Lusheng Customs - Lusheng Festival

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Among the reed festivals, the Kaili International Lusheng Festival is the most spectacular. It integrates the essence of ethnic customs, and integrates national culture, Sports, food and crafts are integrated, and it has become a grand event for Chinese and foreign Lusheng cultural exchanges, a big stage for attracting investment and developing economy. Since the first International Lusheng Festival was successfully held on August 28, 1999, it has become the focus of people's attention.

Lusheng Customs - Lusheng Festival

Dong Nationality Lusheng Festival

The Lusheng Festival is a traditional festival for the Miao people in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefectures of Guizhou Province. It is held on September 27 of the lunar calendar for a week. According to legend, Zhuge Liang taught the Miao people to make the reed pipe, so they called the reed pipe Kongming pipe. According to literature records, the blowing of reeds was widely popular in the southwestern region of the Tang Dynasty as early as the Tang Dynasty, and the reeds festival has a long history. During the festival, men wear short coats and trousers with front or right front, blue cloth scarves around their heads, large belts around their waists, and hold reeds, locks, and bronze drums, and flock to the venue; girls wear dresses embroidered with various patterns and patterns. The head is wrapped in a green handkerchief, the waist is embroidered with ribbons, and silver ornaments are worn. They follow while talking and laughing, and people dance to the music of the reeds.

Miao Lusheng Festival

Among the most common festivals in the Miao ethnic group, the reed festivals in Zhouxi Township on the outskirts of Kaili City and Gulong Dazhai in Huangping County are the most grand.

On October 27, in the Sports Park of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, Miao compatriots played the reed. On the same day, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi held a Miao reeds tramping event. More than 1,000 Miao compatriots dressed in festive costumes played the reeds and danced the trampoline. Stepping on the reeds is a traditional cultural activity of the Miao people in Rongshui, Guangxi.

Zhouxi Reed Festival

Beginning on the 16th day of the first lunar month every year, the 18th, 19th and 20th days reach a climax, especially the two days of the 19th and 20th, when there are reed festivals and horse racing and bullfighting, which are very lively. During the Lusheng Festival, people from nearby cities and counties with a radius of tens of kilometers came to the meeting, and the sound of Shengsheng was like a tidal wave. People danced the reeds in a circle. The boys held the long and short reeds and danced while playing, and the girls danced to the rhythm of the rhythm. The Lusheng Festival is not only a festival to celebrate the blessings of the harvest year, but also a festival for young men and women to choose their spouses. On the 21st, the public carnival turns into a "tourist" activity for young men and women. Speaking of love, lingeringly left the Lusheng Club a covenant to meet again next year.

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芦笙(百度百科)

Involving musical instruments

Lusheng (pinyin: lú shēng) is a reed instrument of the Miao, Yao, Dong and other ethnic groups in the southwest region. Its predecessor was the yu of the Han nationality.

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