The festivals of the Nu people include the Spring Festival, the Torch Festival, the 14th day of the 7th month, the New Rice Festival, and the Festival of Sacrifice to the Mountain Forest. The festival is usually held on the fourth and fifth day of the first month. This event is restricted to men only and the sacrifice is a black sheep. In addition, the Zojirushi people's congratulatory new house is also very distinctive. When the four walls of the wooden house have not yet opened doors and windows, the owner will kill a chicken and ask a sorcerer to sacrifice the new house, and then use an axe to cut a hole in one wall of the wooden house and install the door. On that day, people in the village took the initiative to bring chickens, wine and meat to congratulate, drink, sing and dance all night long .
The Bijiang Nu ethnic group in the lunar month of the twenty-ninth to sacrifice grain god, thirty to sacrifice rain god.
Every year on the 15th to 17th day of the third month of the lunar calendar, when the azaleas are in full bloom, the Nu people will be for the "fairy" festival, which is also known as the "flower festival", is a traditional folk festival of the Nu ethnic minority areas around the Gunsan Mountains in Yunnan Province.
According to legend, a long time ago, the Nu family cottage dripping like oil, the fields are barren, the people's life is miserable. At that time, a beautiful, intelligent and powerful Nu girl Ah Truong, with the arm split the cliff, cut through a cave, for the Nu people to draw a clear spring, so that the parched land was watered, and from then on the barren mountains into an oasis. The Nu people call Ah Fung as "fairy", the flower festival is held in her honor and folk activities.
Every year on the fifteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Nu people to natural villages as a unit, choose one to three stalactites limestone cave for the fairy hole (or called by the hole), each family went there to worship. Go to the sacrifice of the people tied a bunch of azaleas, with livestock, wine; each family also used three to five packages of corn standing in the hole, and all kinds of washed grain piled up into a round heap, set up offerings, burned up the pine smoke, by the officiating priests recite the blessing, beat the drums and read the scriptures, everyone bowed to dedicate the tribute. In front of the stage and on both sides of the stage, there are clad in dark red robes, holding a magic weapon chanting the lama and maneuvering the oboe, drummer drummer. In the lama on the left side of the quadrilateral incense burning platform inserted with pine branches, flowers, corn and colorful flags. The pine boughs symbolize good luck and longevity; the flowers are dedicated to the "fairies"; the corn indicates a good harvest, and the yearly surplus.
The festival culminates in the melodious sound of suona and the drums and cymbals. Then, the crowd began to move toward the "fairy cave". The girls in full dress, holding freshly picked flowers and carrying offerings, come to the "Fairy Cave" to take the "milk" of the "fairies" in order to pray for the blessings of the fairies. Folklore has it that the water dripping down from the Milk Stone is the milk of the Fairy Ah Yeong.
After returning home, each family set up banquets and drinks, songs and dances, entertainment, young people also dressed in costume, to the broad field of competition archery. In the evening, young men and women would sing and dance around the bonfire all night long.
Now the fairy festival has been given new content. The government has also allocated special funds to help and organize the Nu people to celebrate the festival. At the same time, it holds material exchanges, organizes movie evenings and cultural performances, and conducts sports activities such as boating and archery competitions. Cadres and people from other ethnic groups also participated and congratulated them enthusiastically. In this way, the Nu people today's "Fairy Festival" has become a national unity and friendship, mutual exchange and learning event.