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Year New Kucong
It is the biggest holiday that is celebrated every year. Usually in November or lunar December, in some propitious day to start the year, as there are the days horse, snake, tiger, rabbit, pig and rooster. It lasts three days.
The people are very busy, preparing the sacrifices, pigs, chickens, and meals, and warning the relatives and friends so that they come to celebrate with them.
The first day, before the rooster sings, they go for a water bucket. It is called the Water of the Fortune, and on having drunk it, misfortunes and adversity are avoided, and the health is protected. If they have shotguns, two times shoot to the air, to invite the Paternal and Maternal Ancestors to go down to celebrate the New Year. But the most important thing there is the banquet of New Year, in which they meet about the fire, the men to the right and the women to the left. After wishing him the best desires for the year that good harvest begins, health, that the cattle grows, they all eat, drink and sing happy, sometimes accompanied by cymbals and drums.
Then they keep on singing and dancing up to the dawn.
To receive to the spirit of the millet.
It is celebrated in lunar February, after planting the grain.
It is one of the principal productive holidays. Every clan prepares numerous gifts, and they invite twelve virtuous elders to go so far as to his house to do the dance of the spirits and the meal, which is the way of giving the welcome to the spirit of the grain, to which they ask him the harvest to be fruitful. During the dance of the spirits and the meal, while a person directs to the ballet dancers and the musicians tacan the sanxian (instrument of three ropes) and the lusheng, the others take baskets and bowls where it usually contain the meal and the wine, and dance with them in his hands. As all these dances of ritual origin it usually dance very slowly and during a long period of time, sometimes the whole day, during which numerous times enter his small houses, symbolizing the entry of the grain to his hearths.
Holiday of the spirit of the Ancestor.
There is celebrated a propitious day of the lunar February.
Since according to his legends his legends the Ancestor is who regulates the fortune and the misfortune in this world. For it, from a few days earlier they are busy sacrificing pigs and chickens, preparing rice and wine, washing the clothes and the houses, for this solemn occasion.
Then the day of the holiday they distribute the gifts of equitable form in the door of the houses so that if it comes the fortune comes to all.
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