In Tomb-Sweeping Day and Hunan, people still have the custom of worshipping ancestors to sweep graves and putting paper on graves. Because of the warm spring in bloom around Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will fly kites on this day.
On the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, there is a custom of dragon boat race in Hunan to commemorate Qu Yuan's sinking into the river, especially in Miluo. Dragon Boat Festival food is mainly zongzi and salted eggs. There are folk customs such as hanging incense drugs such as Aipu, winding colorful silk thread, burning smoked houses with Atractylodes rhizome, Atractylodes macrocephala and Yunxiang, and lighting realgar on children's foreheads, which means avoiding diseases and evil spirits. In many places, especially Tujia people, there are Dragon Boat Festival. The fifth day of May is the Little Dragon Boat Festival, and the fifteenth day of May is the Big Dragon Boat Festival. Miao people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on the Dragon Boat Festival.
June 6th, also known as the Semiannual Festival, is regarded as the annual flavor festival of the New Year in all parts of Hunan. During the festival, seven rows of grains are steamed on rice. Recently, some people will put new rice on old rice and steam it all with new rice, first to respect their ancestors, then to give the dog a taste and then to taste new rice. To show that you don't forget the blessings of your ancestors and the virtue of dogs stealing food from heaven. Some places in Shaoyang will offer sacrifices to cowshed land on June 6th. On June 6th, there is the habit of drying clothes, quilts and books everywhere, and there is a saying that "people dry clothes and robes".
Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the Reunion Festival. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the bright moon is in the sky, the whole family will set up a table sweetmeats under the moon for placing new melons, lotus roots, moon cakes, Yue Bai and family reunion. Changsha folk songs have "flowers in August, girls in every family", all of which are married to women to celebrate the festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, women have the habit of putting osmanthus flowers in their rooms, and there is also the old habit of "fragrance in August" in South Vietnam. The main food of Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes, and some areas in Hunan also have the habit of wrapping jiaozi in mid-August, and don't eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.
In addition to the above festivals, the most solemn festivals of Miao people in Xiangxi are "April 8" and "Catch Autumn". April 8 is a festival to commemorate the Miao heroes' elegant arts. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, people dressed in costumes flocked to the place where Yayi, a Miao hero, fought-the Phoenix ebb well to "jump on the moon". Festival activities include playing lusheng, suona, singing contest, drumming and dancing. "Catch the Autumn" is a festival for Miao people to celebrate the harvest. At the beginning of autumn, people dress up and gather on the threshing floor, swinging, singing Miao songs, performing Miao operas, dancing dragons, lions and blowing konoha leaves. Young men and women fall in love and look for partners. There are many festivals of Yao people in Hunan, and Yao people in different regions have their own unique festivals. For example, the Longhui Yao people hold "exploring music" from the fifth day to the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year; The Yao people in Dongkou hold Paga Festival on the sixth day of the tenth lunar month. On October 16th of the lunar calendar, "Wang Pan Festival" was held in Yao area in southern Hunan, and "Drum Hall" was held in Yao home in Xinning. Among them, the "Wang Pan Festival" to celebrate the birthday of ancestor Wang Pan is particularly important. On this day, Yao men, women and children are all dressed up, singing and dancing together, and the most wonderful thing is to dance gongs and drums. Dancers hold long drums and stand on a small square table, beating drums with their hands and dancing at the same time. Their knees are always bent, and each posture keeps a curve, with clear rhythm and stable strength.
People of all ethnic groups in Hunan have many traditional festivals, such as "March 3rd", "Grain Rain Tea Festival" and "Laba Festival", Sama Festival and Daughter Festival of Dong people, Bird Festival of Jianghua Yao people and Rodent Festival of Xiangxi Tujia people. , have strong national and regional characteristics.