Holidays of the Achang

The ritual cycle of the Achang seems to reflect his past. The migrations that along his history have communicated him with different peoples, have left his trace in the most important celebrations of the year achang.

This way we see that the most important holidays of the Achang are:

Holiday of the Happiness in the house:
There is celebrated the 4th of the fifth lunar month. It is a holiday in honor to the heroes who in the antiquity shot his arrows at the sun that everything was burning it, allowing to the Achang to initiate a prosperity life. In this date there come persons of distant villages to be celebrated together with his relatives or friends, this homage to the hero who opened for the Achang the doors of the life.

Holiday of Adoring the Mother Earth:
It is celebrated three times a year. In the day horse of the lunar February, lunar May 28 and lunar June 25. It is a ceremony in honor of the ancestors Zhepama and Zhemima who created the world, the man and taught the Achang to live on the ground.

Other important holidays are:

The Year New achang. That is celebrated, like the Chinese new year during the first three days of the first lunar month.

The Holiday of the Torches, which is celebrated like other peoples related to the Yi, on lunar June 24.

Holiday of Liangwa and Holiday of Chuwa. Two holidays are Buddhists of wide acceptance between the Achang, who reflect the influence of the Buddhism, got possibly for his contacts with the Dais.

The holidays achang are characterized by the continuous presence of the singing. In fact, the singing is his favorite pastime. They sing working, being courted and in the festivals. Often they sing in short duets

His most famous dance is the Dance of the Drum of Paw of Elephant, in that those who dance pair off and are moving alante and behind, to right and left to the rhythm of the music. Also they dance the Dance of the Lions and the Dance of the Monkeys.

The Achang have a series of proper musical instruments. As the bamboo Qin, the flute, the sheng (a wind instrument), the sanxian (that is translated like "three ropes"), the drum of paw of elephant, and the gong.

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