Guiyang is a city where various ethnic groups live in compact communities. With the unique folk customs and brilliant local culture created by various ethnic groups in the long history, it makes Guiyang a gallery of the folk customs.

Siyueba Festival

Siyueba festival(April 8th Festival) is a traditional festival celebrated by the ethnic groups of Miao, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Zhuang, Yi, Tujia, and Gelao in Guizhou Province, the west of Hunan Province and the north of Guangxi Province. There are different celebrations in different places, of which the grandest one is held in Guiyang.

On every April 8th on the lunar calendar, the Miao people in Guiyang and nearby gather around the Great Fountain in the city center, in their best costumes to sing and dance to the melodies from the lusheng and the bamboo flutes. Legend has it that S iyueba Festival is in memory of the ancient Miao heroes buried at the place where the Great Fountain now lies on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month that year.  This ceremony passed down from generation to generation and has become a custom. Now, this festival is a joyous celebrated day by the Miao, Buyi, Dong, Zhuang, Shui, Gelao, even Han people and other ethnic groups. It's a grand ceremony to present the traditional folk culture. Some minority young people take advantage of the chance to make friends and choose their future spouses.

Sanyuesan Festival 

Sanyuesan festival(March 3rd Festival) , formerly called the Cutworm Fair, is a traditional festival of the Buyi people, at which in memory of cutworms, the Buyi people scatter fried corns to the slopes and sing folk songs to pray for a harvest.

Now the Cutworm Fair has become Sanyuesan Festival. On every 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month, the Buyi people in Guiyang and nearby gather round the Xinbao Town, Wudang District. Young men and young women either join in the singing competition, or sing in antiphonal style by blowing the tree leaves in the dense forest, or travel in groups along the stream playing with the water and singing cheerfully. When finding each other congenial, they will present gifts to each other and then walk in pairs from the crowds into the woods.

Liuyueliu Festival

Liuyueliu festival(June 6th Festival) is an important traditional festival of the Buyi people in Guiyang. On every sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year, thousands of the Buyi people in Guiyang and nearby gather on the beautiful banks of the Huaxi River. They enjoy themselves either going through the dense forest, or walking around the flower beds, or going boating, or blowing tree leaves, or singing folk songs.

The festival comes from a legend like this: Long, long ago, a beautiful Buyi girl made an embroidery picture of green mountains and lovely waters with flowers in four seasons. At the sight of this treasured embroidery, the fiend had an evil plan to take it away.  After seven days and nights of hard fight, the girl and villagers found it difficult to repulse the fiend's troop.On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, seeing the treasure would be taken away, the girl cast it into the air. Instantly, the picture changed into the beautiful mountains and waters in Huaxi while the fiend died of anger, turning into a pile of tangled stones sinking to the bottom of the Huaxi River. Later, in memory of this Buyi girl who created the beautiful Huaxi, on every sixth day of the sixth lunar month, people gather on the banks of Huaxi River singing and dancing to show their respect.  As time passes on, Liuyueliu festival is formed.