How do the Bai people celebrate the Dong New Year Festival?

Every year, during the period from late October to late November of the lunar calendar, the Dong people in Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province, around the "seventy-two villages" have the Dong New Year Festival. The festival is usually held for one day, but if there is a Pipa Song Hall for singing or a Lusheng Stomping Hall for playing Lusheng, it can last for 3 to 5 days, and sometimes up to 7 to 10 days.

The Dong family in the Dong New Year Festival, mainly eat pork, chicken and duck meat, carp, pickled fish, tofu, etc., especially the frozen fish (this fish is the first night with carp, tofu, condiments, etc. boiled, and then put into the next day frozen into a frozen meal) is an indispensable delicacy on the table. On the morning of the Dong New Year Festival, parents burn incense and paper while reciting the "Dong New Year Auspicious Words". Next is to honor the shrine and set off a few firecrackers, after which the whole family can have breakfast.

The main activities of the Dong New Year Festival in Rongjiang County include bullfighting, birdfighting, horse-racing, playing Lusheng and singing Pipa songs. During the festival, men, women and children gather in their ethnic dress. The young and the old have fun by participating in these activities; young men and women, in addition, have another purpose - to sow the seeds of love, that is, to get to know each other, the first choice of their sweetheart.

The Year of the Dong is the grandest and most lively of all Dong festivals. It is a grand festival for the Dong people to worship their ancestors and celebrate the harvest, and it is also a festival of entertainment for the ****s. Rongjiang County, "seventy-two villages of the Dong Township" of the Dong New Year's Day, there is no uniform date, are based on the traditional habits of each village New Year's Day each year. Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province, Qiandongnan County, "seventy-two Zhai Dongxiang" the first Zhai Renli Township, Rengji Village, Dong villagers over the Dong New Year's Day, the local four townships and eight Zhai Dong compatriots gathered together, held blowing the reed-sheng, bullfighting campaigns and other activities, happy to pass the annual Dong New Year's Day.