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Sanyuesan
Festival
¡¡¡¡¡°Sanyuesan Festival¡±, also called the ¡°Cutworm Fair¡±, is a traditional
festival of the Buyi people, at which in memory of cutworms, the Buyi
people scatter fried corns on the slopes and sing folk songs to pray for
a bumper harvest.
¡¡¡¡Now the ¡°Cutworm Fair¡± has become ¡°Sanyuesan Song Festival¡±. On every
3rd day of the 3rd lunar month, the Buyi people
in Guiyang and nearby gather round the Xinbao town, Wudang district. They
either join in the singing competition, or sing in antiphonal style by
blowing the tree leaves in the dense forest, or travel in groups along
the stream playing with the water and singing cheerfully. When finding
each other congenial, they will present gifts to each other and then walk
in pairs from the crowds into the woods.
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