“Liuyueliu Festival” is an important traditional festival of the Buyi people in Guiyang. On the 6^th day of the 6^th lunar month every year, thousands of the Buyi people in Guiyang and the neighboring counties gather on the beautiful banks of the Huaxi River, they enjoy themselves either going through the dense forest, or flitting from flower to flower, or going boating, or blowing tree leaves, or singing folk songs. The youngsters would take this opportunity to express their affections and love to the person of his /her heart.
　　The festival comes from a legend like this: Long, long ago, a beautiful Buyi girl made an embroidery picture of green mountains and lovely waters with four seasons flowers. At the sight of this treasured embroidery, the fiend had an evil plan to take it away. After seven days and nights of hard fight, the girl and villagers found it difficult to repulse the fiend’s band. On the six day of the sixth lunar month, seeing the treasure would be taken away right away, the girl cast the treasured embroidery in to the air, instantly, the picture changed into the beautiful mountains and waters in Huaxi while the fiend died of anger, turning into a pile of tangled stones sinking under in the Huaxi River. Later, in memory of this Buyi girl who created the beautiful mountains and waters in Huaxi, on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year, people gather on the banks of Huaxi River singing and dancing to show their respects. As time passes on, “Liuyueliu Song Festival” has been known in and outside Guizhou Province.