1, Lantern Festival
Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Brief introduction: In Shangyuan, Changde, each family takes Chili as soup and adds leeks and fruits to entertain guests, which is called "time soup". After swimming in the dragon lantern in Xintian County, the dragon lantern was lit, which is called "sending disaster". Villagers in Jacky Village, Suxian District, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province made the final rehearsal for the upcoming Lantern Festival. According to the villagers, the cow is the patron saint of the village. "Fire Fairy Cow" originated from an ancient fairy tale. On the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, villagers will tie straw into the shape of cattle, and then insert incense and fire dragons to spend the Lantern Festival together to protect the safety of the village.
2. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.
Introduction: In Changsha, Hunan, grave-sweeping is called "hanging mountain" and "three days before and seven days after", that is, the first three days and seven days in Tomb-Sweeping Day are grave-sweeping periods. There are a series of grave-sweeping sacrifices. Generally, it is necessary to clean up the cemetery first, pull out the weeds in the cemetery, and insert "hanging mountain strips" in front of the tomb to worship. Changsha's "Qingming inserting willows" is called "reminiscing about the past". Tomb-Sweeping Day, Yongzhou Prefecture, draws water in the early morning and remains unchanged for several months, which is especially good for brewing wine. Xintian county agricultural proverb: "Qingming, everything is done."
3. Dragon Boat Festival
Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
Introduction: Dragon Boat Festival is an important folk festival alongside New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, people in Changsha hold a dragon boat race to commemorate Qu Yuan. People flocked to the banks of Xiangjiang River, Liuyang River and Laodao River from dozens of miles away, looking for favorable terrain to watch. After lunch, the Dragon King was connected to the bow of the regatta and the race began. Accompanied by the rhythm of gongs and drums, the athletes on board fought bravely for the first place, and the two sides of the strait were like the stands of a stadium, crowded with people, guns and shouts. The competition was still in full swing at night, and some of them had extra competitions on the sixth day of the first lunar month. After the game, a ceremony was held to see the Dragon King off. People think that dragon boat rowing can be a disaster (the ancients thought May was a bad month with many disasters). Liuyang new development zone, one month before the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, gongs and drums are called dragon boat drums, villagers get together to practice, and the dragon boat race atmosphere comes ahead of schedule.
4. Mid-Autumn Festival
Time: the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
Brief introduction: Shaoyang people "receive old customers" around July 12 of the lunar calendar, and burn paper bags and incense to worship their ancestors on the evening of July 15 of the lunar calendar, which means "sending old customers away". There are inches of paper money in the paper bag, and the name on the front of the paper bag is taboo. After wrapping, be sure to write the word "seal" on the back. On the fifteenth night, the more buns are burned, the bigger the fire, indicating that the home is more prosperous.
5. Mid-Autumn Festival
Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.
Introduction: There is a custom of worshipping festivals in urban and rural areas of Changsha, also known as sending festivals. Married daughters give their parents moon cakes, lotus roots and other things. The bride's family will take the married girl home during the New Year, and there is a saying that "August is fragrant and every family will take the girl". Changsha also has the custom of "stealing melons to send children" in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the moonlight, teenagers steal pumpkins or winter melons from other people's gardens and send them to the beds of newly married couples or infertile couples who have been married for a long time, which is called "touching the autumn" and means having more children with melons. Although Tujia people are not interested in enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes is a custom of Tujia people.
6. Bai Spring Festival
Time: the first day of the first lunar month
Address: Zhangjiajie
Introduction: Bai people celebrate the New Year from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Every family begins to make pre-holiday preparations from the end of the twelfth lunar month, such as cleaning dust, making fertilizer, killing pigs, writing Spring Festival couplets, planting pine trees in the yard and so on. Set off firecrackers on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, and worship the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth with chicken, meat and wine. In the evening, the whole family get together for New Year's Eve dinner to celebrate the New Year. On the first day, worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors with vegetarian food, and go to the grave or visit relatives and friends after dinner. On the second day of junior high school, I began to invite Chunke on another day to take my married daughter and son-in-law home for the New Year. During this period, there were entertainment performances such as lion dance and dragon dance everywhere. The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival. Every family kills chickens and cook the meat worships ancestors, and the New Year Festival ends here.
