October year is the big year, according to the Hani calendar, October is the first year. The festival lasts for about six days, and the specific date can be first or later for each village. At this time is the spring on the field, stables in the pig fat season, have 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 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 the bride's 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, 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 will 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.
June is also a year of joyful festivals, the Red River region called "bitter Zaza", the date is generally around June 24, the festival period 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.
The Hani people on the south bank of the Red River in the interior, but also the first month of the 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 feast with each other. Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival is largely the same as the Han custom.
Girls Festival
Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, the Hani ethnic group around the Bicai Mountain, the fourth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year to celebrate a unique girls Festival.
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 food, washed dishes, and brought up 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. In order to warn future generations, the Hani people have designated the fourth day of February every year as "Girls' Day" to show respect for women and the freedom of marriage.
Hani Respect for the Elderly Festival
The 15th day of the Lunar month of every year is the Hani Respect for the Elderly Festival. Early in the morning, the old people freshen up and put on new clothes in preparation for celebrating their 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.
"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 (a 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). In the "June Year" (the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year) after a first chicken or monkey day held. The Hani people live in mountainous areas and grow rice in one season. After the "June Year", the rice began to spike, in order to ensure a bumper rice harvest, the Hani people have taken the "Grasshopper Festival" way to drive out and avoid insect pests.