The Panwang Festival can be organized by a family, a joint family or a gathering of people of the same clan. However, no matter which form it is organized in, it is necessary to kill animals for sacrifice and hold banquets for friends and relatives. The festival usually lasts for three days and two nights, but some are as long as seven days and seven nights.
During the festival, the Yao people kill chickens and slaughter ducks, men, women and children dressed in festive attire, gathered together, first of all, worship Pan Wang, singing Pan Wang song, jumping up and down the yellow mud drum dance and the long drum dance, in memory of the ancestor's merit and virtue, and sing the praises of the ancestor's heroic spirit of struggle. Secondly, they celebrate the harvest, pay tribute to Panwang, and enjoy themselves to the fullest. At the same time, young men and women will carry out song activities, seize the opportunity to choose the right person. In some places, there is also a flower stick, firecrackers and theater troupes are invited to sing.
Panwang Festival ceremony is presided over by four positive masters, each in his own way, returning the master, offering soldiers, rewarding soldiers, five grain division, each with one assistant, **** 8 people, in addition to four song maiden song masters, six boys and girls, a long drum artists and oboe orchestra to participate in the Panwang Festival. Its mode of inheritance is based on master and family tradition.
The ceremony is divided into two main parts. The first part is to invite the saints, line up the position, on the light, inviting the harvest, returning the wish, thanking the saints, the suona band accompanies the whole ceremony, and the master dances the Panwang Dance (Copper Bell Dance, Dance of sending out and receiving troops, Dance of about marking, Sacrificing the troops Dance, Dance of catching the tortoise and so on); the second part is to invite the ancestral god of the Yao people and the whole clan to come to Liuluo, which means playfulness in the Yao language. This is the main part of the Panwang Festival, in which all the ancestral gods of the Yao people are invited to participate in the various cultural and entertainment activities of the Panwang Festival, and to sing the "Panwang Daigong", a long historical poem that expresses the myths, history, politics, economy, culture and art, and social life of the Yao people. The flow music ceremony is usually held for one day and one night. The Panwang Festival has fixed procedures, the first of which is to honor Panwang. During the festival, an altar is set up and the statues of gods are hung. The biggest one in the center is the statue of Panwang, and the statues of Zhenwu, Gongcao, Tian Gong, and Earth Mother are on the left and right. At the beginning of the festival, three muskets are fired, followed by firecrackers. In the sound of the firecrackers, the clan old village old in front of the statue of the gods offerings such as pig's head, glutinous rice, chicken, wine and other offerings, people face the statue of the gods, bowed their heads in silent prayer, to express their admiration and remembrance.
After the sacrifice, the people sing the Panwang song and dance the Panwang dance. The Song of Pan Wang, which is recorded in Yao books, is mainly a poem recounting the life of Pan Wang in seven-character stanzas. The verses are refined, and the melody is elegant and thick. The Panwang Dance is accompanied by drums and gongs, and the dance movements are suddenly jumping up, suddenly squatting down, suddenly turning left, and suddenly rotating right, which are fit and powerful, recreating a simulated picture of the Yao forefathers' plowing and hunting, and going on campaigns to kill the enemies, with men and women accompanying them in singing from time to time. The dances can be divided into Panwang Dance, Binggong Dance, Knife Dance, Sanyuan Dance, etc., among which Panwang Dance is the most characteristic. Accompanied by long drums, the dancers sometimes tumbling, sometimes rotating, sometimes jumping, most of the dance movements are imitation of labor movements, such as opening up the land, sowing, afforestation, logging, hunting, etc., the action is rugged and generous, the rhythm of the complexity of the change. The whole scene has a warm atmosphere, giving people a feeling of roughness and exuberance like mountains and fields. Dance Panwang dance, dance around the hanging Panwang idol and country prosperity, prosperity and other slogans banner.
The Panwang Dance, also known as the Panwang Jump, is usually performed on the Panwang Festival. Sometimes, when men and women get married, choose an auspicious day to jump Panwang Dance. After marriage, choose an auspicious day to jump Panwang Dance, is to seek Panwang blessing couples will never be separated, and grow old together. Couples jump after marriage Panwang Dance is the newlywed couple in a male lead, and young men and women stand in a circle, the woman with a cymbal, the man with a seal, facing the center of the circle, a leaning a stretch, a forward and backward jumping steps. Every step, cymbals and trigrams ring a sound. After jumping forward and backward toward the center of the circle for a while, the formation begins to rotate counterclockwise. Jump for a while, couples kneel down to worship Mogong, the dance is over.
Panwang Festival in addition to the festival of Panwang, singing Panwang, jumping Panwang, some places are also jumping flower stick, firecrackers, singing love songs.