Nadun
nadun traditional festival held monguor people known tu zu chinese festival name resembles nadam festival mongol different format content monguor “nadun” mongolian “nadam” special noun designated annual festival reflect shared origin northern nomadic people xianbei recorded “one major gathering every spring leisure fun” whereas mongolian nadam preserved nomadic feature horse race wrestling archery monguor nadun encoded history masked dance performance present annual military drill combined joyful celebration harvest specifically held sanchuanguanting area minhe county located north bank yellow river easternmost point qinghai river flow eastward gansu hold densely populated monguor settlement today held village turn along yellow river nadun celebration circle entire sanchuanguanting region minhe nadun festival inherently tied agricultural work function monguor form “thanksgiving” western culture express gratitude abundance harvest blessed heaven referred “tiangere” event last two month starting twelfth seventh month fifteenth ninth month chinese lunar calendar span total day giving rise eponym world’s longest festival