harvest. At the same time held horse racing, archery, cultural performances and other activities.
Sedon festival
Sedon festival is a traditional Tibetan festival, originated in the 11th century. Held annually on the first day of the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar, a period of four or five days. Xuedong Tibetan translation, meaning "yogurt feast", so Xuedong Festival was interpreted as drinking yogurt festival. Later gradually evolved to perform Tibetan opera-based, also known as the "Tibetan Opera Festival". At that time, the residents near Lhasa City dressed in brightly colored holiday costumes, old and young, drink and talk, singing and dancing, watching Tibetan opera, enjoy the joy of the festival.
In the afternoon, families began to string curtains as guests. The host to the guest line to toast three dry a cup of "SongZhunNieTa" (wine ceremony), sing a variety of different tunes to persuade the song. After the song, the guests drink the wine in three gulps. The sound of toasts, blessings and laughter lasted for a long time. When the evening sun dyed the sky, people only step in the twilight to leave Lopblingka. According to Buddhist regulations, monastic bhikkhus are forbidden to go out for a period of time. In summer, at the end of the Tibetan calendar in June, bhikkhus leave the temple and go down the mountain, and the secular people give alms with yogurt seeds. At that time purely religious activities.
In the mid-17th century, the Qing Dynasty formally enthroned the Fifth Dalai Lama and the Fourth Panchen, famous Tibetan opera groups from all over Tibet focused on Lhasa for the Xuedong Festival, Xuedong Festival activities have evolved into a Tibetan opera performances as the main religious and recreational activities combined with the major festivals, so it is also known as the "Tibetan Opera Festival", because of its confined to the scope in the temple Inside and outside the temple, and to drepung monastery as the center, it is called "drepung snow festival". 18th century, the snow festival activities center from drepung monastery to transfer to lopblingka, allowing the public into the garden to watch Tibetan opera.
After the democratic reform in Tibet, the Snowdon Festival became the people's own festival. During the festival, there are activities such as Drepung sunbathing, Tibetan opera performances, and strolling around Lumka. Every year on June 30 of the Tibetan calendar, the Drepung Monastery in the western suburbs of Lhasa City, held a grand "show Buddha" activities, so that more believers have the opportunity to worship Buddha, the local government does not intervene in such Buddhist activities. During the festival, Lop Lamka, a sea of people, forests and trees are full of tents, mats, Tibetan people gathered here to drink barley wine, ghee tea, eating yogurt, and watch Tibetan opera and enjoy a variety of cultural and artistic programs.
In 1993, the Lhasa Municipal People's Government decided, from 1993 onwards, once a year to organize Lhasa Snow Festival, and at the same time organized the Lhasa Snow Festival materials fair. 1993 August 16, the first "snow fair" opened. Now the Snow Festival has developed into a blend of cultural performances, economic and trade negotiations, investment, material exchanges, product exhibitions and sales, sports, tourism and leisure as one of the comprehensive festival event.
In 2004, the Lhasa Municipal People's Government decided, in order to solve the traditional Snow Festival to the Tibetan calendar, the annual calendar date is not consistent, to domestic and foreign tourists causing inconvenience, from 2004 onwards, in addition to the Drepung Monastery Buddha activities are still in accordance with the traditional Tibetan calendar on June 30th, the municipal government-sponsored Snow Festival is fixed to the opening of the annual calendar August 18th.
Actors perform Tibetan opera at the Potala Palace Square to celebrate the festival.
Bai Lai Rizhi Festival
On October 15 of the Tibetan calendar is the annual traditional Tibetan festival, Bai Lai Rizhi, or "Auspicious Heavenly Mother's Day".
On the origin of this festival, the Tibetan folk there is a vivid legend: the Great Show Monastery's guardian goddess mother Ma Suo Jiem has three daughters, the youngest daughter Baila Xiem, the second daughter Dongzan Jiem, the eldest daughter Baila Zam. Because they do not obey, the mother will promise a spell, may the eldest daughter of a lifetime without a husband, even if there can only see once a year. Spell wishes realized, white Lazam lover living in Lhasa River south bank of the red servant Zongzan, can only meet once a year in the Tibetan calendar on October 15th.
To celebrate the "Heavenly Mother Festival", women in this day deliberately dress up, to the White Lazam Heavenly Mother statue in front of burning incense and prayers. Tibet since ancient times, regardless of the rich and poor to the younger generation, monks, children, the custom of alms, children in this day is the happiest, early in the morning to parents to "Bai Lai Ri chasing" holiday pocket money.
From the Tibetan calendar October 14th night, the worship of the white Lazam believers in an endless stream, many good men and women have to the mother of the day to dedicate the hatha, the Showa Monastery of the whole temple monks held a grand routine of the annual festival and will be offered to the mandala of the timing of the great sacrifice, and will be the white Lazam of the mother of God statue face towards the south bank of the Lhasa River in the Chibi Pudu, and Chibi Pudu to Zongzhan's statue face to the north, said the two sides of the meaning of the face.
Sixteen, Dong
The Dong people around the majority of the Spring Festival, the time is also the first day of the first month. Some places at the end of October or early November to choose a day to celebrate the Dong New Year. April 8 or June 6 for the cattle festival, the festival is not allowed to use cattle. In addition, there are also the flower firecracker festival, the new rice eating festival, stop production activities, as well as the family name of the family name of their own festival, and catch the song, the girl festival, bullfighting festival, flower firecracker festival, and so on.
The annual flower gun festival of the Dong people is held on different dates in different parts of the country. In Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, it is held on the third day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the second day of the second month of February in Meilin, the third day of the third month of March in Fulu, and the twenty-sixth day of the tenth month of October in Linxi. The firecrackers are divided into the first, second and third cannons, and the package cannons are tied with an iron ring symbolizing happiness, and wrapped with red and green threads outside.
Burning gunpowder cannon as the impulse, the iron circle into the air. When the iron ring fell, people will take the iron ring as the target, swarming scramble, called "grab the flower gun". It is said that whoever grabs the firecrackers will have prosperity and happiness in the year. The gathering place also sings Dong opera, performs colorful tune, blowing Lusheng, "DuoYe", playing basketball and so on. The Flower Cannon Festival is the most lively festival of the Dong people.
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