Touch Your Black Carnival basic information
Held time
May 1 every year
Travel guide
Take a plane from Kunming to Canyuan Washan Airport, which is about 30 kilometers away from Canyuan County; it will take about ten hours to drive from Kunming to Canyuan.
Precautions
You must pay attention to the fact that if you participate in this activity, you must bring a set of clothes that can be thrown away by wearing it once and wiping it once, and you must be prepared to make waterproofing of your cell phone and other supplies that you bring along!
Introduction of Touch Your Black Carnival
Introduction of Festival Activities
The Touch Your Black Festival is a day of revelry for the Wa people living here. It is a very lively place where families start to prepare the medicinal mud as early as possible, just waiting for the drums of the festival to beat and start to smear you!
There will be three main venues for this event, namely, the Touch Your Black Square, Hulu Town and Cangyuan Ondine. Among them, the Touch Your Black Square and Hulu Town here contain a lot of activities, such as 10,000 people smearing the blackness, a hundred wooden drums, and 1,000 people flinging their hair in a dance, in addition to the exciting Wa bullfighting competitions, the Awa people's grand ritual of sacrificing the cow's soul, and the exhibition of Wa brocades.
And in Cangyuan Wunding, one of the last primitive tribes in China, a festival will be celebrated here, where there are folk activities such as pulling wooden drums, playing songs, shooting crossbows, grinding bamboo for fire, springing new rice and so on, which carries a certain sense of mystery, and you can learn a lot about the ethnic culture!
What is the touch?
People will be curious about what this touch your black festival smeared, will not hurt the skin? In fact, it will not, in the past, the main wipe is composed of pot ashes, cow blood, clay and other things coated body.
And nowadays, there has been a change, now mainly with Nyambulo, this is with the beauty of the efficacy of ah! It is made from natural plant elements, and the flavor is fragrant, so it can be used as a sunscreen, beauty care, and skin care.
What's more, there is chocolate here, so when you are wiped is fragrant, do not be curious, in fact, wipe these mud. It's the equivalent of putting on a face mask!
Meaning of Touch Your Black
Touch Your Black in the Wa language means that this is exactly what we are seeking, what we are looking forward to, stick to it, stick to it until it is permanent permanent".
Encouraging people to be happy and optimistic is the reason why Wa people are so happy! Because people here enjoy time, love songs and dances, and cherish happiness!
The moral of the activity
Touching the girl's face, we hope the girl will become more and more beautiful; touching the old man's face, we bless the old man to have a long and healthy life; touching the child's face, we hope that the child will be safe and lucky; touching the friend's face, we look forward to the friendship that will last for a long time to come. The event represents looking forward to the future, yearning for beauty, the pursuit of happiness, praying for peace and good luck.
Well, if you come here on May 1, be sure not to miss the touch your black activities here ah!