"Eating New Festival" celebrates a bumper harvest
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August 19, the 13th day of the seventh lunar month, is the day when Miao compatriots in Dabai Village, Guzhou Town, Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province celebrate the "New Eating Festival". The "New Eating Festival", also known as the "New Harvest Festival", is an important festival for Miao compatriots to celebrate a bumper harvest. It is also a festival for unmarried young men and women to take the opportunity to find a suitable person. On this day, Miao compatriots gathered together to sing and dance at night during the day, and to carry out activities such as paying homage to ancestors, bullfighting, and bird fighting. The lively scene was no less than the Year of the Miao Dynasty.