The Hani people take October as the first month of the lunar calendar, and the October festival means the New Year, which lasts from one week to two weeks. During the festival the village collectively kill pigs to worship the dragon woods, set up through the street feast, there is a marriage to take advantage of the festival to ask the matchmaker to marry, and married out of the girl to take this opportunity to go back to her mother's home to visit.
The Hani people to the first day of October of the lunar calendar every year, the Tiger (or Dragon Day) for the first day of the Hani New Year. During the festival, the villages kill pigs "sacrifice dragon", each family will be a variety of delicacies along the street set up, up to dozens of meters long "through the street feast" on the delicacies fragrant, crowded, people drink wine, tasting the delicious, mutual blessings, and each other to talk about a year's They talk to each other about the sorrows and joys of the year. At dusk, bonfires are lit, Hani people sing and dance, immersed in the warm and festive atmosphere of the festival.
June 24 before and after the Red River area called the June Festival for "bitter Zaza", lasting three to six days, during the festival to kill cattle sacrifices to the gods, young people gathered together swinging, wrestling, singing and dancing, and enjoy the fun. Some places in the night of the day of the festival will also be lit at home Songming torches, and then send torches out of the village, placed on the roadside or the mountain, in order to show that drive away the evil spirits out of the village.