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Introduction to the Gelao Eating Festival: The "Eating Festival" is a traditional festival of the Gelao people in various parts of Guizhou. It is mostly held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and in a few areas on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. On the festival day, every family buys meat and drinks, kills chickens and sheep, picks some early-ripening rice and rice from the fields to make new rice, and then makes dishes such as red beans and edamame to worship their ancestors. Then the whole family sits around, drinks, chats and eats new rice, which is called "eating new".