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The Shui have their own calendar, on which they are based to determine in that date they must celebrate his traditional holidays. The most important are:
Jie Duan or New Year:
Although in general his year starts in the ninth lunar month, it changes a little of a few regions to others, being celebrated in general between the eighth one and the tenth lunar month.
On eve the bronze drums sound to announce that the New Year comes, since all the people must prepare themselves. The New Year's Day the people dress the best clothes, offer meal to the ancestors, and visit the friends.
Throughout it is danced to the sound of the lusheng.
Other important activities of this day are:
- Dance of the struggle of the bull: in which there are imitated the steps of the cultivation of the fields, being inserted by the movements of the struggle with the bull.
- Dance of the drums. Copper drums touch, and of wood. In the night especially that of copper touches, more and more rapid, higher and higher, it is danced to the rhythm of the drum.
- Contests of antiphonal singings.
- Horse racings.
Festival Mao:
It is celebrated in the ninth month or tenth of the calendar shui. The young people is and offers him fish, meat and wine to the fields. There is danced the dance of the lusheng and that of the Drum of Bronze.
Festival your Ningxi.
There is celebrated second of December of the lunar calendar. It is said that it is when the Goddess of the Infancy brings children to the ground. The children of the village take bamboo and ask for symbols of longevity and prosperity. Especially the women direct it.
Festival of Adoring the God of the Rock:
One looks for a rock of strange form and constructs him nearby a hut, in lunar January the people meet and offer sacrificos and prayers to the gods asking for peace and prosperity for the following year.
Festival of Receiving to the Thunder in Spring.
It is celebrated after the first spring thunder. Since it is a sign of that the winter has finished, and the life is reborn. Each one does an activity. Singings, dances, to touch the bronze drum.
They do a wine called Jin Qian, very famous.
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