The Buyi ethnic group is a large ethnic minority in southwest China. It evolved from the ancient Liao people. It was called "Southwestern Barbarian" in the Tang Dynasty. It was called "Fan" and "Zhongjiaman" in the official records after the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It was called "Zhongman" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was called "Zhongjia" and "Zhongjiaman" in the Republic of China. "Mito", "Yi", "Tubian", "Local", "Raojia", etc. The traditional festivals of the Buyi people include the Flower Dance Party, March 3rd, June 6th, and Chabai Song Festival

1. The Flower Dance Party

It is held every year from the first day to the twenty-first day of the first lunar month. . The "Flower Dance Party" is a social activity for young men and women. It is a grand event with over a thousand participants. Many unmarried young men and women make a lifelong commitment by blowing leaves and singing antiphonal songs.

2. March 3rd

"March 3rd" is a traditional festival of the Buyi people. According to legend, there was a family of three sisters who married together in the same village and lived happily. very good. One day, grandpa wanted to visit his grandson. After hearing about it, the grandsons from the three families all scrambled to ask grandpa to go to their home first. Grandpa said that on the third day of March, you bring the best glutinous food you have made to the intersection of Zhaizi. I will go to whose house tastes best first. On this day, the eldest daughter’s family made fried dough balls, the second daughter’s family made glutinous rice cakes, and the third daughter’s family made five-color glutinous rice. Grandpa came to Zhaikou and opened the things from the three families. The five-color glutinous rice was bright in color and fragrant. He liked it the most, so he went to his third daughter's house first. From then on, every third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, every Buyi family would make glutinous rice to entertain relatives and friends. Over time, the annual March Festival was formed.

3. June 6th

"June 6th" is a traditional festival for the Buyi people. Due to different living areas, the date of the festival is not uniform. In some areas, it falls on the sixth day of June. The festival is called June 6th; in some areas, the New Year is celebrated on June 16th or the 26th day of June in the lunar calendar, which is called June Street or June Bridge. The Buyi people attach great importance to this festival, which is also known as the "Little New Year". When the festival comes, all villages will kill chickens and pigs, make small triangular flags out of white paper, dip them in chicken or pig blood, and insert them into the crop fields. Legend has it that if you do this, the "Tianma" (locusts) will not come to eat you. crops.

4. Chabai Song Festival

It is a traditional festival of the Buyi people in Xingyi area, Guizhou. The festival takes place from the 21st to the 23rd of the sixth lunar month every year. Tens of thousands of people of all ethnic groups from more than 10 surrounding counties and even Yunnan and Guangxi will participate in the event, which is a grand event.