Hmong Traditional Festivals_The Legend of Huashan Festival

Huashan Festival is a very joyful and grand festival for the Miao people. The people will take this festival seriously, and every family will dress up to attend. So have you read all the legends about the Miao Huashan Festival?

Miao Huashan Festival

Every year when the Huashan Festival together, the Miao organizers will set up a flower pole on the mountain, and then the people who participate in this festival, the activities are centered around the flower pole under. For example, like the very lively singing of ancient songs and dancing of Lusheng, all of them are carried out under the flower pole.

The Miao people in northeast Yunnan and south Yunnan have a festival on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that in ancient times, when the Miao people were defeated in war and displaced, they remembered the suffering of their ancestors who had fled to the east and dispersed to the west, and were saddened by their grief and tears. On the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar year, their ancestors showed their spirits and advised them not to be too sad, but to go to the top of a high mountain to play the reed-sheng, sing and dance for us. After saying this, a flower fell from the sky and hung on a tree.

There is also a legend that in the past, the Miao ancestral tribes were invaded by foreign tribes, the Miao people under the leadership of the leader of the Chiyu rose up against the end of the defeat because of the outnumbered, the Miao people were forced to move around. In order to recruit their own people, the Hmong chieftain Chi in the mountains erected flower poles, so that the reed-sheng hand blowing reed-sheng. Miao people hear the familiar sound of the sheng, have converged from all directions to the flower pole, began to live again. Since then, the Miao people have been holding the Flower Hill Festival on this day every year to honor Chi, the leader of the Miao people, and to celebrate the rebuilding of a new life for the Miao people.

Now the Huashan Festival has been the whole nation's festival is very important to the festival, did not come to this festival when the clan from all over the country will come, will be gathered here to communicate. There will be a special stage for performances, ethnic characteristics of bullfighting, singing, climbing flower pole will appear.

Summary: The Huashan Festival is a festival of revelry for the whole nation, and every year when this festival comes, people from all over the world will gather to celebrate the festival together. Of course, a lot of the convergence is usually the clan, the other will also have to join in the fun, but will be less, basically the clan.