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Ethnic Miao people celebrate Guzang Festival
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-09 16:39
A bevy of ethnic Miao women laugh at taking living fish as gift for the fiesta of the Guzang (to bury the drum) Festival, at the Yangfang Village, Taijiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 8, 2009. The ethnic Miao people usher in their most ceremonious Guzang Festival once upon every 13 years, in which family members and relatives gather together to pay homage, tribute and sacrificial ritual to ancestors with series of folklore fetes, including dragon-solicitation, sacrificial ceremony, Luseng dance, etc. According to ancient Miao songs, their ancestors established the Guzang Festival to sacrifice the Mother Butterfly who created the world. [Xinhua/Chen Peiliang]
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