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Frog Festival is a traditional folk festival of Zhuang nationality in Donglan, Nandan and Tiane counties. Commonly known as festivals. The festival lasts from the first day of the first lunar month to the 30th day (in some places, it lasts until the 15th day), and it is held jointly in large villages or several villages. There are sacrificial ceremonies such as "inviting frogmen", "singing frogmen", "filial piety frogmen" and "burying frogmen". Throughout the festival, praise the frog god for bringing rain to the world and blessing the harvest. It is a song and dance event to entertain the gods. People regard the first frog found on the first day of New Year's Day as sacred, and the person who caught the frog was respected and supported, and became the leader who presided over the frog sacrifice ceremony that year. The modern Frog Women's Festival has evolved into a festival and song meeting for mass entertainment, so it is also called "Ma Songhui".
Eat Zhuang folk festivals in Longzhou County and Pingxiang City. Chi Li Zhuang language means "celebrating" or "making up for the Spring Festival". According to legend, when the Spring Festival approached, French invaders invaded the frontier. In order to crack down on invaders, local young adults took up arms to defend their homes, so they failed to celebrate the Spring Festival on time. On the 30th day of the first month, the soldiers who went to war returned home in triumph. The villagers slaughtered chickens and sheep, made glutinous rice cakes, warmly entertained them, celebrated their victory, made up the Spring Festival, and followed suit. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.
Farm Tools Festival is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality in southwest Guangxi. It is held every year on February 29th of the lunar calendar. On that day, all kinds of agricultural production tools processed and produced by every household were picked out in the market and arranged in a row in turn, including plough frame, yoke, dustpan, dustpan, shoulder pole, hoe, plow, rake, hoe handle, laundry basket, bamboo mat, grain basket, grain bucket, furniture and so on. People are shopping for spring ploughing.
Huapo Festival is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality. According to folklore, Liu Jia, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, was born from flowers. Later, the director sent flowers and children. All people came to this world from the flowers in Liu Jia Garden, so they are considered as the goddess of flowers. February 29th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Huapo God. Zhuang women hold sacrificial ceremonies. Women of the same generation in the village formed sisters with different surnames, raised funds to prepare chickens, ducks and incense sticks to sacrifice to the flower gods, and then went to the wild in droves to collect flowers and wear them, praying for fertility and wishing their children healthy growth. Women who have no children will go to the wild to pick flowers and wear them in the future, so that the flower god can send them flowers and give them to their children. If you are pregnant in the future, in order to make the child have a soul after birth, you must ask the teacher to chant Buddhist scripture in the wild, to spend flowers, and to do a bridging ceremony in the ditch on the roadside to take the flowers off the bridge. After the child is born, the goddess should be installed in front of the maternal bed and worship regularly. This custom has disappeared now.
March 3rd Song Festival is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality. Also known as the March Song Festival. Guangxi is known as the "sea of songs", and the Zhuang people have several regular folk song gatherings every year, among which the third day of the third lunar month is grand. On this day, every household cooks colorful glutinous rice and dyes red eggs to celebrate festivals, some of which last for two or three days. There are specific venues for local song concerts. Generally, it is a slope. Some people use bamboo and cloth to build a karaoke room to receive singers from other villages. The participants are mainly unmarried young men and women, and the elderly and children also come to entertain. Around Xu Ge, vendors gather and folk trade is active. Thousands of men, women and children came from dozens of miles away in Fiona Fang to attend a larger concert, with a sea of people, singing one after another and being very lively. Famous song concerts include Panyang River in Bama, Mianshan in Du 'an, Qiao Ye in Tian Yang, Yang Yan in Tiandong, Xia Jian in Yishan and Yufeng Mountain in Liuzhou. People go to song parties to compete and enjoy songs; There is a song friendship between young men and women, and people who love each other will give each other tokens as tokens of love. In addition, there are recreational activities such as throwing hydrangeas, touching eggs and performing Zhuang opera. The Song Festival is not only a grand gathering of national culture, but also a grand gathering of national economic exchanges. In order to carry forward the national culture, the people's government of the autonomous region organized 1984 "March 3" song meeting. Singers from all over Guangxi gathered in Nanning, and brothers, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, and foreign friends from all over the country also came, with unprecedented pomp. 1985 The People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region designated "March 3rd" as a culture and art festival.
