Shine Clothing Festival in Longsheng
Shine Clothing Festival in Longsheng will be held as scheduled on the June 6 of lunar calendar in Longji Rice Terrace in Longsheng country, Guangxi Zhuang Nationalily Autonomou Region.
Reported by Chen ShanHua and Liu Guiyang on July 2, said that the county government of Longsheng of Guangxi reveals today: The forth Jinkeng Hong Yao ” shines clothing festival ” will hold as scheduled in Longji terraced paddies. Thousands of Chinese and foreign visitors, will gather and celebrate festival with the Yao Ethnic Minority compatriot together herein when the time comes.
Yao ethnic girls are famous of red gaudy clothes of exquisite color and luster of that embroidery art, live in this land of Longsheng rice paddies from generation to generation, this offspring of the Yao ethnic has passed by the trials and hardships.
On red clothing festival, Hong Yao girls all put on theirselves newest and most beautiful ” red clothing ” to participate in the activity. They wear silver necklace, the plaited skirt gently is swinging , their clothing look like pieces of red cloud.
shining clothing festival is the the seconed important traditional festival of Hong Yao people ( the first is the Spring Festival). Today, it is unusually boisterous that have endless arrival of guests in the stockaded village, married daughters are heading to their parents’ home, they brought duck, wine and gift, Children received piggybacks, every household make Zongzi (rice dampling wraped with bamboo leaf), every girls all dress up, show their best clothings, singing and dancing party after party!
shine clothing festival in conformity with this too and gain the name. Putting up the good play platform in the middle of the stockaded village this day, Hong Yao masses of every stockaded village competitively perform the traditional program of song and dance, the program is rich and colorful, unusually brilliant.
The stockaded village of Yao became ocean of the song and dance in the daytime. It is more fun after nightfall. When the time comes, thousands of torches on the terraced fields, one pieces of torch enclose Olympic flag pattern. There also are two flue that soar respectively in about two side. Form one harmonious pattern of “The compatriot of the Yao nationality meets the Olympic Games, Longji Jinkeng Rice Terrace”. The pattern of night scene will last about one week. The fireworks will be put over the terraced fields, gorgeous.
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