Festival Activities
2 min readMinority ethnic groups in Guangxi have rich and varied festivals with distinctive ethnic features. Song Festival on the third day of the third lunar month is a big annual celebration among the Zhuang people. At this time young Zhuang men and women express their affections by singing folk songs and choose their future spouses by such activities astossing a colored silk ball or bumping red eggs.The festival entertainments also featuresnatching red fireworks, lion and dragon dances and traditional dramas.
Yi people having fun on a see-saw
Snatching red fireworks, traditional Zhuang festivity
Miao people at the Slope Festival
The Yao people are exceptional dancers The Long Drum Dance and Yellow Mud Drum Dance are performed on King Pan Festival, Danu Festival and other traditional Yao celebrations.
The Miao people celebrate their New Year Festival,rum -Tugging- Festival and Tiaopo or Slope Festival(lit. dancing on the hillsides logues.
The Fireworks Festival of the Dong ethnic group, Yifan Festival of the Mulam, Fenlong Festival of the Maonan, economic life, culture and art, folk traditions and ethnic customs.
Dong people celebrate their Spring Festival
Miao girls dressed in their festive best for the Slope Festival
The Liuzhou International Clown Festival
The International Folk Song Festival has been held annually in Nanning since 1993. People express emotions and make friends through the singing of folksongs. The activity builds bridges of friendship between all Guangxi’s ethnic groups and between the Chinese people and all nationalities of the world. Hence, Nanning is famed asThe place where folksong lingers.
