--Liangshan Yi "Legend of the Torch Festival"
King Saimei fought against the foreigners, his head was cut off, and when the starry night appeared, he grew another head to fight with them. In the end, due to the betrayal of the spies, cut off the head with a sharp knife grass swept across the neck, the head of the king of Samui will never grow out of the death. It is said that the red spot on the knife grass is the blood of the king of Samui red. Later, the people of Samui would put up torches on the 24th and 25th of June every year to commemorate King Samui and search for his spirit.
The Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan Province, when families drink wine, eat lumps of meat, and kill livestock to sacrifice ancestors. People wear new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, goat and chicken fighting, horse racing and wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string, and play the moon zither. At night the torch in front of the house wandering around; the third night in groups holding torches all over the mountains and fields, the fire, and then concentrated in one place to light a bonfire, playing the torch, drinking, singing and dancing, and play until the end of the daybreak.
-- "The Torch Festival of the Saimei People" by the Saimei branch of the Yi ethnic group
The good god, Afan, stole open the door of the sky and scattered grains to make the happiness on earth exceed that in the sky. When the god of heaven saw this, he was furious and sent Hercules to the earth to take out his anger. Duo Ajazi hated Hercules' dominance, wrestled with him, and threw Hercules to the ground, crushing out a pit, which later turned the heavenly rain into a blue long lake (Lunan freshwater lake). People in honor of this earthly hero, on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar for bullfighting, wrestling, slaughtering sheep, burning torches and other activities to show their condolences.
--The Sani Tribe of Yi "Sani People's Torch Festival"
The slave owner Na Longlang put many of his poor brothers in prison, and the poor people, such as A Zhen, tied torches on the horns of their goats and rushed to Na Longlang's mansion, burning the slave owner to death, and at the same time burning the ropes in the hands of the poor people. In honor of this victory, people carried torches in procession, and it became a custom.
-- "The Torch Festival of the A Thin People" by the A Thin Branch of the Yi People
There was a beautiful and capable girl from the Luowu Yi family, who had long been in love with the Yi boy, A Long. But the men of twelve nearby tribes came to propose marriage, and one of them, the lord of the earth official, said fiercely and brutally that if they didn't agree, they would wash the cottage in blood and make the whole cottage suffer. The girl had no choice but to agree to a match on June 24th. Matchmaking period, the girl dressed in snow-white clothes, black coat, chest tie a piece of flower apron, burned a big pile of fire. The heads of the twelve divisions also came. The girl looked y at Ah Lung and then jumped into the fire. Ah-Long and a few young men tried to hold her back, but they only managed to tear off the corner of her coat. People rushed in from all directions, but she had already sacrificed herself to death. In her honor, the twelve lads lifted up the big ox and pushed it towards each other, with the winner being the one who pushes it down. After that, they killed the bull and drank wine, sang and danced. Later on, the Yi family designated June 24 as the Torch Festival. The corner of the clothes torn off by Aaron became the belt of the Yi women, and the smoke from the burning girl was transformed into the morning mist of the cottage. It is said that early in the morning when the magpies chirping, the Yi mountains in the distance on the hidden figure of the girl, so people call her magpie girl.
--The Magpie Girl from the Yi Luodu branch
Jealous of the happy life on earth, the heavenly god Lao'apu sent an old heavenly general to the earth and asked him to burn the earth into a sea of fire. When the general came to the earth, he saw a man carrying an older child on his back and a younger one by his hand. He was surprised to see that the child on his back was his nephew and the one by his hand was his son, and because his brother and sister-in-law had died, the man thought he should take good care of his nephew. God will be y moved by such human virtues, thinking that people's hearts are so kind, how can we bear to harm them, they will be the gods burned down the earth's news to the man, to tell him to tell the people in June 25th day before the door lit torches, so as to avoid disaster. So thousands of families are in this night lit torches, the sky god thought people have long perished in the fire, they fell into a deep sleep, never woke up. Later, the Naxi people designated this day as the Torch Festival.
