The Deang Festival I: Water Splashing Festival. The Water Splashing Festival is the most solemn of the Deang festivals, held from April 14th to 16th on the solar calendar every year, the festival lasts for three days. Early in the morning of the first day of the Water Splashing Festival, men, women and children are dressed in costumes, especially the girls dressed brightly, the old man has prepared food and paper cut small streamers of various colors, incense cones, wax strips and other tributes to bring to the Zhuang Fang tribute to the shrine of the Buddha Hall.
The Deang Festival II: The Festival of Entering the Rain and Settling in (Shutting the Door Festival). "Into the rain Anju" festival (Buddhist words), held on June 15 of the lunar calendar every year, a period of two days. All the believers in the village should bring tributes to the Buddhist temple fine Buddha, worship Buddha statues, listen to the Buddha chanting sutra, begging the Buddha to bless the people in the village a safe life, a bumper crop. 16 evening, the Buddha will be the temple gate closed for three months.
Deang festival three: out of the rain Anju Festival (Open Door Festival). "Out of the rain Anju" festival (Buddhist words), every year from the beginning of the closing of the festival to the end of the lunar calendar September 15, the period of three months, that is, the opening of the festival ceremony. However, between the two festivals, the Buddha often recites sutras, and believers have to go to the monastery to listen to the sutras. The whole village fathers and mothers should go to the Zhuangfang to worship Buddha, and the young people should strike the sharp point gongs and elephant foot drums to seek God's blessing. After the Open Door Festival, the monks will open the gate of the Buddhist temple, and then they can go to the village.
Deang Festival 4: burning white firewood. "Burning White Chai" is the Brown people's fine Buddhist festival on December 14th of the solar calendar every year. Is the night, in the square outside the village to build a 5-meter-high white firewood pagoda, light a fire and burn it. De'ang people believe that the cold weather season has arrived, afraid of the Buddha is frozen, need to burn white firewood, to the Buddha roasting fire, in order to drive away the cold, increase the warmth of the meaning.
Deang festival five: do pendulum. "do pendulum" is one of the Deang people fine Buddha activities. The date of "do pendulum" is based on whether the village has the financial conditions to decide to hold. The date is not fixed, held once every few years, each time 3-5 days. By the head of the village, the family head **** with the elected "do pendulum" head bearer. After the election of the head of the person, will begin to raise funds, and to the temple to worship fine Buddha, tribute and so on. The purpose of the "Do Pendulum" is to pray for a safe life for the village and the people in the family, and to get rid of disasters. The Buddha recites the sutra of "Chang Lanya" in order to feed and clothe everyone and make them rich every year.
Expanded Information:
Deang originated in ancient times. p>The De'ang originated from the ancient Pu people, and have a close relationship with the "Mourning Firmament". Before the Qing Dynasty, the relevant records of the South Asian language in Yunnan De'ang, Brown, Wa and other ethnic groups collectively referred to as "Pu people", "Pu" or "Pu barbarians". "Pu people" as early as in the second century BC in the Nu River on both sides of the river, before the Achang, Jingpo and other ethnic groups into the region, is the development of Baoshan, Dehong, an earlier ethnic group. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, they were called "Mang Barbarians", "Puzi Barbarians" and "Wang Tho Zi Barbarians", and they submitted to the Han and Jin dynasties as well as the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms successively, and the De'ang forefathers established their own regional rule, i.e., the "De'ang", in the late Song Dynasty. their own regional rule, that is, "Golden Tooth State".
After the Yuan Dynasty, they became the subjects of the Dai Tusi. "The Pu people belonged to Yongchang County (present-day Baoshan City, Yunnan Province) in the Han Dynasty, and from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the De'ang ancestors "Mangshi barbarians" were active on both sides of the Lancang River. The Yuan Dynasty set up the "Mangshi Road Military and People's General Administration Office" in the present-day Luxi area, sealing Ali (the head of the De'ang ethnic group, according to legend) as a local official. In the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, the Baiyi (Dai ancestors) rapidly became strong, and the De'ang were forced to gradually migrate to the mountainous areas. In the Ming Dynasty, the central government sealed the Dai knife surname for the Mangshi (now Mangshi), the chief of the Department of the Dai, the Dai and De'ang chiefs as the "old" to represent the Department of the jurisdiction of the De'ang people, so the De'ang ancestors into the Dai Department of the subordinate people.
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