Educational DVD-Spring Cattle Festival

$125.00

SKU: E-DVD-Spring Cattle Festival  

This film records this folk custom in 2017. Every year around the Beginning of Spring in the lunar calendar, Zhang clan of Xinquan organizes Spring Cattle Festival in Fang as the unit. The most important night is on the Beginning of Spring. Cattls were decorated and led by villagers who acted as farmers, followed by fishermen, woodcutters and readers. Carp lights, gongs and drums, plaque lights were also in the team. With pine branches and torches, this spring cattle team walked through Xinquan village. When the moment of the Beginning of Spring came, villagers erected bamboo poles with canola flowers tied on the top to welcome the arrival of spring.  

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