Folk customs and holiday customs in Hunan?

Folk customs in Hunan include the Yao Bird Festival in Yongzhou, the Black God Festival in Zhangjiajie, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Dongxiang, Hunan, and the April 8th Girls' Day in Shaoyang, Hunan.

Yongzhou, Hunan: Bird Festival of Yao Nationality

Time: the first day of the second lunar month

Yongzhou, formerly known as Lingling, is a famous historical and cultural city in Hunan Province. Similarly, Yongzhou is an area where Yao people live in compact communities. In Jiangyong area of Yongzhou, there have always been traditional folk customs such as Lusheng Festival and Panwang Festival, and there are also "Bird Worship Festival" that you may not be familiar with.

Every year on the first day of the second lunar month, the people of the Yao nationality in Jianghua put on their national holiday costumes and go to the "Bird Festival" happily. The traditional bird club is rich in content, diverse in forms and full of peculiar charm. Generally, there are two activities: bird-watching and singing.

"Biniao", in popular terms, is similar to "Cockfighting" performance. When two birds fight each other, they become braver and braver, and the winner gets constant cheers, which is quite interesting. "Singing Birds" is about a singing performance with the theme of birds. In the activity, men and women sing Yao songs to each other and attract each other to be infected by it. It is also similar to a blind date meeting, which takes birds as the reason and songs as coal to seek marriage.

2. Zhangjiajie, Hunan: "Black God Festival"

Time: July 21st of the lunar calendar

In Xiangxi, the Black God Festival in Zhangjiajie is also quite mysterious. Wulingyuan area, every year on the 21st day of the seventh lunar month, is the annual Black God Festival. In the festival, men, women and children all wear festive costumes and rush to Zhonghu Township at the foot of Longfeng Anpo in Zhangjiajie for the festival.

3. Dongxiang, Hunan: "Stealing Moon Cuisine" on Mid-Autumn Night

Time: August 15th

Xinhuang is located in the Dong Autonomous County in the western border of Hunan, where an ancient custom of "Stealing Moon Cuisine" is popular on Mid-Autumn Night. According to the legend of Dongxiang people, on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the fairy in the Moon Palace will sprinkle nectar on the earth, which represents selflessness, so people can enjoy the delicious fruits and vegetables together on this night.

The single girl of Dong family took advantage of this opportunity to find someone else's garden in her heart with a flower umbrella on the night of full moon to "steal food", and deliberately shouted to let the other person know, so as to convey her feelings.

People with different identities steal different dishes. A single girl steals beans that grow in pairs, which means to reap love. Sisters-in-law steal fat melons or green edamame, which symbolizes fat boy here. Young men will steal, too, hoping the fairy will give them happiness. The interesting "stealing moon dishes" adds infinite joy and magic to the Mid-Autumn Festival night in Dongzhai.

4. Shaoyang, Hunan: The whole city celebrates April 8th

Time: April 8th

The Miao Family Girls' Day is like the Western Valentine's Day on February 14th, and the Valentine's Day in China on Qixi, which is their "confession day" for Miao young men and women, but they are relatively more grand and celebrated in the whole city.

In addition to eating black rice, Miao people also celebrate Girls' Day by drinking burnt rice wine and singing big songs. During the day, they would exchange love songs and confide in each other in the tea shed in a secluded place in the forest. This chorus form of folk songs is called "Song".

everyone in Miao village can sing since childhood. Singing at weddings, entertaining guests, eating and drinking, even drinking tea and carrying water, has been integrated into the daily life of Miao people in our county. April 8th Girls' Day in 28 has been approved as a national intangible cultural heritage.