The Danu festival is held especially for the Yao people living in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to commemorate their grandmothers. The Zhuang people nearby together with the Yao people celebrate this festival by brewing fragrant wines and singing songs along with playing a timbal beating game.

The Festival is the biggest traditional festival among Yao people; it is a combination of culture that includes dancing, sporting events, and commerce. Every year on the 29th day of the fifth lunar month, the Yao people in Bama will get together and celebrate their own festival.

During the Danu Festival in Bama, the celebrations of the Bunu Yao in Dongshan, Fengshan are of the most elaborated peculiarity. On the day, every Danu household will prepare pig, a goat, and a chicken, cooking them along with the five colors glutinous sticky rice. They brew wine and hold a family reunion. After the big feast, everyone (old and young, man and woman) dresses in their holiday best to dance and singing.

When all of the groups finish dancing, people will toast. Everyone raises their wine glasses to the best group, presenting them with gifts in congratulations.

The young people will take this opportunity to look for lovers and exchange cigarettes as a gift. The festival lasts one day, and people remain untill sunset.