Jingpo Folk Festival

1. Munao Zongge Festival

The Munao Zongge Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Jingpo people. Tens of thousands of people dance to the same drum. It is large-scale and shocking. It is a national carnival in western China and is known as the "Dance of Heaven" and the "Carnival Dance of Ten Thousand People".

As long as there is a venue, people all over the world can perform Munao Zongge together. It is the most spectacular collective song and dance in the world. The Munao Zongge Festival is the grandest and most solemn national festival of the Jingpo people. With the development of the times, Munao Zongge Festival has become a folk festival for Jingpo people to celebrate the harvest with singing and dancing entertainment.

2. Nengxian Festival

Nengxian Festival: It is a festival where young men and women of the Jingpo ethnic group mainly gather, sing and dance. It is usually held on the 10th day of the second lunar month every year. During the festival, young men and women dress up in festive costumes and wear various decorations, and gather together to compete in folk songs, shooting, slingshot shooting, knife dancing and other competitions.

3. New Rice Festival

New Rice Festival: On the seventh to eighth day of the lunar calendar every year, there are two "New Rice Festivals". In July, the early rice begins to mature and the first "New Rice Festival" is celebrated. It is called "Peng'ao" or "Bo'ao" ??in Wa language.

In August, a large amount of rice matures, and the "New Rice Festival" is celebrated for the second time. It is also called "eating new rice", and in Wa language it is called "Pengting" or "Aowa". On the day of the "New Rice Festival", the host gets up early to prepare chickens, pigs, and beef for the festival, and then carries a basket on his back to the rice field to pick new rice. Extended information

The 2018 China Dehong Jingpo International Munao Song Festival opened on March 2

On March 2, 2018, the 2018 China Dehong Jingpo International Munao The Zongge Festival opened in Mangshi, Dehong, Yunnan Province. Guests and friends from home and abroad and the Jingpo people celebrated the event.

Relevant leaders of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and the State Forestry Administration, delegations from various provinces and neighboring states and cities within the province, and international representatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, etc. Friends, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, overseas Chinese, film and television photography experts, Jingpo cultural scholars and famous artistic figures from all over the world participated in this event.

This Munao Zongge Festival, with the theme of "Openness, Cooperation, Unity and Development", is an important measure to promote the excellent traditional national culture. It is also a comprehensive display of Dehong's political, economic, and political development since the reform and opening up. It is a grand event that demonstrates the achievements of cultural, social and ecological civilization construction and demonstrates national unity.

Through this Munao Song Festival, Dehong Prefecture will comprehensively display the folk culture, folk literature and art, costume culture and food culture of various ethnic minorities, especially the Jingpo people.

The Munao Zongge Festival has a long history and profound cultural heritage. It is the grandest and most solemn traditional festival of the Jingpo people. It is a national intangible cultural heritage and a great unity and great event for the people of all ethnic groups in Dehong Prefecture. The grand party is known as the "dance of thousands of people".

After long-term inheritance and innovative development, the Munao Zongge Festival has achieved fruitful results and successfully set multiple Guinness World Records. It has become an important event for inheriting excellent traditional national culture, building a tourism culture brand, and enhancing national unity. International exchange activities to promote foreign exchanges and cooperation.

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