What is the traditional festival of Yao nationality?

Traditional Yao festivals include Wang Pan Festival, Danu Festival, Guage Hall, Ganba Festival and niujie Festival.

1, Wang Pan Festival

Panwang Festival, also known as "Panwang", "Panwang Wish" and "Panwang Jump", is a grand traditional festival in Pan Yao to commemorate the ancestor "Panwang". Wang Pan is a mythical figure of Yao nationality. Legend has it that he led the Yao people to open up land, create civilization, resist foreign enemies, and established the first Yao nation, Panyi State. In order to express their admiration and gratitude for King Pan, the Yao people hold grand sacrificial activities every October 16th of the lunar calendar, including offering sacrifices to King Pan, dancing, singing and dragon boat racing.

2. Danu Festival

Danu Festival is the most important agricultural festival of Yao people, and it is also a festival to celebrate the New Year and harvest. Danu means "millet" or "rice" in Yao language, and Danu Festival is a festival to eat new rice. The date of the Great Slave Festival varies from place to place, and it is usually held in October or November of the lunar calendar when the local millet is ripe. During the Danu Festival, Yao people will make all kinds of food with new rice, such as zongzi, Baba, cakes and so on. And brew rice wine with new rice to enjoy food and happiness with friends and family.

3. Auditorium

Guage Hall is a large-scale cultural activity of Yao nationality, which is mainly popular in Paiyao Village, Liannan Yao Autonomous County, Guangdong Province. It is the most grand and large-scale traditional folk activity for Yao people to commemorate their ancestors, recall history, celebrate harvest, reward and pray, spread knowledge and mass entertainment.

4. Gamba Festival

Every year, on the second day of the second lunar month, Yao people worship their ancestors and mountain gods, praying for good weather and good harvests. On this day, the Yao people eat Ganba rice, that is, zongzi made of glutinous rice, peanuts, sesame seeds and red dates.

5. niujie

Every year, on the eighth day of November in the lunar calendar, Yao people offer sacrifices to the ox god to thank the ox for its hard work. On this day, Yao people will bathe, feed, put on colored silk and sing songs for cattle.