7. Sheba Festival
Time: the third day of the first lunar month
Address: Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: It is a traditional festival of Tujia nationality, which is held from the third day to the seventeenth day of the first month every year. During the festival, the girls put on their holiday costumes, the boys carried shotguns and broadswords, and the old people flocked to the wave hall with their children, water, wine and prey. At this time, they played deep drum music, lit three bonfires, fired three cannons and sang birds, and danced excitedly.
8.4.8
Time: the eighth day of the fourth lunar month
Address: Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: April 8 is the birthday of Buddha Sakyamuni. During the Southern Dynasties, it was the custom of Longhua Festival for the Buddha to bathe in perfume every day. In ancient Changsha, there was a custom of making black rice (commonly known as polished rice), and childless people made vows and begged in Buddhist temples. In some places in Liuyang, a cross-shaped note will be posted on the halls and pavilions, which reads "April 8, Buddha comes first, Miss Mao, please go to heaven", which is said to prevent caterpillars and tile maggots.
9. Tujia nationality on June 6th.
Time: the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.
Address: Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: Tujia people call June 6th "drying the dragon robe". According to legend, this day is the martyrdom day of Qin Houwang, the leader of Tujia nationality in the early Ming Dynasty, and it is an important national festival of Tujia nationality. On this day, women like to take out all their clothes to dry, which is called "tanning later". Home is like moving, and some people can't wait to put the tiles down to dry the house. Tujia people believe that the articles dried on this day will not be moldy all year round, and the quality will be as good as new. On June 6th, a grand festival will be held in Luoshui Town, Yongding County, Zhangjiajie, where you can watch the Maugus dance performance.
10, Tujia New Year's Day
Time: 29 or 28 of the twelfth lunar month (to catch up with the Spring Festival), 25 June (the year of June), and the first day of October (the year of October).
Address: Yongshun County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: On the evening of "Catch the New Year", a bonfire was lit in the hollow field of the village, and Tujia people danced around the bonfire and sang tune songs. June is an important migration in Tujia history. The day when the migration was completed was June 25th of the lunar calendar. On this day, Tujia people slaughtered cattle to worship the gods, and gradually formed the custom of "June Year". "October Year" is an activity of Tujia people to welcome the first harvest season of their new home after migration. On the first day of October, Tujia people organized celebrations to celebrate "October Year".
1 1, Lantern Festival
Time: the fifth day of the first lunar month
Location: Ningyuan, Lanshan, Daoxian, Xintian and other counties in Yongzhou City.
Introduction: Yao people in Ningyuan, Lanshan, Daoxian and Xintian regard the fifth day of the first lunar month as the "Lantern Festival". On this day, every household should put on good wine and good dishes (meat dishes) for the New Year and enjoy drinking. In the evening, conditional villages will also hold activities of singing and dancing dragons. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Dayuan Lantern Festival is still lively. Put into labor production after the Lantern Festival.
12, no thunder
Time: 25th day of the first lunar month.
Address: Chenzhou City
Introduction: The fifth day of the first month in Gansu is the day when thunder is forbidden. Legend has it that this day is Lei Gong's birthday. Some boys and girls in urban and rural areas go out for an outing in groups after breakfast, which is also called leaving work. The crowds in the wild are endless, bustling, coming and going, meeting each other in a friendly way, relaxed and happy, and returning home. People over middle age generally don't go for an outing. After breakfast, people don't need to knock gongs, but should bring their own tools to repair ditches, fill roads, build bridges and plant trees in the village or at the end of the street. Everyone, regardless of you and me, does voluntary work for public welfare, regardless of remuneration, and is happy. On this day, some people donate money and materials, organize dining tables, and invite people who do volunteer work for public welfare undertakings to have a happy dinner.
13, Yao Bird Festival (Bird Festival)
Time: the first day of the second lunar month
Address: Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Yongzhou City
Introduction: The Yao Festival in Jianghua Mountain Area of Hunan Province is to commemorate the history of attracting birds with songs of ancient Yao people, so that the newly sown corn seeds will not be pecked by birds and get a bumper harvest. On this day, whether it is raining or sunny, young people in 50 or 60 miles will gather in Baitou Mountain, wearing costumes of Yao festivals, snuggling up to the ground under pine trees and sweetly singing love songs, folk songs, word guessing songs and crossword puzzles. At home, the old people make glutinous rice cakes overnight, knead them into copper coins, poke them on bamboo branches, and insert them near the entrance of the shrine or the main room, which is called "bird cakes" When children and birds eat it, they will stick their mouths and shells together, and will not spoil the food any more.
