The Expanded Pagoda Festival is the grandest, most lively and joyful traditional annual festival of the Lahu folk. Also known as the Lahu Great Year, the time is held on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, the festival period **** nine days. Preparation before the festival On New Year's Eve, families clean up the village inside and outside a new look. People kill pigs, soak rice, put the pounded poop on the plow staff, machete, hoe and other farm equipment, indicating that they have worked hard for a year, should share the joy of the festival with their masters, and people also mowed the grass for the cattle to add food to the festival as a token of sympathy.
"Catch the new water" custom evening, the family bathed and cleaned up, the villages and villages fired three firecrackers, muskets. In the early morning of the first day of the New Year, young men and women from all villages scramble to the mountain springs to "receive new water". Lahu people believe that the beginning of the year, the spring water is the newest and purest, who is the first to grab the new water, who is the happiest person, according to Lahu custom, the first day of the first day of the outsiders are not allowed to enter the village, only on the second day of the first day of the first day of the family and friends to visit each other to pay tribute to the New Year and congratulate each other. Festival Carnival During the festival, girls and boys play the gourd sheng and dance colorful folk dances. At night, people watching the festival leave one after another, and a bunch of bonfires rise on the hillside. Pairs of young couples talk about love together, immersed in happiness and joy.
Torch Festival Torch Festival is also unique national interest, when the pine wood as a prairie fire, torches burning, spectacular, wearing festive costumes of young men and women in the bonfire, singing and dancing, singing, warm exception.
The Taste of the New Festival is a festival to celebrate the harvest of the Lahu people. During the Taste of the New Festival, the whole village kills pigs and cooks wine, and men, women, and children rest for two days. Before the festival, a part of the grain and rice will be harvested and returned home, and ancestors will be worshipped first, and then the harvest will be officially started.
Hospitality Customs The Lahu are a very hospitable people. On New Year's Day, they invite the surrounding Dai, Hani, Brown and other ethnic groups to come together to drink and eat unity rice. At this time, the whole village slaughtered livestock, each household should be divided into a section of large intestine and a few spoons of blood, accompanied by salt, chili, chopped fine and eaten raw. Lahu people believe that "chopped raw meat" is the best dish for guests. After the banquet, the hosts also use banana leaves to wrap the "share of meat" and send it back to the guests. Lahu used to have the habit of eating two meals a day, and the staple food is locally produced rice and bulgur. They liked to use chicken or other ingredients to make thin rice with rice or grains, and there were various thin rice such as melon and vegetables, mushrooms, blood, meat, etc. Among them, chicken thin rice was the best, and when making grains of rice, they first pounded the rice into broken pieces with difficult to remove the chaff, and then soaked it in water for one night, and then pounded it after drying it and kneaded it into fine and even particles, and then steamed it with bamboo steamer to make it into a cake-like shape, and then it was ready to be eaten. It can be eaten with chopsticks or cut into pieces with a knife, and sometimes sugar or honey is added to it, which makes it sticky and sweet. Lahu's favorite daily dish is to put vegetables, meat, spices and water into a section of thin bamboo tube to cook, both the fragrance of bamboo, but also to maintain the original flavor of meat and vegetables. Lahu roasted meat has a unique flavor, most of the hunted beast meat, or directly roasted by fire, or with a pale banana leaf will be wrapped in meat buried in the fire, cooked and eaten. The roasted meat is crispy and tasty, and can be appetizing with spicy spices. Lahu in the bitter Cong people in the hunting, used to hunt the head of the animal award to the first shot, the front legs of the branch award to the person who found the prey, left over the meat, per capita a. The meat and the water and the miscellaneous food. Hunted animals under the water and miscellaneous debris, on the spot fire, into the bamboo tube to cook and share food. In the gutting, middle-aged people like to drink steaming hot "heart blood", it is said that the heart blood of the prey has a blood tonic to eliminate the strain of the wonderful use. Lahu will not only pickles, pickled meat, grinding tofu, but also brewing. In folklore, men and women are harmonious music drinking, and there is no distinction between the custom of wine and meat. Usually like to drink baked tea, baked tea is a large tea into the canister baked to burnt, to be fragrant and then into the water after a little boil that drink.
The Hulu Festival is a traditional festival of the Lahu ethnic group, known as "Apun Aroni" in Lahu. Every year from October 15 to 17 on the lunar calendar for three days for the Lahu "Apeng Aroni". At this time, Lahu compatriots in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous County and Kunming hold grand celebration ceremonies. During the festival, traditional sports such as gyro, crossbow shooting and swinging competitions are held. Traditional dances such as the Pendulum Dance, Lusheng Dance, the Three Stomping Feet Dance, and all the reserved programs of Lahu large-scale festivals, including the "Apeng Aroni", are held during the festivals.