The Iron Festival
Kinuo language called "Te Mouche", is the most important festival of the Jinuo people, usually held in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, lasting three days. The first day of the festival in the morning to hold plagiarism ceremony, in the afternoon, the elders in the cottage ringing cowhide drums, people can not help but with the drums around the drums dance rough, which is the Kino people celebrate the harvest of the "Sun Drum" dance. Sun drum is the most sacred Jinuo sacrificial vessels and musical instruments, each village generally have two, divided into male and female drums. They regard the sun drum as the incarnation of the gods and the symbol of the village. The purpose of sacrificing to the sun drum is to pray that it can bless the whole village with prosperous people and abundant crops.
The origin of the Iron Festival
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a woman of the Jinuo tribe who was pregnant after marriage and had not given birth for nine years and nine months. So she took a white hen and a black hen and went to the sorcerer Mopi to offer food and vegetables and ask him to cast a spell. However, even after all his magic, the child was not born. After a few days, the woman felt a pain in her ribs and a "cackling" sound, which made her roll on the ground in pain. It turned out that the child in her belly had bitten off seven of her ribs and came out from under her ribs. After the child came out, one hand to take the fire poker, one hand to take the hammer, was born to play iron. Since then, the Keno people began to use iron, and every year to commemorate the Keno ancestors of the iron, and the habit has become iron festival. Jinuo language in the "Te" for the Chinese "hit" meaning; "Maok" for the large piece of iron.
New Rice Festival
Also known as "new rice". Every year in July and August of the lunar calendar, when the grain is about to ripen, the Jinuo people from the fields to collect some new grain, vegetables and beans, and then kill a few chickens, please relatives and friends to the home *** with the taste of new rice, old wine, fresh meat, greens, and at the same time to hold a number of ceremonies. People eat and sing, and the joyful singing often lasts all night.
Temauk Festival
Kinuo traditional festival, held from February 6 to 8, people in addition to killing pigs and goats, drinking, but also to hold a colorful folk sports activities, playing the sun drums, singing and dancing, all night long.
Torch Festival
Kinuo traditional festival. Held annually on a day in the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Before the festival, by the Zhuo Ba (Walled City father), Zhuo Sheng (Walled City mother) assigned some people on the mountain to cut pines and cypresses, to cut the branches in the Walled City square to support a high torch. On this day the whole village people stop tax, men, women and children are dressed in festive costumes, housewives are busy preparing holiday meals, relatives and friends visit each other. In the evening, in the plug burning torches, people gathered around the torch, to be Zhuo Ba to pray to the torch, people will be singing and dancing, the old people openly drinking. The young men and women with gongs, elephant foot drums and three strings, to enjoy the drums, until all night long.
Bar Mitzvah
Kinuo traditional festival. Jinuo people believe that young men and women in fifteen, before the age of six, ideological and physiological immaturity, can not undertake and enjoy the obligations and rights of the members of the commune, the night shall not go out, prohibited love, down to labor can only be counted as a half-laborer. Only at the age of fifteen or six, after the rite of passage was held, did they acquire the qualifications of full members of the village, and only then could they fall in love.
The coming-of-age ceremony is usually held in the village during the new house ceremony. In some villages, male youths who are going to have a bar mitzvah are captured in a surprise attack. On the day of the new house, the organization of young men arranged for some young men to ambush on the way to the end of the work or behind the house, taking advantage of their surprise attack, and then hold him hostage to the new house on the bamboo floor of the family, with everyone to eat and drink, congratulations on the new house of the people want to give him a toast, on the new house of the host to give him three pieces of beef wrapped into a quadrilateral with banana leaves. He accepted the meat and said he would be happy to take part in the "circumcision test" (in Keno). The purpose of the raid is to create fear in the moment of capture and to increase the mystery of the rite of passage, so that the rite of passage will leave an unforgettable impression in his life. The day after he joined the organization, his parents gave him a full set of agricultural tools, a copper box for betel nut, a box for lime, a new coat and pants with a moon pattern embroidered on the back, and a tube of handkerchiefs, headbands, and footbands embroidered with geometrical patterns.
