A complete collection of Buyi traditional festivals

In the life of the Buyi people, there are festivals every month of the year. In addition to festivals such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival in May, Half of July, Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and Double Ninth Festival in September celebrated by the local Han people, there are also festivals such as February 2, March 3, and April 8 with unique national characteristics. Next, let's take a detailed look at the traditional festivals and customs of the Buyi people!

Buyi New Year The biggest festival of the year for the Buyi people is the New Year (i.e. Spring Festival). The first day of the first lunar month is held. Before the festival, every household of the Buyi ethnic group rushed to make new clothes and new handkerchiefs, kill pigs, slaughter chickens, roast wine, bacon, make glutinous rice handles, etc. to welcome the New Year. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the family "sent maltose and other supplies to the kitchen god". Please say more good things to the "Jade Emperor" and bring more blessings to the world. On New Year's Eve, every household will put up New Year pictures, pairs, and door gods to pray for a happier and better life in the coming year. After offering sacrifices to their ancestors at night, the entire Buyi family happily gathered around the charcoal fire, blessed each other, and had a reunion dinner. On the first day of the New Year, various colorful lights were tied at home and lit together at night. It looked very nice to hang them at the door. Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Buyi people have traveled in groups to visit the villages and villages to pay New Year greetings; on the ninth day of the first month, every family uses raw meat to worship their ancestors, and then cooks the raw meat, serves it in front of the incense table, and then enjoys it. This is called the "Shangjiu". During the festival, young men and women of the Buyi ethnic group gather together, accompanied by musical instruments such as Huna, Dongxiao, and Yueqin, and dance with joyful dances such as "Bronze Drum Brush Handle" and "Playing Flower Bag" or meet to go to the market, using pairs of songs to express their love.

Hongmiao Cave Song Festival Hongmiao Cave Song Festival is a traditional Buyi song festival in the Hongmiao area of Guizhou Province. It is held from the first to third days of the first lunar month every year.

Floor-jumping field Floor-jumping field Buyi traditional festival in Weng Yin River, Huishui County, Guizhou Province. It is held on the fourth day of the first lunar month every year and lasts for three days. According to the traditional customs of the Buyi people in Huishui, there is no flower jumping field. It has a history of more than 60 years. At that time, the Buyi people of Weng Yinhe were the host, and Miao people from nearby and neighboring counties came to participate. The scene was grand and lively. After breakfast on the fourth day of the lunar new day, the village elders tied a red banner with the words "Good weather and rain" to a long bamboo pole with leaves left at the top, and then tied the bamboo pole to a log about ten feet long. Immediately, the owner announced the "establishment of a flower tree"."People stood the log in the earthen pit dug in advance amidst the sound of iron cannons, firecrackers and Lusheng music. Then play Lusheng around the flower trees and dance. In the evening, the village elders warmly invited the Miao Lusheng team to visit the village. The guests danced the Lusheng dance in the courtyard dam to express their congratulations to the host. Girls and boys sang to each other around the fire all night long. The next day, the Lusheng teams competed to perform their skills, and the flower jumping field activity reached its climax. After breakfast on the sixth day of the lunar new day, the villagers of the whole village and the Lusheng team of the Miao family gathered at the flower field. The owner announced the release of the flower trees and fired the iron cannon again. The Lusheng team played the music and wrapped the tree three times from right to left. Then the flower trees were put down by a special person. Take down the red width and hand it over to the old collection of the village. At this point, the dancing field activities were all over. The Miao Lusheng team bid farewell on the spot. The Buyi villagers warmly sent them off and invited them to come back next year.

Flower jumping party Flower jumping party Buyi folk traditional festival in Guizhou Province. Every year, the first month of the first lunar month begins on the first day and ends on the 21st. This festival is mainly a day for young men and women to socialize. As soon as the festival comes, young men and women dress up and gather from all directions to the predetermined flower dancing field (usually on the spacious lawn). Everyone plays the moon piano, blows wooden leaves, sings melodious ancient songs and passionate love songs, and enjoys entertainment. Some men and women dance together. In this process, people each find their own favorite person. If both parties are interested, they quietly walk out of the crowd and go to the river or under the tree to talk. Buyi opera is also performed in some places during the festival, attracting many people to watch it. On the 21st, the end of the flower jumping party was announced. On the 22nd, all young men who were engaged would take their girls to their village to identify relatives, which was called "leading the sheep."

The traditional festival of the Buyi people is held on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for three days. At that time, the Shenxiantian in Anlong County, located on the bank of the Nanpan River, will be very lively. The Buyi people and young people of other ethnic groups from the four townships and eight villages, dressed in costumes, went to the Shenxian Field for activities. It is said that the Immortal Field Song Festival is to commemorate Wang Xiangu. It is said that Wang Xiangu is a god in the sky and has shown unique abilities since she was a child. In order to allow the poor to have land to cultivate, she drew a dam soil by hand. People called the soil she drew "immortal fields." On the fifth day of the first month of the second year of Jiaqing, Fairy was beaten by the officials after returning from selling firewood. She was furious and angrily led the people to revolt. In the battle, Wang Xiangu showed her power. Although the uprising failed and Wang Xiangu also died and returned to a fairy, in order to sing her spirit, the Buyi people gather in the "Immortal Field" every year to hold commemorative activities.

