There are many traditional festivals among the Yao people, with small festivals occurring almost every month and varying from place to place. The major festivals are Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, She Festival, Panwang Festival, Zhuzhu Festival, Jiuwang Festival, etc. During the period of Spring Festival, the Yao people have a lot of traditional festivals, which are held in different places.
1. During the Spring Festival, the Yao people hold cultural and sports activities rich in national characteristics, such as singing songs, playing brass drums, racing gyros, shooting crossbows, hunting, throwing embroidered balls and fighting with painted eyebrows.
2. The Panwang Festival, also known as "Doing Panwang", "Returning Panwang's Wish" and "Jumping Panwang", is a grand traditional festival in honor of Pan Yao's ancestor, Panwang. It is a grand traditional festival to commemorate the ancestor "Panwang", which was generally held regularly or irregularly during the farming period from autumn to Spring Festival before the 1980s.
3, Zhuzhi Festival is Guangxi Bunu Yao commemorating the birthday of the first grandmother Milo Buddha festival, very warm and grand. People take the 29th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar as the main day, beating copper drums and celebrating for three days. The Jiuwang Festival is held once every three to five years, usually around the 16th day of the 10th lunar month, and is a day for young men and women to sing songs of love.
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Customs of Yao Burials
The Yao in most areas practiced earth burials, while the Chashan Yao of Liula in Jinxiu County, Guangxi, practiced cremation, the Qing Yao of Yaolu Township in Libo County, Guizhou, practiced cavern burials, and the White Trouser Yao also practiced this type of burial.
Guangdong Liannan eight rows of Yao people died, the body tied to a chair, the funeral, sedan chair like the body to the cemetery, known as the "traveling corpse burial.
In the past, Guangxi Jinxiu Chashan Yao, Hanabao Yao and Au Yao think that the child came to earth, is a management of fertility "flower God" sent, if the child died before the age of five or six years old, with the rags, rags, brown skin and other things will be wrapped up in the body.
Put into a bamboo basket and hang it on a tree in a deep forest, practicing the hanging funeral, so as to let his soul go back to the "Flower God" and reincarnate again. This type of child burial is called "Hanging Burial" and is rare nowadays.
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