Annual July Torch Festival Lanling which is a local custom festival in Yunnan, which is also a very important festival among ethnic minorities, with more customs and habits. Before the festival, every family will prepare some food, and in the festival time will be surrounded by a fire tower, the fire will be burning, people gathered together, singing and dancing, all night long, a joyful.
The Torch Festival is a very important festival for some local ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Before the festival, every family will prepare some food, and during the festival, every cottage will make a huge torch with pine seeds or dry pine wood, and put it in the middle of the tree, and every family will have some small torches, which will be brightly lit on the day of the Torch Festival. Before nightfall, these torches are lit and people play in their villages in small groups with big hands and stick the torches and pine names in the fields.
Young men and some women gather in the square, and people start a bonfire party to pray for good luck and happiness, which is a very grand singing and dancing entertainment. During the Torch Festival, there will be archery, bullfighting, horse racing, swinging, tug-of-war, wrestling and other recreational activities next to the trade market will be involved. Generally in the torch festival a few days before the start of the preparation time, for three days and three nights, which is also called firefly, each cottage will kill pigs, slaughter cattle to celebrate the arrival of the festival, with meat and wine to meet the guests outside the people have to go home to eat a reunion dinner.
There is also a lot of traditional food here, there is home brewed wine will also eat lumps of meat, when people in the festival will be able to feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, will be in the hillside to play, will be singing and dancing, and will do a variety of games. You can find different customs in each place, and the customs here are particularly good will, praying to the fire god, so that the children and grandchildren happy and well-being, but also be able to make the earth harvest and joy, everyone sings songs, praying for the peace of the family and the prosperity of the six places.