■Festival period

The lunar calendar, from July 12 to September 15 of lunar calendar

■Festival source

" receive one ", it is the joke in the local , colloquial expressions, happy meaning, it is the festival having a bumper harvest that the people and the county people of Tu in Qinghai Province are joyous. Because the revelry of receiving arises since the seventh lunar month, so called " knowing in July ".

Its origin, has been shrouded by the mysterious atmosphere since ancient times. A lot of magical legends about origin once of receiving spread in the locality. There was a carpenter of Tu of superb skills in the past according to legend, emperors called him together to build the imperial palace out of admiration for the reputation too. Three years later, a splendid palace has been built up , it is grand and magnificent and unprecedented. But the vicious emperor is in order to enjoy all beautiful things in this world alone , unexpectedly order to murder a carpenter. The carpenter ran away to the hometown that very night, already to organize can't bear villagers that the imperial family maltreats and rebel and rise in revolt. The emperor sends large quantities of armies to suppress after hearing the news. The quick-witted carpenter has a brainwave, let the villagers beat drums and gongs , is shouldering the good war flag of making immediately , waving the weapon that has already spread the dyestuffs, " very good that shout! "Walk to the temple of the village. The emperor's army is in a puzzle , the villagers tell them: "The harvest that we are celebrating this year, jump and receive favor of thanking for Heaven once, then the army dismisses from back. In order to commemorate this quick-witted carpenter after this. Annual receiving one and spreading, formed the activity celebrated and had a bumper harvest now gradually later.

■Celebrate the way

Annual receiving one is a activity of colony taking each village community as subject . While finishing in the wheat playground in the late summer, last until autumn, lasts nearly 2 months, so someone calls that " the longest Carnival in the world ".
Receiving one to begin on July 12 from the lunar calendar, can be held alone by one village, also two villages jointly hold, stop until the 15th of the ninth lunar month , from east to west , get back to the centre area and over finally, the most common one is that two villages unite , one village serves as" the master ", and another village is a guest, man of two villages arrange growth to arrange , shoulder every color flag , beat drums and gongs, shout " great! "Join on the wheat field outside the mainly square village, it is the warmest and most exciting moment : Dozens of bass drums are hit too loud, is following the steady and strong rubadub, know the hand and flash and rise to jump , under the circumstances that the rough high voice sets off , demonstrate the strong and handsome majestic appearance. The team reaches the wheat field , raise the curtain for receiving one. Knowing the hand dance begins at first, this is a large-scale dance participated in by forty or fifty people. It is arranged in order that always young, the dance, in wearing the long gown foremost, hands hold the old man of the fan, they are often organizers and successors who receives dance once who receive . Although they are over sixty years of age, the silver must hang down the chest , can dance dance , but still so calm freely, the stride is strong. Young people and children who hold the wicker who hold every color flag follow behind sequentially, they swing body, left rise right move , wind field and dance. Though movements of the dance are not complicated, neat dance step , the ones that adjusted humorously quivered, follow the gong sound of rhythmical drum, seem very graceful . While dancing, the main side toasts for meeting hand with the sea bowl ceaselessly, so as to add to the fun, people are intoxicated in the dance, a joyous and happy a wave of high tide exceeds a wave. Lively receiving one becomes and visits and kisses the good opportunity which visits the friend too naturally . Can see men and women, old and young promptly early in the morning, dress up , the car-mounted donkey rides, is it at road of country , as to young men and women , receive offer one moment that romance has a get-together to advance on a large scale.
After " joining forces " three , receive program of begin when helped go effect a compromise in whom audience enclose at the field in wheat. The program is adapted by the parts in classical novel " Romance of the Three Kingdoms " more, for instance " three main forces " , " five main forces " , " imprisonning the master " ,etc., the performer wears the mask , with having gongs and drums sound of a law, go on waving the disease of the wooden ancient weapon slowly in an orderly manner, heroic statures of playing an outstanding role in the battle field of valiant generals when made people recall the three countries . Activity that the dance of " hitting the brave general " etc. has shown the ancestors and nature struggle, exciting and saying with feeling.