Holidays of the Gnu

New year:

At the end of the December or the first of the lunar January. Since in other peoples it is a holiday of finishing with the old thing to receive the new thing. He washes well its house, prepares special meal and wine for him. On eve they do gratitude ceremonies to the God of the Grain, and the day following the ancestors, with the target to ask for prosperity. Then for 15 days there are realized playful activities, dances, singings and games of all kinds. Like the arcade, which they compete shooting to a piece of saliva (a type of cake) and other of meat hung of a tree. To throw balls, etc. the most aged meet, drink wine, and tell him repeatedly the histories and myths of the people, sometimes day and night non-stop. The young people, to the sound of the pip and the harmonica, sings and dances up to the dawn.

Festival of the Fairy Maiden.

Of Along de Gongshan. On lunar March 15. The people lead azaleas in flower to the caves with stalactites to saying the Fairy Maiden. Since according to the legend when the people could not communicate by the deep gullets that cover his territory, a girl observing to the chandeliers constructing his network, it discovered the way of doing bridges. Further on, the chief wanted to marry her, but she pushed him back, and for not being forced fled to the forest living in a cave. That's why flowers take to him to a cave.

To adore to the Sky or to Adore to the Forest:

A ceremony that there realize only the men, who assemble nearly one peach tree and sacrifice a pig, chicken or kid to ask good climate it to be on the following year. Then they eat up all the meat and support the place like sacred.

Gift to the God of the Grain:

Nusu de Bijiang. Lunar December 29 is celebrated. The adult men meet in an elected place, taking a pig, a bowl of wine and corn. There they cut bamboo, canes and some branches. They throw the wine in the bamboo and move him and distribute while they pray asking the God of the Grain for good harvest. Then they celebrate with the pig a ritual banquet.

His most common musical instruments are the pip and the hulusheng.

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