The most important traditional festival of the Qiang people is the Qiang New Year, which falls on October 1st of the lunar calendar and usually lasts for 3-5 days. During the festival, people stop working and going out and gather at home to make various calf and sheep dishes with flour. Chickens and other sacrifices are offered to ancestors and gods.
In some places, they also jumped from Duangong to the sacred forest, killed sheep, sprinkled blood in front of the altar to worship the gods, and the mutton was brought back to each family, and then they joined the family and invited their relatives and friends Drink their own wine, sing wine songs, dance in Guozhuang, and celebrate the harvest. The Qiang people are a nation that is good at singing and dancing.
No matter in labor, production, marriage, funeral, etc., most men, women, old and young sing their own folk songs and dance. Festivals are the best time to sing and dance. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, the Qiang people should sing and dance to their heart's content. Drinking songs are a traditional singing form of the New Year's Day "mixed wine" duet. When singing, the host and guests sit side by side and take turns. Singing, the rhythm is slow, the melody is beautiful, the voice is loud, the cadence is ups and downs, and the style is elegant and simple.
About half a minute later, a dog finally came back, and more than ten men and women participated in the ceremony, often singing and dancing. The Qiang flute is the main instrument for singing and dancing. This is an old six-step double-barreled flute. In addition, there are gongs, suonas, sheepskin drums, tiger harps, harmonicas and other musical instruments. These musical instruments can play, play and play unique folk music, making festival-goers extremely happy. The earliest time for the Qiang people to calculate years and years is the solar calendar.
Also known as the Mountain Worship Festival and the Heaven Worship Festival, it is held once or 2-3 times in rural areas from March to June of the lunar calendar every year. The procedures for worshiping mountains are very complicated. According to different legends and totems, the methods of worship are also different. different.