The origin of McDull Festival

Ma Guai Festival of Zhuang nationality is mainly popular in Hongshui River basin in northwest Guangxi. Because Zhuang people call frogs "horses", they are also called "Frog Women's Festival" and "Frog Festival".

Zhuang legend says that the frog goddess is in charge of wind and rain, and the frog is called grasshopper. Zhuang villages along the Hongshui River offer sacrifices to grasshoppers, praying for good weather every year, bumper harvests every year and prosperous people and animals in all seasons.

"Mahuai" is a common name for frogs by local Zhuang compatriots. Ma Huai Festival of Zhuang nationality is mainly popular in Hongshui River basin in the northwest of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Donglan is the core area of Ma Huai Festival. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, Zhuang villagers along the Hongshui River will wear national costumes to celebrate the "Ma Huai Festival". By worshipping frogs, they pray for good weather, abundant crops and prosperous people. In 2006, the "Ma Huai Festival" of Zhuang nationality was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list and became the business card of local folk tourism.