1. Yi Tiger Festival
Shuangbai County, Wheat Rush generation of the Yi, the first eight days of the first month of the lunar calendar to the fifteenth of the first month of the Tiger Festival, known as the Yi language, "Luo Ma". On this day, the village adult men in the village after worship of the Lord of the earth, by the sorcerer divination selected 8 people. These eight people wearing painted with tiger spots on the felt, face, feet, hands painted with tiger stripes, make-up for the tiger, under the leadership of the black tiger head jumping all kinds of production, life, reproduction of the dance, to the whole village for the families to drive away the ghosts and ghosts, the Yi language known as "Luo Ma Nai Bo".
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The Yi ethnic group living in Shuangbai County, Wheat Rush generation belongs to the Luo Luo Pu branch, calling themselves "A Luo". It is said that the A Luo people's ancestors choose to live in regeneration of mountains and dense forests, often by jackals, leopards, pythons and snakes, A Luo people can not be defended. Later, the Alo people hunted tiger skin off, set on the body jumped up "tiger dance" to guard the fortress, and said the Alo people are as brave as the tiger, do not fear any evil, Alo people get the guardian of the king of the animals, the fortress peace, good crops, cattle and sheep are safe, the fortress appeared in an auspicious scene. Since then they have fixed the jumping tiger as a festival, and accompanied by music and big gong sheng, make it more vivid and active.
The Tiger Dance (also known as the Tiger Sheng) began on the eighth day of the first month, and the number of tigers increased by one per day (8 tigers at the beginning) to 15 tigers, i.e., until the fifteenth day of the first month. In the Tiger Dance, the elder who holds the bell "Bundang" as the guide (also called "Yixi") is accompanied by the tiger, who is made to wear the tiger's skin with a full-body tiger pattern. If it is difficult to get many tiger skins, felt is used instead. Jumping Tiger Festival, the former village households incense for the "Tiger God", each household from the door to the house to jump a tiger dance to drive away evil spirits, Tiger God guard. At night, the field village set up a fire, tiger sheng around the village and dance. 15 tigers are out, male and female, old and small, all (after the metaphor comes again) the whole village for the next day's prosperity to celebrate the scene of wine, carnival all night.
The Yi Tiger Festival is the legacy of the Tiger Totem, as a national folk activities, jumping Tiger Sheng by the masses.
2. Hani grasshopper festival
The grasshopper festival, Hani language called "A color Nian", in the June year (the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar each year), after the first of the old chicken or monkey day held. The Hani people live in mountainous areas and grow rice for one season. After the "Year of the Sixth Moon", the rice will start to pull out ears, and in order to ensure a good rice harvest, the Hani people will adopt the "Grasshopper Catching Festival" as a way to drive away and avoid insect pests. Grasshopper Festival day, the whole village men, women and children to the field to catch grasshoppers, to a family as a unit, split to catch. After each family catch enough a bamboo tube (about two pounds), the grasshopper one one tear five, head a pile, legs a pile, body a pile, buttocks a pile, wings a pile; in turn, with the cut bamboo clip up inserted next to the ridge and drainage ditch to the grasshopper has not yet been caught and other insects to intimidate. After half an hour, the grasshoppers are put into bamboo tubes and brought home to be eaten as vegetables or mixed with target poi, the meat of which is said to be very sweet. When leaving the field, people have to keep shouting, "Grasshopper, I won't catch you for three days, and you don't want to eat rice for three months!"
3. Yao Inverted Draft Festival
The sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar is a traditional day for the Yao people to celebrate the harvest. At this time, the rice, sweet potatoes, grains, corn and other crops have been harvested, the Yao people set this day as the "draft festival". Before this day, whoever planted who harvested, not allowed to cut indiscriminately, or according to the township rules and regulations of the people to impose a fine. After this day, anyone can go up and down the field to collect the results, who collects who gets, no interference.
"Inverted haggard festival" on this day, the population of large Yao Zhai to hold a large-scale "bullfighting race", choose a large field ridge or a piece of flat land to do the race, take a fat and strong bullock to the racecourse, the bull's horns tied with a red silk knot, ate a pour draft rice: (Generally it is chicken. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world. The main contestant announced the start of the game, the village of young men and boys volunteered to come forward, the elders to tie their heads "Hero Festival", and speak some auspicious words of wishing. After the elders left the field, the contestants holding sticks and bulls fighting, until the bulls exhausted, automatically retired until; to the evening, young men and women automatically gathered together to sing "pour draft song" (that is, the harvest song). Generally there are two forms: one is to agree on a ping field for the song hall, after dinner, burn a bonfire, male and female youth around the bonfire, singing, the second is a young man in the girl's front door to sing the "lead song" girl in the house to sing the "welcome song" to welcome the young man into the house, holding out the "melon and ladle wine". Hold out the "melon scoop wine" (i.e., glutinous rice wine mixed with cold boiled water, with a melon scoop to scoop), put on the local specialties, eating and singing, all night long. Generally, each song is accompanied by the lyrics "Mimi-hei, ah-ya" (ballad language "good meaning"). The songs are full of joy, beauty and happiness. Through singing, men and women who are in love with each other, when they leave, they not only give gifts, but also leave each other's flashlights, backpacks or baskets, which is to ask each other to come back next time, and then reluctantly leave.