During the ceremony of going up to the new house, the elders lead the singing of epic poems, the traditional customary rules and regulations of social life, the production process and the ancient life, and also educate the recipients of the rite of passage on the traditions of the nation.
The young women hold the "rite of passage" generally do not go through the ceremony of sudden capture, as long as by the young women's organization (the Keno language called "mikao") on the approval, but the parents should also gift of agricultural tools and clothing. At this time, the girls' clothing is more colorful, some aprons are two layers, and the hair style has been changed to a single braid.
Participating in a "bar mitzvah" is a major turning point in their lives, and from then on they become a full member of the village and are expected to take on a variety of social obligations. They have to take part in the social organizations where young men and women make friends with each other, i.e., the "Tukao" and the "Mekao". The young men have to patrol and keep watch, maintain the regulations of the village and the security of the village, mediate disputes, and educate and punish those who break the law, and at the same time, they can enjoy all the rights of the members of the village, and obtain the qualification to fall in love.
"Sacrifice of the Great Dragon"
This is a memorial day in honor of the founding ancestor of the Keno people, A ugly woman Yaobai, usually held in June, lasted three days, A ugly woman Yaobai created the Keno people and its mountains and rivers, the sun and the moon, animals, plants, and finally in the field of the movement was assassinated and martyred.
After the death of ugly Yao Bai, the Jinuo people mourned her for thirteen days, and now the "sacrifice of the Dragon" is passed down from that time. On the day of sacrificing the dragon, the whole village is not allowed to go out, the village is not allowed to sing and dance, not allowed to play loudly, outside the village people are not allowed to come into the village, violating these is the ancestor of the Jinuo ugly Yao Bai's disrespect is a violation of the rituals and traditions of the Jinuo people.
The first day of the Dragon Festival by the Zhuo Ba, Zhuo Sheng with the parents of the family in the village outside the sacrificial room to hold a sacrificial ceremony. First plagiarized a buffalo in a big tree fixed by the walled village, and outside the walled village on the edge of the pond to kill a sow, seven piglets, after killing the cow to hang a cut off the tail of the cow on the tree, will eat the meat of the pig's skull for the edge of the pond.
When sacrificing the dragon, Zhuo Ba will announce taboos, the main content is:
"Those who do not participate in the sacrifice, those who do not abide by the taboos, fall in front of the fall will fall off the jawbone, fall behind the fall will be smashed through the head, fall on the left side of the fall will be broken sinews and bones, fall on the right side of the fall will fall and break the legs, touch the leopard will be eaten by a leopard, touch a tiger will be carried away by a tiger, and go up the tree will be fall down."
After the sacrifice, each family divided a piece of meat and took it home, cut three pieces of lean meat three fingers wide and twelve centimeters long and roasted it, and early the next morning, sent the three pieces of roasted beef and the roasted chick to the Elder's house. At noon, the Elder's family shouted three times in front of their house, "Ha Ching Ha I Ha, Ching Ha" (meaning come to eat), and the parents of each family went to the Elder's house to eat. After the meal, the elders sent people to each household to collect rice, sent people with a bamboo tube that can only hold a catty of rice. Each family's rice with a bamboo basket, placed in the gabion table, the rice collector arrives in the bamboo tube, stacked to the tip, and then use the bamboo slice of the left and right steak, steak down the more rice, the better the year's harvest.
Sacrificing the dragon in three days, the village stop all production activities, but also blocked the village traffic, two stakes in front of the village entrance, prohibiting all personnel out of the village, outside the village people are not allowed to enter the village. Women are forbidden to go out on the first day, violators will be punished. The Jinuo people believe that to enter or leave the village is the creation of the grandmother ugly woman Yao Bai disrespect. During these three days, the men tell stories, customs and production in the village, the old people do scornful work, and the women do needlework and spinning and weaving.
