The festivals of Guizhou's ethnic minorities are varied, rich in content and diverse in form. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 1,000 traditional festivals and more than 1,000 meeting places for ethnic minorities in the province.
Famous ones are: "Sisters Festival", "April 8", "Dragon Boat Festival", "Lusheng Festival" of the Miao; "Sisters Festival" of the Buyi; "Lusheng Festival" of the Buyei; and "Lusheng Festival" of the Buyei. The "Sisters Festival", "April 8", "Dragon Boat Festival", "Lusheng Festival" of the Miao; "Chabai Song Festival" of the Buyi; "Song and Wine Festival" of the Dong; "Horse Racing Festival", "Torch Festival" of the Yi; and "Torch Festival" of the Tuyi; and "Sisters Festival" of the Miao. Torch Festival"; Tujia and Gelao "Eating New Festival", "Duan Festival", "Mou Festival" of the water tribe, and so on.
Guizhou is a sea of songs and dances, and the ethnic songs and dances are very colorful.
The Miao people have a high-pitched, passionate and exuberant "Flying Song", a low and gentle, beautiful and lyrical "Yufang Song" and a simple and solemn "ancient song", "There are Lusheng Dance, Wooden Drum Dance and Stomping Drum Dance. The Dong "Great Song" has a loud and majestic voice, solemn tunes and a wide range of sounds, reflecting the strong and heroic character of the Dong people.
There are dozens of Buyei dances in Qiannan and Qianxi'nan, with songs in major keys, minor keys, major songs, minor songs, etc., and pay attention to rhyming, there is a "song have rhyme, no rhyme is not a song," said. The copper drum dance, bullfighting dance, lion dance and dragon dance of the Water Tribe are also quite distinctive. The Tujia people in northeast Guizhou love to sing, and they have songs about crying marriage, accompanying marriage, wine, love, labor and blessing.
National opera is the essence of national flavor, mainly Miao Gao Tai opera, Dong opera, Buyei opera, Nuo opera. The opera and Nuo opera is known as the "living fossil of ancient drama". Lusheng music and dance as the representative of the "sheng culture", especially without musical accompaniment of the Dong songs, in the international music and dance stage is highly acclaimed.
The bronze drum culture represented by Leishan Langdezhai is not only a part of the bronze culture, but also the main content of the Miao culture, where you can enjoy the "Bronze Drum Ping", "Mangtong Lusheng Bronze Drum Dance", which is the "Fish Culture" in the Miao culture, and the "Fish Culture" in the Miao culture. "Fish culture", "drum culture", "sheng culture" and other colorful cultural connotations into one. The unique style of songs and dances of ethnic minorities is a marvel in the hundred gardens of Chinese ethnic culture.