What is the grandest event in the Huashan Festival: the Flower Pole Sacrifice.
I, Huashan Festival
Xingwen Hmong Huashan Festival, also known as Treading on the Flower Hill, is the grandest and most solemn traditional festival of the Hmong people in the southern Sichuan area. The "Flower Pole Sacrifice" is the most solemn ritual activity of the Miao Huashan Festival. During the ceremony, Miao elders sing ancient songs, and the children of the Miao family **** the same salute to the flower pole, offer rice wine, and pray for happiness and well-being.
Flower Hill Festival, also known as "Stomping on Flower Hill", "Jumping Flower", etc., is a traditional festival of the Miao people. It is a traditional festival of the Miao people. It is popular in southern Sichuan and southeastern Yunnan in the west-central part of the country. The festival period varies from place to place, and is usually held around the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth month of the lunar calendar. During the festival, the Miao people dress up and gather to the traditional jumping field ping, young men and women jumping field in the center of the flower pole dancing, male youth also pole climbing, horse racing, archery, singing, dancing, beauty contests. The number of people reaches more than 100,000 people.
Entering the middle of the month of wax, the flower mountain organizers will be held in the flower mountain event place high up a wooden pole, known as the flower pole. In about one meter from the top of the pole, there are red, yellow, blue and white ribbons, as well as lushengs and candies to symbolize the festivities and to be awarded to the winners who climb the flower pole. No matter which ethnic group, men, women and children can participate in the Flower Hill Festival. The organizers prepare some wine to entertain the guests who come to pick flowers on the mountain.
On the Huashan field, martial arts, bullfighting, horse racing, crossbow shooting and shuttlecock playing are held. The winners are hung with red flowers by the organizers and given material rewards. Young men and women sing songs to each other, searching for love and sending love to each other for life. In the past, the Huashan Festival was often organized by those who had no heirs and were seeking children. Now, governments around the world to promote national culture. Every year, they allocate special funds to subsidize, around the flower mountain field is increasingly prosperous.
The cultural characteristics of the Huashan Festival
The customs of the Huashan Festival are mainly demonstrated through the procedures of setting up the pole, sacrificing to the pole, and closing the pole, and the words of sacrifice in each of the sessions are a reproduction of folk culture. Song duet and lusheng dance is one of the important contents of Huashan Festival activities, the host and lusheng master did not sing and play the "Song of the Origin of Huashan", other forms of songs and lusheng tunes can not be randomly on the chanting and playing, and every singer in the Huashan field of the first song duet should be sung first, the "Song of the Origin of Huashan".