After the end of the festival, each family out of the village, to see how the crops grow in the ground, there is no disaster, whether a good harvest, look at the completion of the situation to report to the Zhuo Ba, inspection, if the disaster found, the general disaster of each household to sacrifice, in the event of a major disaster is to kill the white pig to be held in a village-wide sacrificial activities.
Yanuo Zhai sacrifice big dragon method and the above Baji, Baja some different, they banned three days, that is, the first day, the second day and the fourth day. On the day of the ban, they are not allowed to work on the ground, while on the second day, they are allowed to work on the ground. Instead of plagiarizing cattle, the village elders send someone with a chicken, a cup of wine, a liter of rice to the Pumi Zhai to sacrifice the sacred knife. It is said that this knife can cut off the flowing water, where long rain flooding can be sacrificed to the knife for clear.
Kinuo festivals and rituals are basically indistinguishable.
The Hani festivals include the October Festival, the June Festival, the New Rice Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
October Year
October Year is a big year, and according to the Hani calendar, October is the first year. The festival lasts for about six days, and the specific date can be set before or after each village. At this time is the spring on the field, stables in the pig fat season, the conditions of the family are killing animals, pounding glutinous rice, steamed rice cakes, dyeing yellow glutinous rice dedicated to heaven and earth ancestors; men and women, young and old are dressed in new clothes, friends and relatives visit each other; there are boys in the family more than in this festival to ask the matchmaker to go to the marriage, married out of the girl to bring wine, meat and poop back to her parents to dedicate to their ancestors in the New Year; the elderly take turns to the village to receive the engagement gift or a girl to go home to visit the family to share, to share, to share, to share, to share, to share, to share, to share, to share. Older people in the village take turns to visit the families of those who have received engagement gifts or have girls returning home to share some of the gifts. Mojiang part of the Hani ethnic group, the annual festival often the whole family get together dinner (bring your own food), there is also a special custom, that is, the previous year's brides, to be set in the village outside the mountains to tell each other about their married life, and strictly prohibit men from eavesdropping.
According to the Hani calendar, October is the first of the year, Hani October year for the big year. The festival lasts about six days, and the specific date can be preceded or followed by each village. At this time is the spring on the field, stables in the pig fat season, the conditions of the family are killing animals, spring glutinous rice poop, steamed rice cakes, dyeing yellow glutinous rice dedicated to heaven and earth ancestors; men and women, young and old are dressed in new clothes, friends and relatives visit each other; there are boys in the family more in the festival to ask the matchmaker to go to the marriage, married out of the girl should bring wine, meat and poop back to her parents' home to dedicate to their ancestors in the New Year; the elderly take turns to the village to receive the engagement gift or a girl to go home to visit the family to share, share the gift of the girl to go home to the family. The old people of the village take turns to visit the homes of those who have received engagement gifts or who have girls returning home to share some of the gifts.
June Year
The ethnic festival of the Hani people is called Kuzaza, which falls on the 26th day of the sixth month of the summer calendar, and is therefore also known as the "June Year".
Junian is also a joyful festival, which is called "Bitter Zaza" in the Red River area, and is usually held around June 24th, with a duration of three to six days. During the festival, the village as a unit to kill the cow sacrifice "autumn room", beef households back to the ancestors, young people gathered together "swinging", wrestling, hunting, singing songs, and enjoy the fun.
Legend, in ancient times, Hani people do not know how many months a year, and later, the sun and the moon to teach the Hani people the way to split the month, planted a tree in the earth, a branch of the trunk counts as one, Hani people divided into the sixth branch, and from then on, in June, over the "Kuzaza". Also said, in the past, there are seven fairies to Hani Zhai, made a mill partner, they take turns to play, to stand on the right of the bird also amused. Bird joyfully sang, the song moved the God of heaven, the God of heaven to the blessing of the earth ...... people miss the seven nymphs, every year when the "Kuzaza" to play the swing.
