Holidays and Observances:
1: New Year's Day.
22: Day of Winter Sacrifice (8th day of the 12th lunar month) on which porridge made with cereals, beans, nuts and dried fruit is traditionally served.
31: World Leprosy Day observed annually on the last Sunday in January.
Blacksmith's Day, an annual celebration of the Jino ethnic group in southwest China, held on a day selected by the clan chief during the 12th lunar month. One member of each family in the village is selected to go hunting, bringing back a pair of bamboo rats for the blacksmith and other game for the clan chief. Bamboo rats are an important food source for the Jino; and the rodents are honored as representatives of ancestors by the Blang, another southwestern group. |
