Yao District Yao Township is a mountainous township inhabited mainly by Yao people, who are an ancient ethnic group with a long history of folklore and customs. Due to the long-term living area for the mountainous areas, Yao people in Yao District Yao Township have a kind of love affair with the mountains, life can not be separated from the mountains, the legend can not be separated from the mountains, can not live without the mountains, and can not be separated from the mountains when they die; the mountains stay in their hearts, the mountains flow in their blood, and the mountains are their souls. Therefore, the Yao people have a mountain like tough character, have a mountain like broad-minded.
Along the Yao Yao Township Sharen Village Committee jurisdiction of the Nangong River upward, walking through a turnip ditch, a mountain is the Yao Yao Township's most famous Nangong Mountain. The mountain is covered with ancient trees, streams and murmuring, dense primary forests, in which you can not help but let you think about.
The Yao people, "Panwang Festival" is a must-mention festival. 1986 November 17 (that is, the lunar calendar October 16th) Mengla County for the first time to celebrate the Yao Panwang Festival.
Panwang Festival is the Yao people to commemorate the ancestor Panwang and celebrate the harvest, young men and women to socialize in the event, this festival is the worship of Panzou and come. The Yao people have many legends about the origin of the Panwang Festival. According to legend, in ancient times, King Evaluation and King Gao fought a war, and King Evaluation offered a bounty to whoever could win against King Gao, not only a heavy reward, but also the third princess to marry him as his wife. At that time, no one dared to respond, but the first Yao ancestor, Discus gourd, was recruited to go to war and crossed the sea to retrieve the head of the high king, and was matched with the three princesses, and was appointed as the king of the "Nanjing Huiqi, the mountain of ten treasures", and was called the king of the discs. King Pan and the three princesses gave birth to six men and six women, and passed down twelve Yao family names. Therefore, the Yao people will Pan Wang as the ancestor, set Pan Wang Festival to commemorate the Pan Wang Festival comes, the Yao people dressed up in festive costumes, set up a singing platform, beat up the drums, singing Pan Wang song, dance Pan Wang dance, jumping long drums, celebrating the festivities.
Bite the hand is a love affair between the Yao men and women lovers, love between the two sides after singing songs and other ways to determine the relationship, in order to express the fidelity of love, by the male with the mouth in the woman's right hand wrist bite, according to which to indicate that she is not married to the woman accepted that is not married to him, usually if the bite the more pain is expressed in the love of the deeper.
Biting the hand is the Yao people for thousands of years of traditional habits, is a young man and woman for the pursuit of good love. The pain to express the love of the dedicated and eternal in the 56 ethnic families is also relatively special.