Guzhang Fertility Festival

The Guzhang (Water buffalo offal) Festival takes every 13 years, the festival lasts 3 years. The most grand one is the 3rd year, there will be one in Leishan County in late Feb, 2004. On the late afternoon of the first day, the relatives visit with carp, a duck, a big jar of homemade rice wine. They set off fireworks, when arriving at the edge of the village, then more fire crackers indicating the wealth of a family. On the early second morning, levery household kills two or three fat pigs as part of the festivals. When the relatives leave the village for home, they will take away a 12 kg heavy pig leg., the best including pig tail. During he last three days, the girls, in their holiday costumes from nearby village, get together in Langde Miao Village dancing to the rhythm of Lusheng pipes and try to find a love partner.

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