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The Hanis have many spiritual ceremonies that they celebrate throughout the year. The most important and most widespread are:
The Holiday of Amatu
It is celebrated in the second month of the lunar calendar. It does not have a fixed date. During three to five days the persons detain all his productive activities, and celebrate the holiday. Amatu was a legendary heroine that has turned into the goddess of the villages. These days, masculine representatives of every family, do sacrifices before the sacred tree. The young people meets in festive ambience, dancing, singing and touching drums and cymbals.
The Holiday of Kuzhazha
In the fifth month of the lunar calendar. It is a holiday to produce cult to his ancestors. The most important part of this holiday is the sacrifice of a cow it is offered them. In every house the people also show them his respect before the altars.
This is the best opportunity that the young people of different villages has to be. In the night, they sing and dance in the groups up to the dawn.
The Holiday of Zalete
Hani is the New Year. There is celebrated one day dragon of the tenth lunar month. Sometimes the shamans choose one day dog or sheep to begin the holiday, which usually durá one week.
It has a double function: to be grateful to the ancestors for the good good harvest, and to ask them for a prosperous New Year. Every family kills a pig to offer his ancestors. The elders sing until the dawn. The young people sings and dances the entire day.
This is a very special holiday, because the Hani accustom to do a big banquet in the street. Every family cooks some plates that all the persons of the people will eat together in the street, for it each one extracts it was a table and some chairs, where all together enjoy the New Year. There is times that see more than hundred tables joined in the street.
Although these three holidays are the principal celebrations of the year Hani, there are some minor holidays with a special interest.
The Holiday of the Mother
In the second month of the lunar calendar. It lasts one day and one night.
Although it is supposed that it is an occasion to praise the mothers. In fact, it is the moment in which the young people presents his respects to the elders. Perhaps it is a trace of the matriarchal character of the society of primitive Hani.
Holiday of Changing the Door of the Dragon
It is celebrated before the sowing.
They raise a new door for the village, but they do not knock down the old woman. That's why in the villages hani there are normally many doors. One behind other one.
Holiday of Eating the Insects
To fight the pests. They go to the fields to take insects that they bring to the village. It is a way of showing the human beings power on the insects. It is supposed that he prepares the damages of the insects on the harvests.
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