China's longest feast table coming soon

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2016-11-09

Yunnan's Hani ethnic group is to celebrate its most significant traditional festival on Nov 30 at the world's longest feast table.

The banquet will be held in Yunnan's southern county, Lvchun, or green spring in English.

China's longest feast table coming soon

Guests dining at the world's longest table celebrate Hani ethnic group festival. [Photo/Jianning county commission publication department]

It gained the name when China's first premier Zhou Enlai changed it from "Liucun", or six villages in English, because he was impressed by the beautiful landscape and all-year-long warm climate.

The county's 87.4 percent population, the Hani ethnic group, regard the first day of the tenth month of the Chinese lunar year as a lucky day for people born in the dragon animal sign. They celebrate it as grandly as the Chinese Han nationality, 92 percent of the Chinese population, celebrate their Spring Festival.

On that day, tables will be connected end to end generating a 700-meter master-table serving featured Hani ethnic food including three-colored eggs and yellow sticky rice.

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