-- Naxi "Torch Festival Legend"
On the mountain lived a good man and an evil man, the evil man specializes in eating human eyes. On June 24th, the good man wrapped beeswax around the horns of a goat, lit the beeswax and told the goat to go to the evil man. When the evil man saw the sparks, he thought that the people had taken a musket to beat him, so he hurriedly hid in a cave and blocked the entrance of the cave with a rock, and was drowned by the water coming out of the cave. From then on, people no longer worry about the evil person to eat their eyes, and they can engage in production in peace and quiet. Therefore, the Lahu people have designated this day as the Torch Festival.
--Lahu "Torch Festival Legend"
In addition, in the Bai and Yi torch festival legend, there is also the famous Anan (i.e., Man Aman) of the legend, the legend of Mrs. Park Jie and the legend of Mrs. Charity, the storyline and the legend of the female characters, "Man Aman" and "Fire Burning Sung Ming Lou" is largely consistent, is the The storyline is largely consistent with the female character legends "Man Aman" and "Burning Song Ming Lou", and is the result of the cross derivation of the character legends and torch festival legends.
Dali area, there is the legend of Princess Anan: "Han Yuanfeng, Ye Yu (now Dali) woman Anan, the wife of the chief of the Man Aana. Na for the Han general Guo Shizhong killed, want to wife South, South said, can be from three things when you are allowed to: a do curtain to sacrifice the former husband; a burned the former husband's clothes, easy to the new clothes; a so that the people of the country all know that I married with the gift. Zhong as he said. Tomorrow, gather the people of the country, Zhang Songcurtain sacrifice to his husband, under the fire. Nan Zang knife out, once blazing, burning husband's clothes, that is to lead the knife to break his neck, servants in the fire. When the June 25th also, the people of the country mourn, every year to this day to burn a torch to hang, called the star back to the festival."
-- King of Nanzhao burning Songming Building, Lady Charity loyal martyrdom
The early Tang Dynasty in Yunnan there were six tribes, known as the "six edicts". The southernmost tribe, Mengshezhao, was also known as Nanzhao. One day, the king of Nanzhao, Mr. Pilouge, invited the leaders of the other five edicts to a meeting. Mrs. Charity, the wife of the chief of Dengqinzhao, thought that Pilogak was ill-intentioned and tried to persuade her husband not to go there. But her husband did not listen, when she was leaving, Mrs. Charity tearfully set an iron ring on her husband's arm, in order to protect his body.
Thereafter, the Pilot Court really burned the chiefs gathered Songming building, the five edicts of the chiefs have not been spared. In the face of the ashes of Songming Building, Mrs. Charity cried out in pain. She threw herself in the ashes and pulled out the iron ring worn by her husband, and then she recognized his body and transported him home. Later, Pi Luoguo heard about this intelligent and virtuous Lady Charity and wanted to marry her. But how can Mrs. Charity marry again, ceremonial burial of her husband, she closed the city to kill themselves, following their husbands to go, leaving behind this touching and touching story that is full of emotion.
From then on, the Bai people in Yunnan will have a torch festival to commemorate the historical story of the "burning of the Songming Building" and the courageous and intelligent Mrs. Charity.
------- ------- Guo Shizhong kills his husband and wants to dominate his wife, and Mrs. Charity burns herself in the sea of fire
Guo Shizhong, a lieutenant general of the Han Dynasty, kills the chief of Dali's Man'ana and finds the chief's wife, Mrs. Anan, very pretty, and wants to take her as his wife. Mrs. Anan pretended to agree, but made three conditions for sacrificing her late husband. However, during the sacrifice of her husband, Anan set fire to the hearth and jumped into the blazing fire to burn herself to death. Anan's loyalty and bravery won the admiration of the people. From then on, every year in the day of Anan's death, the white compatriots will light torches, string townships to tour the village, in order to commemorate.
