A work describing a festival

Miao nationality is rich in ancient civilization and pays attention to etiquette. The 20-year-old festival is unique and distinctive. Miao traditional festivals are divided into: 1. Farming festival; Material exchange festival; 3. Festivals for men and women to socialize, fall in love and choose their spouses; 4. Sacrificial festivals; 5. Commemorate and celebrate festivals. In chronological order, a year is divided into twelve months, and each month has more than one festival. 1-15th (from the first child day to the second cloudy day) of the lunar month, in which1day is the day of the year, and the Miao people do not go out (far away); The 1 ugly day is the annual festival of the earth. During the period from 1 ugly day to the second ugly day (2- 14), people visited relatives and friends, congratulated each other on the New Year, sang duets, played with dragon lanterns and played with lions. The second day of the second lunar month (15) is the last year (burning dragon lanterns). The first ugly day of the partial moon (bull moon or ugly moon) is the friendship day, also known as the dragon head festival. Miao people sacrifice to the land gods and collect dragons safely. The first day of June+10 (Tiger Moon or silver moon) in 5438 was a festival for material exchange and social interaction between men and women (known as the Third Street Festival in March in Chinese). The first Sunday in February (Rabbit Month or Uzuki) is the Ox King's Day (called April 8th in Chinese), when men and women get together to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. The first and second days of March (Dragon Moon or Chen Yue) are the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival respectively, in which the Dragon Boat Festival was later named Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of Miao nationality, also known as Qu Yuan Festival and Songshi Festival. April 1 day (Snake Moon or Mitsuki) is the Dragon Festival (called June 6th and June field in Chinese), and it is also a new barley festival. The 1 sub-day in May (horse month or noon month) is a small festival (summer solstice, Yindan? At noon the next day, it was the Seven Qiao Festival (called Seven Sisters in Miao language, namely the Big Dipper). The second day of June is the Duck Festival, and the second day is the Mid-Autumn Festival. July 1 Shenri (Monkey Moon or Shenyue) is the wine festival (harvesting glutinous rice to make sweet wine and rice wine). August (chicken moon or full moon) is a festival of sacrifice (mainly for ancestor worship, eating pigs, jumping incense, mourning, Anlong and other activities). ). September (dog month or full moon) hunting festival, choose a day to worship the three gods of Meishan and start hunting. 10 (Year of the Pig or Haiyue) is the festival of eating pigs and soaking pigs (killing pigs in that year), the festival of kitchen gods (offering sacrifices to kitchen gods) and New Year's Eve (called October Miao Spring Festival in Chinese). Wearing Miao costumes, women's styles are the most, reaching more than 130. There are more than 100 species in Guizhou alone, which can be roughly divided into two categories: the first category is the traditional ancient form, clothes with big collars or big buttons, pleated skirts, gorgeous and rich in content. There are dozens of headdresses alone, with a bun tied on the top of the head and a wooden comb inserted, similar to a cloud bun. There are also differences, such as Anshun and Zhenning, where some bun is tied at the top right of the head, southeastern Guizhou bun is tied at the center of the head, southwestern Guizhou bun is tied above the forehead, and Guiyang, where some bun is similar to a hat, some bun is tied into a long boat-shaped bun, and some bun is tied into a big horn comb with two ends up. In the second category, the head is covered with a handkerchief, and the clothes with big breasts are matched with trousers. Skirts, sleeves and trouser legs are inlaid with "lace". The shoulders, chest and back shoulders of the clothes are also embroidered with lace, and the chest is embroidered with waist. Clothes are mostly cyan or blue, and some are dark gray or black. Guizhou Miao costumes can be divided into four categories and 24 styles, which are briefly described as follows: Qiandong style: mainly including Taijiang style, Ping Huang style, Zhou Xi style, Leigongshan style, Li Congrong style, Du Dan style and Danzhai style. In addition to dressing up, women will also wear traditional costumes such as navy blue, big collars (a few are big breasts) and undivided pleated skirts, most of which are tied with vertebral buns and a few are covered with headscarves. Including all Miao people in Guizhou province who speak Miao language and Guizhou Oriental language. South-central Guizhou type: there are mainly Luobohe type, Huaxi type, Huishui type, Anqing type, Ning 'an type and Anzhen type. Miao people, belonging to Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan dialects of Miao language, mostly wear women's clothes with big collars and double-breasted buttons, a few are left-handed and a few wear large-breasted buttons. Pleated middle skirt, less long skirt. Most dresses are decorated with flowers, embroidery and batik, and a few have no flowers. Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan styles: including Weining style, Bijie style, He Na style, Anpan style, Puzhi style, Zhijin style, Anpu style, Longjiang style, Anhui and Jiangxi style, Renhuai style and Puding style. Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan dialect is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi provinces in Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan dialect. The basic style of women's wear is double-breasted or large-breasted tops, and some are also equipped with back lapels and pleated long skirts, with skirts in front and streamers in the back. Northeast Guizhou type: including Songtao type, Qinglong type and Tianzhu type. This type is mainly distributed in Tongren area and the eastern part of Zunyi area, and there are also a few in Qiandongnan and Qianxinan. Women's clothes are big-breasted coats, trousers, and mostly headscarves. Most young people wearing headscarves wear many delicate pieces of silver when they dress up. Women's wear Miao women generally wear narrow sleeves, big collars, jackets, double-breasted skirts on the upper body and pleated skirts on the lower body. The dress can be long enough, elegant and colorful, or short enough to the knee, elegant and moving. Casual clothes are mostly wrapped in a handkerchief on the head, a blouse on the upper body, a pair of trousers on the lower body, embroidered edges, an embroidered waist and a little delicate silver ornaments as a foil. There are more than 30 styles of women's wear 130, and there are only10/species in Guizhou. Pleated skirts are worn in Guizhou, Yunnan, southern Sichuan, Guangxi, Hainan Island and other places, but the length varies, with the biggest difference in southeastern Guizhou, some reaching the feet, some exceeding the calves, some knee-high, and some only about 30 cm, but skirts are the most common. Colors are blue, blue and white, and skirts are embroidered, embroidered, inlaid, batik or plain. This coat has a big chest and a big collar. In western Hunan, northeastern Guizhou, western Hubei and other places, during the Qing, Gansu and Jia dynasties, due to the failure of ethnic riots, they were forced to refit, wearing trousers and a large-breasted coat with lace on the farm side, cuffs and trouser legs. You only wear skirts when you are a solitaire, but you don't wear skirts at ordinary times. During the festival, women visit relatives and friends and wear all kinds of silver ornaments on their heads, necks and wrists. Men's clothing styles are relatively simple. Men in all parts of Guizhou usually wear double-breasted or left-handed coats (some also wear right-handed ones), trousers, a big belt and a long blue scarf on their heads. Leggings are wrapped in winter. In the northwest of Guizhou, people wear patterned linen clothes and wool felt on their shoulders.