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Why China’s heritage-listed Dog-Carrying Festival honours canines as sacred lifesavers

Festival helps pass core cultural values to younger generations by honouring dogs as miraculous heroes and lifelong companions to the Miao people.

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During a traditional folk festival, the Miao people dress dogs in human clothing and carry them on sedan chairs to express deep gratitude to the animals that helped their ancestors find water. -- Photo: Visual China Group via Getty Images

BEIJING (SCMP): 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.

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