What are the traditional festivals of Miao nationality?

The traditional festival of Miao nationality is Dragon Boat Festival.

This is a traditional festival for Miao people to row boats on the water. It is popular on both sides of Qingshui River at the junction of Taijiang and Shibing counties in Guizhou, and on both sides of Bala River in Taijiang, which flows into this river. The Miao language in eastern Guizhou is called "Hayangyong". There are sixty or seventy Miao villages, such as Pingzhai and Liaodong, each of which has one or two dragon boats for rowing competitions.

Every year, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, or from the 24th to 27th, Miao people living on both sides of the strait hold grand dragon boat races in turn. Dragon boat races are also popular in Fenghuang, Luxi, Jishou, Baojing and Huayuan in Xiangxi, Hunan Province, which are divided into men's teams, women's teams and mixed teams. The scene is very lively.

Although the Dragon Boat Festival of Miao nationality is a festival with dragon boat race as the main content, it is also a festival for ethnic culture and entertainment, social interaction between young men and women, visiting relatives and friends of middle-aged and elderly people, talking about the year and production experience.

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There are also some festivals around the Miao nationality. For example, "Looking at the Dragon Field" and "Cherry Blossom Club" in Xiangxi, Hunan; "Spring Festival" in Chengbu, Hunan on March 3, and "Broken Valley Festival" before frost in early September; "Jingqiao" in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, "Eating Sisters' Meal" Festival in Taijiang and Shibing on March 15, and "Climbing Xianglu Mountain" held in Kaili on June 19. Eight kinds of cotton in the first day of April in Congjiang lunar calendar; Guiyang Huaxi's "rice field in July" and so on.

Some are commemorative, some are parties for young men and women, and some are prayers. In addition, in Fenghuang, Xiangxi, every year on the sixth day of June, men, women and children wear colorful clothes and gather in a concert hall, or play suona, or play flower drums, or sing Miao songs. Singing and dancing in memory of our ancestors. In addition, I have been to Tomb-Sweeping Day, and I have a tradition of sweeping graves and being humble.