miao sister's meal festival

miao sister's meal festival
Apr 14, 2004 16:35
LOUISA1 Points: Join Date: Apr 14, 2004 Status: offline	Kaili is home to over one hundred festivals a year. The most common festival is the lusheng festival held often during the spring. Well as is my experience with the miao people they really know how to celebrate and prepare their festivals including bullfights, horse riding , singing folk songs , and playing the lusheng pipe. At festival time the miao women wear their stunning sliver jewellery often piling on five or six neck rings at a time as well as chains loins, chest locks and multiple headresses ,silver was originally obtained from melting old coins and girls wear huge horned silver headdresses and crowns with delicate birds and flowers and coins. When they move and dance all there jewellery and headresses makes different sounds. Miao people in the villages really are still living their traditional way of life. So visitors must journey to the villagers if they still want to feel the strong flavour of ethnic customs with which the Miao people around Kaili can provide . The Sisters Festival begins on the fifteenth day of the third lunar month, when unmarried women harvest rice from the terraced fields and gather together by the river to prepare it. The rice is cooked until it has a sticky consistency and is blue, pink, yellow, and white to represent spring, summer, fall and winter. The young women then place some of the rice in small bundles of cloth as young men arrive and begin to serenade them. Each young man singles out the woman he hopes to marry someday. Although he sings about his hunger and thirst, his real meaning is: "I love you, do you love me?" The young woman responds to his song by giving him a drink of rice wine and some rice wrapped in cloth. Her official reply is inside. If she has placed a hot pepper there, it's a flat refusal; one chopstick signals a more polite "no-thank-you" to his love. If he finds a leaf inside his bundle, he must first give her satin; and a piece of grass implies he must first supply her with a needle and thread before she will signal "love you too" with two chopsticks. For those who have already "exchange two chopsticks" at the river, the festival is also a time for married women to return to their parents' home. This is the only time that daughters see their parents and the one occasion that sisters sit down together all year. The rest of the days are spent with their husbands' families. Women arrive on foot laden with chickens, rice cakes and bolts of hand-woven cloth for their families. Their husbands remain at home. According the chinese lunar canlender this year the miao's sister will hold on May. if you are interested in visit this festival,i would like to help you.we can meet as a friend we also can exchange culture and lauguage.

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Kaili is home to over one hundred festivals a year. The most common festival is the lusheng festival held often during the spring.
Well as is my experience with the miao people they really know how to celebrate and
prepare their festivals including bullfights, horse riding , singing folk songs , and playing the lusheng
pipe. At festival time the miao women wear their stunning sliver jewellery often piling on five or six neck rings at a time as well as chains loins, chest locks and multiple headresses ,silver was originally obtained from melting old coins and girls wear huge horned silver headdresses and crowns with delicate birds and flowers and coins. When they move and dance all there jewellery and headresses makes different sounds. Miao people in the villages really are still living their traditional way of life. So visitors must journey to the villagers if they still want to feel the strong flavour of ethnic customs with which the Miao people around Kaili can provide .
The Sisters Festival begins on the fifteenth day of the third lunar month, when unmarried women harvest rice from the terraced fields and gather together by the river to prepare it. The rice is cooked until it has a sticky consistency and is blue, pink, yellow, and white to represent spring, summer, fall and winter. The young women then place some of the rice in small bundles of cloth as young men arrive and begin to serenade them. Each young man singles out the woman he hopes to marry someday. Although he sings about his hunger and thirst, his real meaning is: "I love you, do you love me?"
The young woman responds to his song by giving him a drink of rice wine and some rice wrapped in cloth. Her official reply is inside. If she has placed a hot pepper there, it's a flat refusal; one chopstick signals a more polite "no-thank-you" to his love. If he finds a leaf inside his bundle, he must first give her satin; and a piece of grass implies he must first supply her with a needle and thread before she will signal "love you too" with two chopsticks. For those who have already "exchange two chopsticks" at the river, the festival is also a time for married women to return to their parents' home. This is the only time that daughters see their parents and the one occasion that sisters sit down together all year. The rest of the days are spent with their husbands' families. Women arrive on foot laden with chickens, rice cakes and bolts of hand-woven cloth for their families. Their husbands remain at home.
According the chinese lunar canlender this year the miao's sister will hold on May.
if you are interested in visit this festival,i would like to help you.we can meet as a friend we also can exchange culture and lauguage.

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