The Hani people on the south bank of the Red River in the interior, but also the first year, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The first month of the year over three to five days, the conditions of the family to kill pigs to sacrifice ancestors, the first day to eat dumplings, friends and relatives to feast with each other. The Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are largely the same as the Han custom.
The festival is divided into three days, June 23, the whole village to kill a cow sacrifice to the Dragon God, the sacrifice of the Dragon's beef to each household. June 24, people should be at home to rest for a day, each person kill a chicken, parents call their children's souls, first from outside the cottage called into the house, called a wide range of souls, daily production and labor to the place to be called to. Beasts scared, thunder and fell down to the place to call, can not let the soul in the frightened place to hide down. It is believed that people's bodies will be strong after screaming. On the night of June 25, the manure was beaten with ox sinews and dried reeds or flammable tree strips to make a torch, which was lit and then whisked out from the house to whisk out the disasters and ghosts and evil spirits. Then they tie the torch to a tree and ask the torch god to protect the crops and livestock from pests and diseases.
Girls' Day
The Hani ethnic group in the area of Bibao Mountain in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, celebrates the Girls' Day on the fourth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year.
On this day, before the rooster crows, the men will first pick back a quart of water, and then cut back a bundle of firewood when the day dawns, and then make a fire to boil water, and respectfully serve the washing water to the women who get up slowly. Then, the men cooked, washed vegetables, chopped pig's food, washed dishes and brought up the children, while the women sat idly by, either doing needlework or directing the men to do this or that. The unmarried girls do not even do needlework.
After lunch, the men rushed to the Walled City's public **** entertainment to go, according to custom, the first to the hard-working, after the lazy. The boys borrowed new women's clothes and pants from their lovers, dressed up as girls, and danced to the sound of cheerful stringed music until the sun was in the west before returning home to cook and continue to serve the women late into the night.
Girls' Day is said to have originated from an ancient legend, a long time ago, surrounded by mountains on all sides, the mountain la spring gurgling, forests and trees Weiweiwei Bicheng Zhai, there is a birth than the golden bamboo is also a beautiful girl, named Yuma. Yuma and handsome and tough young hunter Jar period in love. However, at that time, the marriage of Hani girls had to be decided by the headman and parents. Yuma's parents betrothed her to the one-eyed son of the White Tusi. Yuma for this pain, she was determined to die to express the pursuit of love. On the fourth day of the second month, Yuma went alone to the mountain to cut wood, and met three girls from the same village and neighboring villages. Yuma told them about her misfortune, causing the three girls to cry bitterly. As it turned out, they were also the unlucky ones in their marriage. The four girls forgot to chop wood and go home, and told each other their problems on the mountaintop, and the more they told each other, the more sad they became, and they jumped off the cliff together.
After the tragedy, the Hani people felt that they could no longer interfere with the marriage of the girls and boys, especially for the girls, they should be given the right to choose the person of their choice. As a warning to future generations, the Hani people designated the fourth day of February as "Girls' Day" every year to show respect for women and the freedom of marriage.
Now, this area of the Hani young men and women are free to love each other, they choose their own day to get married, do not bride price, and do not do the banquet, with a cup of tea to entertain the guests to congratulate.
Honoring the Elderly Festival
Every year on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the Hani tribe honors the Elderly Festival. Early in the morning, the old people freshen up and put on new clothes to prepare for the festival. Adults at home kill chickens and ducks, prepare a beautiful meal, the young man will be a small pine tree in the festival of the ping field side, the girls pick the water to give it poured down the roots of the water, a symbol of young people wish the old man as long as the pines, long life and eternal youth.
Folding the "Rima Lord" festival
The Hani people who live along the Red River worship the cuckoo bird, which is honored as "Hepo Ama" (mother of the cuckoo bird). Every tea blooming in March, regardless of men and women, young and old, as long as the first time you hear the cuckoo's cry, everyone will report a "I heard" answer, said the spring cheer. It is said that this answer, can make the hard-working and kind-hearted Hani farming family harvest, six animals thrive, peace and prosperity throughout the year.
