■Festival period

June 24 of lunar calendar

■Festival source

Bitter to is it pitch section to pitch, let annual June too, in annual lunar calendar hold in mid-June, it is the grand traditional festival of people of Hani of Red River, lively and grand like spending the Spring Festival in the Han nationality. When the time comes, Hani mountain fastness is in high spirits everywhere, steaming hot. People put on the colorful holiday best, groups meeting get the playground in autumn of wasting , is it tease amusement autumn to polish , celebrate festival.

According to rule, Hani of people, waste pole to must cut well night autumn, guy is it come back to shoulder before dawn. They one No. sing folk song, make with hard durable wood pole lift autumn field by the stockaded village autumn, impose a stick of wood into soil , pares and looks on thinly as the axis on the top , then dig the long horizontal pole concavly from the middle, the shelf is above. The horizontal pole in both sides is the same in size , will pare smoothly, so as not to scratch hands. Afternoon, in beautiful clothing Hani that people jostle each other in a crowd to is it is it rub in autumn field to reach to gather, always offer the long traditional habit according to people of Hani one , is " opened in autumn " by several much-admired old persons first , after they have got rid of several circles symbolically , in pairs, pairs of guys, girls go up to rotate in turn. Is it full of sport activity of temperament and interest one Hani people autumn to polish, it is it waste number of people of both sides should reciprocity autumn to demand, people held to ride use the pedal ground, sometimes rotate at full speed, sometimes go up and down and rise and fall , rotate repeatedly, float about. Get rid of speed of people fast autumn , the person surrounding and watch it seems more happy too, it send out frequently crowd " oh oh,oh not oh oh " cry,refuel not adding to the fun for it, the atmosphere is very warm. Those boldness of execution stems from superb skills, guy that display consummate skill, become Miss target that adore often.

The setting sun set, waste field to sound one crisp shots autumn , notify people is it is it dance to sing to come, those hide in young men and women talking love in the woods gathering together in pairs , old man and child have gathered together. The old men sit around on the field drinking and seeking pleasure, the children chase and tease , young people enclose into a circle, have danced fan dance , bamboo pole dance, happy and make dance. Gongs and drums sound , string sound , cheer interweave together , reverberate among the hills and mountains, a night revelry not sleeping began.

■Celebrate the way

Play on the swing, tumble, song and dance