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Lusheng Festivals and Tiaohua Festival
Lusheng is so prevailed in Miao community in many aspects that they spend Lusheng festival across the province. Having busied with farming over the last year, villagers, temporarily escaped from burdens, wholly dedicate to the celebration for this festival. Stunning costumes with layers of silver lead quiet villages to be vivid and colorful through history seems stopped for them for years. People dance in circle all day long trying to show their vivid life and to be focused on.
There are many activities between autumn and next spring. Similarly to Han people, it covers offering sacrifice to ancestor, celebrating good harvest, having social party and courtship and bull fight.
There are many names for such festival, such as Tiaohua(Dance Flower).
Miao in the west and middle of Guizhou, calling themselves Hmong, name it Tiaohua. In some other place, it is called Tiaoyue. During the Dance Flower Festival, courtship is particularly stressed on in that Tiaohua means to make friends through dancing and singing.
Called Lusheng Meeting in the southeast by Miao calling themselves Mu, this festival is fashion the areas: Leigong, Yueliang mountains and basins of Qingshui river.