According to legend, the cuckoo is sent by the god of the sky Abo Mo Mi, from the distant sky of the rocky caves fly out, to the earth to convey the news of spring. When it flew over a sea called "Lane A Wuni Pang Pang Ma", it couldn't fly any more, and looked like it was going to fall into the sea. Suddenly, a dragon's tail rose up from the sea, which then turned into a big tree with many branches and leaves for the cuckoo to rest on. The cuckoo finally went through all the trouble and conveyed the message of spring to the earth.
According to the rules inherited from previous generations, when most people have heard the cuckoo's call, they will meet on a day that belongs to the goat, prepare delicious food, soak glutinous rice in the sap of the flowers of a kind of big tree, steam fragrant golden sticky rice, boil red duck eggs, and offer them to the cuckoo in reverence. On this day, young men and girls from villages and hamlets, full of spring, dressed in festive attire, gather on a moderate lawn to celebrate the annual "Rimar Lord" festival (spring festival), in order to choose a partner and talk about love. After the festival, each family chooses a good day, and at the hour of five o'clock when the birds have not come out of their nests and the four mountains are silent, the parents quietly plant three clusters of seedlings in their own fields, which means "opening the rice planting gate". It is said that if you can't hear the sound of birds when you "open the rice gate", you will be able to avoid disasters and get a good harvest this year.
"Grasshopper Catching Festival"
Grasshopper Catching Festival", called "Abaunian" in Hani language, is held in the year of June (June 24th of the lunar calendar every year). June year" (the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar) after the first day of the chicken or monkey held. The Hani people live in mountainous areas and grow rice in one season. After the "June Year", the rice will start to pull up, in order to ensure a good rice harvest, the Hani people will adopt the "Grasshopper Catching Festival" to drive away and avoid insect pests.
"Grasshopper Festival" on this day, the whole village men, women and children are to the field to catch grasshoppers, each family to catch enough of a bamboo brief (about two pounds), the grasshopper a one one scattered into four: a pile of head, a pile of legs, a pile of body, a pile of wings; in turn, with the scratching of the bamboo clip up inserted next to the ridge and drainage ditch to the ground has not yet been caught to grasshopper and other insects that have not yet been caught. After half an hour, the grasshoppers are put into bamboo tubes. The grasshoppers are then taken home and eaten as a dish or mixed with poi, and the meat is said to be very sweet. When leaving the field, people have to keep shouting, "Vomit, grasshopper, I won't catch you for three days, and you don't eat rice for three months!"
"Eating new rice festival"
Hani people live in the area, around the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the grain is gradually ripening each household to choose their own good day to carry out "Kadupi" (eating new rice) activities. During the festival, parents carry baskets to the field to get some ears of grain and hang them on the door, and make a "Wobo Bo" from rice poles and play it three times in front of the "Zongge" (Canglong) to indicate that they are going to eat the new grain, and to pray to the gods to bless a large harvest of grain, to prevent people from falling ill, and for livestock to flourish and develop. An egg-laying hen should be killed to offer rice, and the fat intestines, ears and tails of pigs killed during the New Year should also be saved to offer to the gods at this time. Eat new rice to mix the old rice and new rice cooked together, which is called "concubines are drinking Za" (i.e., old and new), meaning that the old grain and old rice to eat to the new grain and rice market, and pray for year after year.
Jingpo Traditional Festivals
Menao Festival
Menao Zongge, which means "dancing" in Jingpo, is the biggest traditional festival of the Jingpo people. It is the biggest traditional festival of the Jingpo ethnic group, which is usually held on two days within nine days after the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and the festival lasts from three to five days. As a large-scale mass singing and dancing activity, it has a long history. Historically, every year of good harvest, expedition, triumph, marriage and sacrifice to ghosts and gods and other important activities, all have to jump "eye brain".
