In the Dong villages of Huaihua, from the third to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, there is a custom of taking villages as a group to visit other villages, which is called "Xing Nian".

After the New Year's Lusheng guests arrive in another village, the main village will hold a collective banquet. First, a 12- or 13-year-old boy specially selected from the guest village will give the "grace".

The contents of "Money" generally range from "the creation of the world", "the flood", "the origin of man", "the origin of the Lusheng" to "village rules and regulations".

Every time he spoke a paragraph, everyone responded in unison: "Yes!" to show their appreciation.

After the speech, the main village held a banquet and left happily.

The Tujia people in western Hunan celebrate the Spring Festival one day early.

According to legend, Tujia soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were transferred to the southeast coast to fight against Japanese invaders. When the military order was urgent, they celebrated the New Year in advance and rushed to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.

After the Tujia soldiers went on an expedition, they made the first contribution in the southeast. In order to commemorate this expedition, later generations moved the Spring Festival forward by one day, which continues to this day.

The Tujia Nationality's "Tiao Annual Meeting" usually starts on the third day of the first lunar month and lasts for several days and nights. The most lively part is the hand-waving dance. At the same time, traditions such as local bull wrestling, pole fighting, and clam and ant egg grabbing are also held.

Great exchange of folk sports and materials.

During the Qingming Festival, people in Hunan still follow the custom of sweeping ancestors' graves and hanging paper on their graves.

Because spring flowers bloom around the Qingming Festival, outings are popular in various places, and some people fly kites on this day.

During the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, dragon boat races are held in various places in Hunan to commemorate Qu Yuan's sinking, especially in Miluo.

Dragon Boat Festival food mainly consists of rice dumplings and salted eggs. Folk customs include hanging mugwort and other herbs, wrapping colorful silk threads, burning smoke houses with atractylodes, atractylodes, and cloud incense, and dotting realgar on children's foreheads, which are intended to ward off epidemics and eliminate evil spirits.

In many places, especially the Tujia people, there are big and small Dragon Boat Festivals. The fifth day of May is the Little Dragon Boat Festival, and the fifteenth day of May is the Big Dragon Boat Festival.

The Miao people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival during the Dragon Boat Festival.

June 6th, also known as the Half-year Festival, is regarded as a new-tasting day in various places in Hunan.

During the festival, rice is steamed with seven-threaded ears of corn. In recent times, some people put new rice on top of old rice, and some people use all new rice to steam it. They first pay respect to the ancestors, and then give it to the dogs to taste first, and then taste the new rice.

To show that we do not forget the blessings from our ancestors and the virtue of dogs stealing grain seeds from the Heavenly Palace.

In some places in Shaoyang, cattle pen land is also sacrificed on June 6th.

On June 6th, it is customary to dry clothes, quilts and books in various places. There is a saying that "people dry their clothes and dragons dry their robes".

Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the Reunion Festival.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the bright moon is bright, and the whole family sets up an incense table under the moonlight, offering fresh fruits, lotus roots, and moon cakes, paying homage to the moon, appreciating the full moon, and having family reunions.

There is a folk song in Changsha that goes "In August, when the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrants, every family picks up a girl." Married girls are all picked up for the festival.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, women have the habit of wearing osmanthus hairpins or placing osmanthus flowers in their houses. There is also the old custom of "August fragrance" in the Nanyue Dynasty in various places.

The main festival food of the Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes. In some areas of Hunan, there is also the custom of not eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival but making rice dumplings during the Mid-Autumn Festival in August.

In addition to the above-mentioned festivals, the most solemn festivals of the Miao people in western Hunan are "April 8th" and "Autumn Festival".

"April 8" is a festival to commemorate a Miao hero named Yayi.

Every April 8th of the lunar calendar, people dressed in costumes flock to the place where the Miao hero Yayi fought - the Phoenix low tide well to "dance to the moon". Festival activities include blowing the reed, playing the suona, and playing games.

Singing, drumming and dancing, etc.

"Catch the Autumn" is a festival for the Miao people to celebrate the harvest.

On the first day of autumn, people dress up and gather in the field to play swings, compete in Miao songs, perform Miao operas, perform dragon dances, lion dances, blow wood leaves, etc. Young men and women talk about love and find partners.

There are many festivals for the Yao people in Hunan, and the Yao people in different regions have their own unique festivals.

For example, the Longhui Yao people hold "Tanlegui" on the fifth to seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year; the Dongkou Yao people hold the "Paga Festival" on the sixth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar;

Panwang Festival", Xinning Yao family held "Drumming Hall" and so on.

One of the most grand is the "Panwang Festival" held by Guoshan Yao in southern Hunan to celebrate the birthday of their ancestor Panwang.

On this day, men, women and children of the Yao ethnic group all dress up in costumes and gather together to sing and dance. The most exciting thing is the drum dance.

The dancer holds a long drum in his arms and stands on a small square table. While beating the drum with his hands, he dances with his knees bent all the time. Every posture maintains a curve. The movements have a distinct rhythm and are steady and powerful.

There are many traditional festivals held by people of all ethnic groups in Hunan, such as "March 3", "Grain Rain Tea Festival" and "Laba Festival" spread in many places, Sama Festival and Girl's Day of Dong people, Bird Respecting Festival of Jianghua Yao people, Xiangxi

Tujia’s Rat Killing Day, etc., all have strong national and regional characteristics.