Panwang Festival is a major festival dedicated to ancestors Pangu, Pan geng, pan urn, people at home and abroad attach great importance to this national ceremony. Initiated by the Pan family of Changning in Hengyang, Buchuan, Zhongshan, Babu, Gongcheng and Jinxiu in Guangxi, Lianzhou, Liannan, Lianshan and Ruyuan in Guangdong, Nanchong in Sichuan, Kaili in Guizhou, Haikou in Hainan, Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, Taipei in Taiwan, Zhengzhou in Henan, Jianghua and Jiangyong in Hunan, it has now become the grandest festival of panwang festival in the country. Every year on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the sacrificial men, women and children wear their own national festival costumes and gather together to sing and dance to celebrate the Panwang Festival. The songs they sang were based on the "Song of the Pan King" (which will be specially introduced below); the dance was a group dance with a long drum about 80 centimeters long in each hand, usually a double or four-person dance. Regarding the PanWang Festival, the Panwang Song and the Long Encouragement, they all have a long history.
There are many Yao folk legends about Panwang Festival, mainly in three types:
Pan King's Day
Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yao people took a boat across the sea, encountered strong winds and waves, and the ship floated in the sea for forty-nine days and could not dock, watching the ship destroy people. At this time, someone prayed at the bow of the ship for the blessing of the ancestor Pan Wang. After making a wish, the wind and waves calmed down, the boat quickly docked, and the Yao people were saved. This day is the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, which happens to be the birthday of Pan Wang. Since then, yaomin have set this day as the "Panwang Festival", and Yao men, women and children must wear festive costumes and gather together to sing the Song of the Pan King, dance long and encourage, and celebrate the new birth of the Yao people and the birthday of the Pan King. For thousands of years, this activity has been passed down from generation to generation in the Yao people, praying for peace, smooth wind and rain, and a good harvest in the coming year.
In ancient times, when King Gao came to invade, King Ping came out to recruit talents, and whoever could cut off the head of King Gao to offer would marry the princess to him. This was heard by the dragon dog Pan Ou, who took off the golden list and crossed the sea to Gao Wang's side. Pan Yong pretended to be courteous and was favored by the High King. One day, Pan Ou took advantage of King Gao's drunkenness and bit off King Gao's head to offer it to King Ping, making great achievements, so he married the third princess as his wife. Later, Pan Ou wanted to become a human, so he asked the princess to put it in a steamer basket and steam it for seven days and seven nights, and the princess complied. It had been steamed for six days and six nights, and the princess was worried about steaming her husband, so she secretly opened the lid to see, and the pan was really turned into a person, only because it was less than seven days and seven nights, so there were still many hairs on her head and calves that had not fallen off, and then she wrapped her head and calves with a cloth belt. After Pan Huan became a human, King Ping sent him to Huiji Mountain as king, known as Pan Wang.
Yao Panwang Festival
After the marriage of King Pan and the three princesses, six men and six daughters were born, and King Ping gave birth to a surname each, becoming the earliest twelve surnames of the Yao people. Although Pan Ou has become king, he still lives a frugal life, teaching his children to work and hunt, and making a hard living. Once, King Pan and his six sons went up the mountain to hunt, chased an injured goat, unfortunately injured by the horns, fell off the cliff and died, the body hung on a tree, the children cut down the tree to make a drum body, peeled off the sheep skin and covered it, and made a long drum. They took up long drums and cried and sang while knocking, in memory of the king of pan. To this day, the Yao compatriots still retain the habit of not eating dog meat, and the sacrifice of the Pan King is also an important part of the Pan Wang Festival.
In the ancient times of the Heaven and Earth Flood, there were two treasure mountains as tall in the ten thousand mountains, a mile apart, facing each other. The one on the left is called Mount Brossi, like a mighty man; the one on the right looks like a young woman in a dress, named Mount Miloto. Every year, the two mountains move nearly a foot to each other, and after 995, they move closer to 995 feet, and then move closer than 5 feet, and the two mountains will be connected. One day, on the 16th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, there was a sudden earth-shattering thunder in the sky, and the two mountains cracked in two cracks at the same time, and then, out of mount Blosi came a tall man, and from mount Miloto, out of a strong woman, this day is the birthday of a man and a woman. Later they married a happy couple named Brossie. The woman's name is Melodra. They were the first pair of industrious and wise parents to create the heavens and the earth, and after they created the world, they let their three daughters go out to make a living. The eldest daughter carried a plough rake to the plains to plow the fields and became a Han nationality; the second daughter picked up a load of books to study and became a Zhuang nationality; the third daughter took a bucket of grain and a copper gong given to her by Miluotuo and went to the mountains to open up wasteland and cultivate land. Since then, the third daughter has lived and worked in the mountains and become a Yao. Therefore, the Yao people have lived in the mountains and deep mountains for generations, cultivated the land, and the gong has become the heirloom of the Yao people.
Milotto, getting older, one day called his three daughters back together and told them, "October 16 is my birthday, and at that time you will come and give me food." She also specially instructed the third daughter: "You don't have any rich gifts, when the time comes, you just need to brew a jar of rice wine and bring it to everyone to taste, and on October 15th, you will take the gong in advance to make a scene." Since then, the Yao people have had the "Panwang Festival", which starts on October 15 and ends on October 17.
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