The Siyueba Festival is celebrated annually by the Miao people in Jishou City, Hunan Province, on the eighth day of the fourth Chinese lunar month. It fell on May 5 this year. Miao people from surrounding towns and villages donned traditional attire and participated in a series of folk custom activities, such as folk song gatherings, drum dances, a traditional Miao songs show, and lion dance performances. They celebrated the festival with numerous tourists, singing and dancing together, and immersing in traditional Miao ethnic customs and festive atmosphere. The Siyueba Festival of Miao ethnic minority has been inscribed in the third batch of China's national intangible cultural heritage programs.

湖南省吉首市的苗族同胞每年都會在農歷四月初八慶?！八脑掳恕惫?jié),。5月5日當天是農歷四月初八,，來自十里八鄉(xiāng)的苗族群眾穿上節(jié)日盛裝,，開展趕歌場、打苗鼓,、唱苗歌,、獅子登高等系列民俗表演活動，與眾多游客歡聚一堂,、載歌載舞,，共賞苗族風情，共度苗族佳節(jié),。苗族“四月八”節(jié)已入選了第三批國家級非物質文化遺產名錄,。