The Jingpo people first inhabited the Tibetan plateau, part of the Qiang ethnic group, and settled in their present location after several major migrations. "Menaw" is a cultural phenomenon that reflects the history, culture and religion of the Jingpo people during their long social history. The "Shidong" (signboards) erected in the Menaw Square are divided into male and female symbols, in which the migratory routes of the Jingpo people and other patterns of production and life are painted. When holding a big "Murnau" celebration, it is necessary to pay homage to "Mudai" (the sun god) first, because one of the reasons is that the "Murnau" dance comes from the Palace of the Sun; and the other reason is that, according to legend, the ancestor of the Jingpo people had married a woman of the sun, and the people of Jingpo had to pay tribute to the sun god. One of the reasons is that the Mudai dance comes from the Palace of the Sun; the other is that the ancestors of the Jingpo tribe are said to have taken the Sun as their wives, and the Jingpo people are the descendants of the Sun. Therefore, the families of Jingpo nobles (shangguan) generally pay homage to Mudai. The "Dongsa" (priests) would perform the "Meinao Jawa", in which they would recount the formation of the heavens and earth, the birth of all living things, and the history of the origin and change of the Jingpo people in a specific form and with specific words, covering a wide range of topics. These activities have served to record history and pass on culture for thousands of years.
The Jingpo people's "Murnau Song" was originally a traditional festival that integrated religious and cultural customs. With the development of society, it has gradually evolved into a variety of different categories of "Menao". Roughly, there are the following kinds:
1, "years of Murnau", the family's financial resources, held when the prosperity of the people;
2, "Boudang Murnau", held when the victory in the war;
3, "Gon Ran Minaw", held when siblings split up and set up their own families;
4. "Tengken Minaw", held when new houses and dwellings were built;
5. "Khong Ran Minaw", held when noble families married their relatives;
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5. "Kuran Minaw" is held when a noble family marries and organizes a wedding;
6. "Daru Minaw" is held when a person goes on a military expedition;
7. "Xie Minaw" is held when a prestigious elder dies and is buried;
8. "Jumunao", held to honor the god "Mudei" ...... Different categories of "munao" have specific contents and manifestations, but there are some that are not. The different types of "munao" all have specific contents and forms of expression, but there is a **** the same point is that the whole process is performed and completed by the dance team consisting of the "nao shuang" (leader) team and the "nao ba" (performer) team.
There are three myths about the origin of the "Megumo".
The first is that humans learned the Megamind dance from birds, who in turn learned it from the Sun God.
Secondly, in ancient times, the Jingpo people lived in a distant and beautiful place, and the people lived a happy and peaceful life. However, one day there came a blood-drinking and man-eating demon king, who specialized in eating children for a living, and often used magic to call the winds and summon the rain, flooding the fields and rains. The people were plunged into deep suffering from then on. At this time, a Jingpo man named Lei Pan led the people to rise up against him, and after a fierce battle, he finally killed the demon king and did away with the evil for the people. People were ecstatic and celebrated the victory with songs and dances. Later, in order to commemorate the victory of our ancestors, we have to hold songs and dances every year, and call this song and dance activity as "Megamind".
Thirdly, the parents of Ning Guan Wa, the creator of the Jingpo people, said to Ning Guan Wa: "After we die, you should hold the funeral ceremony of the Eye Brain, and only in this way can we turn into the earth, and you can turn into a human being and reproduce the human race." So Ning Guan Wa accepted his parents' order and went to the Sun Country to learn how to dance the Megamind. In the land of the sun, everyone elected the beautiful peacock as the leader of the eye brain dance, and the peacock lived up to its name, leading everyone to dance, and carefully teaching each practitioner. Ning Guan Wa after learning, on earth also organized the eye brain dance, he delineated the foot of the Himalayas for the dance (which is said to be the birthplace of the Jingpo tribe), the eye brain dance line engraved in the eye brain column, and the provisions of the dance leader to wear the peacock feathered hat, in order to commemorate the peacock's grace of the dance. From then on, the Meibou was born and has been passed down from generation to generation until today.
