Mongolian Naadam Assembly; Siberian Maghreb Festival; Yi "Torch Festival"; Yao Danu Festival; Tibetan Wang Guo Festival.

1, Yao Danu Festival

Danu Festival is a traditional festival of the Yao people in Ma Shan, Du'an, Bama, Pingguo, Long'an, Dahua and other places, which call themselves "Bunu". It is also known as the Festival of Two Nine, Zuniang Festival, Zhuzhi Festival, and Yao Year.

The most important activity of Bunu Festival is playing copper drums and dancing copper drum dance. There are two kinds of drums: male drums and female drums. Five people are needed to perform on the drums. Two people play the drums, one plays the gong, one plays the drum, and one dances the bamboo hat. The gong sounds first, followed by the rhythmic beating of the copper drums and leather drums. There are twelve sets of traditional playing styles for the copper drums, which represent scenes of farming, hunting and other battles with nature from different angles and in different ways.

Their movements are rugged and powerful, and the dances are graceful and generous. The bamboo hat dancers, interspersed between the four drummers and gong players, make humorous and ridiculous movements from time to time, making the audience laugh. The drums are resounding, the dance is simple, and the style is rough and plagiarized. Although the performers do not have much artistic feeling, the dance steps they have practiced in their labor are fresh and robust, and the dancers work together in harmony, winning applause from the audience from time to time. The best dancers also get the reputation of "drum king".

2, the Xibe tribe smearing black festival

Smearing black festival is living in Xinjiang Xibe people a funny traditional festival. On the sixteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Xibo people celebrate the Mianhei Festival.

People get up early in the morning, young people in groups, holding a prepared dipped in oil, stained with the bottom of the smoke of the "Ku Ku Bitter" (cloth or felt), door to door, as long as they meet people, regardless of men and women, caught on the face to wipe. Those who have not yet got up, will also be lifted off the quilt, wipe a black.

The Xibo people generally respect the elderly. If you meet an old man on this day, you must first greet him and then kneel down, and only after getting the old man's permission can you half-kneel and wipe a little bit of black on the old man, or wipe by the old man himself.

According to custom, whoever does not wipe black on his face on this day, he will be unlucky this year. According to folklore, the intention of the festival is to ask the god of grains to spare the crops from the black spikes disease and ensure a good harvest.

3, Yi Torch Festival

Yi Torch Festival is a traditional festival in the Yi region, held every year on the 24th day of the sixth lunar month, popular in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other Yi regions; torch festival held on the 24th or 25th day of the sixth lunar month, the festival period of three days. On the 24th day of June in the lunar calendar, the handle of the Big Dipper refers to the upper point, the Yi language branch of the ethnic groups are going to have a torch festival.

July 18, 2014 to July 27, Yunnan Village of Nationalities will hold a ten-day "World Torch Festival - the most cattle village of Nationalities" as the theme of the original ecological torch festival carnival activities, the public do not have to travel long distances can feel the original ecological The public do not have to travel long distances to feel the original Yi ethnic flavor, to participate in the exciting and original minority festivals and activities.

4, Mongolian Naadam Assembly

Nadam" is the Mongolian language, also known as "Nayar (Nair)", "Naadam" is a translation of the Mongolian language, meaning "entertainment, games". Nadam" is a translation of the Mongolian word, meaning "entertainment, games", to express the joy of the harvest. The "Naadam" conference is a traditional festival with a long history in Mongolia and occupies an important position in the life of Mongolian people.

Annual "Naadam" conference is held in July and August when the livestock are fat and strong, and it is a cultural and recreational conference held by people to celebrate the harvest. "Naadamu", the meaning of the Mongolian language is entertainment or games. "Naadam" on the General Assembly has a thrilling horse racing, wrestling, archery is appreciated, there is a strong fight in chess, there are fascinating songs and dances.

Horse racing is also one of the important activities in the conference. The race began with the riders lined up, all wearing colorful belts and heads wrapped in colorful scarves, overflowing with youthful vitality. The starting point and end of the horse race inserted a variety of brightly colored flags, just wait for the horn to sound, the riders will have to fly on the saddle, whip horse, a red scarf flying, such as arrows. The first five to reach the finish line, the grasslands become the most acclaimed athletes. Archery, wrestling and other competitions also attract many herdsmen.

5, the Tibetan fruit festival

Watch the fruit festival, is the Tibetan farmers celebrate the harvest of the festival, popular in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, Rikaze, Shannan and other places. Time in the annual Tibetan calendar in July and August, the specific date with the changes in the agricultural season and changes, generally in the barley after the yellow ripe, the first two or three days before the opening of the harvest held. Therefore, Wang Guo Festival schedule are to the township as a unit, according to the local crop ripening situation by the townspeople collectively agreed.

According to legend, as early as the end of the 5th century AD, the Tibetan King Boudhogunjian to ensure a good harvest of food to Yongzhong Benjamin Buddha for advice. Buddha's will, let the farmers around the field circle, by holding incense burners, holding high the flag pole of the people as a guide, by holding high wrapped around the stick of the hatha and the right leg of the sheep of the Church of the Lord to lead the way, leading to hold the barley cob or wheat cob of the village villagers around the head of the ground several times after the cob of all kinds of cereals inserted in the grain silo and shrines, and prayed for wind and rain, a good harvest.

Then eat a hearty picnic. Once the festival is over, the intense labor of the fall harvest officially begins. The festival is the greatest joy for Tibetan farmers after working hard for half a year to pray for a good harvest. Tibetan language "look fruit festival" in the "look", meaning the field, fruit for the "turn circle", "look fruit festival" that is: Around the harvest field of song and dance.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Wangguo Festival

Baidu Encyclopedia - Naadam

Baidu Encyclopedia - Yi Torch Festival

Baidu Encyclopedia - Sibe Muhai Festival

Baidu Encyclopedia - Danu Festival