Munao Zongge Festival of Jingpo nationality (January 15 by Chinese lunar calendar)
Munao Zongge Festival, the grandest traditional festival for the Jingpo people, is held annually on January 15 by Chinese lunar calendar, which usually lasts three to seven days. Honored as ¡°a ball for all and sundry¡±, the festival is actually a full-length party on which people recall the origin of the nation, driving out the evils and carrying forward the kindness, wishing good luck and celebrating the harvest. On the festival, people from all directions come to the Munao Poles, singing and dancing around them, which is a magnificent occasion appealing to all the tourists.
Legend: Tradition has it that Munao Zongge is a kind of group singing and dancing that birds learnt from the Sun Ghost, and the Jingpo people learnt it from the birds. It is the drawings of the dance movements carved on the Munao Poles that make this kind of dance hand down to the present day.
Huijie Festival and Woluo Festival of Achang nationality (October 26 and January 4 by Chinese lunar calendar)
Huijie Festival, popular in Husa and Lasa of Longchuan County, is held annually on October 26 by Chinese lunar calendar. At that time, people gather to the meeting place playing Green Dragon and White Elephant made of paper and bamboo, dancing together, to celebrate the harvest.
Woluo Festival, popular in Lianghe and Luxi, is held annually on January 4 by Chinese lunar calendar. The main activities are offering sacrifices to ancestors and reveling by singing and dancing.
Legend: Tradition has it that the festival is celebrated in memory of Zhepama, the first ancestor of the Achang people, who shot down the false sun of the devil with the divine arrow that erected on the top of Woluo Arch, which save the life of both people and all the other life on the earth.
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