Swinging Hani women at the June Festival in Lo Ma Basin Village, Yunnan Province, China, a festival, which in Hani language is called "Ku Zha Zha". The legend behind this festival says that when the Hani ancestors were digging the soil to grow rice, the small animals living in the soil got hurt. So they complained about that to their god who punished the Hani people by sending them on very high swings to scare them. The small animals then forgave the Hani people. Since that time, every year in June, Hani people have this ceremony to beg for a good rice harvest.