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Why China’s heritage-listed Dog-Carrying Festival honours canines as sacred lifesavers
Why China’s heritage-listed Dog-Carrying Festival honours canines as sacred lifesavers
In a remote Miao village in southwestern China, dogs are honoured as life-saving heroes. Every seventh month of the lunar calendar, residents of Jiaobang village in Jianhe county, Guizhou province, celebrate Tai Gou Jie, or the “Dog-Carrying Festival” – a unique folk tradition recognised as local intangible cultural heritage in 2015. During the festival, villagers select a dog. Traditionally, it…