Yugur festivals

The main festivals of the Yugur people include the Spring Festival, the Geerhan Sacrifice and the Lamaist religious festivals. The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Yugur people. Before the festival, there are also activities to worship ancestors and keep the New Year. During the festival, butter flowers are made, hada and gifts are given to each other to show blessings. The Geerhan sacrifice site is held twice every year in spring and autumn. Religious festivals have regular meetings in the first month, February, April, June, September or October every year. In addition, each tribe has activities to sacrifice Obo (called Elei) in Yugu language, but the times are different. On February 2 or June 6, men, women and old can participate, which is very lively.

January Conference: The most solemn religious festival of the Yugur people is popular in Sunan, Gansu. The specific dates of the meeting are not exactly the same, and are generally held from the 10th to the 15th day of the first lunar month for a period of six days. At that time, men, women and children dressed in festive costumes came to the temple. The old people burned incense and kowtowed to pray for peace, lit lights and prayed. The monks in the temple wear masks, dress up as horses, cattle, etc., and perform the ancient god worship dance. Yugu calls it "Zen", and throw red dates to the crowd to show good luck. The temple used hand-grabbed mutton, fried fruits, milk tea, etc. to entertain participants. Sometimes butter lantern parties are held.

The first month meeting is the largest gathering of the Yugu people in the year. At the meeting, the temple fried rice dumplings, made steamed buns, and slaughtered sheep. The Lama also sprinkled red dates among the crowd attending the meeting to express good luck. On this day, men, women and old had to wear new clothes to go to temples to burn incense and light lights. When monks danced "Dharma Dharma" for everyone (Buddhism calls those who support Dharma Dharma as Dharma; protecting the Dharma they have learned is also called Dharma), more than 20 monks put on masks and danced, and the crowd knelt down all around. The temple also held a lantern festival of crispy oil flowers (that is, made of butter and several different colors), displaying various flowers, characters, facial masks, birds and animals, with lively and lifelike images.