The Pan Wang (King Pan) Festival is one of China's cultural highlights. It occurs every year on the sixteenth of the tenth lunar month and is celebrated by Yao minorities located in several provinces in southern China. The purpose is to show reverence to one's ancestors. There are a couple of legends about the origin of the festival. According to one of them, Pan Wang's body was originally like a silkworm in the ear of the Queen of Gaoxin, the leader of an ancient tribe. After he made meritorious deeds, he was given to a daughter of the Gaoxin clan to reproduce offspring, and was honored as "Pan Wang" by later generations. Later, Pan Wang went up the mountain to hunt, but unfortunately was hit by an antelope and died. During the Pan Wang Festival, Yao people remember their ancestor Pan Wang. Activities during the festival include sacrifice, singing, and dancing.

Pray that the largely unreached Yao across southern China would come to know the saving power of Jesus and worship Him. Pray that the Yao would turn away from hollow traditions based in fiction and turn to truth based in reality that results in their salvation.