Taiguanren Festival

The Dong use the Han lunar calendar and hold numerous festivals throughout the year giving the young an opportunity to meet boys and girls from neighboring villages. If you plan your journey carefully, you should be able to visit at least one of their festivals.

After the main events of a festival, girls and boys sit opposite each other singing together until dawn. The next morning, dressed in their best costume, the girls sit under the drum towers while the boys and men persuade the girls and women to go with them to their village to continue the festival.

Tai Guan Ren Carnival in Congjiang County coincides with the Han Chinese Spring Festival at the beginning of the first lunar month. Men from a neighboring village dress up as government officials and soldiers and visit local people who are dressed as bandits, goblins, and strange animals. A man dressed in silk like government official is paraded through the village in a sedan chair. Everyone asks him for money and it is only when his purse is emptied that the girls clear the way for him to continue. The money is a New Year gift given by the guests to the host village dressed in their festival clothes. After the parade both villages entertain each other with songs under the drum tower. It can be regarded as an excuse for fun by the Dong people.

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