Customs of Ziyuan County in Guilin

The 13th to 14th day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival for people of all ethnic groups in Ziyuan County, which is 0/07km away from Guilin/KLOC.

Whenever festivals come, Han, Yao and Miao compatriots commemorate their ancestors with traditional customs with strong folk customs.

During the festival, they will hold a grand * * *, and the lion dance team, dragon dance team, river lantern team and cultural performance team from all towns and villages will gather in the urban area to show their skills.

When dusk falls, people light all kinds of river lanterns made by themselves and put them into the river to go with the flow, so as to send a newspaper to remember their ancestors and pray for future generations.

Flowing river lanterns, its scenery is spectacular, colorful and brilliant.

After enjoying the lanterns, there will be all-night cultural performances and folk song competitions.

The next day, the crowds all over the street crowded in the urban-rural material exchange market.

People flow, logistics, lights and songs make this small mountain city boil, and it is a peaceful and prosperous scene.

Han, Miao, Yao and other ethnic groups live together in the territory. Folk customs are simple, honest, hardworking and frugal. They respect etiquette and justice, live in harmony, have close contacts, have similar customs and have their own characteristics. Every Mid-Autumn Festival (the 14th day of the seventh lunar month), people of all ethnic groups burn incense and paper money to commemorate their ancestors. They have the same desire but different ways.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, river lanterns are very popular in the big pier of the county town, which is used to worship gods and ancestors. There are many kinds of lanterns, such as birds and animals, flowers and birds, fish and insects, the blessing of lotus, the longevity of turtles and cranes, auspicious dragons and phoenixes, burning candles on forest toes and so on. In the meantime, the river is colorful and colorful.

The crowd cheered each other, * * * praying for the ancestors' blessing, peace in the world, peace in the country and the people, good fortune and good weather, and prosperous population.

Foreign businessmen also rushed to put in river lanterns for good luck.

The Wupaishan area is inhabited by Miao and Yao. According to legend, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the day when Miao ancestors settled in the Five Elements. In order to remember the merits and demerits of our ancestors, a song concert is held every July and a half. Men, women and children are singing to each other on the bridge pavilion and river bank, and the songs are melodious. For three days and nights in a row, they missed their ancestors, told the world, expressed their love and praised the beautiful life.

With the frequent exchange of national cultures in Ziyuan County, the customs and habits of Miao, Yao and Han nationalities have merged with each other, combined with each other and brought out the best in each other, forming the grand festival of "July and a half" River Lantern Festival in this county.

Since 1995, Resource County Committee * * * has guided organizations, making folk traditional festivals a tourism brand of resources and an important medium for promoting crops and serving resource economy. So far, it has been successfully held for six times, attracting thousands of domestic and foreign tourists.

During the grand event, people of all ethnic groups gathered in the county for sightseeing. The banks of Zijiang River were surrounded by songs for three days and nights. The whole county is imprisoned in the ocean of songs. Watching the river lanterns on a moonlit night and enjoying the wonder of the world, "Ten thousand river lanterns floating in the Zijiang River", is even more grand.

Inviting celebrities to perform on stage in the past two years has injected new vitality into the art festival.