The Ox King Festival falls on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and is celebrated as the "Birthday of the Ox King Bodhisattva" in rural areas.
During the festival, a general meeting may be held, so it is also called the "Ox King Meeting".
In rural areas, new rice glutinous rice cakes are made to comfort the cattle. People also eat the cows, and hang a piece on each horn of the cow so that when the cow is drinking water, the glutinous rice cakes on the horns can be seen in the water and understand the kindness of the owner.
Yunfeng Temple Fair Naxi Yunfeng Temple is known as the first famous mountain in southern Sichuan. There are Yunfeng Temple, Zhongyunfeng, Laoyunfeng, Baosi and other temples on the list, collectively called Yunfeng Temple.
On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, which is the birthday of the Buddha, people come down the Yangtze River to Chongqing, Jiangjin, Hejiang, and Luzhou to offer incense to the mountains. Crowds of people line up from the riverside to Yunfeng Temple, which stretches nearly ten miles. The scene is very spectacular.
Literati from past dynasties left many calligraphy treasures and poems on the mountain.
The Yunfeng Temple Fair was suspended after 1949 and resumed after 1982. After 1984, as many as 20,000 to 30,000 people attend the temple fair every year.
The Ghost Festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as the Ghost Festival.
Most people prepare incense and candles, burn burden paper and gold and silver coins, and offer water and food to pay homage to the souls of the deceased.
Guilds, ancestral halls, religious and charitable institutions and groups should hold "Ollan gatherings" to save the lonely souls who have no relatives or relatives.
In the evening, Gulin children use bamboo poles to pierce large wooden tangerines, stick burning incense sticks all over the tangerines, and play with pens while holding the poles, which is called "playing incense treasures".
Villagers carved hollow tangerines with burning paper money inside and rolled them on the ground to play with.
It will disappear on its own after liberation.
After 1979, the old custom revived, and people began to have the custom of burning rice paper for deceased relatives.
Mountain Hiking Festival The Miao people in Gulin, Xuyong and Hejiang Jiuzhi Districts have long practiced the custom of hiking in the mountains.
There are 23 hiking sites in 22 towns and villages in Gulin, 14 of which have formed markets.
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, one or more days are selected as the Mountain Hiking Festival. At that time, flower poles will be erected at the mountain climbing point, and hundreds of Miao men and women, dressed in festive costumes, will gather in the mountains to play the reed pipe, dance, and sing antiphonal songs.
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Young unmarried men and women find a quiet place to exchange colored belts or sing bamboo songs to express their love.
It’s especially lively when hitting the middle pole and reverse pole.
In the 1980s, the practice of hiking in the mountains increased the content of economic and cultural exchanges between Han and Miao.
In 1986, tens of thousands of people participated in the Baowa Mountain Hiking in Hele Township, Xuyong.
Every spring and autumn, there is a traditional Miao festival to go to the market. The specific time varies from place to place.
The Miao people in neighboring Hele, Xihu, Zhendong and Gulin counties go to Sanchahechang on the 23rd day of the sixth lunar month, and to Zhendongchang on the second day of February and the second day of July; in Zhaihe, Haifeng, Chishuihe and Gulin counties
The Miao people in neighboring counties of Bijie and Bijie go to Macheng Market on the second day of the second lunar month and the second day of the seventh lunar month, and go to the Mani Market on the third day of the second lunar month and the third day of the seventh lunar month.
On this day, young men and women of the Miao ethnic group put on beautiful clothes and gathered on the field. They held hands in groups, played the Lusheng, laughed and had fun on the field and took the opportunity to visit friends and relatives.