What are the folk customs in Guilin?

Ziyu River Lanterns and Songs Festival in the Half of July

Ziyu County River Lanterns and Songs Festival in the Half of July in the Lunar Calendar (July 13th to 15th) has a long history and is a local folk festival. An annual national customs and traditional festival. Every July and a half, people sing songs and light up lanterns to commemorate their ancestors and ward off disasters. People spontaneously carry lanterns and float them along the river. The lights are brilliant at night, forming a spectacular scene of "ten thousand river lanterns floating on the Zijiang River". During the festival, there is a dazzling array of local specialties and folk snacks, economic and trade negotiations, various situations, and simple folk sports and entertainment activities such as bamboo pole dancing, lion dancing, dragon dancing, elephant tug-of-war, cockfighting, sheep fighting, sheep and bird fighting. Visiting Ziyuan County in July and a half can fully appreciate the local people's sentiments in the mountainous areas of northern Guangxi.

Longsheng Red Clothes Festival

Longsheng County is a multi-ethnic autonomous county, and the Hongyao people are a branch of the Longsheng Yao people. Hongyao women like to wear red clothes that they knit, so they are called Hongyao. Every year on the 15th day of the third month or the eighth day of April in the lunar calendar, it is the meeting period for the Hongyao people in Sishui Township, and it is also known as the annual Red Clothes Festival for the Hongyao people.

Folk Antiphons

Yangshuo is home to 11 ethnic groups, including the Han, Zhuang, Yao and Miao. In addition to their own customs and festivals, each ethnic group has the same characteristics. He is good at folk songs. Regardless of weddings, funerals, or New Years and festivals, the singing stage is always set up to compete with each other, and they still refuse to leave until the whole night. Some of these folk songs talk about love, some talk about life and death, advocating loyalty and filial piety, and some talk about ancient and modern narratives. There are as few as three or five singers, and as many as dozens of singers. The singing can be passionate, high-pitched, melodious, or deep and euphemistic, as if weeping or complaining; The antiphonal singing and welfare Longwei Yao people's "Wish in the Song Hall" will be the most distinctive.

Welfare May 8th Festival

A traditional welfare folk festival in Yangshuo County. Around the eighth day of May in the Chinese lunar calendar every year, folk literature, arts, sports and other activities are held by non-governmental organizations in Welfare Town. Sacrificial activities.