The Lusheng Festival

Observed: Feb. 11 to Feb. 15
Area: Guizhou

The Miao people are playing Lushengs in the Lusheng Festival.

The Lusheng Celebration is the most powerful celebration of the Miao people group. It is famous all through Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan Regions. The Lusheng Celebration in Kaili, Guizhou is the most renowned and terrific of the pack. It starts on the sixteenth day of the main lunar month and peaks on the nineteenth and twentieth days.The celebration includes a great deal of Miao ethnic exercises, for example, singing, bullfighting, horse racing, and moving to the beat of the Lusheng.

Assuming you intend to visit Guizhou in Spring, you can encounter the Lusheng Celebration which is held in Zhouxi Town (around 16 kilometers from Kaili City).

Assuming you intend to visit Guizhou in November, you likewise can encounter the Lusheng Celebration which is held around November in Huangping Region (around 75 kilometers from Kaili City).

All the Miao public meet up from various towns. The young ladies spruce up in their best customary outfit and silver crowns, while the young men convey their lusheng and make a beeline for the Lusheng Arena to commend the celebration. They circle in rings as the young ladies dance to the mood of the music gave by the young men. The function is performed to get trust for a great collect the approaching year close by great wellbeing. It is likewise an opportunity for the young to communicate their profound respect and love towards each other.

The miao girls dress up in their best traditional costume and silver headdresses in the Lusheng Festival.

A lusheng is a reed instrument. It is made of bamboo and can compare 3 meters or just 1/3 meter. Most lusheng comprise of numerous reeds, however some have just 1 or 2 reeds. The most famous number of reeds for a lusheng among experienced lusheng performers is 6, which gives a satisfactory scope of tones, from a profound bass to a reasonable and pleasant high pitch, while keeping up with forcefulness.

The music of the lusheng has over the long run been played for something other than the conventional romance function – the lusheng has formed into a universally handy instrument by its own doing, an instrument used to go with every possible kind of dance, tumbling, and even Wushu, a unique heart stimulating exercise like Chinese type of actual exercise. As a result of its flexibility, the lusheng is steadily being taken on by other Chinese minority societies than the Miao, like those of the Buyi, the Dong, the Shui, the Yao and the Yi, and it is inevitable before it advances into Western culture.