Chixin Festival, or New Grain Tasting Festival is a very special agronomic festival in Southern China. It is traditionally celebrated by the ethnic groups of Gelao, Dong, Jino and Miao for a good harvest when the grain is ripe. From June to November, the festival is held in different areas according to the grain's ripening time.

The Miao ethnic group's Chixin Festival traditionally begins in October or November. A famous place to enjoy the Miao people's Chixin celebration is Danzhai, an ethnic county which is located in southeast Guizhou province. The festival has a history of more than 1,000 years. Apart from paying visit to relatives and offering fish and buffalos to ancestors, the Miao people also celebrate the festival as a love dating festival. The venues of the celebration, such as the village squares, paddy fields and riversides are the best places for boys and girls to make friends. In these scenes of revel, the girls wear their traditional garments, elaborate embroideries and silver ornaments to catch the lads' eyes, while the boys sing songs, perform Lusheng (reed-pipe wind instrument) dance to show off their talents before the girls from the morning to the evening.

A legend has it that the Miao ethnic group only lived on sweet potatoes and the edible wild herbs in the old days. They have no rice to eat until one day their dog stole nine seeds of grain from the heaven. They planted the grain but didn't get any good harvest. Some years later, a wise old man taught them the knowledge of growing grain, they had a plenteous good harvests in the following year and all their barns were filled with new grains. To memorize the old man, the Miao ethnic group began their New Grain Tasting Festival.