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New year
It is the most important holiday. Much influenced by the Chinese, his celebration is very similar, although with some proper characteristics. In this date the children play the Tuolou. Scarcely finished the holidays, in the county of Wenshan, of the province Yunnan, celebrate horse racings between the different villages. Careers that are prepared from the previous year.
Holiday of The Frog Mother:
It is celebrated in the basin of the river Hongshui. It is a complex ceremony in honor of the frog that announces the rains that are celebrated from the first day of the year, until the end of the first month. The principal activities turn concerning a frog to which it is venerated like daughter of the thunder, and therefore, rains bearer. link
Holiday of the Master of the Earth:
On lunar second of February.
Holiday of Initiating the Sowing:
An ancient ritual parea to ask for good winds and rains that should favor the harvest. It is a trace of the matriarchal epoch when the woman was directing the harvest.
Holiday of Three of Three.
There is celebrated the third day of the third lunar month. It is called also "Holiday of singing in the fields". It is a holiday in honor of the Third Sister Liu, who according to the tradition, taught to sing to the Zhuang. link
Festival of the Soul of the Oxen
There is celebrated the 8th of the fourth lunar month. According to his legends it is the day of the birthday of the oxen, the date in which the King of the Oxen goes down to the ground to protect to the illnesses oxen. For the Zhuang the oxen not only are an essential animal for his agriculture, but they went down the sky bringing the people the grains that would be cultivated.
This day the ox does not work. Glutinous rice is fed him and the children lead him to playing to the river. Between caresses they bring him back to the stables. Then the holiday of the people begins.
Festival of the Boats Dragon
There is celebrated the fifth of the fifth lunar month. Many ships meet in the rivers, in whose shore there are thousands of spectators. At the stated hour the competition begins. In every ship there are approximately thirty persons, all dressed in the same color. A helmsman, a drum, a gong and fourteen pairs of rowers.
Festival of Moyi Dawang
There is celebrated the second day of the sixth lunar month. There commemorates a hero of the Zhuang of the region of the rivers Liujiang and Longjiang, which was opposed to the imperial domination. In the end it was defeated and died, raising his body to the sky.
The day of the celebration visits the Temple of Moyi Dawang and a pig and a cow sacrifices itself with that there appear before him twelve different plates, which then are distributed equitably between the families of the village
Festival of the Fairies
There is celebrated the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. It is the day in the fairies they go down to bathe to the river. The people are going to the river to gather water, since it is said are very good to do vinegar, to dye clothes or to cook medicines.
Festival Zhongyuan
There are celebrated from 14 16 of the seventh lunar month. It is called the "Festival of the souls" because it is said that this day they return the souls of the dead relatives. They are venerated presenting meat to them, burning incense, as well as money and role clothes.
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