Source: CCTV.com

04-17-2009 16:45

"Ear-shooting Sacrifice" is the most important ceremony of the Bunong people. It is held from the late April to the early May. The sacrifice consists of several major activities such as hunting, animal-ear shooting, pork roasting, roasted pork dividing, sacrifice of hunting gun, ceremony of feat awarding, sacrifice of witchery, etc.

Traditionally, all adult males must go into the mountain to hunt before the sacrifice was held. The ears of the game would be cut off and hung on a wooden shelf or tree branch, and then all men in the village would shoot the ear with their arrows, while boys would be accompanied by their father or elder brother to practice their shooting skill so that they would be a good hunter one day. The Bunong people used to shoot deer ears to pray for the harvest of crops and hunting, but boar ears have gradually been used instead in recent years.

 

Editor:Zhao Yanchen