Ancestors are very considerable. They have fixed the days for younger to find their lovers. Seeds of love be planted and shoot and eventually blossom in those special days.
For Buyi and Shui, this festival is connotationally directed and performed through singing dialogues. Boys and Girl,through asking and answering questions by singing, test each other's intelligence and real thinking in mountain and under banyan trees. The songs conveys feelings of happiness and love as well as grief.
Miao people entertain and socialize each other in company with rhythms of wooden drums and music of Lusheng, a unique way for younger to demonstrate the most beautiful aspects and hopefully find the one they like at the first glimpse. Their heavy costumes, due to sophisticated silver embellishments, are too much silver to partially hide some faces.
On reaches of Qinshui River, younger girls give their boy friends very special presents. It is colorful sticky rice packed in kinds of plant leaves. Inside rice is some thing showing real feeling to him and so boys will be nervous and excited as they get it. Two sticks is perfect in that she is accept him and suppose to get married, the worst is a red chilly because he is refused and no more chance. The Sister
Meal Festival, commonly known as Valentine's Day in east, differently indicates straight and spice personality of Miao in mountain area.
