Yaochi congress
In the folk, the eighth day of August is our legendary Yaochi Conference, and this festival was an important custom at that time. Legend has it that every year on the third day of March, the sixth day of June and the eighth day of August in the lunar calendar, the Queen Mother of the West specially holds the Flat Peach Festival here, and all kinds of immortals come to celebrate the birthday of the founding father of the Queen Mother of the West, which is very lively. "Mu Wang was in Yaochi, on the side of Kunlun Mountain, explaining" Mu Chuan "by the Queen Mother of the West", while the Monkey King, the Great Sage of Qitian, ate flat peaches and made a scene in the Heavenly Palace (The Journey to the West).
Tujia suona festival
The eighth day of the eighth lunar month is a grand festival for Tujia people, and every Tujia people is looking forward to the "August 8th" Suona Festival. On the eighth day of August every year, it is a grand suona festival for Tujia people in Zhenyuan village. The annual Gegen Festival, also known as "Sea Fighting Festival" and "Around the Sea Festival", is a sacrificial ceremony for the Bai and Yi nationalities in Dali, Jianchuan and other places in Yunnan to commemorate the hero Duan Chicheng from August 8 to 12.
Matters needing attention on the eighth day of August
Suitable for today
Worship, drilling, transportation, shopping, marriage, finding heirs, praying, fasting and planting.
Today's taboo
The two places are separated, collecting money, entering new houses, cutting down trees, mourning, breaking ground, seeking wealth, opening the stock market, collecting livestock, building dikes, burying and setting up vouchers.