1. Lahu's Kuzha Festival (the Spring Festival) 

Dates: from the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fourth day of the first lunar month (New Year holidays); and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival).

Location: Lancang 

Lahu people have the above two holidays during the Spring Festival. The New Year day is on the first day of the first lunar month, and the Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The New Year holidays start from the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month and end at the fourth day of the first lunar month for five days. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, i.e. the New Year's Eve, every family cooks steamed sticky rice and pound Ciba (a local food made from rice), and the sound of continuously pounding forms a vivid and lively scenery in the villages. After the Ciba is made, people will cut some small pieces from it and put them on farm tools like sickle, axe, hoe, plow, etc. to show their appreciation to the tools for helping people in grain harvest by cutting down trees and ploughing farmlands. Residents in the village will go into the woods nearby to worship the mountain god, hoping the mountain god to continue to bless the village in the coming year, pray for a good harvest of grain and a smooth hunting. At the sunset, the whole family members, men and women, old and young will stand on the doorstep, facing the west and welcoming the souls of the ancestors to come back home for the New Year countdown. 

2. Ximeng Wa's Wooden Drum Festival 

   Dates: April 16 - 18 

   Location: Ximeng 

The "Grey Month" in Wa's calendar (i.e. December in solar calendar) is the time for Wa people to hold the Wooden Drum Dragging activity. The day before the festival, the head and the "Moba" (priest) lead a small group of people to the pre-selected big red tree right in the dark night. After sacrificial offering rites (oblations, ghost expelling, incantations chanting), the "Moba" uses an axe to cut the tree for the first several moves then the other people altogether cut the tree down, on the stump they put three stones as money paid to the tree ghost. Then they cut the trunk into sizes of the needed wooden drums, chisel out drum ears and fasten the drums by rattans.
　　The next day early in the morning, all people in the village, from the old to the young, will climb up the hill to drag the wooden drums. The "Moba", holding high up a tree branch, lead people to sing the song of "wooden drum dragging", command and coordinate people in their action. People strew water wine on the ground where the wooden drums is passing through, men dragging the wooden drums will sing and dance along the way, and other people will cheer on for them or send them wine or food. In fact the wooden drums they're dragging are yet semifinished materials, which will be put outside of the entrance of the village for two or three days. Then the "Moba" kills chicken for sacrificial offering, and put the semifinished wooden drums on the ground beside the wooden drum house and hand them over to the carpenters. On this day, men and women dragging the wooden together, it is said to be a good chance to find someone to fall in love with. It takes time for people to drag the drums, sing, dance and play. After the wooden drum is finished and qualified by test beats, people will lift and put them into the wooden drum house, and the celebration continues, the wooden drum dance starts and coordinates with the drum beats. 

3. Menglian Fish Festival 

Dates: during April and May 

Location: Menglian 

The Fish Festival is the most famous tourism event in the Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County, Pu'er, Yunnan, which have been successfully held for several years, attracting a lot of tourists to pay a special trip. The most attracting activity during the Fish Festival is the "Fish Catching Carnival". The location for fish catching is the water area between the rubber dam and the Longtan Dam on Nanlei River in Hengguan County. The river course of this section is 1,500 m long and 30 m wide, after hours of drainage, the center water level decreases just below the waist of an average man. It starts from the morning, and the bellowing sound of "to...to...to" made by tractors breaks the quietness of the county. People in crowd wearing colorful ethnic clothing come from around, gather and wait on the shore at the bridge head of Nanlei River.

On the festival day, 2 km around the banks of Nanlei River are crowed by people, and every piece of land on the downwards water area is full of people waiting for fish catching. They take off their shoes, roll up their sleeves and trousers. Some even shirtless with eyes "scanning" the water and hands holdin