Holidays of the Jingpo

Jida: On lunar second of January. It is a holiday of happiness in which the young people knows each other, provisions take, and they meet in a beautiful place to sing and to amuse themselves.

Holiday of Taking Flowers: It is celebrated shortly after the New Year. They all go out to the field in festive and happy ambience, to take flowers.

Festival Munao, it is undoubtedly the most important of the Jingpo (in Zaiwa his name is Zongge). It is a meeting of singings and dances fundamentally, in honor of Mudai, the most important of the celestial gods that celebrates lunar January 15, and it lasts between 3 and 5 days according to the places. Thousands of persons meet in a square arranged with 4 posts. In the past only it could be celebrated by the shangong, which was making it every 4 ó 5 years, and he was inviting all the villagers of his district. Pigs and cows were killing themselves for all, and sometimes they were meeting up to 3.000 persons. Nowadays it has less religious and more playful and tourist meaning.

To venerate the Powerful ones. It is celebrated approximately two times a year, sometimes more. Generally in the epoch of the sowing, to ask for good harvest, and in that of the harvest, to be grateful for it. And there are venerated the gods of the sky, the ground, and ten thousand things, which are considered to be responsible for the quiet harvest.

Holiday of the Gods of the Grain. Also to propitiate the good harvest

Year of the spirits. In the lunar November. To ask to the spirits of the sky and of the ancestors that rains and winds should be distributed of form favorable to the harvests.

The holiday of eating the New Grain. In that under the guidance of the Dongsha an ox sacrifices itself.

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