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Sister festival in Guizhou Miao traditional festivals

By peng nian

12 Oct 2009

Sisters in the annual Lunar New Year's Day March 15 is the Miao ethnic minority's traditional festivals, there are "sisters Rice Festival" is known, popular in Southeast Guizhou Autonomous Prefecture, Taijiang County, generally last three days.

Miao is the sister festival is to declare the characteristics of the world's intangible cultural heritage festival, known as the East's Valentine's Day.

"Eat sisters meal" in the Miao are known as "Nuga good", "good" in Hmong patients had "the desire but" means, it's sister festival is a special holiday. In the "sister festival" on the eve of Hmong girls will go up the mountains to pick a variety of leaves, glutinous rice will be dyed red, purple, green, yellow, black and translucent crystal such as a beautiful colorful tasty rice, Zaiqu Shimoda fishing banks shrimp. After the girls would each bring their own with the two duck eggs, the multicolored sticky rice and some money to focus on the age-matched in a one a girl. After everything is ready, we waited outside at night to eat the young man who "Sister Rice" the. Such a good opportunity for young man who certainly will not miss Tiangang micro-black, they have door. On the door to the epigenetic, whether met or not, the girls will be warm hospitality.