The ceremony of ploughing the fields was very grand. Young Yao people blew horns, and several gentlemen waved bronze knives, sounded bronze bells, knocked gongs, recited Yao scriptures, and danced, sowing seeds such as corn, rice, and yellow rice in all directions from time to time, meaning to drive away evil forces, eliminate disasters and solve problems, ensure the peace of the cottage, and ensure the bumper harvest of grain. Li, the county magistrate of Liannan Yao Autonomous County, prepared various authentic Yao dishes for the guests from Guangzhou.
Yao Village in Nangang, Liannan, Guangdong is known as "the first Yao Village in China". This festival, also known as "Walking Festival", means the beginning of a year of spring ploughing. On the day of ploughing, the Yao people in each village slaughtered pigs and sheep, recited Yao scriptures, paid homage to temple gods and ancestors, prayed for good weather and abundant crops, sealed songs, danced and hunted, and concentrated their labor and energy on farming, so it was also called "wishing festival". The activities of the "Land Reclamation Festival" include the Yao people's land reclamation sacrifice, chasing and driving away the black-faced people, and displaying the living fossils of Yao people's primitive farming.