The customs and customs of Boshan Town

The "Rape Flower Cup" Dragon Boat Race in Boshang Town is to fully implement the Western Development Strategy proposed by the Party Central Committee and the overall plan of the Lincang County Party Committee and Government to build "ecologically advantageous counties and border counties with cultural characteristics" The idea is to take development as the theme, market as the guide, and benefit as the center, promote Boshang, develop Boshang, promote the construction of small towns, and promote the sustainable development of the town's economy. The Boshang Town Party Committee and the government organized successively from 2002 to 2004 It has hosted three "Rape Flower Cup" dragon boat races, and also hosted a dragon boat race at the Boshan branch of the "Lincang Wa Culture and Art Festival". Every dragon boat race is carefully planned, deployed and arranged by the town party committee and government, and organized carefully. The town government, from leaders to general staff, all mobilized, and everyone was a waiter. Everyone worked together and were loyal to their duties, and exchanged hard work and sweat for the complete success of the dragon boat race. Every year, 30,000 to 40,000 people come to visit and do business, with hundreds of large and small cars, and not a single accident occurs. It set a precedent for a township to organize a large-scale event and achieve a complete success.

In terms of events, the dragon boat races include 400 meters, 800 meters, and 2,000 meters. A basketball game will also be arranged for the first session. Each village committee, town agency, and county-level unit (County No. 2 Middle School) will form a participating team, and the winners will be awarded certificates and bonuses.

Business activities include investment promotion meetings, material exchange meetings and a "food street".

Travel and sightseeing, printing and drawing promotional materials introducing tourist routes and scenic spots, arranging guides, organizing vehicles and yachts, allowing tourists to take a boat tour of the reservoir scenery, viewing thousands of acres of rapeseed flowers, Guanyin Hall, street buildings, Dai It provides convenience to the Buddhist pagoda, airport and scenic spots such as Menghu Camp and Xiaodaohe Forest Farm.

In terms of culture, we have arranged special theatrical performances (we have invited the Yunnan Lancang Beer Group Art Troupe, the Lincang Tea Culture Style Garden Art Troupe and well-known singers in the county to perform), organized bonfire parties to sing songs, and organized calligraphy and painting exhibition and photography exhibition.

During the "Rape Flower Cup" dragon boat race, Boshang was vigorously promoted through a variety of economic, sports, literature, tourism and other activities, showing the tremendous changes in Boshang Town and various aspects since the reform and opening up. The spirit of the ethnic people has been demonstrated, and the rich cultural characteristics of the local area have been demonstrated. Each dragon boat race has boosted business and tourism funds of nearly one million yuan, and has achieved the expected results.

Festivals of the Dai and Lahu people

In addition to celebrating traditional festivals with the Han people, the Lahu people in the town also have the Horse Day Dragon Festival Festival in February, and also pay attention to the "Eighth Festival of February" and "Torch Festival on June 24th".

The dragon sacrifice is held in the dragon forest and under the dragon tree, hosted by the dragon head. The whole village must participate. Starting from the first horse day, prepare the necessary wine and meat. On the second horse day, dragon sacrifice is officially held. Dragons are divided into male and female. Demarcate boundaries in the village to honor male and female. The male dragon sacrifices pigs, and the female dragon sacrifices chickens. The male dragon sacrifices the boar, and the female dragon sacrifices the hen. The male dragon sacrifices the sow, and the female dragon sacrifices the rooster. After the sacrifice, everyone in the village shared it.

The Dai people in the town celebrate the Dai New Year, which is held ten days after the Qingming Festival for the Han people. Historically, it was called "flower arrangement" or "flower picking". Han people often say: "Lao Pai arranges flowers" to celebrate the festival. The name "Water Splashing Festival" has no historical records in the town. This name came after 1980, when it was moved from a Dai settlement in another county.

The period from July 15th to October 15th in the ancient calendar is the Close-Door Festival, and Buddha and monks are not allowed to go out to eat or sleep. The Dai people took turns cooking and serving them. Elderly people over 50 years old go to Myanmar Temple to listen to scriptures.

The fifteenth day of August is called the Lantern Festival, and more than a thousand small lanterns are installed in the Myanmar temple. Each household takes turns lighting lamps and spending the night. The next morning, I lit a torch and returned home.

The Steamed Bun Festival is held on September 30th. Every household goes to the fields to call for spirits, brings back ears of grain and puts them on rice heads, and then goes to the temple to drip water.

On the 7th to 15th day of the lunar month in winter, a flagpole is planted, with more than four feet of trees or two bamboos, two feet of white cloth hung, and lanterns hung. Elderly women go to the Burmese Temple to light lanterns at night. It is intended to commemorate the death of Sakyamuni's mother.

Half Moon Festival

Boshan people commonly call it "picking up the ancestors", which means "picking up and sending off" in the first and middle of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. There is no test on when this festival was established. According to legend, here, the underworld has a holiday, and the souls of the dead can go home and visit. There are two ways to do this festival. First, the elderly in the family who have died of illness less than a year ago are commonly called "newly deceased". Usually on the first day of the seventh lunar month, tea and wine are served on the plate, rice is served outside the door, and a mantra is chanted to take the ancestors home. Set up a table at the side of the main hall of your home, place flowers and fruits on the table, and light candles. The tea and rice are sacrificed on the table for a while before people eat them, and then they eat. Don't give it away until fourteen or fifteen. Most people pick them up on the morning of July 14th and drop them off after dinner or the next evening. When it is presented, a table of vegetables and rice should be set up in the courtyard. After the presentation, people can eat. After the meal, paper money and incense are burned outside the door, a few dishes are taken, a few fruits are smashed and thrown outside the door, meaning that the ghosts can take them away. This section was passed down from generation to generation.