14, Gauteng Festival
Time: the third day of March or the ninth day of September in the lunar calendar.
Venue: Yueyang County, Yueyang City
Introduction: Dayun is 9 1 1. 1 m above sea level, and is now open as a national forest park. Dayun has been a famous religious mountain in northern Hunan since ancient times, and there are many temples and Taoist temples. Every year, there are countless pilgrims who go up the mountain to pray for God and worship Buddha on March 3 and September 9 of the lunar calendar. Since 1999, the Double Ninth Festival has been held in Dayun Mountain, and there are an endless stream of guests who come to visit and worship incense.
15, Bull Run Festival
Time: the eighth day of the fourth lunar month
Address: Jiangyong County, Yongzhou City
Introduction: Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, it is the "Bull Running Festival" circulated by Yao girls in Jiangyong County. It is called "Bullfighting", but it is actually a girls' club. All the girls are unmarried adult girls, and it is also called "Sisterhood Day" or "Daughter Day". On this day, Yao girls put on beautiful clothes, invited friends and partners, and chose beautiful local mountains or streams and springs in droves. At the "bullfighting" rally, everyone's "three flowers" food will be tasted and evaluated. Whoever has exquisite, novel and beautiful designs will be praised and respected. In the "Bullfighting" rally, besides singing folk songs, telling legends and stories and having fun, we will also talk about our personal interests in life and our marriage plans. The game of "Running the Bull Festival" mainly includes "Thrushcross Jumping Circle".
16, Taste the New Year Festival
Time: the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.
Venue: Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Yongzhou City
Introduction: Every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, before the early rice harvest, every household in Jianghua Yaohan first lays out this year's new grain, prepares new rice, and holds a banquet with wine to celebrate the traditional "New Taste Festival" of the Yao family. At the banquet for tasting the new year's goods, we should first propose a toast to our ancestors, toast meat and toast new rice, then feed the dog some meat rice and ask the dog to "taste the new", and then the whole family can eat and drink casually. Why feed the dog some meat rice first, and then try new food? According to legend, there was no rice in the world earlier, and the ancestors of Yao people sent dogs to fetch seeds from the sky. The dog rolled in the barn of the Jade Emperor, covered with seeds, and then returned to the world. Unexpectedly, when crossing the Tianhe River, all the particles on the dog were washed away by the river, leaving only a few particles on the dog's tail. It is these grains that make the world have rice, and the ears of rice grow into dog tails.
17, lazy day
Time: the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.
Location: Ningyuan, Xintian and other counties in Yongzhou.
Introduction: The third day of the first lunar month is a "lazy sending festival" for Yao families in mountainous areas such as northern Ningyuan and Xintian. On this day, every household should clean up the melon peels, peels, firecrackers paper and sundries thrown indoors during the Spring Festival, pick them outside the village and set off firecrackers along the way, which is called "lazy delivery". Before burning, candle paper should be lit and incense should be burned to worship, which means that at the beginning of the new year, every household should be cleaned and pray for good luck for a year. This custom is rarely followed today.
18, Bai Torch Festival
Time: June 25th of the lunar calendar.
Address: Zhangjiajie
Brief introduction: Bai people are mainly distributed in Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, namely Zhangjiajie area. The Bai people in Zhangjiajie have the traditional custom of holding the Torch Festival on June 25th of the lunar calendar every year, which is an activity related to eliminating pests and protecting crops. On this day, the Bai people will hold a celebration ceremony to wish crops a bumper harvest and fat livestock. The main activities are ancestor worship, torch worship, torch playing, torch lighting and torch jumping. That night, every household lit torches. After the torches in the village gathered, people crossed back and forth from the fire, praying for Vulcan to exorcise evil spirits and avoid disaster.
Xinjie Road Shengchang 19
Time: the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
Address: Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County of Huaihua
Introduction: On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, Dong and Miao people from villages near Jingzhou County gathered in blowing sheng, 4 kilometers away from Outuan New Street, singing and dancing to celebrate the * * * Qingfeng Year. The man danced with reeds, while the woman held a fan in her right hand and a handkerchief in her left. They lined up in a column, behind the man, dancing to the tune played by the reed, stepping at different steps, with light movements and clear rhythm. Every meeting was packed with people until dusk and sunset.
