• Observed: Oct. 25, 2022
• Area: Guizhou

The most commended celebration of the Miao ethnic gathering, the Miao New Year, was added to China’s non-material social legacy list on June seventh, 2008.

When It’s Celebrated

Miao New Year is commended at various seasons in various areas, as a rule in the period from the 10th to the 11th month of the Chinese lunar schedule, and normally enduring 5 to 15 days. Most Miao individuals observe New Year in the tenth month of the lunar schedule, after the rice gather.

Miao New Year Activities

Preparations

Every family plans plentiful arrangements before Miao New Year, including pork, sheep, meat and rice wine. Of these, glutinous rice wine is presumably the most significant. Individuals love their precursors by offering different sorts of natural product, and send gifts to each other.

Worshiping Ancestors

Venerating progenitors has been a key Miao custom since old times. It is fundamentally gone to by seniors of the towns, and they offer new products of the soil to their progenitors to communicate regard and recognition.

Lusheng Playing

Lusheng (an instrument produced using bamboo) exhibitions are frequently held in the ‘Lusheng Corridor’, first by a young man, trailed by different players together. Little kids and young men wearing new and great Miao ensembles, adorned in silver ornamentation, dance to the music. Miao young ladies engage visitors from a remote place with natively constructed rice wine.

Visiting the Neighboring Villages

It’s a significant custom for Miao individuals from a given town to visit adjoining towns during Miao New Year. This can fortify grasping, companionship, and participation between various towns.

Every one individuals from one town wear a merry ensembles to visit an adjoining town while thumping drums and gongs and playing the lusheng. They serenade the host (typically the town top) of the adjoining town by playing three bits of music prior to entering the town, and afterward the host and his kindred locals invite their visitors by playing the lusheng consequently.

In the wake of hello one another, individuals from the two towns gather a party as the night progressed, when a lusheng-playing contest is held to engage the visitors. It’s an optimal opportunity for the youthful to look for their long lasting accomplices.

Bull, Horse, and Cock Fighting

Bull battling, horse battling, and chicken battling are likewise met during the celebration. Bullfighting is viewed as one of the major customary occasions of Miao New Year, drawing in a great many individuals.