--Warriors wrestle with the devil, the crowd lit torches to burn the sky worms
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a demon named ten vigorously, destroying people's happy life on earth. When people found it, they went up to it and questioned it. Ten Power savagely asked people to wrestle with him, and demonstratively tipped over a strong bull (from then on, bullfighting was the first thing to be done at the Torch Festival). His provocative behavior angered a Yi hero named Bao Cong. He stepped out of the crowd and wrestled with the ten strong for three days and nights. The people played the three strings and piccolos, clapped their hands and stomped their feet to support Bao Cong, and finally defeated Ten Power. The devil was angry and released locusts and other pests to spoil the hard-earned crops. So the people gathered again and lit a torch to burn the pests, and finally all the pests were burned to death, which happened to be the 24th day of the 6th month. Later, in order to commemorate this victory, every day, we have to kill cows and slaughter sheep, held a variety of torch festival activities, which reflects the spirit of the Yi people to fight for a happy life in the face of violence.
-- Kill the tax to anger the God of Heaven, burning torches to fight pests
A long time ago, the sky and the ground were connected. One year, the God of Heaven, Siddhanta Gurujar sent Siddhanta Abhi to the earth to collect taxes. Because of the disaster on earth and crop failure, people can not afford to pay the rent tax, the earth a can eat copper and iron Hercules Ou Tilaba tax collector Sijia Abi killed. The God of Heaven was furious and first sent a flood to drown the human beings on earth, but the flood was overcome by the people. God also released a variety of pests to the earth to eat the people's crops, Russia and the body of Raba and the group gathered around the fire pond to discuss ways to cure the bugs, inadvertently found a fall into the fire pond bugs quickly burned to death. Thus, the Russian body Raba organized the group to raise the torch burning insects, and ultimately defeated the pests, captured a good harvest. Over time, it has become a custom, forming the Yi torch festival.
--The God of Heaven is jealous of the sea of fire, torches to avoid catastrophe
Naxi legend, one day, the God of Heaven, the son of Lau Aapu in the clouds to play by the river, and suddenly heard the sound of folk singing and dancing. He was so annoyed by the beauty and happiness of life on earth that he sent a heavenly general to earth to burn the earth into a sea of fire. This general of heaven changed into an old man to the earth, met a Naxi man carrying a big boy and holding a small boy. He was puzzled to ask, only to realize that the big boy is the orphan of another family, the little boy is the man's child. He was y touched and felt compassion, and could not bear to destroy the earth. So he told the people to prepare torches in every house and to light them all together on June 25th. On this day, Zilao Apu to the cloud river to check, really see the mountains are full of fire, thought the earth was really burned, and only then rested. Naxi people thus dodged a bullet, from the disaster of the burning tribe. From then on, there is a torch festival on June 25 every year.
-- Yi legends
The Yi people in Mile County believe that the torch festival originated from a slave riot, these slaves bundled torches on the horns of goats, attacked the house of the slave master, burned the slave master, and got freedom.
The Yi tribe in the suburbs of Kunming said that the king of Saimei (a branch of the Yi tribe) fought with the invaders and had his head chopped off, but as soon as the stars came out of alignment in the night, a new head grew on his neck and he once again led his people into battle. Later, the secret of his head regeneration was revealed by his wife, and his head never grew back. The Yi people carried torches on the day he was killed, and looked around for his genie, year after year, following each other into the festival.
The legend of Nantong Yi Autonomous County is that a demon likes to eat people's eyes, and Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, subdued him with conch meat posing as human eyes, and locked him in a cave, giving him only one day to get out of the cave. People are afraid that he continues to do evil, they light up torches on this day, playing songs and clamor, so that it does not dare to come out of the hole.
The festival name of the various ethnic torch festival is the same, the time of the festival is also roughly the same, behind these different legends, the torch festival should have a **** the same or similar source.