Whenever a festival is held in Megamind, Jingpo people in villages and cottages dressed in festive costumes flock to Megamind Square from all directions. The square is crowded with people, and the atmosphere is warm and cheerful without losing the solemn and simple features. In the center of the square, there are four 4-meter-long Meibao pillars, also known as the male and female pillars, two in the middle for the yin, two outside for the yang, all of which are beautifully painted and rich in symbolic meaning of the pattern: the right side of the pillar is often painted with fern patterns to symbolize the unity of the progressive; the left side is often painted back to the pattern of the composition of a number of quadrangles and painted in different colors, indicating the migration routes of the Jingpo people; the middle of the two pillars between the two long knives crossed for the Jingpo people to be brave and strong, the Jingpo people to be strong. Between the two pillars in the center, there are two long knives crossed, which is a specific symbol of the Jingpo people's valor and toughness, and their strong and resolute character. On the left side of the column, there is a square shelf, and the upper floor is the seat for blowing suona; in front of it, there is a two-meter-long drum and a big gong with a diameter of more than one meter, which is used for accompaniment in dancing. The square is surrounded by a bamboo fence to prevent the intrusion of wild spirits and the interference of livestock. When the dance begins, drums and music, people by two respected and familiar with the eye brain dance route of the old man dressed in a big dragon robe, head decorated with peacocks, pheasants and wild boar feathers and teeth of the eye brain cap, holding a long knife to lead the way, followed by the back of the copper cannon and holding a long knife of the procession, the women with fans or colorful handkerchiefs to follow the last, singing and dancing, lively and extraordinary. Participating dancers less than a hundred people, more than a few thousand people, from early in the morning to dusk, to dusk to early in the morning, all night long to sing and dance to their hearts' content, during which the dancers jumped tired when they can automatically leave the field to take a break for a few moments, and then continue to dance on the field.
Traditional eye brain dance, the line of march in strict accordance with the eye brain column shown on the pattern line, that is, commonly known as the rules of the dance, after jumping two laps, we must change the formation, divided into two ways: all the way is still led by the leader of the dancers, a part of the people in accordance with the pattern of the line to jump forward; the other way is to change the dance posture, jumping up to the free dance by the dance of the level of the higher people to lead the way (mostly for the young man), the dance style called "brain bar", "the brain bar", "the dance style is called". The dance is called "cerebral", and while dancing, two pairs of warriors dance around the square, two of them holding shields and two of them holding him, to drive away the wild spirits. At the end of the dance on the third day, people in the dance team jumped with bouquets of flowers in their hands, and those who cooked food jumped with spatulas, and those who managed to drink wine jumped with barrels in their hands, creating a scene of fun and enjoyment. In the past, the Meibao Festival activities were hosted by Jingpo officials, with strong religious colors. After the liberation, this traditional national song and dance festival has been inherited and developed, and there has been a broadening of the form and content. During the festival, there are not only the traditional Meibao dance but also various kinds of cultural and artistic performances. At the same time, there are activities such as book exhibitions and exchanges of local specialty products. Nowadays, "Meiming Song" has become a flower of national art and culture that strengthens the unity of ethnic groups and is rich in national characteristics, which is y loved by the Jingpo people.
The "Meinao Song" has developed as a traditional activity of an ethnic group, and its religious color and category have been increasingly diluted, and it has become a traditional festival of Jingpo people, collectively called "Tunken (traditional) Meinao" and given new connotations, and its content and form are a demonstration of an ethnic group's unity. The content and form of the festival is to show the traditional culture of an ethnic group, reflecting today's new life and the bright desire for the future.
