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The holidays of the area of XISHUANGBANNA, of more pronounced character Buddhist, support, nevertheless, a good number of traces of his ancient culture.
Holiday Shela, or Tanshela or Taluoluo.
In lunar January.
It is in honor of the dead relatives. Every family gathers banana sheets on which the monks write in Dai the names of the relatives. Meat is offered in the graves of the relatives, in the temple, in the door of the village and in the center of the village. In these 4 places.
The second day gifts appear in the temple, and those that take them they remain to sleep there, since one believes that this night they will be able to meet his dead relatives.
Holidays Gangyong in honor of the Rat of Bamboo.
In January or lunar June, without fixed date.
According to the legend the bamboo rat was who delivered the cereals to the Bulang, and the one that allowed the development of the agriculture. That's why every year venerates them in this holiday. The young people goes to the mountain and captures a bamboo rat, ties it to a stick and adorns it with flowers, two men taking this stick turn to the village. After the prayers of the people it goes over to the house of the chief, where the head cuts him, and delivers him to him, splitting the small portions of his meat between every family of the village, which adore them along with the god of the family.
Holiday of Beginning Water.
On lunar February 29. Lasting 3 days.
Of big influence dai, it is a religious holiday in honor of the ancestors.
Holiday of Reading the Writing
On August 15 of the calendar dai (lunar May).
A holiday is a Buddhist, and they all go to the temple with gifts from the morning early.
Holiday of Closing the Doors
15 of 9 dai (in the middle of the lunar June)
A traditional holiday Buddhist, in whom the people of the village close on the outside to concentrate on the agricultural activities.
Holiday of Opening the Doors.
In the lunar September.
It is when the young people of the villages initiates the courtship activities between.
Holiday of Taking the Cloths.
About the lunar October, in date that the chief and the priest decides.
Every family of the village buys a yellow cloth of between 4 and 8 meters, and they meet before the house of the Zhaoman or chief, who takes all of them to the temple. This day one does not work, pigs and cows kill themselves and all kinds of banquets is prepared. In the night the young people sings and dances.
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