Brief introduction of traditional festivals and customs of Hani nationality

1. Guzaza Festival: The national festival of Hani nationality is called Guzaza, and the time is June 26th in the summer calendar, so it is also called June Year. June is also a happy festival. The red river area is called "bitter zhazha". The date is usually around June 24th, and the festival lasts three to six days. During the festival, cows are sacrificed to the "autumn room" of the village, and beef farmers are separated to worship their ancestors. Young people get together to "swing", wrestling, hunting, singing folk songs, and have fun.

2. October: The biggest festival of Hani nationality is October, which lasts for six days. The specific date can be taken first. In October of the lunar calendar, Hani called it "Zallet". According to their ancient calendar, the first dragon day in October of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the New Year (equivalent to the first day of the Han nationality). During the festival, every village will hold a street banquet, which is called the "Eight Wonders".

3. Drinking New Valley Wine: The Hani people in Honghe have the custom of "eating New Valley" in the Year of the Loong on the first day of the seventh lunar month. On the day of eating the new valley, every household should pull a small bundle of rice with roots and ears from their own paddy fields according to the old rules when the oriental fish-belly is white. When pulling rice, you should choose rice holes with a single number of plants, and don't say hello when you meet strangers or acquaintances, otherwise you will feel unlucky.

4. The Festival for the Elderly is a traditional festival of the Hani people, which is held every year on the 5th day of the lunar calendar 1 1 month/kloc-0. On the day of Old People's Day, the old people in the village gathered under the pine trees to symbolize health and longevity. Then the younger generation in the village will hold a ceremony to respect the elderly. That is, the younger generation presented rice wine, glutinous rice and fish eggs to the old people in the sound of firecrackers and drums. Then, the old people danced with laughter. After the dance, the old people got together and talked about the way their children treated themselves in public while drinking. They were praised for their filial piety, and those who were unfilial were criticized and apologized to the old people on the spot.

5. Girls' Day. Hani people in Bibo Mountain, Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province celebrate a unique Girls' Day every year on the fourth day of the second lunar month. On this day, before the cock crows, the man should take a handful of water first. When gastrodia elata dawned, they cut a bundle of firewood and came back. Then, they will make a fire and boil water, and respectfully bring the water to the woman who gets up slowly. Traditional festivals of Hani people. Then, men cook, wash vegetables, chop pig food, wash dishes, chopsticks and take care of children, while women stand by and do some needlework or command men to do this and that. Unmarried girls don't even do needlework. After lunch, the men hurried to the public places of entertainment in the village. According to custom, hardworking people come first, and lazy people come last. The boy borrowed a woman's new clothes and trousers from his lover, dressed as a girl, danced in the cheerful strings, and didn't go home to cook until the sun set, and continued to serve the woman until late at night.

6. Respect for the Elderly Day. The fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is the Hani people's day to respect the elderly. In the morning, the old people dress up and put on new clothes to celebrate their festivals. Adults kill chickens and ducks at home and prepare a good meal. The young man is carrying a small pine tree beside the festival lawn, and the girls are carrying clean water to water it, which symbolizes that young people wish the old man a long and healthy life like a pine tree and remain young forever.

7. Eat the New Rice Festival. In the living area of the Hani nationality, around July of the lunar calendar, when the grains are gradually ripe, every household should choose its own good day and carry out Kadupi (eat new rice) activities. During the festival, parents carry laundry baskets to the fields to pick up some ears of grain and hang them on the doors. They will also make a nest of rice sticks and beat them three times in front of Zongge (Cang _), indicating that they want to eat new grain, and pray for the gods to bless the bumper harvest of grain, so that people will not get sick and livestock will flourish. If you want to kill a hen laying eggs for dinner, you should also keep the pig fat intestines, pig ears and pig tails killed during the Chinese New Year as sacrifices. When eating new rice, mix old rice and new rice and cook them together. This is called "drinking all my concubines" (that is, alternating old and new rice), which means that the old rice in the old valley will be listed in new Gu Mi and pray for more than one year.