Enshi Miao people have the custom of eating Yuanxiao and dress up on that day.

The customs and eating methods of Enshi Miao Lantern Festival are as follows:

1, shepherd dog

"Catching dogs" is a religious ceremony for Tujia people to eliminate disasters and exorcise evil spirits and pray for peace. The shouts of people when "driving the dog" and the explosion when the dog shed burns are spectacular.

Step 2 be careful with the lights

During the Yongping period of Emperor Hanming (58-75 AD), in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in palaces and monasteries on the 15th night of the first month. Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the fifteenth night of the first month, with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture, gradually spread in China.

3. Stay away from all diseases

Besides celebrating the Lantern Festival, there are also religious activities. That is to say, most of the participants in "walking all diseases", also known as "baking all diseases" and "eliminating all diseases" are women. They walk together or against the wall, or cross the bridge through the suburbs, with the aim of driving away diseases and eliminating disasters.

Step 4 eat yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, osmanthus fragrans, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian with different flavors.

The costumes of Enshi Miao people for the Lantern Festival are as follows:

Miao children's clothes are generally similar, with a front cover and a groove at the back, and they like to wear dog ear caps, cat ear caps and hoods.

The most representative in Xuanen County is Miao women's dress. Xuanen Miao women's dress is more exquisite, with a collarless top (later changed to short collar) and full sleeves. Embroidered or inlaid with two or three lace railings from the neck, sleeve head and four sides. Miao women like to wear silver ornaments. The newlyweds have all kinds of silver flowers on their heads. Although it is not a rockhopper, there are also white flowers flashing.