Mapo Song Festival Mapo Song Festival is a folk festival of the Buyi, Miao, Shui and Dong ethnic groups in the adjacent areas of Dushan County, Pingtang County and Duyun City in Guizhou Province. The event begins on the first day of the first lunar month and ends on the 15th day. It turned out to be only the third day of the third day, but because this time happened to be the Spring Festival, it was changed from the first day to the 15th day. On the first day, people headed to the local Mapo in groups, found a place to sit down in Mapo, sent people to contact and negotiate the song competition matters.

Grasshopper Festival Grasshopper Festival is a traditional Buyi folk festival in Hongyan area, Shengning County, Guizhou Province. It is held every year on the first to third days of the first lunar month and on the 15th gate. The festival lasts for four days. Grasshoppers are locusts. According to local folk legend, the Buyi people used to live in Jingzhou and Huguang, where there were thousands of acres of rice fields. One year, there was a locust plague. At first, people used stones to beat locusts, but the rice was also damaged. Later, someone suggested making straw into grass balls and standing at both ends of the rice field with grass balls to beat each other, so that the locusts were driven away. Make the rice get a good harvest. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Buyi people went to Guizhou with the Zhuang armored soldiers and settled in this area. The custom of killing grasshoppers was also brought to Guizhou. Later, killing grasshoppers became a recreational activity. At that time, the girls dressed in festive costumes and holding bright grasshopper balls will go to the competition venue to find opponents. According to the regulations: cousins or peers can fight against each other. First, the elderly and middle-aged people will start with the demonstration. Then young men and women will line up in two rows and fight head-to-head. Some two men and two women will cross each other, and some women will fight against one man. For a while, colorful balls will fly and roar in joy. Young men and women often develop love through confrontation.

The Vulgara Festival is the "Welcome to the Frog Grandma Day". The word "vulgar" in Buyi means to welcome, and "Yaguo" means grandma frog. Traditional festivals of the Buyi people in the Luogang area of Guizhou Province are held on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. Before the festival, a woman was elected by the people to dress up as a beggar and serve as the embodiment of "Ya Di", symbolizing that the hungry Ya Di ate all pests without hesitation. On the morning of the festival, families set up ears of rice, rice dumplings, knife heads of meat, etc. in the main room to welcome you. Ya Guo carried a basket and bag and walked from house to house with dancing. She picked up sacrifices at will, shouted and cursed without fear, and made a fierce fuss, which indicates an auspicious harvest next year. If Yaguo wasn't crazy enough, the master tried to provoke her and let her scold her before she was satisfied and happy.

The local opera festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in the Huaxi area of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. It is held on the 15th of the first month every year. Huaxi earth-jumping opera began during the Daoguang period and was initiated by artists Long Defu of An and Bu Jin Pingba. It is performed on the 15th of the first month every year, gradually forming a fixed festival. There is no stage for local opera. The actors stand on the ground and perform, and the audience watches from high places around, hence the name.

Le Yue Festival Le Yue Festival, also known as "Le New Year Festival" and "New Year Festival", is a traditional festival of the Buyi people. It is held every year on the 28th day of the first lunar month. The festival lasts for three days. This festival corresponds to the Buyi people's "New Year", which means the beginning of the first month festival, while the "Yueyue Festival" marks the end of the first month festival. In the local area, the end of the month has entered the busy spring season, and the "Moon Festival" is intended to remind people that the year's farming is about to begin. During the festival, every family has to prepare sumptuous dishes and bring out the best old wine to worship Lao Gong. Every family must fry "oil cake", which means that the Spring Festival has come to a successful end. Eating oily loquat symbolizes retirement in the new year, harmony and unity among the whole family and building a home together. During the happy gathering, people will also talk about their plans during the busy farming season.

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a folk agricultural sacrifice festival for the Buyi people in Guizhou Province. It is held every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In the past, the local Buyi people believed that the land god was in charge of agricultural prosperity, so they would solemnly sacrifice the land god on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The expenses for this day are borne jointly by the participants. The sacrificial services are carried out by the masters of each house clan in turn, and the chief priests are elders from the oldest resident family in the village. During the sacrifice, a rooster or a pig's head was sacrificed, and then the chief sacrifice and those participating in the ceremony truthfully explained the situation of that year to the land god, and then the sacrifice ceremony was performed to obtain the blessing of the land god.

Nenxin Festival Nenxin Festival is also called the Harvest Festival. "Nenxin", in Buyi language, means the festival of the first month, a grand festival of the Buyi people. The festival lasts from the 25th of the twelfth lunar month to the 30th of the first month of the following year. After the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, the newlyweds will wash and build the well, repair the road from the village to the well, and plant a Mao tree and a cypress tree next to the well, symbolizing that their love is as passionate as a willow tree and as evergreen as a cypress tree. People call these two trees "Jiaoya Tree","Couple Tree", and "Baozhai Tree".

On the evening of the 30th lunar month, every family has to worship their ancestors. Various offerings were placed on the Eight Immortals table, and then the copper drums were knocked. Legend has it that only the sound of copper drums can spread throughout the sky, underground, and in the world, attracting all gods. For families who do not have copper drums, please ask the village elders to beat the public copper drums. Each family will strike the chimes and set off firecrackers at the same time. The elderly in the family will burn incense and turn paper to read the sacrificial words at the altar table. After the sacrifice, the whole family, old and young, sat around the fire pond and had a reunion dinner.

