What is the custom of Buyi people on April 8?

Buyi custom on April 8th: On this day, every household will eat "Niu Wang Ba" and glutinous rice, and feed the barrels with glutinous rice or glutinous rice. In Zhenning area outside Guizhou, children will be given a steamed rooster, and adults will take them to the river to take a bath, catch small fish, eat chicken and bask in the sun. This festival is celebrated in several areas of Guizhou and several ethnic minorities, and Guiyang is the biggest.

This is a festival for Buyi people to commemorate cattle farming. It is called "Ox King Festival" in Luodian and other places, "Shepherd Festival" in Biandan Mountain in Zhenning, and "Seedling Opening Festival" in Anlong and Xingyi. On this day, everyone will eat "cows" and glutinous rice, and feed the barrels with glutinous rice or glutinous rice bars. In Zhenning area outside Guizhou, children will be given a steamed rooster, and adults will take their children to the river to take a bath, catch small fish, eat chicken and bask in the sun.

Buyi is a large minority in southwest China. Buyi is the national language, and Sino-Tibetan is a branch of Zhuang-Dong language family, which is closely related to Zhuang language and widely used in Chinese. Buyi people evolved from the ancient Liao people, mainly agriculture. Buyi ancestors began to grow rice very early and enjoyed the title of "rice-growing nation".

Buyi people are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other provinces, among which Guizhou has the largest population, accounting for 97% of the national Buyi population. Mainly living in two Buyi and Miao autonomous prefectures in Qiannan and Southwest Guizhou, as well as Anshun, Guiyang and Liupanshui. The remaining cities, counties and cities are scattered, and a small number of them live in Vietnam.