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Lusheng Festivel is an important festivel of Miao and Dong Minorities in West Hunan Province.It is and is the largest one annually held on the 15th  of the seventh lunar month.

The festival has evolved in long years of Miao and Dong people's farming and agricultural living customs. With the entertainment provided to god and to humans being main contents, and dance activities being the carrier, Lusheng Festival is a traditional folk culture with various activities ,including history, religion, folklore, art, trade and so on.Here is events of Miao and Dong minorities in Jingzhou County, Huaihua City.

Lusheng Festival, representing the ancient sacrificial culture and carrying the significant historical and cultural information of Miao and Dong ethnic groups, is not only an important platform for the maintenance and continuance of the Miao and Dong culture; but also a collection of the folk culture of Miao and Dong, gathering almost all categories of performance arts of Miao and Dong, which are popular in Qiaoli, Jingzhou County, southwest of Hunan Province, and fully demonstrating the varied existence conditions and high artistic achievements of Miao and Dong folk art. It has become an important tradition for local people to enhance cohesion.

It is said that Miao people also called the Lusheng tube as Kongming tube, as Zhuge Liang (a Three Kingdoms strategist whose Chinese style name is Kongming) taught them how to make it. According to the records, the lusheng, which was widespread in the southwest as early as Tang Dynasty, enjoys a long history. While travel in Huaihua, it is must do to explore Jingzhou County and have an experience of Dong and Miao Minorities Lusheng Festivel.