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Ethnic group native to South China and Southeast Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese Miao Festivals are included many special activities. There are so many festivals in Miao minority for different reasons.[2]
![]() Headdress of the Long-horn Miao—one of the small branches of Miao living in the 12 villages near Zhijin County, Guizhou | |
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The Miao is a group of linguistically-related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia, which are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 official ethnic groups. Some sub-groups of the Miao, most notably the Hmong people, have migrated out of China into Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Northern Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand). Following the communist takeover of Laos in 1975, a large group of Hmong refugees resettled in several Western nations, mainly in the United States, France, and Australia.[3][4]
There are many traditional festivals of the Miao people, including the New Year of the Miao, the 8th of April, the Dragon Boat Festival, the New Year's Eating Festival, and the Autumn Festival, among which the Miao New Year is the most solemn. The Miao Year is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality, which is usually held after the autumn.[5][6]
On the morning of the festival, people put the prepared delicacies on the stove beside the fire to worship their ancestors and smear wine on the nose of the cow to show their reward for their hard work for a year. Young men and women in full costumes danced.[5]