The Sowing and Tasting Festival
The Sowing and Tasting Festival is a traditional festival of the Achang people in Yingjiang, Lianghe and Long counties of the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, which is held on the 10th day of the 3rd month and the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the Achang people have an old woman, every mid-August harvesting season, she always take great pains to carefully choose a variety of cereal seeds to stay, and forwarded to the people of the villages. She was y loved and respected by the people because she helped them improve their farming techniques. In August of a year, the old woman suddenly died before the harvest, in order to make up for the old man failed to wear new, taste new and died of the greatest regret, people in her spirit of offering fragrant rice and new clothes. After that, on August 15 every year, Achang families used the newly harvested grain, vegetables, fruits and melons to cook, thus forming the Tasting the New Festival. In the following spring people would again scatter the seeds she left in the ground, forming the Sowing Festival on March 15 every year.
New Rice Festival
New Rice Festival Jingpo interesting harvest celebration festival. Every year in August and September of the lunar calendar, when the rice is ripe in the fields, every family will celebrate the "New Rice Festival".
The day before the festival, the host family begins to prepare. They carry baskets full of flowers, pick up bundles of ripe glutinous rice, carry them back to their homes, and place them next to the ghost gate. Then, a warm invitation is sent out to the families to be their guests on the following day. The next day, men, women, children and devils came joyfully to the host's house, and the host took out water and wine to welcome the guests. After the hosts and guests have exchanged greetings, it is time to prepare the meal for the New Rice Festival. The women and girls fry the grain, pound the flat rice, make the poi, cook the new rice, and go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables. The young men sing songs and go down to the river to catch fish. According to the traditional rules of the Jingpo people, chickens and pigs cannot be killed on the day of the New Rice Festival. Before the feast begins, the host performs a prayer ceremony. He lined up poi, flat rice, water wine, dry fish, dry mice and prayed to the ghosts, expressing his wish for the safety of people and animals, good weather, and eliminating disasters and scourges. If you can get what you want, you will surely kill a cow for sacrifice in the future.
At the ceremony of the New Rice Festival, elders of great age and virtue tell of the origin of the grain. It is said that a long time ago, the Jingpo people planted grains, but the spirit of the grains went up to the sky, and the grains on the ground did not grow well, so the family dog saw this and barked day and night, finally calling the spirit of the grains to the ground, and from then on the grains planted by the Jingpo people thrived and prospered.
Therefore, the Jingpo people look at the dog in a different light. On the day of the New Rice Festival, the dogs are to be given food first, followed by the cows, and then the old people. On the day of the New Rice Festival, people drink and laugh while summarizing the agricultural affairs with the main one and discussing the proper time for planting. The use of water for soaking fields. The skill of planting rice seedlings, the method and time limit for sowing seeds on dry land, and the design of open fields. The learning of seed rotation, etc. The New Rice Festival is a festival that celebrates the harvest and promotes the exchange of agricultural techniques.
Flower Picking Festival
Jingpo language called "Sishenxian" or "Jida", "Ningda", etc., usually held during the Spring Festival. At that time, the young men and women of the same or neighboring villages meet together, bringing food such as Po Po Silk, rice, eggs, etc., and go up to the mountain together to find a place suitable for playing, singing and dancing, laughing and joking, and holding various games such as playing "yangdan". Couples are talking about love, mutual gifts, the rest of the men, women and children, each person out of some meat and wine and other food, *** with cooking. The old man sang to the young people to listen to, the lyrics are mostly auspicious words. After the meal, everyone sings and dances and has fun together. In the evening, young men and women meet each other, sing and chant in public houses and other places, and have fun until late at night.
Nengxian Festival
It is a festival where young men and women of Jingpo ethnic group mainly gather, sing and dance. It is usually held on the tenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. In this season, when spring returns to the earth and everything grows, young men and women who have worked hard for a year take advantage of this good time for farming, and according to tradition, hold the Nengxian Festival in a flat place by the mountains and the water. During the festival, young men and women dress up in festive attire and wear various decorations, and gather together to compete in folk songs, shooting, slingshotting, and sword dances.
Jingpo girls' family rankings
Jingpo girls' family rankings
Jingpo girls' family rankings
Boss: Mufat or Muguo Second: Mulu Third: Muleu