Folkways and customs of Honghe County

Girl Festival

Every year after the completion of rice-planting in March of the lunar calendar, the first day of the monkey, the Yicha people will hold a "March Festival", the outside world known as the "Girl Festival", the Hani language called "Yangana "

The first day of the month is the first day of the month of the monkey.

Girls Festival day, early in the morning from ten villages and eight villages of people, dressed in costumes gathered to Mengzi Hongdu Mountain (Girls Mountain), village elders respected organization to hold a sacrificial ceremony, the strong men for the guests from afar to prepare meals, dressed in young men and women jumping Yicai dance, playing the flute, playing strings, singing songs, looking for an object. Guests came from afar to watch the unique ritual activities of the Yiche people, original songs and dances on display, taste Yiche flavor, the whole girl mountain, singing and laughing.

Ashi Moon Festival

Every year on April 8 of the solar calendar is the "Ashi Moon Festival" of the Ashi people, a branch of the Yi ethnic group. The Ashi Moon Dance is the most popular and proud folk dance among the Ashi people of the Yi sub-clan, and it is an essential dance for the Ashi people to hold all kinds of celebrations, and it is also an important medium for the Ashi people's entertainment, socializing and choosing their spouses. The moon dance is divided into the old man's dance and the young man's dance.

Flower Mountain Festival

The second day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of the Miao people, the Flower Mountain Festival, also known as "Stomping on the Flower Mountain".

The Huashan Festival has four programs: "setting up the pole", "sacrificing the pole", "making trouble with the pole" and "closing the pole". Each program has its own specific content. Among them, the "pole offering" is mainly a solemn ceremony, while the "pole haunting" is a warm folklore celebratory activity. During the "Rumpus", Miao compatriots dance the Lusheng dance, practice martial arts, sing folk songs, and hold competitions such as pole-climbing, bullfighting, backward kicking, gyro-playing, and fighting with paintbrushes. Ethnic dress is the image of an ethnic symbol, Hani women's clothing on the left lapel Yuan collar short clothes, to cloth and silver coins, silver beads as buttons. The lower dress varies from place to place, divided into pants, shorts and folding skirt several kinds. When dressed in full costume, wearing a kangshi, tie flower waist, playing flower tied legs, with silver chains and strings of silver coins to do chest ornaments, wearing silver earrings or earrings, silver square bracelets or twisted bracelets on the wrist. After giving birth to a woman, more than the braid of hair wrapped around the top, with green or blue cloth wrapped around the head; the girl's dress is more hanging braid, wearing a green or blue cloth made of small cap, inlaid with silver bubbles, material beads.