Cattle Soul Festival is a traditional festival for the Zhuang, Dong and Gelao nationalities to worship the ox god. Also known as Niu Birthday, Niu Wang Festival and Off-yoke Festival. Most of them are held on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, and some are held on the eighth day of June or August. On that day, the farmer gave the cows a day off, and every household renovated the cowshed. The elders in the village commented on the cows in the village and warned everyone to take care of them. Every family steamed five-color glutinous rice, wrapped it in loquat leaves and fed it to cattle. In some places, offerings of wine, meat and fruits are placed in the hall, and parents lead an old cow around the offerings and sing while walking, so as to praise and reward the merits of the cow. On this day, every household will feed the cows first, and then the whole family will have a meal. Since the 1970s, the color of worshipping cows has gradually faded, but the trend of respecting and protecting cows still exists.
Yaowang Festival is also called Pharmacist's Day. Traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality. Legend has it that the drug king is a powerful drug god. He discovered herbs, cured people and taught people the knowledge of planting, collecting and treating diseases. In the past, all the larger villages in Zhuang area had Yaowang Temple. Every May, Dragon Boat Festival is held to offer sacrifices to the King of Medicine, and activities of collecting medicines and preventing diseases are carried out. For example, Zhuang people in northern Guangxi went up the mountain this day to collect Chinese tallow, Hypericum japonicum, cucurbit tea, Acer truncatum and other herbs to boil water and take a bath. I think this will make the skin smooth and free from scabies. On this day, the Zhuang people in Jingxi County opened a medicinal materials market, specializing in various medicinal materials, and the buyers were enthusiastic. It is said that this medicine has special effects. In addition, every household also wraps triangular zongzi, cooks vinegar in the house, burns grapefruit skin, and inserts wormwood at the door to ward off evil spirits and drive away the epidemic.
Eating traditional festivals of Zhuang, Dong and Miao. Also known as Kaiqing Festival and Xinmi Festival. It is held in June of the lunar calendar every year, and the specific date varies from place to place. By that time, rice and corn had already begun to mature, and people brought a little new Gu Mi to cook rice and vegetables for the holidays. If the rice is not ripe, pick the ears of rice from a few pieces in your home and knead the rice slurry in the rice cooker to show the taste. In some places, new rice, wine and meat are also offered as sacrifices to the god of agriculture. Others take the village as a unit, gathering and feasting in the field or on the hillside, singing and dancing, and the Japanese side will take a break. It is said that this festival custom originated from people's worship of Saturnalia, and later gradually evolved into a common folk festival.
Mo Yi Dawang Festival is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality in northern Guangxi. Also known as the Grain Temple Fair. It is held on the second day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that this is the birthday of King Mo Yi. Because of its contribution to saving the strong people and praying for a bumper harvest, the Zhuang people felt their kindness, so they built a temple in front of the village and offered it at home. A small festival is held every year to offer sacrifices to chickens, ducks and pork; A big sacrifice is held every six years, and the whole village raises funds to kill pigs and sheep. At that time, each family will send one person to attend, and a grand ceremony will be held at the King's Temple in Mo Yi, presided over by the village head, and Taoist priests will be invited to recite scriptures and pray. At the time of sacrifice, the meat, liver, intestines and bones of pigs and cows are made into 12 plates, one by one, and placed on the altar. 12 After the dishes are served, you can burn paper to salute. After the sacrifice, give each dish to everyone equally. Entertainment activities such as singing and singing opera are held in the evening.
Back-pounding Festival is a traditional festival of Zhuang people who call themselves Bunong in western Guangxi. Zhuang language is called "Linggou", which means eating new valleys and interacting with young men and women. It is held on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month every year. Every household kills chickens and ducks, makes tofu, steamed new rice for ancestor worship, and gives meals to cats and dogs to show that they don't forget to keep the house and catch mice. After dinner, young men and women dressed in new clothes gathered on the terrace next to the village and held a tumbling activity. Men and women tease and play with each other. You step on my foot and I'll hit you on the back. Old people and children also came to watch the entertainment, full of laughter. According to the custom, the man pats the woman's back first, indicating that the man takes a fancy to the woman first; If the woman hits the man on the back first, it means that the woman is in love with the man; If two people both hit each other, it means they love each other. So they chased each other out of the stadium, went to the village to sing, blow the leaves, tell each other about their love, send each other affection when they left, and confirm their love relationship.
