On April 19, the last spring solar term, Grain Rain, came.The name of the solar term "rain generates hundreds of grains" shows the demand for rain after the seedlings are planted and new crops are planted from the perspective of farming culture.
In Guizhou, the folk festival in the valley rain season is not only a reminder of the farming season for the minority people, but also a unique expression of love.
The Zhaoxing Guyu Festival on April 19 is the most romantic day of the year in Liudong area.Lu Xingtao is a native Dong girl in Zhaoxing Dong Village.Two years ago, when she was working in other places, she met Lu Yingqiang, a high school classmate, by chance. Soon the two became lovers.This year's Grain Rain Festival, both of them will go home because Lu Yingqiang wants to make an engagement with Lu Xingtao on that day.
Liping Valley Rain Festival.Pictures provided by Liping County Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau
With the national marriage customs gradually becoming a cultural and tourism product for tourists to experience, from April 18 to 21, Liping Zhaoxing Dong Village held a variety of activities for the Grain Rain Festival.For several days in succession, folk experiences such as village song contests, walking songs, sitting on the moon, learning songs in drum towers, bonfire performances, and painting faces were fully arranged.
In Taijiang, which has "the first county of Miao nationality in the world", a series of activities will be held from April 20 to May 4, 2024 "Sister Festival of Miao Nationality" in Taijiang, China.
In 2006, the "Miao Sister Festival" was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.It is also an ancient national Valentine's Day. Young Miao women make a lifelong commitment to their beloved men by giving sister meals during the Sister's Day.In today's view, this is more like a grand collective engagement ceremony.By holding festival activities on the government's platform, tourists can enjoy the clothing culture of the nine major branches of the Miao nationality in Taijiang, as well as ten thousand people dressed in costumes, and ten thousand people gathered along the Wengyou River to sing Miao songs.
The Miao sister festival attracts Chinese and foreign tourists.Photographed by Zhang Hong
In addition to the above two festivals, the Spring Festival is also related to the intangible cultural heritage of human beings, Shiqian Saying Spring.
"At the beginning of spring, the east wind thaws, the insects begin to shake, and the fish begin to pay off the ice." As a footnote to the beginning of the solar term of a year, it has inherited the customs of thousands of years, and has been performed in Tongren Shiqian until now.
"The Tang Dynasty sent me to send spring people to your mansion to open a wealth gate." Before and after the beginning of spring every year, "Spring Officials" wearing python robes and jade belts and black gauze would sing such "Spring Ci", carrying "Spring Cattle" in their hands, walking around villages, sending spring stickers, and encouraging people to cherish agricultural time and carry out agricultural production.
Spring officials who wander from village to village.Courtesy of Publicity Department of Shiqian County Party Committee
In 2016, "The Twenty four Solar Terms - the time knowledge system and its practice formed by Chinese people through observing the annual movement of the sun" was included in the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage. Shiqian Shuochun is one of the most representative expansion lists of the project.
Different ethnic groups live in one mountain, different customs live in ten miles, and different customs live in a hundred miles.Guizhou is rich in ethnic culture. There are 757 traditional Chinese villages and 1640 ethnic villages with Chinese and provincial characteristics in the province, known as the "Thousand Islands of Culture".The colorful cultural heritage of all ethnic groups contains the great creation, outstanding wisdom and common memory of the people, shows the beauty of colorful Guizhou's four seasons, and is blooming with new brilliance under the integration of culture and tourism.
With the national marriage customs gradually becoming a cultural and tourism product for tourists to experience, from April 18 to 21, Liping Zhaoxing Dong Village held a variety of activities for the Grain Rain Festival.
With the national marriage customs gradually becoming a cultural and tourism product for tourists to experience, from April 18 to 21, Liping Zhaoxing Dong Village held a variety of activities for the Grain Rain Festival.
