Which ethnic group's festival is the Torchlight Festival Torchlight Assembly?

Which ethnic group's festival is the Torch Festival? The Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Lisu, Wa, Brown, Naxi, Lahu, Pumi and some other minority peoples in the southwest of China. The torch festival of each ethnic group is originated from the worship of fire, and different ethnic groups hold torch festivals at different times: the Yi, Naxi, Jinuo in June 24 of the lunar calendar, the Yi in Guizhou are mostly in the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the Bai in the 25th of the sixth month, and Lahu in the twentieth of the sixth month, with a festival period of two to three days. The festival lasts for two to three days. The way and content of the celebration are very similar. The origin of the Torch Festival and the legend about the origin of the Torch Festival, folk legends circulating in various stories, the various ethnic groups also have different say, in the end the real reason has yet to be examined. In the many legends, excerpts from the more recognized ones are listed. 1, the Yi torch festival legend a long time ago, there is a Hercules in the sky called Sjak Abi, there is a Hercules on the ground called the A body Raba, both of them have to pull the strength of the mountain. One day, Sjak Abi wanted to wrestle with Ati Laba, but Ati Laba had to go out in a hurry, and when he was leaving, he asked his mother to treat Sjak Abi with a plate of discus. Thinking that Ati Rabah must be very strong since he had the discus for his meal, Sjak Abi hurried away. When Atiraba returned, he heard from his mother that Sjarabi had just left, so he chased after him to have a wrestling match with him, which resulted in Sjarabi being thrown to his death. Knowing this, the sky god Entiguz was furious and sent a large number of locusts and borers to eat the crops on the ground. A body Raba will be in the old calendar June 24 that night, cut to many pine branches, wild artemisia branches tied into torches, led the people lit up, to the field to burn insects. Since then, the Yi people have designated this day as the Torch Festival. 2, the Yi Saimei branch of the legend of the Torch Festival is the largest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan, when families drink wine, eat lumps of meat, and kill livestock to sacrifice to the ancestors. People wear new clothes, carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics, men participate in bullfighting, sheep, chickens, horse racing, wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string, play the moon piano. In the evening, they put torches in front of and behind the houses; on the third night, they traveled in groups with torches all over the mountains and fields, with the light of the fire, and then they gathered in one place to light bonfires, played with torches, drank wine, sang and danced, and played until dawn. 3. The slave master of the A Thin sub-clan of the Yi nationality, Nalanglang, put a lot of poor brothers in prison, and the poor people, such as A Zhen, tied torches to the horns of their sheep and rushed to the residence of Nalanglang, burned to death the slave master, and at the same time burned the ropes in the hands of the poor people. burned the ropes in the hands of the poor. To commemorate this victory, people held torches in procession, and it became a custom.4. Naxi God of heaven, son of Laopu was jealous of the happy life on earth, and sent an old general to the earth, asking him to burn the earth into a sea of fire. God will come to earth, see a man will be older children on the back of the body, the younger children on the contrary, he felt strange, a detailed question to realize that the children on the back of the nephew, holding the child is the son, because the brother and sister-in-law have died, the man that should be well taken care of nephews. 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 set this day as the Torch Festival.5. In the Bai and Yi torch festival legends, there are also the famous legend of Anan, the legend of Mrs. Berjie and the legend of Mrs. Charity, the storyline is largely consistent with the legend of the female characters, "Man A-mang" and "Fire Burning Songming House", which is the result of the cross-derivation of the character legend and the torch festival legend.6. In the early Tang Dynasty, there were six tribes in Yunnan, known as the "six edicts". The southernmost tribe, Mengshezhao, was also known as Nanzhao. Nanzhao was becoming more and more powerful. One day, the king of Nanzhao, Pilouge, invited the chiefs of the other five edicts to a gathering. Mrs. Charity, the wife of the chief of the Deng fine dao, thought that Pi Logge had bad intentions and tried to persuade her husband not to go there. But her husband did not listen, when she was leaving, Mrs. Charity tearfully put an iron ring on her husband's arm, in order to protect his body. After that, PiLuGe really burned the chiefs gathered SongMingLou, five edict 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 could Mrs. Charity marry again, after burying her husband, she closed the city to kill herself and follow her husband, leaving behind this touching story which is very touching. Since then, the Bai people in Yunnan have been celebrating the Torch Festival to commemorate the historical story of the "burning of Songming Building" and the courageous and intelligent Mrs. Charity.7. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a demon named Ten Powerful, destroying people's happy life on earth. When people found out about it, they went up to the demon and questioned him. Ten Power savagely asked people to wrestle with him, and demonstratively tipped over a strong cow. His provocative behavior angered a Yi hero named Bao Cong. He came out of the crowd and wrestled with Shili for three days and nights. The people played the three strings and piccolos, clapped their hands and stomped their feet to cheer for 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 torch festival activities, which reflects the spirit of the Yi people's struggle for a happy life in the face of violence. 8, Mile County Yi believe that the origin of the torch festival in a slave riots, these slaves in the goat horns bundled with torches, attacked the home of the slave owner, burned the slave owner, got free. 9, a long time ago, the sky and the ground are connected. One year, the god of heaven, Sithi Gujarat, sent Sithi Abi to the earth to collect taxes. Because of the disaster on earth and crop failure, people could not afford to pay the rent tax, the earth a can eat copper and iron Hercules Ottilabar tax collector Sijak 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 that a fall into the fire pond of the bugs were 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, formed the Yi torch festival. 10, the Han Dynasty's vice general Guo Shizhong killed Dali's Man A Na chief, and found the chief's wife, Mrs. Anan looks beautiful, they want to take her as his wife. Mrs. Anan pretended to agree, but put forward 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. Since then every year in the day of Anan's death, the Bai compatriots will light torches, strung townships to tour the village, to commemorate the 11, Dali area, there is the legend of Princess Anan: "Han Yuanfeng, Ye Yu women Anan, the wife of the chief Man A Na. Na for the Han general Guo Shizhong, the wife of the chief. 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 deceased husband; a burned the deceased husband's clothes, easy to the new clothes; a make the country people 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. Nanzang knife out, once blazing, burning husband's clothes, that is to lead the knife to break his neck, servants in the fire. On June 25th, the people of the country mourned the loss of their husband, and every year they burned torches on this day, which was called the Star Festival.12. There was a good man and an evil man living in the mountains of the Lahu tribe, and the evil man specialized in eating the eyes of human beings. June 24 this day, the good man with beeswax wrapped in goat horns, lit the beeswax and called the goat to go to the evil man, the evil man saw the sparks, thought people with a musket to hit him, they rushed to hide in a cave, and blocked the cave entrance with a stone, and as a result, 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 set this day as the torch festival. 13, Yi Luowu branch Luowu Yi family has a beautiful and capable girl, and the Yi boy A Long has been in love for a long time. But the nearby twelve tribes of men have come to propose marriage, one of the land official lord ferocious brutality said, if not agreed, will be blood wash cottage, let 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 headmen of the twelve divisions also arrived. The girl looked y at Ah Lung and then jumped into the fire. A-long and a few young men tried to hold her back, but only the corner of her coat was pulled off. 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 when the magpies chirp in the early morning, the figure of the girl is faintly visible in the distance of the Yi Mountains, so people call her the Magpie Girl.14. The good god of the Sani branch of the Yi tribe, Fan, stole the door of the sky and scattered grains, so that happiness on earth exceeded that in heaven. Seeing this, the god of heaven was furious and sent Hercules to the earth to take out his anger. Apan hated Hercules for being overbearing and wrestled with him, knocking Hercules to the ground and crushing out a pit, which was later turned into a long blue lake by heavenly rain. People in honor of this earthly hero, in the lunar calendar June 24th bullfighting, wrestling, slaughtering sheep, burning torches and other activities to show their condolences.