Taste new festivals, traditional folk festivals of Zhuang nationality. It is held every year when the new valley is mature in July and August of the lunar calendar. Generally, every household has lived alone, and will invite nearby relatives and friends to get together. On that day, every household cooked rice with new rice, slaughtered chickens and ducks to prepare pork, and offered sacrifices to ancestors and various gods in return for their protection and harvest. Early in the morning, women went to the fields to cut green rice leaves, offer them to shrines, offer food and fruits, and then burn incense and light oil lamps. Everything is ready, call the dog to the shrine, scoop up a spoonful of new rice and feed it with various dishes. After the dog is full, the whole family will sit around and eat. Legend has it that the earliest grain seeds were brought by dogs. In order to thank the dogs for their contribution, we must eat the new year's goods first.
Tiaolingtou Festival is a traditional festival custom of Zhuang and Han nationalities in Qinzhou, southwest Guangxi. Also known as "Tiaolingtou". Most of them are held within ten days before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and some places are in March or October of the lunar calendar. It is a local festival second only to the Spring Festival. It is named because its activities are mostly held at the edge of the village. At that time, all villages will use up their ponds to fish, and every family will slaughter ducks and hold a feast to worship their ancestors and gods. At the same time, the "Lingtou Team" (Shigong) was invited to perform a dance festival on the ridge near the village. The teacher wears a mask and performs "throwing" (dancing) and "singing" (singing and dancing); In some places, there are also martial arts and "fighting" (folk magic) performances. The performance procedures include altar, praying to God, forbidding, singing and dancing, etc. Drum music accompanied the song and dance. It is recorded in the Annals of Qinzhou during the Qing Dynasty. Today, it has evolved from the initial religious ceremony to folk entertainment.
In the prime of life, the New Year of Zhuang nationality is one month earlier than the Spring Festival. Every year on the 29th or 30th of the lunar calendar 1 1 month, every household in Zhuang village slaughters pigs and sheep, worships their ancestors, worships the community in the village and welcomes the new year. From the first day of1February, large-scale group visits are held between villages, and relatives will hold banquets to entertain themselves with songs; Young men and women carry out social activities, and young men go to villages in droves to "pick up girls" and choose spouses for songs. These activities lasted until around1February 7. As for the origin of prime of life, it is said that the gregarious king is an orphan. He grew up begging in Zhuang village, and his strength is endless, and he can do everything except evil. Later, the evil spirits worshipped, the Zhuang people suffered, and the people fled everywhere. The king of the country did not forget the kindness of the strong men's upbringing, exorcised evil spirits, protected the fields and villages, and made the strong men return to their homes to live and work in peace and contentment. When people celebrate the harvest, the social king lives in a shed under a big tree next to the village. No, it's November 30th. Later, in order to commemorate the social king, people took the beginning of December as the opening day and built the social king shed on the spot to pray for blessing.
Surname Festival is a traditional festival of Dong people. Popular in Longsheng, Sanjiang and other places. Shi, Luo and other surnames celebrate the "Happy Festival", and the first festival was not celebrated after beginning of autumn. Some stone surnames celebrate ancestor worship on 10/2. Hu and Wu share the same surname "Festival", which is the first festival after autumn. Wu celebrates the "Double Duck Festival" on the sixth day of June or the "Social Festival" in August. The Chen family originally celebrated the "General Examination Festival" on the morning of New Year's Eve (that is, the opening of the jar festival). Later, because it was difficult to invite distinguished guests on New Year's Eve, it was changed to "Mid-Autumn Festival" on July 14. Most of these festivals put coarse rice, light vegetables or frozen vegetables on banana leaves before dawn to commemorate the hard life of ancestors who fled under national oppression. Don't invite relatives and friends to your home until morning or noon. Since the 1940s, the activities of ancestor worship at dawn have faded, and the custom of treating guests during the day is still prevalent.
See dong for one year in the winter festival.
