Nov 30 is the day when the Yunnan’s Hani ethnic group celebrates its most significant festival and treats overseas and domestic visitors with a feast served on the world’s longest table.

The banquet is always held in Yunnan's southern county, Lvchun, or green spring in English.

Guests dining at the world's longest table celebrate Hani ethnic group festival. [Photo/Jianning county commission publication department]

It gained the name when China's first premier Zhou Enlai changed it from "Liucun", or six villages in English, because he was impressed by the beautiful landscape and all-year-long warm climate.

The Hani ethnic group, 87.4 percent of the county’s population, regards the first day of the tenth month of the Chinese lunar year as a lucky day for people born in the dragon animal sign. They celebrate it as grandly as the Chinese Han nationality, 92 percent of the Chinese population, celebrate their Spring Festival. On that day, tables will be connected end to end generating a 700-meter master-table serving featured Hani ethnic food including bamboo tube chicken and yellow sticky rice.

Bamboo tube chicken is a famous dish of the Yunnan Hani ethnic group. The meat must first be kneaded with seasonings including ham and dried mushrooms. Then all the chicken and seasonings are put into the bamboo pipe and baked in fire for two hours.

Bamboo tube chicken of Yunnan Hani ethnic group.[Photo/ptxw.com]