20. Zhangjiajie Black God
Time: July 21st of the lunar calendar.
Address: Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie
Introduction: July 21st of the lunar calendar is a lively day in Wulingyuan. Hundreds of miles in Fiona Fang, men and women, old and young, dressed in festive costumes, carrying sacrifices, blowing suona and banging drums, went to Zhonghu Township at the foot of Anpo, Longfeng, Zhangjiajie to catch the "Black God". According to legend, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, An Lushan rebelled and sent troops to attack Suiyang City. Lei Wanchun, the company commander, led the soldiers in a bloody battle. Unfortunately, he was hit by many rockets, and his whole body burned black, so he could not fall to the ground. Tang Wang felt his loyalty, and Qin named him "Doctor Rong Lu", and later he was called "Doctor with Black Face" or "Master with Black Face".
2 1, channel Lusheng Festival
Time: around the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.
Address: Huaihua Tongdao Dong Autonomous County
Introduction: Most of the large-scale tourism activities held by Tongdao every year are held in Dong Culture Village and Dong Village in Huang Du, Pingtan Township, and the time is set around the Double Ninth Festival every year. Lusheng Festival has a large scale, and the main activity is to hold Lusheng competition. The contestants wear the most Dong costumes, and the Lusheng competition mainly adopts the elimination system, with two teams as a group. During the competition, let's see which team's lusheng has good sound quality and loud volume, and the lusheng dances more beautifully and neatly. The competition scene is spectacular, which can best reflect the original culture and art of the Dong people.
22, jumping incense festival
Time: October of the lunar calendar
Location: Yanling County, Zhuzhou City and Liling City, Zhuzhou City
Introduction: Miao people not only worship Shennong before the autumn harvest, but also hold festivals to worship Shennong after the autumn harvest. Miaoren Valley is called Tiao Township. Xiangwu Festival is usually held in October of the lunar calendar after autumn. Many counties and cities such as Yanling and Liling are popular with the Dance Festival. Whenever the Dance Festival comes, it is presided over by Miao priests. Generally, festivals last one day and one night. In addition to offering sacrifices to the dancing incense gods and Shennong, there is also dancing incense. The local Miao people call it "Du Xiong", which means jumping up and down, and "Bear" means Miao. On this day, Miao priests will hold Miao dances for young people to sacrifice to the God of Grains and Shennong.
23. Yao Festival
Time: October 16th of the lunar calendar.
Address: Jianghua, Jiangyong, Lanshan and ningyuan county, Yongzhou, Changning, Hengyang.
Introduction: Wang Pan Festival is an important festival for Yao people to sacrifice their ancestors Pan Hu, and Yao people at home and abroad attach great importance to this national sacrifice activity. The King of Dishes Festival is also called "King of Dishes Jumping" or "King of Dishes Adjusting". In the Yao areas of Jianghua, Lanshan, Ningyuan and Jiangyong counties in southern Hunan and southwest Hunan, every year on October 16th of the lunar calendar, Yao people, men, women and children should put on their national holiday costumes, get together, sing and dance, and celebrate Wang Pan Festival. The song they sing is a musical song with the theme of Song of Pan Wang, while the dance is a group dance with a long drum about 80 cm long in one hand, usually in groups of two or two.
24. Grab the branch
Time: the annual "vernal equinox" and "spring festival"
Address: Anren County, Chenzhou City
Introduction: It started in the Song Dynasty and is a folk festival handed down to commemorate Shennong in Yan Di. This is a unique folk festival in China. Every year around the vernal equinox, people from all directions gather in Anren County to offer sacrifices to Emperor Yan and trade Chinese herbal medicines, grain seeds, farm tools, agricultural and sideline products, bamboo and wood utensils and other commodities. During the rush to the branch, the medicinal materials market was filled with nearly a thousand kinds of Chinese medicinal materials collected from all over the country and even Southeast Asian countries. In recent years, the local government has set up a stage with "branches" and sang opera in economy and trade, "prospering the Millennium drug market and attracting merchants from all over the world", which has made the traditional custom of driving branches glow with vitality.