In the early morning of the first day of the first day, when the rooster first sang, the girls and daughters-in-law in the village competed to pick the first load of "gold and silver water". The sisters in the whole village will go to the Home of Gold, Silver and Water to congratulate them. They will tie colorful floral threads to the braids, wrists, and buckets of the person who has picked up the gold and silver water, and wish her to pick up gold and silver every year. At the same time, the housewife of this family invited everyone to taste gold and silver water, which meant that all the girls would be smarter, more beautiful and more hardworking. Cultural and sports activities will be held from the first to the 30th of the first lunar month. There are also many taboos, such as no eating chili, no sweeping the floor, no borrowing fire or cutting firewood on the first day; no digging before the fifth day; no going out on the seventh day; no returning home on the eighth day; no washing by the well, no drying clothes in the courtyard before the 15th; no knocking on things during the first month, etc.

February 2 February 2 can be said to be a national sacrifice activity centered on the "elderly housing". Before liberation, in almost every village in areas where the Buyi people were distributed,"elderly houses" were built specifically for ancestral worship. Some put god signs, incense spots, or hung leather drums or copper drums. People are not allowed to enter or exit at ordinary times. Earlier, there were special personnel waiting for them. Every year, before this festival day, the head households who take turns in the village collect the things needed for the sacrifice or donations from house to house, and send the sacrifices including chicken, pork, various cooked fruits and fruits to the "elderly people's room" before dark, and then the head households are responsible for the sacrifice. After the sacrifice, the sacrifices are shared by the sacrificial people in the elderly room. However, during the sacrifice or eating process, there is a traditional taboo that must be strictly observed, that is, no one is allowed to speak, laugh, let alone fart on this occasion. It is said that if someone makes a noise during the sacrifice, it will cause the ancestors to fail in guarding various wild animals. At that time, the poultry and livestock in the village will be attacked and bitten by wild animals. If that person violates this prohibition, he must bear all the costs of the entire re-sacrifice. In some villages, it is customary to place an egg piously on the gate in the sky and pay tribute to the direction of the "elderly people's house". Late at night, the sacrifices will go to each door to retrieve it. During this process, no sound should be made. In the last two days of the memorial service to the elderly, farm work is generally not allowed. Young men and women can also be invited to sing and play in a secluded place in the mountains outside the village. Whether it is a settlement area or a Mixed Monkey Festival, the Monkey Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in Libo and Dushan areas of Guizhou Province. It is held on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. Because this season is the cold spring and the beginning of the year's living season, the Buyi people also call the "Monkey Festival" a "earth-breaking day." A few days before the festival, every household would go up the mountain to pick a bundle of fragrant vines, pick some plum blossoms in the fields, dig a few clusters of stone mushrooms, then mash the fragrant vines, soak them in clear water, filter them, soak the glutinous rice with fragrant rattan water, and then steam the glutinous rice, stone mushrooms, and plum blossoms, and beat them together into loquat, or some are baked into big cakes. After breakfast on the second day of the second day, people rushed to the top of the mountain with this "fragrant rattan loquat" that gave off a special fragrance to sing and play to their heart's content. The children were even more excited. They competed to climb mountains, climb trees, and shoot wild mugwort. They were as unrestrained as Xiangshan monkeys, and the hibernating mountains and rivers began to boil again. On this day, in addition to having fun, women also have to carefully turn and screen seeds, and men have to carefully repair various farm tools. As soon as the Monkey Festival is over, it indicates that the busy farming season is here. People are warned to think about the farmland from this day on, work hard to the farmland, and work together to welcome a new harvest.

March 3rd "March 3rd" is one of the particularly grand folk festivals of the Buyi people. The main forms are offering sacrifices to the community god and sweeping the tombs of their ancestors. It is also a national intangible cultural heritage protection project. "March 3rd" is also known as the "Maple Fragrance Festival". There are many beautiful legends with the theme of sacrifice and gratitude. During the festival, every household in the Buyi villages went up the mountain to sweep the tombs of their ancestors, offering colorful rice, chicken, bacon, local wine and fruits and other foods in front of the tombs. Men, women and old went on picnics and returned drunk. Depending on the region, the content of the festival is also different. On the festival day, the Buyi people in Guanling area will make Qingming cakes; the Buyi people in Wangmo area will eat three-colored glutinous rice; and the Buyi people in Luoping area will ask the masses to pay for chickens, pigs, and sheep to carry out a series of sacrificial activities. During the festival, children carry boiled red eggs to the river to play with water carts. Young people swim in the river, row bamboo rafts, and fight water battles. Parents of each family have to prepare good meals and send them to the river beach to eat with the children; in some areas, gatherings are organized and social activities are held; in some areas, a village or several villages of the Buyi ethnic group jointly build a community temple to kill pigs and cattle and eat yellow glutinous rice to sacrifice to the community gods; the Buyi people in Wudang area of Guiyang City offer sacrifices to the earth silkworms, because after spring every year, the earth silkworms will eat crops and harm them. So the Buyi people brought the stir-fried corn flowers to the hillside on the third day of March to eat and sing. It is said that this could block the mouths of the earth silkworms and prevent crops from being harmed. Therefore, the Buyi people in this area also call March 3 the "Earth Silkworm Festival".​

