• Observed: Apr. 15 to Apr. 17, 2022
• Area: Guizhou

Sisters’ Feasts Celebration is a significant celebration of the Miao minority individuals in China. It’s a festival of adoration and spring. It was viewed as the most seasoned “Valentine’s Day” of China.

• Chinese: 姐妹饭节 Jiěmèifàn Jié/jyeah-may fan jyeah/
• Area: Taijian and Jianhe Regions, around 50 km (31 mi) from Kaili, southeast of Guizhou Territory
• Exercises: eat four-variety rice, see lovely ethnic ensembles, partake in the singing and moving

Sister’s Meal Festival Dates

• Date: April 26 to 28, 2021

This customary celebration falls on the fifteenth day of the third month in the lunar schedule and the festival for the most part goes on for 3 days.

Location of Celebration

Sisters’ Dinners Celebration is commended by the Miao ethnic individuals in southwest China’s Guizhou Territory, particularly in the regions of Taijiang and Jianhe Districts, along the banks of the Qingshui Waterway. It’s around 50 kilometers (31 miles) upper east of Kaili City.

Colorful Celebration Activities

Different Colored Rice

A couple of days before the festival, Miao young ladies gather new wildflowers and leaves from the mountains to create normal shading to color glutinous rice, known as “sisters’ rice”.

Steamed rice is colored blue, pink, yellow, and white to address spring, summer, harvest time, and winter, separately. In certain spots, rice is colored violet-blue.

Beautiful Ethnic Costumes

For the celebration, Miao young ladies spruce up in their vacation best with alarming silver hoods, crowns, and neck rings. The Miao public accept that silver addresses light and it can disperse fiendish spirits. You can see young ladies wearing a few kilograms of it at this well known celebration. A kaleidoscope of ethnic ensembles will give you an outlandish design show.

Singing and Dancing Between Single Men and Women

At the point when the young fellows show up, they start to single out the young ladies they desire to wed some time or another and start to sing for them. Ladies and men sing in an antiphonal style with fascinating words. At the point when the men can’t respond to the inquiries by singing, they lose and ought to give gifts to the ladies, as well as the other way around.

There are additionally numerous different exercises, including bullfighting, horse racing, customary Miao exhibitions, and Lusheng music.

Legend and History

The accompanying legend has been told through the minority individuals’ melodies. There are two sisters whose child and little girl grow up together and have a sweet youth companionship. At the point when they grow up, they experience passionate feelings for one another. In any case, the young lady’s folks demand that she ought to wed her uncle’s child (a Miao minority custom). The young lady will not do as such, and the kid would rather not wed another young lady.

To try not to be figured out that they are still enamored, they generally meet outside. The young lady generally takes delectable rice with a bamboo bushel for her needle and string.

At last, the young lady’s folks are moved and say “OK” to their marriage. In the Miao nation’s language, a dinner that is taken to a darling covertly is designated “stray liangl”, and that signifies “stowed away feast”, and was meant “姊妹饭” (sisters’ dinners) in Chinese.

Interesting Meanings of Gifts That Women Give Men

After the festival, young ladies envelop bright steamed rice by a cloth and give it to men as gifts with various things concealed inside the rice. There are intriguing implications to the secret gifts that the ladies provide for the men. See what they imply men should give as gifts in return:

• Pine needle: men ought to give needles and yarn
• Bamboo snare: men ought to give ladies umbrellas, and ladies believe that the men should reach them
• Chinese toon grows: these suggest a lady needs to get hitched to a man
• Chinese parsley: this infers a lady needs to get hitched to a man; it has a similar importance as toon sprouts
• Cotton: this suggests a lady misses a man
• Both the cotton and Chinese parsley: suggest a lady needs to get hitched to a man quickly
• Live duck: this suggests a man ought to give a piglet to a lady and they can eat it at the next year’s Sisters’ Dinner Celebration
• Pepper or garlic: these suggest a lady would rather not be in touch with a man