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HOLIDAY OF THE NEW YEAR:
It is the most important holiday. It splits into two celebrations, the call Big Year, of the women, and Small Year, of the men (who according to the tradition came late because they were hunting), and they are respectively from the 1 to 4 and from 9 to 11. Finishing on the whole 12th.
In fact, there start 24 of last lunar month with the wash of all the objects of daily, necessary use to summon the happiness of the year. On the 1st of the first lunar month it is of the Day of New It waters down. At the dawn they go out for water to the spring, and the first one that comes will be the first one that will see his grain maturing. On the 2nd the marriages visit the parents and eat with them, who in turn offer a red tape. The 5th is the Day of the Hunting, and the men go to a big tree to the outskirts of the village, and draw the animals that they want to hunt during this year, and it is supposed that this way they will obtain it.
HOLIDAY OF THE BRILLIANT PURITY
Day of cleaning the graves with the sacrifice of a rooster and singings of the priests.
HOLIDAY OF PLANTING TREES AND BAMBÚES
Those who stand firm on this day cannot be cut
HOLIDAY OF THE TORCHES.
It is celebrated 24 of the sixth lunar month. He commemorates the victory of the men on the gods, in this case the darkness that there imposes Esha, which is fought by Zhanuzhapie putting torches in the horns of the oxen to be able to plant.
HOLIDAY OF THE NEW RICE
During the same one the new rice is offered to the gods and ancestors. Only since then the first ritual tasting is realized, and it is already possible to cut.
HOLIDAY OF THE HALF AUTUMN.
It is a holiday in honor of the moon, to which pumpkins are offered. The elders tie red tapes to the young people, which are supposed it will offer to them protection to return without problems of the distant grounds. Also it is a way of giving the congratulations to the people, especially to the hero, and it is a vitality sign.
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