It is said that April 8 is Niu Yu's birthday, so it is also called "Ox King Day" and "Shepherd Boy's Day." Qianxi area is also known as the "seedling opening" festival "or" seedling opening door." In Libo, Guizhou, black glutinous rice is made every time during this festival to honor the "King of Cattle"; Wangxi County eats four-color glutinous rice; some areas not only make glutinous rice, but also kill chickens and prepare wine to worship ancestors, and use fresh grass to wrap glutinous rice to feed cattle, bathe cattle, and rest for a day to show people's love and reward for the cattle. In some areas, recreational activities such as bullfighting and horse racing are also held. The Rice Flower Festival and Flower Picking Festival, also known as "Daughter's Day, is a traditional festival for the Tibetan people in Wentambo, Gansu Province. It is said that Lianzhi girl is intelligent, hard-working and wise. She taught people to cultivate grain, spin thread and weave cloth, and collected hundreds of herbs to eliminate diseases for the people. Unfortunately, she died in distress on the way to picking flowers at the end of May. In memory of her, people designated the fourth day of May as the "Flower Picking Festival." At that time, Tibetan girls, accompanied by their brothers, will enter the mountains to pick flowers. In the spring breeze of May, flowers bloom all over the place. Flowers such as rhododendrons, paeonia, grass plum, fritillaria, and distiller's yeast compete for beauty. The flowers are like the sea and the songs are like the waves, which makes people feel scared. The girls wore fragrant and colorful flower rings and held bouquets of flowers in their hands. Sing and dance around the bonfire all night long.At dawn, the girls were dressed up and danced while walking, saying goodbye to Miss Lianzhi. When the flower-picking team entered the village, the villagers warmly welcomed and entertained them. The girls gave gifts to everyone. In the evening, the whole village invited the girls and young men picking flowers together to toast each other's wine and wish each other health and luck.

The Gannuopo Festival is a traditional folk festival for the Buyi and Miao people in the Danggu area of Huishui County, Guizhou Province. It is held on April 8th of the lunar calendar every year. On that day, people flocked to the local glutinous rice slope from all directions. The girls dressed in costumes, singing or dancing, while the elderly gathered together to chat. The young men led their horses, first circled the field, and then galloped back and forth on the glutinous rice slope. For a time, spectators gathered on both sides of the track. The main activity at the Po Fair was the duet. Many Miao young people nearby also came to participate in the duet. Most of the songs were acquaintance songs and hymns. After young men and women fell in love with each other, they sang love songs, and then went to a secluded place to make a private appointment for their lives. At night, the village on the slope was full of guests, and everyone continued to drink and sing together. It is said that the Nuomipo Festival has a history of more than 200 years. Legend has it that in the past, Buyi women went to the slopes to dig wild vegetables, sing about the poverty of life and the cruelty of etiquette, and brought glutinous rice to make lunch. When the younger generation heard the song, he came to sing against it, and this festival was formed. Legend has it that their ancestors migrated here because they could not bear the pressure of Tusi, and also brought the customs of the "April 8" festival here, so this festival is celebrated every year.

The Stoning Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in Zhouqin District, Sandu Shui Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. It falls on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, the two major families of the Buyi nationality, Zhou and Qin, will gather together to fight against each other and throw stones to fight, with the intention of dispelling disasters and welcoming blessings and eliminating bad luck. In Buyi, this activity is called "Doujin Seal". According to ancient rules, adult men with the two major surnames of Zhou and Qin can voluntarily participate in stone fighting. However, firearms, sabers, iron pieces and other sharp weapons are not allowed to be used,"prisoners" are not allowed to be maltreated, and participants are not allowed to get angry and cause trouble if they are injured. Before the festival, women went up the mountain to collect various wooden leaves, soak and dye various glutinous rice, steam fragrant flower rice, cook bacon and prepare enough rice wine. On the early morning of the eighth day of the lunar new day, the elderly put these foods in bamboo baskets, and the children mentioned that the battlefield should be filled with "military rations." The battlefield is located on both sides of the Gebo River at the Zhouqin Dam, with both sides facing each other occupying one side of the river. After the leaders of both sides waved to each other, nine trumpeters blew the horns. Immediately, tiles, stone chips, and mud balls intertwined and danced over the Gebo River. If someone is hit and injured, he will happily shout "It's red!" If a "prisoner" is caught by the river, he can forcibly flood the water for a while to mark his capture. When one side's main position was occupied, the annual festival fighting came to an end. At this time, no matter who wins or loses, the two sides must hold hands and hug warmly, cheer together, and pay tribute to the onlookers together.

