There are many festivals in Guizhou Province. One of them is Dong New year, falls in the eleventh lunar month after the harvest. In some villages, the festival (take) place in the tenth month. Dong New Year is as (importance) as the Spring Festival. In the days (lead) up to the new year, the Dong people make new clothes, clean their houses, and make rice cakes. the eve of the New Year, the prepare “cold dish” with bean curd and homemade vinegar. It (give) as an offering to one's ancestors. Dong New Year is (usual) celebrated in many Dong villages in the area of Rongjiang in Guizhou Province. The exact date varies but falls during the period late October to early November. Public (celebration) include the Lusheng Festival and water buffalo fighting.
Another one, Miao Sisters Festival, is celebrated from the 15th to the 17th day of the third lunar month calendar, when (marry) women make a return to the homes of their mothers. At home, they prepare and eat special kind of food, black rice cake. When they return to their own homes, they bring with them some of it and give it to their husbands as gifts.
