About 10,000 Yao people from surrounding counties and cities in Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi participated in the annual event and displayed their agricultural products and daily necessities for sale. Bamboo-weaving products including dustpans and bamboo baskets became bestsellers. (Photo/Zhang Yaming)
Ganniao Festival is a tradtional festival of Yao ethnic group. It is annually observed on the first day of February on the lunar calander. This is to commemorate the custom that ancient Yao people kept the newly sown grain seeds from being pecked by birds via singing songs to achieve a bumper harvest.
This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Xiao Juan
Chinese source: hunantoday
