? The New Water Festival, also known as "Welcoming New Water", takes place from the first to the third day of the first month of the Wa calendar, i.e., November in the Gregorian calendar.
? Legend has it that a long time ago, when the head of a tribe built a big house, the whole village sang and danced. And every night there is a strange beautiful girl to and the head of the son Guangge toms prince song. Guanggexs simply can not win against her, the prince fell in love with the girl, asked to go home with the girl to the girl's parents to propose. The girl on the road to scatter coarse chaff, Guangge toms followed the coarse chaff to find the Dragon Palace, and finally and the Dragon King's daughter married. Couple both back to the head of the family, the head of the girl is not accustomed to the smell of fish, reprimanded the girl to leave, but not allowed to follow the son. And ordered the family servant to the road of coarse chaff swept back. Guanggexs could not find the way to the Dragon Palace, in the vast forest turned into a big tree. People miss this loving couple, praying for Miss Dragon King to bring the village to bring clear water, bring happiness, so the formation of the traditional "New Water Festival".
? There are three activities in the New Water Festival.
? First, the devil Ba went to the head of the water source to kill chickens and make ghosts, sacrificing to the water god, praying that the god of water will give the village a clear spring that will never dry up;
? Secondly, all the people of the village go out to clean up the head of the water source, dredge the ditch, remove the old stream trough and replace it with a new one;
? Third, when the new water came, the whole village people dressed in colorful clothes, scrambling to catch the new water home, to grab the first tube of new water for the most blessed, and then the whole village people focused on the square singing and dancing, expressed their admiration for the God of Water and gratitude.
New Fire Festival
? The New Fire Festival is held in July and August of the Wa calendar, which is equivalent to April and May of the Gregorian calendar, and the specific date is freely chosen by each village, and the festival lasts from three to five days.
? Legend has it that the god of thunder, Dasai, and the rainbow god, Toa Yuan, brother and sister, committed adultery and angered the god of heaven, Ri, Rifa flooded the village and drowned a lot of people and animals. Tooth Dong (the legend of the low tribal matriarchal peoples of the third female leader) reported this to the Mo Wei (the creation of all things God), Mo Wei is very angry, instructed the tooth Dong plagiarized Dasai's home, Dasai whisked away to the sky, the tooth is very ashamed of the far, drilled into the ground to hide. Dasai and Toa Yuan had a son named Yanqiu. Iwaki was very naughty, once knocking stones to play, caused a fire.
? The fire burned down all the villages in Wa and the whole world. People hated the rocky autumn, vowed never to use Thor's fire 〈Legend says that the earliest human use of fire is given by Thor〉, Mo Wei taught mankind a new way of drilling wood to get fire. From then on, the Wa tribe held the activity of "sending old fire and making new fire" every year, which formed the traditional New Fire Festival over time.
? There are four main contents in the New Fire Festival.
? The first is to send the old fire. Walled households in a unified time with the clanging of gongs and horns will be splashed with water from their own fire, and choose a representative of a family (often in the past to Wulang, the head of the people, the magic family as a representative) will be splashed out of the tinder, charcoal with bamboo shoots wrapped up in a good leaf, by the old man of the village of the village of the old man of the high opinion of the village out of the buried. Kill the chicken and recite the mantra, said and the God of Thunder Dasai's fire to sever the relationship, send the God of Thunder's old fire on the way home.
? Then there is the "new fire", in the village by the respected old man in accordance with Mo Wei taught the "drill wood for fire" method to create a new fire, each family to lead the new fire to re-light the fire pit, to receive the new fire to go home.
? The next step is to check and implement the fire prevention measures in the whole village. In April and May, it is the dry season in Wa Mountain, the wind is high and the material is dry, so the fire is very easy to happen. During the "New Fire Festival", all the villagers will be mobilized to dig fire prevention ditches, repair fire prevention ponds, pour water on the roofs of straw houses, and install water bamboo tubes, etc., so as to eliminate the hidden dangers of possible fires.
? At the end of the festival, there are songs and dances to thank the god Mowei for bringing new fire, good luck and happiness to the people.
Wooden Drum Festival
? The Wooden Drum Festival is also known as "Pulling the Wooden Drum Festival". It is held on the day when the wooden drums are pulled back to the village, and it is also held in January of the Wa calendar, which is the twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar, and the festival lasts for 3-5 days.
? The wooden drums are the Wa's heavenly artifacts, which are rumored to be made by the God of Heaven, Mo Wei, who taught the Wa to make them. In the past, when the Wa tribe built a new village, the first thing to do was to look for a water source to set the site of the village, and the second thing to do was to pull the wooden drum to build a wooden drum house. They believe that the wooden drum is the bed of the God of Heaven Mo Wei, the wooden drum room is the home of Mo Wei, only pull the wooden drum, please the God of Heaven Mo Wei into the cottage blessing, the establishment of the cottage can be safe.
? Do wooden drums of wood was selected by the elderly and young adults break good, the whole village men, women and children will be dressed in colorful clothes into the mountains to pull the wooden drums. Some in front of the cutting tree to open the way, some hand holding the cane side pulling and singing and dancing. People to be able to touch the rope tied to the wooden drum vine for the greatest happiness. The scene is extremely warm and spectacular.
? Wooden drum pulled back to the village, by one to two families hosted plagiarized cattle sacrifice drum activities, a plagiarized 2-3 buffalo and a calf, the magic bar read the incantation to do the sacrifice, from the origin of mankind, the village history to pull the significance of the wooden drums, recite repeatedly, and pray for the wooden drums to bless the peace of the village, a good harvest, the six animals thrive. People gathered in the plagiarized cattle home to drink water wine and eat rotten rice, singing and dancing Sigangli and wooden drums originated from the world tune, singing and dancing, until the wooden drums chiseled, placed in the wooden drum room, the festival came to an end.