Which nationality does the broad season belong to, and the meaning of the broad season

"Kush" is the transliteration of Lisu language, which means "year head". Kush Festival is a festival of the Lisu people. "Broad Time Festival" is the most solemn traditional festival of the Lisu people, which is equivalent to the New Year of the Han people.

The Lisu people in the Nujiang region of Yunnan Province celebrate the festival every year, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality for them.

The broad season is the traditional festival of the Lisu people, and the meaning of the broad season is as follows:

The Lisu people are one of the ethnic minorities in China, mainly distributed in the Nujiang River and Enmeikai River basins of Yunnan Province. The cheerful and enthusiastic Lisu compatriots have many large-scale festivals throughout the year, among which the broad season is the most grand. "Kuoshi" is the transliteration of Lisu language, which means "the first year", and the broad season is equivalent to the New Year of the Han people.

In the past, the days of the festival of the Lisu people were determined by the observation of phenology, and the time of the festival in each village was different, generally from the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month to the tenth day of the first month of the second year, about a month before and after. This period is the season of cherry blossoms, so every year when the cherry blossoms bloom is the day of the Lisu New Year.

The purpose of the Lisu people to celebrate the "broad season" can be summarized in four ways: first, worship the heavens and the earth and pray for blessings; the second is to worship ancestors and pray for blessings; the third is to seek the protection of Dagoma (tripod) and drive away the gods and ghosts; The fourth is to seek heaven and earth, in the new year, the wind and rain are smooth, and the grains are abundant.

Before the broad season, the Lisu people slaughtered pigs and sheep, brewed water wine, made corn rakes, gave gifts to each other, and prayed for abundant food and clothing in the New Year. The young people set up colorful gates in the village head village to enclose the activity field. On the morning of the festival, each family rushed to pick the green pine branches and leaves, spread them in the house, and inserted them at the door to show good luck.

Then, people dressed in festive costumes gather in the public places of their villages, presided over by the shaman Bipa, and hold a ceremony to remove the old and welcome the new.

The ceremony begins with a pine tree planted on the lawn**, with crossbow arrows and the girls' carefully embroidered streamer clothes hanging from its branches. Under the tree, a large basket full of buckwheat is placed, and 12 small baskets of buckwheat and 12 jars of new sake are placed around it to symbolize the twelfth month of the year. Bi Pao stood in the middle, reciting the history of the nation and wishing the New Year auspicious and wishful.

Then, Bi Pao took 12 pairs of young men and women to blow the gourd sheng, sing joyful mountain songs, and carried 12 small pine trees to the mountain forest and planted them next to the 12 small grain baskets, which means to bring back the auspicious New Year. After that, the 12 jars of buckwheat wine were poured for everyone to drink, and crossbow shooting, dancing, singing, and swinging activities began. The whole village of men, women and children reveled in the festive atmosphere.

There is no need to register or pay for the crossbow shooting competition in the broad season, and people will voluntarily bring the fried coarse and coarse meat into arrows, and the shooters will compete in the order of priority, and whoever shoots will belong to the coarse and meat slices. The person who shoots the most coarse and slices of meat is the best shooter.