The Hmong Huashan Festival, which runs from the second to the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is an annual festival of the Hmong people in Pingbian, Mengzi, Hekou and Wenshan in Yunnan. The following is an introduction to the knowledge of the Miao Flower Mountain Festival, welcome to read.
Introduction to the Miao Huashan Festival
Huashan Festival, also known as stamping Huashan. It is a grand program of the Miao people living in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
The Huashan Festival is usually held on a gentler soil slope. The flower field erected a five or six feet high bamboo or tree pole, which is the flower pole, the flower pole is also hung with two pieces of red and black cloth. Every year on the sixteenth day of the waxing moon, the flower mountain hosts on the flower pole, so that people first know that there is a flower field, to the first day of the first month of the first day of the first month began to step on the flower mountain, the more grand flower mountain festival can also be extended to the eighth, ninth. There are two different stories about the origin of Treading Flower Hill, one says it was erected to seek a son, and the other says it is a memorial day.
On the origin of the Flower Hill Festival, there is a story circulating in the Miao folklore that once upon a time, the ancestors of the Miao people lived in the plains area, which had fertile land and flocks of cattle and sheep. The ruthless emperor was bent on dominating the Miao territory, sent the imperial troops to attack the Miao tribe, the King of the Miao Mengziyu led his nine sons, eight girls and the Miao people, fighting with the imperial troops, ultimately outnumbered, the Miao failed, Mengziyu's nine sons, eight girls in the battle sacrificed, the Miao ancestors had to move to the southwest of the high mountains and steep hills.
Montsiyu erected a flower pole on the sixteenth day of the lunar month, and held ceremonies on the second, third and fourth days of the first month of the first three days of the year to commemorate the sacrifices of the sons and girls who sacrificed their lives in defense of their homeland, and, at the same time, martial arts performances were held, and this is how it is passed down through the generations to the present day. Stomping on the flower mountain is a sports activity of the Miao people, but also the Miao people's life experience exchange activities, but also the Miao men and women young people's recreational activities.
During the Flower Hill Festival, there are sports and cultural programs such as Lusheng dance, martial arts, i.e., Miao folk martial arts of sticks, knives, guns, hooks and sickles, three-jointed sticks, refining armor, etc., inverted climbing the flower poles, bullfighting, horse racing, etc.
Stomping on the Flower Hill is a sports activity of the Miao people, and also an exchange of life experience.
Step on the flower mountain on this day, Ying Do Miao, the boys are wearing Miao clothing, shoulder reed-sheng, pants bag is also loaded with the beloved tuning xiao; Ying color Miao, the girls are dressed in their own hand-embroidered flower shirt and hand-pointed wax flower pleated skirt, singing songs from the Miao Mountain from all corners of the flower mountain convergence to come.
The whole Flower Hill is full of people, full of joyful atmosphere. Outside the flower field, sugarcane is placed everywhere, and the Hmong Yingdao, who are ready to sing songs, have to pick thick and big sugarcane and give it to each other after singing songs with Yingcai.
If you want to sing a song, when you come to Yingcai, you will cover her with a flower umbrella and say, "My sister from afar, if you don't mind, let's sing a song". If Yingcai liked it, she would say, "Then sing!" If she didn't like it, she would say, "Thank you, Ah Brother, I don't know how to sing." Then Ying Do would have to find another object.
Between young men and women, through the song, if they are in love, both sides will give each other gifts to remember, until the end of the Huashan Festival, Ying Cai will follow Ying Do. Then there is nothing to do but wait for the wedding wine.
Ancient Legend of the Miao Flower Hill Festival
The Miao people in northeast Yunnan and south Yunnan have a "Flower Hill Festival" on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Hmong were defeated and displaced, and remembered the suffering of their ancestors who fled east and west, and were saddened by their tears. On the sixth day of the sixth month of the year, the ancestors showed their spirit, advised them not to be too sad, they should go to the top of the mountain to blow the reed-sheng, singing and dancing to us.
Then 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 thing is climbing the flower pole, who climbed high, a pig's head and good wine award to whom.