Munao Festival--Keep dancing for two days straight

Munao Festival	Munao Festival

Munao Festival is a festival of Jingpo people, who mainly live in Yuannan Province. The Munao Festival is kicked off on the 15th day of the First lunar month and lasts for four or five days. The festival mainly features singing and dancing, hoping to invite happiness and felicity in the coming years.
All Munao Festival activities are conducted around two Munao poles erected in the central of a big square or grassland. The poles measures 20 meters high, and two shining huge swords placed between them symbolized bravery and persistence of the Jingpo people. According to the Jingpos, people standing on either of the two high platforms set up in front of the poles can foresee into the future.
The most wonderful part of the festival is the scent of chaotic dancing, often participated in by thousands of Jingpo people. The joyful people in their peculiar traditional clothes are cheering as women waving handkerchiefs and men waving swords. The choreographic steps and sequence sometimes dramatize actions of hunting, farming and their daily life. The sound of traditional flutes and gongs is so loud that it can shake the mountains. The excited Jingpo people will keep dancing, even for two days straight.