25. go to the market
Time: July 1st and 4th or August 3rd and Friday or September 3rd and Saturday every month.
Address: Chenzhou City
Introduction: Trade fairs are held every month on "1, 4, 7" or "3, 5, 8" or "3, 6, 9". The fair began in the Ming dynasty and has been followed ever since. Opening an Expo is equivalent to going to an Expo. At that time, guests from all directions will gather at the fair to exchange needed goods. With the development of land transportation, Lin Xiangru has become a business event in Chenzhou and its surrounding areas, and its influence radiates to southern Hunan and even the whole country.
26. Dongting Bird Watching Festival
Time: February to March every year.
Venue: Yueyang City
Introduction: East Dongting Lake is one of the seven internationally important wetlands listed in China's Wetland Convention. From June 10 to March of the following year, there were 2 17 species of birds * * *100000 migratory birds wintering here. Cranes, storks, gray cranes, cygnets, egrets and other national first-and second-class protected animals can be seen everywhere in East Dongting Lake, which has attracted international attention. Moreover, many birds that have been declared endangered, such as cranes, bustards, geese, geese and ducklings, are not difficult to see in East Dongting Lake. Yueyang East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve holds a bird-watching tourism festival from February to March every year. Every year, thousands of tourists and bird lovers come here to watch, and ornithologists from all over the world also come here.
27. Huangyan Rhododendron Festival
Time: April-May every year.
Address: Huaihua City
Introduction: One of the top ten characteristic tourism activities in Hunan Province, 1997 has been successfully held for three times since its first session, welcoming more than 654.38+million domestic and foreign tourists. Huangyan Rhododendron Festival is held in Huangyan Tourism Resort in Huaihua City from the end of April to the beginning of May every year. At this time, 10,000 mu of wild azaleas are exposed in the wild, and the peaks are all dyed, forming a red ocean, which is very beautiful and spectacular. During the festival, the main activities include: opening ribbon-cutting ceremony, visiting 10,000 mu of rhododendron garden, climbing Liangshan among flowers, exploring the original secondary forest of the river, watching Dong people's cultural song and dance performances, and holding economic and trade talks.
Wu Jianshan Forest Festival
Time: May every year.
Venue: Yueyang City
Introduction: Wu Jian is a forest park in Hunan. There is a large area of virgin forest on the mountain, which is a good place for citizens to relax. Every May, Linxiang City will hold a forest festival in the park, and thousands of tourists will go up the mountain for summer recuperation, leisure vacation and forest bath.
29. Yueyang International Dragon Boat Festival
Time: June every year
Address: Yueyang City
Brief introduction: On the Miluo River in Miluo City, Yueyang City, the dragon boat race is held on the fifth day of May every year. This is an activity handed down in memory of Qu Yuan and organized by the people spontaneously. Every dragon boat race, thousands of people get together, and there are a sea of people. The scene is extremely spectacular. On the river, colorful dragon boats fly with the waves, and you chase after me, and you chop the waves radially, and you win each other. The earth-shattering sound of the horn and the powerful sound of gongs and drums are shocking. The dark crowd on the shore cheered in unison, shaking the sky with their voices, interwoven into a moving scene of hard work and inspiring people. The Miluo River International Dragon Boat Festival held in Yueyang put forward the policy of "taking boats as the medium, building a stage with the wind, singing opera with economy and trade, and promoting development with development", which made the cultural tradition of dragon boat racing directly serve the reform, opening up and economic development, and fully demonstrated the characteristics of the times of dragon boat culture.
30. Tuanhu Lotus Club
Time: August to 10 every year.
Venue: Yueyang City
Introduction: Tuanhu Lake in Guangxing Town, Junshan District, Yueyang City has 5,000 mu of wild lotus, which is the largest natural lotus scenic spot in Southeast Asia. At the turn of spring and summer, "Xiao He only shows sharp corners", and the lake is blue; In midsummer, I saw "the lotus leaves are infinitely bright and the lotus flowers are of different colors"; In August and October, the lotus is mature, there are men and women, boats are shuttling, and lotus songs are answered and answered. Since 1999, Yueyang has held Tuanhu Lotus Festival in Tuanhu Lotus Park from August to June every year. With lotus as the mainstay and flowers as the medium, guests and friends at home and abroad are cordially invited to meet the Lotus Festival.