Wang Long Ji Sacrifice Wang Long Ji Sacrifice is a Buyi folk festival in the superior, Xiashi and Mawei areas of Dushan County, Guizhou Province. It is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. It is said that there is Longwang Well in Wanglong Village, and the well water can reduce inflammation and cure diseases. Therefore, people often bring fragrant paper to Longwang Well to make sacrifices and drink water and bathe in order to live longer. As a result, the custom of "rushing sacrifices" was formed. During the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Baoyuan, a hero of the Buyi nationality, gathered justice to oppose the Qing Dynasty. He often took the opportunity of rushing to sacrifice to publicize the anti-Qing principles to the masses. Once, when local people took food and meat and eggs to Funingpo in Wanglong Village to express their condolences to the rebels in the name of rushing sacrifices, they were besieged by the Qing soldiers. Yang Baoyuan's mount leaped and dug out a glance at the spring water to relieve the danger of lack of water. Later, Yang Baoyuan was wounded and captured while leading his troops to break through and died in Guiyang. In order to commemorate Yang Baoyuan, people changed the name of the Longwang Well to the "Horse Drilling Well" and changed the rush to sacrifice to the Dragon God to a festival to pay homage to heroes. On the early morning of the festival, each family places sacrifices on the shrine in the main hall to honor the ancestors, and hangs calamus and wormwood on both sides of the gate. Then they took a pot of realgar wine to ward off evil spirits and insects, rice dumplings, garlic, wormwood, etc., and rushed to Funingpo in droves. Before arriving at Funing Slope, everyone must sing an ode to commemorate the heroes. Those who arrive first must take out what they have brought and place it on the well and dam. People will also throw silver ribbons into the water. Those without silver ribbons will replace them with three pieces of mugwort leaf and sing a hymn to show their respect. Then he drank a few mouthfuls of well water, washed his face and feet along the stream, put on new socks, and went to the slope to sing to each other, mostly praising and remembering the heroes. Whoever sings well will be invited by the audience to eat rice dumplings and drink realgar wine.

Buyi Dragon Boat Festival On the Dragon Boat Festival of the Buyi people, every family hangs calamus and mugwort leaves on both sides of the door. People put realgar, calamus, mugwort leaves, triangular maple and other medicinal materials in fragrant bags and tie them to their chests. It is said that this can ward off evil spirits and eliminate diseases. Everyone drinks realgar wine soaked in realgar, garlic, ginger, and onions or eats garlic soaked in realgar wine to prevent diarrhea and other diseases. You should also use realgar wine to spray around the house or sprinkle some realgar powder on the corner stove to prevent snakes, mice, mosquitoes and bedbugs. Before the festival, every family must wrap various rice dumplings, such as sheep ear mugwort rice dumplings that have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and grass ash rice dumplings that can aid digestion and are easy to store, as the staple food of three meals during the festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the Buyi people also engage in traditional sports activities such as mountain climbing, shuttle grass horses, dragon boat races, duck grabbing, and colorful balls grabbing.

The Buyi traditional festivals in the Luopan area, Luodian County, Guizhou Province. It is held annually on May 13 of the lunar calendar. "Gengsu Wan", Buyi language, meaning to give cattle to eat dumplings. On this day of the festival, the local Buyi people will give all the cattle a holiday, let the cattle lead the cattle to the hillside to play, and every household will also wrap spire-shaped zongzi, shared by people and cattle.

Watching and watching is a traditional folk festival of the Buyi people in Fuquan County, Guizhou Province. It is held every year from June 1st to the 26th of the lunar calendar, and the main session is June 24th. The association is a sacrificial temple fair that asks for rain from the god Erlang in Guankou. It has a long history. The sacrificial activities of the meeting were hosted by Erlang Club. A "dispatch of troops" ceremony will be held on June 1st. People will beat gongs and go to the streets to tell the masses that the viewing meeting has begun. On the 23rd, they will welcome the "Bodhisattva Qi Cheng", that is, they will carry the Bodhisattva Qi Cheng and some small Buddha statues on the street for a week and then put them back into the temple. On the morning of the 24th, there was a "Tengu Street Sweeping", which was a round of wood-carved Tengu Parade. Residents along the street killed chickens and poured blood on them. At noon, the chief priest burned incense to welcome the god Erlang, and then carried the statue of Erlang and walked through the streets to pray for rain. Carry it all the way to the south gate Tongyuan Bridge. Then, sixteen people carried the upright pole, sixteen people pulled the rope, climbed the mountain into the city and chased the "Kaishan" and the "escort squad"(both the Kaishan and the escort squad were dressed up by people, wearing black and red-faced shells respectively, wearing armor, walking in front of the god Erlang), and then released them, and then captured them again, and so on. Along the way, people set up sacrifices in front of their doors, and those carrying the sedan chair shared the sacrifices. After the sunset, they returned home, commonly known as the "slope running style". In the Luping area, there is a "God Changing Style", which means carrying the Erlang God to Mahuangjing and then exchanging the land Bodhisattva for parading through the streets. On the third day, the earth Bodhisattva will be exchanged for Erlang. The area around the cattle farm is "wearing fancy clothes". A high platform sacrifice shed was built in the center of the street, with six young men and girls sitting on it. After the chief sacrifice person finished reading the ritual, everyone carried the god Erlang across the streets and alleys. According to local legend, June 24th is the birthday of Erlang God. Praying for rain on this day is often fulfilled. After praying for rain, people also sang to each other, danced Lusheng dances, sang operas, etc., with tens of thousands of participants.

