Hunan Daily, New Hunan Client, May 29 (Fu Junhua) "Miao drums sound, black rice fragrant." On May 27th, the 2023 Gao Chair Black Rice Festival and National Folk Intangible Cultural Heritage Cultural Tourism Activity was opened in conjunction with the county.
At the event site, Miao drums welcomed guests, and tourists walked on the colorful "Ten Miles of Red Makeup" ancient road and tasted special snacks on both sides of the street. Drink a bowl of barricade wine handed by the dressed Dong family girl, the ancient village is very lively, attracting many Internet celebrities live broadcast and tourists to check in. More than ten wonderful folk activities such as theatrical performances, mass weddings, intangible cultural heritage performances, and black dinner banquets for 1,000 people were also displayed at the Black Rice Festival.
It is understood that the "Black Rice Festival" in Gaochai Ancient Village is to commemorate the story of the Dong hero Yang Starling and Yang Jiu sisters who fought against oppression and won victory. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, people surnamed Yang will take the married girl to the house to eat black rice for the festival, everyone gathers together, drinks roast rice wine, eats black rice, sings and dances, young men and women love each other, and the two favorites form a lifelong couple, which has been passed down for a long time to form the characteristic traditional festival of Gaochair Ancient Village.
Gaochai Ancient Village made full use of the characteristic resources of "black rice" to hold the "Black Rice Festival", promoted the development of characteristic tourism industry, advocated the holding of traditional collective weddings, and recruited ten couples from the society to participate in the collective wedding of Gaochai Ancient Village. At the same time, Gaochai Ancient Village cultivated and planted black rice trees, relying on the "Black Rice Festival" in the form of a professional cooperative, leading the villagers to go further and further on the road to increasing income and becoming rich.