The Maunan folk legend: The origins of the Maunan torch festival

the maunan people in the village of capumanam in pingdong county, guizhou, spend their 30th night of the month in flames.

there is a legend at the time of the flaming fire festival — a long time ago, the maunan ancestors lived and worked in the luminous place of karp.

one day, a maoist who went out to do business rushed back to qi, saying, “on the 30th night of this year, an alien is about to invade our land.

they're big, they're good, they're good, they're good.

it was agreed that hard work was a loss, and that only by using suspicious tactics could foreign attacks be repelled.

as a result, all the men, women and children of the quilomboki group placed many bright lights on their feet, on the side of the road and on the slopes of the hill, and linked them to them with monkeys, and hung them with cannons.

in the middle of the night, the whole town ambushed, blocked news, prepared cattle horns, gunpowder, drumming and waiting for the invasion of the gentiles.

when the gentiles pounced at their feet in the night, the mounan people lit the fire and held the monkeys in their bells, and the sound of the round, the drums, the horns of the cattle, the sound of the bamboo and the sound of the roars.

facing the hillside and on the side of the road, the heaters were swaying, and it was impossible to see how many of them had been ambushed, scared, afraid to go to the barn and fled.

in some cases, while fleeing, they were held hostage by the maunan, who were not familiar with the terrain and dragged into their quail, the elders themselves untied them, served them with the best wine, stunned them, patiently persuaded them and moved the prisoners.

since then, foreign peoples have no longer violated the maunan territory。