Naxi people eat glutinous rice with sugar dates and drink realgar wine on the morning of the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. In front of the door are white poles, three kudzu roots and two barley ears. During the festival, medicinal materials stalls will be set up in the market to sell all kinds of precious medicinal materials. Women embroidered sachets, purses, dolls, fans, pen covers and other handicrafts.
Shui people have the custom of being vegetarian. It is said that the distant ancestors of the Shui people moved from Jiangxi to Sandu area in Guizhou, where they cultivated land and started their family business. After a certain autumn, four sons of my distant ancestors came to visit. When the distant ancestor went upstairs to take meat to entertain them, he accidentally fell down and died. From then on, from the first day of the festival, the aquarium can only be vegetarian, and can only eat meat after the festival.
Dai Zongbao Festival is popular in parts of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The summer calendar is held on the fifth day of May. During the festival, unmarried young men and women dressed in costumes sang love songs in a circle under the trees at the edge of the village. Then, the young man threw jiaozi to the girl he liked. If the girls were interested, they were picked up, and both of them went to a secluded place nearby to talk about love and didn't leave until sunset.
Pumi people will go around the mountain, also known as "around the cave". It is popular in today's Pumi inhabited areas in Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. The local Pumi people regard Lion Mountain as the goddess and supreme protector, and believe that it can dominate reproduction and fertility, bringing happiness and peace to the world.
Dujiangyan is a festival popular in Leibo, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan and Jinsha River. The time is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. On the day of the festival, calamus and mugwort leaves are hung in front of every household, children should wipe their faces with realgar wine, and young men and women should also wrap zongzi and bring wine to cultivate meat, and go to the scenic mountain lawn for wrestling, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep shooting, dancing and other recreational activities.
Miao Dragon Boat Festival, Miao people living in Taijiang, Shidong, Songtao and other places in Guizhou have the custom of "Dragon Boat Festival" on the fifth day of May.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, all Miao people, old and young, put on their favorite holiday costumes and set off for Qingshui River. Immediately, Qingshui River built a long embankment, which was colorful.
Young girls, wearing high hair bun and dazzling silver headdress, collar, earrings and rings, are dazzling in the sun, like silver flowers blooming on the long beach. Happy people are playing lusheng, singing melodious songs and dancing happily. Laughter and laughter have been rushing to the blue sky.
Dong Yulan, a Dong nationality living in Guizhou and Hunan, on the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, women went up the mountain to collect herbs and went home to cook delicious soup to wash their bodies and hair. After washing, the housewife went to the bamboo house and wrapped the zongzi respectfully.
Adult men are forbidden to go upstairs when Bao Zongba is employed. On holidays, every household presents straw wine in front of the ancestral tablet and zongba on the ancestral tablet. The woman wrapped the child's head with straw leaves and drew the word "Wang" on her forehead with realgar wine. Indoor and outdoor, spray with water boiled with pepper and pueraria lobata to make realgar garlic oil and sprinkle it on the dishes to be eaten.
Dong people living along the river and lake have the custom of boating and dragon boat racing, while those living in mountainous areas have the habit of digging grass up the mountain.
Yi people collect and sell medicines. The Yi people living in Xiaoliangshan area have the custom of collecting and selling medicines on the Dragon Boat Festival. "Cornus officinalis is added on holidays, and men and women are busy collecting herbs" means that during the Dragon Boat Festival, heavy rain and grass are flooding, and most Chinese herbal medicines are deeply rooted and leafy, and enter the stage of medicine. People carry medicine hoes on their shoulders and medicine baskets on their backs. They walk through mountains, valleys and rivers in droves, taste all kinds of herbs and concentrate on collecting them.
Water race, water race will be held during the Dragon Boat Festival. Horse racing is held on a special track. Before the horse race, each village should select a few venerable old people, put on brand-new robes and felt hats, and ride a red horse along the horse path first, which is called "clearing the way" to show good luck.
Before the game, the riders performed superb riding skills such as prancing and prancing, and adjusted the happy atmosphere on the field before the start of the game. The traditional horse racing of Shui people does not rely on speed to win, but on the endurance of horses and the superb riding skills of riders.
Buyi people beat snails. The Buyi people of the nobility have some customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Snails are usually made of bronze wood, but they are also made of horns. Snails are shaped like a funnel, with a round top and a pointed bottom. The top of the upper disc is 2 to 4 cm thick, which is convenient for whipping and rotating. Snails vary in size and are extremely fine in workmanship.