Colorful Local Festivals
Dong New Year
The Dong New Year is the most important traditional festival among Dong people. Dong people don’t celebrate their New Year at a same time. The Dongs in Jiuzhao Dong Township of Jinping County and most of the Dong villages in Rongjiang County celebrate their New Year at the time from the end of October to the beginning of November of the lunar calendar. These people also celebrate an accompanying New Year, the New Year festival that the Dong people in the neighboring villages celebrate. That is quite a good chance to promote the friendship between the different villages.
Northern Dong Singing Parties
Singing parties are important occasions for young Dong people to get to know each other and to date their lovers. Dong people have several singing parties throughout the year. The Northern Dong Singing Parties are the ones mainly attended by young Dong people from the northern Miao and Dong Prefecture in Southeastern Guizhou.
The Miao New Year is a grand festival celebrated by the Miao people from Kaili, Leishan, Danzhai, Rongjiang and Taijiang counties from October 26th to December 13th of the lunar calendar. The festival is divided into Preliminary Eve, the New Year and the Epilogue. The New Year is the most important part, when people dance Lusheng dances, watch bullfight or birdfight.
Lots of Villages in the Miao & Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Southeastern Guizhou (southeastern Guizhou for short) regularly hold bullfight competition every year. The bulls for the bullfight do not take part in the plough or some other work in fields.
New Harvest Festival
The New Harvest Festival is an important festival that Miao and Dong people celebrate at the end of summer and beginning of autumn (different villages celebrate the day at different time). People use bud seeds or the new harvested glutinous rice as sacrifice to worship their ancestors. On the day of the festival, people get dressed up, take their presents along and lead their bulls to go to the host village (the village which is celebrating the festival). After the host worships the ancestors, they have a big harvest dinner. On the second day, people watch bullfight and bird fight and race horses. They have Lusheng dance. At dusk, young people will sing musical dialogues in antiphonal style. The celebration will last until the dusk of the third day.
Gushe Festival
Gushe Festival, also called Guzang Festival, is one of the most ceremonious traditional festivals among the Miao people in the region of Leigong and Moon (yueliang in Chinese) mountains. It is held once every 13 years in the tiger year and it usually lasts for seven days. People kill ox to worship their ancestors during the festival.
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