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The minority people do have lot of traditional festivals all year around. The following are some festivals mainly celebrated by the local people every year.
The Spring Festival is the most important and popular festival that start from the 30th day of the 12th lunar month. And the New Year’s Eve falls on the 29th of the 12th month of the lunar year, which is one day before the last day of the year. This is quite different from the Han people.
The Lantern’s Festival falls on the 15th of the Fist month of Lunar year，it is the one of the busiest festivals in zhangjiajie, all the people will go out and gather together on the street in the evening on that day, cars and buses are not allowed to run on the street. It is impossible to make a call with your cell phone because of no signal caused by crowds. There are lots of performances such as Dragon Dance, Lion Dance, and local opera，etc.
The torch festival gained the most popularity of the Bai Ethnic Group, At dusk on the 25th day of the 6th lunar month, the Bai people put many torches together and jump over them repeatedly. They pray in this way to the God of Fire to eliminate all the pests hazardous to the farmland and to chase away all evil.
Mid-Autumn Festival is also popular in this area. Like many Chinese, people of the Tujia ethnic group celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. They eat moon cake but are not very keen to appreciate the moon. An interesting activity on this occasion is for people to steal wax gourds and present them to couples who have no children, implying fertility and the delivery of babies to them.
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