Fireworks Festival is a traditional festival of Dong, Zhuang and Mulao nationalities. Popular in Sanjiang, Longsheng and Hunan passages in Guangxi. Different places have different festivals, including the third day of the first month, the fifteenth day of the first month, the second day of February, the fifteenth day of February and the third day of March. The Fulu Fireworks Festival in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is the most lively. The main activity is to set off fireworks in villages. Fireworks are small iron rings wrapped in red cloth (or red silk), placed on the top of iron cannons, and then lit and set off. Fireworks landed, and the scheduled personnel struggled for it, and the fireworks were sent to the designated place. Grabbing fireworks means that Geely is happy, and can get rewards such as pigs, sheep, red eggs, wine and mirrors. Fireworks are divided into two cannons, two cannons and three cannons, and some places have four or five cannons. Fireworks snatching is limited to men, and teams are often formed in units of one family and one village, or teams can be formed freely across villages. Fireworks grabbing was originally a folk religious ritual custom, but now it has developed into a mass cultural and sports activity, and has been included in the national traditional sports competition for ethnic minorities.
Slope Walking Festival is a traditional social festival for Mulao youth. Also known as slope festival, slope meeting and epigenetic festival. It is usually held during the Spring Festival and around the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the festival, young men and women dress up and come to the reserved caves or hillsides in groups of three or five to sing folk songs, make friends and find lovers. When we meet for the first time, we will sing Meet Song. When we say goodbye, we will give each other small gifts such as towels and shoes. Seeing Song twice, they called each other "double"; When we met for the third time, we renamed this song "Lao". Through many duets, feelings are growing day by day, and many young people get married, fall in love and have sex in the same year. Modern hiking has increased activities such as ball games and chess.
See you on the slope.
The traditional festival festival of Shui nationality. The language of water is called "borrowing". This festival was originally celebrated together on a unified day. However, due to the large number of people and scattered residence, in order to facilitate communication, they celebrate each other during the festival, which is scheduled to be celebrated in stages from December of the lunar calendar to February of the following year (August to October of the lunar calendar). People who live in longhouses are used to spending their time first and then at night. Avoid sunny holidays and take rain as auspicious. The omen is that the weather will be fine and the grain will be abundant. At present, the Shui people in Guangxi do not spend the Spring Festival alone, but with the local Zhuang and Han people.
Traditional festivals of Mao Jie Nandan and Hechi Shui people. Also known as the borrowing base. Every year after the busy summer harvest sown in summer, people choose a date to celebrate the harvest. Young men and women rushed to Maopo to find their beloved partners to sing and pour out their love.
Traditional festivals of Yi people in Napo county. Yi language is called "thatched cottage window", which means the beginning of the festival. It is held on the eighth and ninth days of the first month of each year. Activities include: gathering people to worship ancestors; Leading figures who occupy major festivals, songs and dances and national festivals of the year; Raise funds for various festivals in that year.
Singing Ha Festival is a traditional festival of the Jing people. According to legend, during the Chen Dynasty in Vietnam, Vietnamese singers came to the Jing area in the name of teaching songs and dances, and mobilized the Jing people to resist the dark rule of the Chen Dynasty, which was admired by the Jing people. Later generations built "hate" and set up shrines, often singing. The annual "Singing Ha" has become a traditional festival of the Jing people. Singing Ha Festival is held in hatred, including welcoming God, offering sacrifices to God, singing Ha at the table, sending God away, etc. This is a folk religious activity.
Forest Protection Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people. Also known as taboo festival. Spread in Longlin and Napo counties in some Yi areas. It is held on March 3rd and May 16th of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, the Yi people relied on mountains to eat, forming the concept that flowers and trees have spirits. Every spring and summer, when plants and crops germinate, they choose a day to worship the ghosts of plants and crops to protect them from thriving. The Yi people in Napo County also organized symbolic "hunting" activities during the festival. Several young men dressed as hunters, hounds and hunting animals played and hunted in the forest. From the day of the festival, musical instruments such as bronze drums, Hulusheng and Hu Yi were sealed, and the annual taboo period was announced until the tenth day of October.
