Zhuang people wrestle in pool of cherry tomatoes (3)

The 2016 Baise Buluotuo Folk Culture Tourism Festival was held from April 12 to April 15, 2016 on Ganzhuang Mountain in Baise City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

During the festival, people burned incense to show respect to their ancestors, sang folk songs, performed lion dances and watched buffalo fight.

For thousands of people from nearby villages, the gathering is not a modern festival but a long-practiced custom. The festival is the most important sacred rite and its history is echoed in the songs performed. The ritual takes place every year from the 19th day of the second month on the lunar calendar, which is believed to be the birth day of Buluotuo, to March 9 on the lunar calendar.

Buluotuo is said to be the creator of the ethnic cultures of the ancient communities in the Pearl River region, such as the Zhuang people, according to the oral literature of the Zhuang ethnic group.