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The ritual activity is differentiated enough between Bulang de Xishuangbanna, which are mostly Buddhists, and have received deep influences of the Dai, and those who live in Lincang and Simao, where his traditional culture has been preserved better, and his holidays are more attached to his secular beliefs.
This way, the principal holidays in this area are:
Holiday of the God of the Stoves.
Two times every year. One in Eve of New Year.
Every family celebrates it, presenting gifts in his stoves of rice, meat and wine. Then they all pray for the prosperity of the following year. It turns to celebrate in February or lunar March.
Holiday of the God of the Mountains.
On January 5 and 6 of the lunar calendar.
Before the holiday a big tree is chosen in the surroundings of the village so that it represents the god. There the family goes and with the wizard they ask for his protection to the god of the mountain while they sacrifice a chicken, giving with his blood the role money in the tree.
Holiday of the God of the Earth
At the end of the lunar January.
Every house realizes it, it fixes out of his housing a stick with a cap, what means that it is not necessary to enter because they are of ceremonies.
A chicken kills itself while they ask for good harvests, and his pens are buried to the left of the door.
Holiday of the God of the Village
In January and lunar June. Three days every time.
In some villages there is a post in the center surrounded with stones, in others there are 5 posts placed in the center of the village, it is the place of the god of the village that protects them. Activities are not done, one allows to happen to the people of out. The newlyweds, newly arrived persons or that have constructed house during the last year, deliver a few sails to the chief, so that one presents them to the god of the village.
Holiday of the Pond of the Dragon.
On lunar second of February.
In the outskirts of the village it designates a Pond of the Dragon and along with him some big chestnut-tree is the God Dragon. The day of the holiday they all are accompanied there by the priests, and ask the God for dragon good rains and winds. Giving three returns about his pond.
Year New Bulang
In the third lunar month. It lasts three days.
One stops working, pigs and cows kill themselves. There are done special meals, which offer themselves so much the elders and ancestors, as in the temple.
In Mojiang yShuangjiang it gives good luck to be the first one in offering the water of the springs of the mountain
Holiday of the God of the Fire
In the third lunar month.
Although the fire gives light, heat and happiness, also it can bring the disaster, the fire. That is by what every year grasses and crusts of trees are offered him.
Holiday of the Tree Dragon
In lunar July.
In Mojiang it is celebrated every 3 years. One day horse of the second lunar month. It is of the most important holidays, it is not left it will enter strangers to realize activities apart from the holidays. There is offered a cow and two white roosters in a chestnut-tree that symbolizes the gods of the village whom one asks for protection. For 3 days after the holiday no tree must be cut.
Holiday of Kula
Without fixed date.
Kula is the goddess of the waters, with head of person and body of snake. It is capable of controlling the rains and thunderstorms and floods, therefore it can bring the good or the evil to the people. He is celebrated to avoid his evil. Every family takes objects of daily use, casseroles, sunshades, which pull at the water for the goddess.
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