Flowery Mountains Festival
Name : Flowery Mountains Festival for the Miao people
Date : between the second and seventh day of the first lunar month
The Miao people living in Yunnan and some other places celebrate the festival, also known as the Festival of Treading the Flowery Mountains. During this annual festival, thousands of Miao people will go to the open hillsides among their villages and hold various festive activities.
The so-called "Flowery Pole" is always the mark of the festival. Usually, it is made from long, straight pine or cypress trees. Colorful flags and prizes for pole climbing like sweets and lusheng (a kind of reed pipe wind instrument) are hung about one meter lower from the top of the pole. The person who volunteers to set up the flowery pole before the first dawn of the festival will be widely recognized as a kind-hearted person. It is this person who takes responsibility to toast festival attendees and officially declare the beginning of the festival followed by the drum and gong beating and firecracker explosions.
At the time, the festive site, full of flowers and colorful flags, is just a sea of singing and dancing. Activities such as folk song singing, Iusheng dancing, lion dancing and bull fighting are held one after another. The festival offers a wonderful chance for young Miao people to find their sweethearts. Once falling in love, the young man will present his lover flowery embroidered puttees and waistbands as gifts, while the girls give out scarf and turbans they embroider themselves.
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