The Eagle Slope Song Festival is a traditional festival for the Buyi people in Huishui, Changshun, Luodian and other places in Guizhou Province. Held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, young men and women will all dress up and gather happily at the local Eagle Slope to enjoy singing and entertainment to celebrate the festival. That's why the local area held such a grand duet rally.

Tianwang Festival Tianwang Festival, also known as "June 6th","June Bridge" and "Ganhua Bridge", is a commemorative and sacrificial traditional festival of the Buyi people. In the early 1980s,"June 6th" was designated as a representative traditional festival of the Buyi people. Every year, grand gatherings and celebrations are held in various places. The festival lasts from one to three days. During the festival, every family makes rice dumplings, kills chickens, and scoops rice wine. Every household lights incense, lights candles, and turns paper money to worship the gods, grain gods, and cow gods. Villages and villages slaughter pigs and kill dogs. They travel to the fields and plant white flags, and pray for the three gods to bless the prosperity of six animals and a bumper harvest of grain. Later, people remembered the instructions of the Heavenly King when he ascended to heaven, so on the sixth day of the sixth month, when the Heavenly King ascended to heaven, they went to the field and planted a sign to explain that the field did not belong to evil people. They also took out all the clothes to dry to show that these things were not stolen. In this way, the gods specially punished those evil people and released locusts to bite the evil people's crops and clothing.

Playing a protective talisman playing a protective talisman is the homophonic of "beating a leopard and a tiger". The purpose of Buyi folk festivals in Dushan, Libo and other places in Guizhou Province is to pray to the gods to prevent locusts from eating crops. It is held every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. It is said that this festival has a history of more than 200 years.

Sodanba Festival Sodanba Festival is a folk sacrificial festival among the Buyi people. It is held every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. On this day, every family would make glutinous rice cakes, kill chickens, and prepare a piece of meat (about two kilograms of pork) and bring it to the largest piece of field in their house. They would burn incense and turn paper to pray for the grain god to protect the crops from disaster. After the sacrifice, they would carry the sacrifices home to cook. But the chicken legs must be left. Use fine linen thread or rice dumplings to weave a small net pocket, boil a few eggs and put them in the human pocket, and let children under the age of seven carry them and play with them all day. At night, they will be distributed to the children, and the chicken legs will be given to the youngest. It is said that eating these chicken legs and eggs can eliminate disasters and diseases. Some villages will also hold a "sweeping farmland dam" ceremony this day. Each family will donate a certain amount of rice, vegetables, and money, and collectively buy a pig and slaughter it in the temple to worship the "Grain God","Land God" and "Village God". Then incense was burned, paper was turned into and firecrackers were set off. Four middle-aged men held the big yellow flag and played the big gong and cymbal; beating the small gong, they followed the demon lord to the Tianba. The demon lord was wearing a Taoist robe, shook the bell, and chanted: "Raise the yellow flag, hit the gong, the gods sent me to drive out the drought demons. The flood ghosts, locust ghosts and demons will escape quickly. You will find it difficult to live when the curse comes." In this way, he scurried around in the Tianba. After scurrying around the entire Tianba, he returned to the temple for dinner, and the ones that couldn't finish were distributed equally to each household.

Donglang Bridge Song Festival The Donglang Bridge Song Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in the Huishui area of Guizhou Province. It is held every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Nearly 10,000 Buyi people from neighboring villages in Lingpi County come to the local Donglang River to sing songs and gather together happily. This day is a great opportunity for young people to talk about love and seek couples. After meeting, girls and younger generations usually sing passionate acquaintance songs, exchanging names and addresses, and then a funny song (also called guessing song), asking questions to the ground, finding out each other, and then starting to sing hymns and love songs. If the girls find the right person through the chorus, they will present them with rice dumplings and sock mats, and then they will hide in a retreat to talk about love.

June Festival June Festival Traditional festivals of the Buyi people in Zhenfeng and Ziyun areas of Guizhou Province can be held every six days in June. On the morning of the festival, all heads of households went to Tiantou to kill chickens and pay homage to the Tian God. The rest of the people prepared chicken, duck, fish, flower glutinous rice and other "mountain hiding" foods at home. After lunch, people gathered to Junyue Chang to hide in the mountains, and at the same time rushed to the market to have fun. At this time, several highly respected elderly people in the village took cooking utensils, fire seeds, incense sticks, and washed ox to the Mountain God Temple to worship the gods. When the eyes were heading west, the people hiding in the mountains ate lunch on the ground and invited each other or exchanged food. People hiding in the mountains were not allowed to return home at will until the shout of "divide meat" came from the mountain sacrifice place, and the people hiding in four groups went to the Mountain God Temple to lift their four legs back to the village. Only then could people go back to their homes. Later, each family sent people to the village to receive beef cooked food for sacrifice to the mountain god. The June Fair means to wish both people and livestock prosperity and a bumper harvest of the grain.