Bow jumping festival is a traditional festival of Yi people in Napo County. Also known as jumping public sacrifice. Yi language is called Kaqi, Kongzi and Cao Qi. It is held every year in the middle of April in the lunar calendar. The exact time varies from village to village. According to legend, the ancestors of the ancient Yi people left the village to resist the enemy, and returned home successfully from early April to mid-April. People hold banquets, sing and dance to celebrate according to custom. This activity began in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are big jumps and small jumps. In 9 years, 1 jump was held, each lasting 6-9 days. 1 Small jumps are held for three and a half days every year. People sang and danced around the golden bamboo silk, and the neighboring villagers came to watch and congratulate. There is a temporary market transaction outside the venue.
Wang Pan Festival is a traditional festival for Yao people to commemorate their ancestors. Also known as "king of the plate", "king of the plate", "king willing to make a counter-offer" and "willing to return to the ancestors" Festivals vary from place to place. It is usually held after the autumn harvest. On August 20th, the national symposium of Yao representatives held in Nanning decided October 16th of the lunar calendar as the festival. According to legend, Pan Hu defeated Gao Wang for Wang Ping, married three princesses in Wang Ping, named Wang Pan, and gave birth to six men and six women. Houpan Wang went hunting in the mountains and was knocked down by an antelope and died. Later generations cut down the wood to make drums, covered it with antelope skin and beat drums to celebrate. Because it is carried out after the autumn harvest, it is of great significance to celebrate the harvest.
Danu Festival is a traditional festival for Yao people who call themselves Bunu in Mashan, Du 'an, Bama, Pingguo and Long 'an. Also known as Erjiu Festival, Zunniang Festival, Zhuzhu Festival and Yao Year. Danu, Yao means old loving mother. It is said that May 29th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Milotuo, the mother of Yao nationality. Later generations set this day as their birthday out of worship. On that day, every household slaughtered pigs and sheep, entertained guests and held cultural activities such as bronze drum dance, fighting thrush, bow and arrow race and horse racing. After historical changes, Danu Festival has gradually changed from a folk religious festival to a harvest festival and a peaceful festival.
Traditional Yao festivals such as Fuchuan Bird Festival. Also known as bird worship festival, bird catching meeting and bird recruiting festival. On the first day of the second lunar month, every household makes dumplings and glutinous rice cakes, hangs them on trees to feed birds, burns incense and prays, hoping that there will be no insect pests in the fields, good weather and good harvests. The Bird Festival also added activities such as bird trading and singing by young men and women.
Miao traditional festivals in Qiandongnan dialect area in Miao Year. The Miao language is Nulun. It started in Duliujiang River Basin and went from north to south through Rongshui Danian, Gongdong, Gandong, Dongtou, Flood and Baiyun to Antai, An Chuan, Xiangfen and Sirong, which lasted for more than three months. Years ago, everyone cleaned the house, trimmed the village roads, killed pigs, made rice cakes and prepared to welcome guests. On New Year's Eve, young people and old people celebrate the New Year together. After the fourth watch, the girls grabbed fresh water and picked gold and silver. The boys went up the hill to drive the cattle and sheep into the pen. I wish the coming year a bumper harvest of grain and prosperity of six livestock. On the first day of this month, the dragon god will drive away ghosts and evil spirits. On the second day of the second year, I sent a New Year's Eve dinner to my married daughter. After the third grade, I went to Lushengpo and played Lusheng in the village. The whole village visited his village for three days. During the festival, there are three major slope festivals, namely, Thirteen Slope, Sixteen Slope and Seventeen Slope, and countless township slope festivals. In addition to the Lusheng competition in blowing sheng, there are activities such as bird shooting, bullfighting, duet, wrestling and shotgun shooting. Young men and women travel freely, make friends with songs, express their feelings with flutes and find ideal partners. Until the end of New Year's Eve.
The country festival is a traditional festival for Miao people to worship the land gods and ancestors. Spring Club and Autumn Club are held on the fifth day after beginning of spring and beginning of autumn. Spring will receive God, autumn will send God, and there will be peace in the temple. The pigs sacrificed in social festivals were decided by lottery the year before. People who need to worship the land god are not allowed to participate in weddings and funerals within 30 ~ 40 days before the National Day, and men and women who are pregnant are forbidden to participate. Before the festival, each family handed in a catty of glutinous rice to make steamed rice. In the morning, teachers go door to door to ask for blessings. After breakfast, everyone gathered in Ping She Heshe Temple to kill pigs, steam rice, burn incense and paper, worship the gods of the society, and pray for good weather, abundant crops and prosperous livestock. After the sacrifice, have fun with the land god. Avoid hanging clothes, working in the fields, burning fires in the mountains, picking Chai Jin Village, etc.
