Text/Meng Zehui On the fifth day of the eighth lunar month of the lunar calendar
The Kino ethnic group calls themselves "Kino", formerly known as "Youle", and mainly lives in the Kino Mountain Kino Ethnic Township in Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The Kino people use the solar calendar (also known as the solar calendar), which is calculated as thirteen months a year, and the year begins with the New Year, so it is called the New Year Festival.
The New Year is the most solemn festival of the Kino people, mostly during the lunar month, and the specific time is set by each village. Before the festival, every household will make wine, slaughter pigs and cattle, prepare hearty food, and invite relatives and friends from nearby villages to celebrate the New Year.
During the New Year's Festival, men wear white-trimmed collarless cardigan cotton tops, the back of which is embroidered with a circular colored light pattern, and wide cotton white and blue pants; Women wear collarless collarless shorts with seven-color ornaments on the placket, and exquisite embroidery on the chest, triangular intimate pockets embellished with round silver ornaments; Wear black and white planers, trimmed skirts or long skirts. Tie your hair in a bun on the top of your head, and wear a white and thick linen cloth with a winged hat.
During the New Year's Festival, men, women and children of the village gather in the square, in addition to singing and dancing together, they also carry out various cultural and sports activities according to different ages and genders. Children's favorites are archery and spinning tops, women swinging and playing with hairballs; The boys threw javelins, kicked balls, stepped on stilts. Young men and women also flip bamboo bars together, and also humorously and humorously call the "bamboo bar" competition "sports love".
At the beginning of the game, the girl first held the bamboo bar steady, the young man held the lower part of the bamboo bar, facing the sky, rotating the body three hundred and sixty degrees, who turned the most times, who had the best results. Competing for the victory of this project requires not only super arm strength and skilled skills, but also the close cooperation of the bamboo bar girl. Many unmarried young men and women often begin to get to know, understand and build feelings for each other through this activity.
In the festival, one of the most solemn and unique activities is to beat the big wooden drum. The large wooden drum is an artifact of the Kino worship. Usually hanging in the home of "Zhuo Ba" (Zhai Father) and "Zhuo Sheng" (Zhai Mother), it is strictly forbidden to use it, and it can only be knocked during the New Year's Festival.
According to Kino folklore, in ancient times, flash floods broke out, and only a pair of good brothers and sisters were left in human beings (the male was called MaHei, and the female was called Ma Niu). An immortal instructed them to drill into a large wooden drum and told them to strike it with a drum hammer three times a day, and if the drum sounded crisp, it meant that the flood had receded, and they could use a knife to cut through the drum skin and drill it out. This big wooden drum drifted in the rolling flood for seven days and seven nights, and finally drifted to a place called Jie Tho in Yule Mountain, and the flood receded.
The brothers and sisters settled in Jie Tho and multiplied to form the Kino clan, so the big wooden drum was regarded as the most sacred artifact by the Kino clan. During the New Year, colorful flowers are inserted around the large wooden drums, which are carried by men and beaten by women. The men, women and children of the whole village sang and danced around the big wooden drum, and the participants had flowers on their heads and flowers in their hands, singing and dancing at the same time, looking at it from a distance, like a huge cluster of flowers.
Each festival of the Kino ethnic group has its own unique and interesting etiquette and customs; Every festival has a beautiful and moving legend. The customs of the New Year are not only the carrier of the national spirit of the Kino ethnic group, but also the symbol of the national spirit and traditional culture, containing very precious spiritual values and valuable resources for enhancing cultural identity. It can be seen from one side that the traditional culture of the Kino nationality has a unique historical value, which is created by the people of the Kino ethnic group in the long-term labor and production practice, is the crystallization of their wisdom and wisdom, the sign of historical development and progress, and is an important part of our advanced culture of building a harmonious society.