Chabai Song Festival is a commemorative festival for the Buyi people in Xingyi area of southwest Guizhou in Guizhou Province. It is held every year from the 21st to the 23rd of June of the lunar calendar at Chabaichang in Dingxiao Town, Xingyi City, the capital of Qianxinan Autonomous Prefecture. It is named in memory of a local pair of young men and women Zhalang and Baimei who killed evil for the people and fought violence in ancient times. In these few days every year, 30,000 to 40,000 people of all ethnic groups from nearby counties and neighboring Guangxi, Yunnan and other places come to participate in the festival. The festival is large-scale, warm atmosphere and spectacular. The main activities of the Chabai Song Festival include: song festival competition, visiting relatives and friends, eating soup pots, rushing watches and offering sacrifices to mountains. It usually lasts for three consecutive days, and the first day is the climax.

Sacrifice to Mountain Gods is a Buyi sacrificial festival in the Fuyuan area of Yunnan Province. It is held every year on June 22nd of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days. Each village is hosted by four families every year, and everyone pays for cattle. At that time, each family would send a man into the mountains and forests to kill cattle and sacrifice, hoping that the mountain gods would protect them from hail, harvest crops and not die. During the sacrifice, it is not allowed to relieve hands or cut down trees, otherwise it will offend the mountain gods and bring disaster. After the ceremony, the banquet will be held, and the implementation of township rules and regulations will be checked. Those who destroy the mountains and forests will be punished.

The Ancestral Sacrifice Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in Jiangzhou District, Duyun City, Guizhou Province. It is held on the 13th of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. Each family will "order meals" starting from July 9th, that is, invite the souls of their ancestors to come back for dinner. On July 12, every family will return for a farewell party for the souls of their ancestors. At dusk, a wooden table is placed next to the shrine in the main house, with pig heads, semi-cooked cocks and other dishes placed, a glass of wine is poured, and chopsticks are placed next to it. After a while, pour wine on the ground and serve a bowl of rice. After night, packets are burned next to the altar table, with the name of the deceased and the name of the person sent in the sun written on the packets. The envelopes of each deceased person must be burned separately and must not be mixed to avoid disputes.

The Buyi traditional festival is half of July. It is said to have a history of more than 200 years. This festival is celebrated in most Buyi inhabited areas, but the activities are different. The general festival is three days from July 14th to 16th. During the festival, the Buyi people along the Hongshui River make "tianba" to kill chickens, ducks, pigs and cattle to worship their ancestors. The elderly in Zhenfeng area collect various wild fruits to sacrifice to their ancestors and mountain gods, so it is also called the "Fresh Fruit Festival". There is also a festival on bridges in Yanyu. Generally, housewives prepare refined rice, pork, eggs, etc. and lead their children to the bridge to worship the bridge in order to pray for their health. Some Buyi people in Huishui County also hold suona competitions. A bottle of wine is placed on the stage, and the loser will hand the suona and wine to the winner. In some areas, sports activities such as curling snails, swinging, and swimming are held during festivals, and some even sing folk songs to suppress evil spirits. The festival night is even more lively. The elderly hold a handful of incense in their hands and stick it from the front door of their homes to various intersections. It is meant to welcome the rice soul that is about to mature home. Please forgive the bridge ghosts and road ghosts and let the grain soul pass through. The girls use bowls to fill vegetable oil, light the wick, put it into the river and let it drift. Whoever puts the lamp can float smoothly with the water means happiness and happiness in the coming year. Otherwise, it will be considered unlucky. The remedy is to ask the seven sisters to pray for ghosts and gods to bless them. The children also need to play "incense" to stir up the village, which is to light the incense placed on the stools and play games around the house. No matter whose doorstep it comes to, the owner will add incense to them. It is said that this can appease the wild ghosts in the village.

The Rocket Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in Daxin, Xingren County, Guizhou Province. The festival falls on the night of the 15th month of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year.

Ganxiaochongqiao Festival Ganxiaochongqiao Festival is a traditional Buyi song festival in Changshun County, Guizhou Province. It is held every year on the 15th of the seventh month of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days. During the festival, Buyi youth from dozens of miles around gathered on the local Xiaochong Bridge to sing freely to each other. Express your feelings and convey your feelings through singing. Those who fall in love and form a lifelong partnership.

Gandong Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in Qinglong County, Guizhou Province, on the second day of Qingming Festival every year. According to local legends, Gandong, located in the southeast of Qinglong County, was formerly known as Qingquan Cave, and its spring water is clear all year round. At that time, a couple of young people from two local villages, Awei and Ahua, fell in love and often sang to each other on dates beside Qingquan Cave. The parents of both sides agreed to their marriage, thinking that they were sincere, and decided to get married on Qingming Festival. Unexpectedly, the patriarch found out about this. He believed that a marriage without a matchmaker would be immoral, so he interfered. Awei Ahua was very angry after learning about this, so he secretly came to Qingquan Cave on the evening of Qingming Festival, used the cave as a medium, knelt down to heaven and earth, and got married by himself.The next day, the patriarch brought people to interrogate him. Awei Ahua had no choice but to escape and die in Qingquan Cave. Moved by the loyalty of the two young people, the Qingquan Cave God drained the Qingquan water and made the Avea flowers turn into a pair of golden thrushes and fly away. From then on, Qingquan Cave became dry. Awei Ahua's deeds moved the young men and women in the nearby Buyi stockade. On the second day of Qingming Festival every year, they rushed to Gan Dong to sing, play, and talk about love. Today, this festival has evolved into a large-scale trade fair.