On April 8, Miao people respect cows. Legend has it that the eighth day of April is the cow's birthday. It was a day when people couldn't get down to the ground and cows didn't pull plows. They collected black rice leaves and maple leaves from the mountains, mashed them with stone mortar, soaked rice in filter juice and steamed them into black glutinous rice, and slaughtered chickens and ducks to wish cattle a "long life". Black rice is a folk prescription of Miao nationality, which has the effects of strengthening tendons and protecting bones and benefiting essence and qi. Miao people worship cattle with black rice, which reflects the special role of cattle in farming society.
Lusheng Festival is a traditional Miao festival, which is popular in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County. Also known as Lushengpo Festival. There are three types: village Lusheng slope, domain Lusheng slope and county Lusheng slope. Each slope has a fixed slope owner. During the slope festival, the slope owner led men, women and children to the scene with Lusheng gongs and drums, and the ceremony of entering the slope was presided over by the founder or heir of Lushengpo. In the morning, the owner brought wine, pig's head and pig's tail (meaning whole pig), chicken, glutinous rice, incense, hairy grass and so on. Sacrifice on the slope. At noon, he led the Lusheng team in the village to enter the slope field first, and the Lusheng team turned around the Lusheng column three times before offering sacrifices. After the ceremony, everyone raised their glasses, shouted Geely and announced the opening of the slope. Lusheng Festival includes stepping on the hall, playing Lusheng, playing Lusheng, Touma, horse racing, bullfighting, bird shooting, duet, wrestling, shotgun shooting, mugwort performance and commodity exchange. This is a grand gathering of entertainment and business. The number ranged from several thousand to tens of thousands, with Miao, Dong, Zhuang, Yao and Han people participating. Generally, the festival lasts for two days, the first day is to enter the slope and the second day is to close the slope. If the weather is fine, it will last for three to five days.
Douma Festival, a traditional Miao festival, is located in the northwest mountainous area of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County. The local Miao people have the custom of playing with Touma. According to legend, 500 years ago, Miao girls liked to marry brave Touma experts. When boys fell in love with the same girl, Wang Miao organized a horse race to decide the girl's ownership. Later, Touma gradually evolved into a major event in grand festivals.
1987 The People's Government of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County designated the county celebration day-165438+1October 26th as the Miao Horse Fighting Festival. There are two festivals: horse fighting and horse racing, and the first, second and third place are finally awarded. During the festival, traditional cultural activities will be held.
Drum Festival is a traditional festival of Miao nationality. The Miao language is called Niu. The ceremony is held every 13 years, and the drum length is more than 4 meters; The music festival is held every three years and plays drums with a length of 1.7 meters. The festival lasts for 3 days. The drum is hollowed out with large paulownia wood according to its size, and both ends are sealed with cowhide. There are two air holes on the drum. Festival activities are divided into drum hoop, drum singing, drum pulling and drum burial stages. It's time for close relatives to "eat drums" and spend the holidays together; The host shared pork, slaughtered chickens and ducks, and entertained them warmly. The whole village was immersed in joy. The purpose of the drum festival is to offer sacrifices to ancestors, pray for good weather and prosperity of the village, and combine sacrifice with entertainment.
Traditional festivals during the Dong nationality's reign. Dong language, also known as winter festival or Yang festival. The Winter Festival was originally a festival for Dong people surnamed Yang. Yang Festival was originally considered as the Dong Year in some areas of Liping, Rongjiang and congjiang county, Guizhou Province (every year 1 1 month 19 to 22). Later, more and more people followed each other's example and celebrated the Year of Dong. In the early 1980s, representatives of Dong people all over the country unanimously agreed to designate the lunar calendar 1 1 month 1 day as the Year of Dong people. On that day, Dong Jiazhun, surnamed Yang, prepared all kinds of pickles, frozen fish and rice cakes for their relatives and friends, which was called "eating Yang cakes". On the first day of the lunar new year, the other party should return it in full, which is called "returning Huayang". Generally speaking, during the Dong New Year, people will slaughter chickens and ducks to entertain relatives and friends.