Autumn Slope Festival Autumn Slope Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people and is held every year on the beginning of autumn. Qiupo is located near Tuanpo Village, Anle Township, Changshun County, Guizhou Province. In the past, Qiupo was only on Qiupo Mountain, but due to its increasing scale, it has been driven from the mountain to the foot of the mountain and even near Tuanpo, Maiping and Shanmanzhai. On the day before the beginning of autumn, people had to make preparations to catch the autumn slopes. Famous village elders in nearby villages gathered people to level the ground. The young men are going to pick up the girls in a distance, while the girls are waiting for the young men at home to kill chickens and ducks, carry wine and prepare vegetables. On the beginning of autumn, in addition to almost all Buyi men, women and children in nearby villages, about 10,000 Buyi young people from Changshun, Anshun, Ziyun, Wangmo, Luodian, Huishui and other counties gathered together to sing, act, play chess and ball games, and set up stalls to sell goods. At night, every household in the nearby village is full of guests, singing and laughing all night long.

Mid-Autumn Festival The Mid-Autumn Festival of the Buyi people is also on August 15th. Buyi people have the custom of stealing melons and cooking glutinous rice on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moreover, he wrapped the stolen melons in red cloth and set off firecrackers all the way to the families who lacked children. The owner asked them to have wine and midnight snacks. The children also went to the fields to steal sunflower and peanuts and take them to childless families to stir-fry. It is said that this will bring children to the family. The stolen family does not blame the person who steals the melons. Instead, they believe that the stolen melons will produce bigger and better melons, and that sunflower and peanuts will become bigger and fuller because of the theft.

September 9th Brewing Festival

The September 9th Brewing and Wine Delivery Festival is a traditional festival of the Buyi people. On the 9th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, ancestors passed on traditional wine-making techniques to future generations. In order to commemorate their ancestors, the Buyi people in Shuichun Village will hold a Brewing and Wine Delivery Festival on the 9th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. Before the festival, the villagers went up the mountain to pick medicinal materials. On the festival day, the villagers showed the guests the wine-making process according to traditional recipes. The unique wine-making technology of the Buyi people is very popular in the local area. The hard-working Buyi people in Shuichun have continuously explored excellent wine-making skills in the course of historical changes and passed them down from generation to generation. Today, this wine-making skill is not only a precious intangible cultural heritage passed down by our ancestors, but also an important part of the income of the local Buyi people. Under the leadership of the local village branch committees, the local fine wine brewed based on traditional wine-making skills is not only sold in the county, but also sold to Duyun, Guiyang and even Guangxi and other places. Tourists from afar will also bring several jars of fine wine home when they go to Shuichun.

September 9 and September 9 are the Buyi folk religious festivals in Guizhou Province. They are held on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year and last for three days. The Buyi people believe in a variety of gods. Some of these gods are kind to others and some do evil things. On September 9, the Buyi people in various villages will hold stock-sweeping activities for three consecutive days, which is intended to drive away all evil ghosts, celebrate the autumn harvest, and express gratitude to the land that has raised them. Sacrifices are mainly pigs or cattle, slaughtered for the stove before. The village sweeping activity is limited to the elderly men and witches in the village. The rest of the village must take refuge on that day. After the village is cleared, they can return to the village. In the next two days, villagers could not take water, fire and other things out. If someone had something to do before the festival, they could only come back after the village was completely cleared. In order to remind the villagers not to enter the village during the period of sweeping the village, a sign should be set up at the intersection, that is, two wooden knives and some ghost paper tied with straw rope.

The

is better. Mu Festival is better. Mu Festival is also known as the New Eating Festival and the New Taste Festival, a traditional festival of the Buyi people. Because the maturity period of rice varies in different places, there is no fixed date, and the passing methods vary in different places. Generally, when the rice is just ripe, pound some new rice and cook it, first respect the ancestors and then taste it, to indicate that the autumn harvest season is coming. After harvesting their crops, some Buyi people in Zhenfeng County took a few liters of glutinous grain from the last harvested field to dry, pound, and beat it into cake. They then killed a rooster that had just begun to crow to worship their ancestors, saying that they had a bumper harvest this year and wished a greater bumper harvest next year. The Buyi people in the Anlong area must scoop a bowl for the dog before tasting the new rice. This is to thank the legendary puppy for helping Mangye retrieve the grain seeds from Shendong. Ten days before the festival, people of the Buyi people in Luoping County, Yunnan Province sent letters inviting relatives and friends, married girls and aunts in the family to come back for the festival, and at the same time prepared various festive meals. On the evening of the festival, each family cooked first-class dishes, cooked new glutinous rice to honor the ancestors, and then everyone gathered together to taste it. Some young people also organize large-scale banquet to celebrate the harvest, which is usually initiated by girls, and highly respected elderly people are invited to attend the banquet. Several tables are arranged in a row in the main room. The eldest father sits at the table, the old woman sits at the table, and the girl and the young man sit on each side. During the banquet, young men and women sang folk songs celebrating the harvest.

The more healthy festival is also called the Emperor and the Little Year. It is the most solemn New Year's Festival for the Buyi people in Jialiang District, Libo County and Zhouqin District, Sandu County, Guizhou Province. The festivals vary. Some areas are from the first to the 15th day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, and some areas are from the first to the 15th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.