4. Keno Te Mouk Festival
Te Mouk Festival, from a magical and beautiful legend.
Kinuo folk legend, a long time ago, there is a woman pregnant with a child, has not been born. It was not until nine years and nine months later that the child she was carrying croaked. Once the child out of the mother's womb, will see the wind and long, into a hand holding a hammer, a hand holding pincers of the strong man. Unschooled, an anvil, hand-made iron knife, iron axe, so that the people of the Jinuo people with iron tools. People to commemorate this historic change, to facilitate the annual waxing held a big iron festival, so that the Te Mouk Festival has become a custom, and become the entire population of the Keno **** celebration of the grand festival. In the past over the Te Mouk Festival, the village as a unit to carry out activities, the festival by the Walled Elder "Zhuo Ba" decision. During the festival, to be held plowing cattle, sacrificing drums (drums), jumping drums, swinging, stilt walkers, playing gyro and other activities, and to hold a symbolic iron ceremony, the whole walled city to the blacksmiths to offer a bamboo rat, said the iron creator of respect.
The morning of the festival, the village of the old "Zhuo Ba" first hard to beat the drum for the upstairs, signaling the arrival of the festival. Men, women and children hear the drum, they will be dressed, crowded to the plagiarism field to participate in the plagiarism of cattle. People
After arriving, "Zhuoba" faces the tethered plow ox to be plagiarized and recites a plagiarism word, directing people to plagiarize the ox. The village adult men, a person holding a bamboo standard, standing at a distance of five or six meters away from the ox, in turn, raise the standard to throw at the ox, until the plagiarism gun into the body of the ox, there is blood flow, the ox was seriously injured after, people with a knife to kill the ox, skinned and divided into meat. Beef should first be distributed to the walled village "seven old" (Zhuo Ba, Zhuo color, Ba Nuo, color Nuo, can make up, make up Nuo, milk slaves), and then according to the money raised to each household. At noon, the parents of each household to bring their own preparation of meat and wine dishes to the Zhuo Ba home to participate in the sacrifice of the drum. Drum sacrifice, the drum should be set in front of the chicken feathers, hammer, iron pincers, ginger, taro, flowers. The "seven old men" sit in turn, by the Zhuo Ba read the words of the sacrificial drums, drums, leading everyone to dance big drums, sing the old and welcome the new song. In the afternoon, the "seven old men" were divided into groups to eat with the households in the village. Is the night, focusing on the Zhuo Ba home to listen to singers sing, male and female youth in the downstairs casually singing and dancing, up to Dan square disperse. The next morning, the iron ceremony. Walled masses in the "seven old" under the leadership of all will be iron people (blacksmiths and their apprentices) flocked to the Zhuo color home, please blacksmiths swinging hammer anvil, meaning that has been playing a good new knife, a new axe, ready to be put into the spring plowing production. The rest of the day is spent on cultural and sports activities such as swinging, playing gyros, throwing bags and stilts to keep people entertained.
In 1988, the Standing Committee of the Xishuangbanna Prefecture People's Congress, according to the wishes of the Jinuo people, the Te Mouk Festival as the annual festival of the Jinuo people, unified in the annual calendar February 6-8 to carry out festivals, and from then on, the Te Mouk Festival will be in the Jinuo people resident in the unified celebration. At that time, Chinese and foreign tourists, guests from all over the world, representatives of various ethnic groups are invited to the Kino mountain clouds, to participate in the return of the festival activities, together to watch the Kino thrilling plagiarism activities, enjoy the Kino young men and women jumping big drums, bamboo dance, to participate in sports competitions, and the Kino masses *** enjoy the joy of the festival.
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The Achang Street
Time: In the past, it was held in mid-September of the lunar calendar and lasted for about 15 days, but now it has been changed to be held in the three days before and after the National Day.
Significance: to promote the religious beliefs of the Achang people.
Content: Juggling the green dragon and playing with white elephants are the grandest and most wonderful entertainment activities during the Huijie Festival.
HuiJie, called "BoLu" in Achang language, is held in August and September of the lunar calendar every year to welcome the return of Buddha to earth. Legend has it that Buddha "a hit horse" (Sakyamuni) for his mother in heaven chanting three days (equivalent to the ground in March) when he returned to earth, the Buddha's light shines brightly, the green dragon and white elephants are auspicious. Achang will street must play the green dragon white elephant, that is derived from this.
The Achang people regard the green dragon and white elephant as symbols of good luck and happiness. Before the meeting street, to tie a good green dragon, white elephant. Will street on this day, when the sky dawn dawn, the young men will be carrying a long knife, the elephant foot drums, girls dressed in colorful national costumes, in the drums and firecrackers surrounded by red and green green dragon, white elephant into the street festival square. When the elders who preside over the festival announce the start of the festival, the sounds of drums, gongs and hydrazinium are intertwined. The green dragon and the white elephant are also active, the green dragon sometimes shakes its head, sometimes swings its tail, sometimes opens its mouth and laughs; the white elephant sometimes flips its long trunk, sometimes advances, sometimes retreats, then slides, kneels, leans back, leans forward, and its clumsy and naive behavior causes people to burst into laughter. At this time, the girls and boys will dance around the Green Dragon White Elephant. They jumped and moved their feet, their bodies undulating like waves, jumping and squatting. At this time, the venue, drums and music, dragon dance, elephant leap, a joyful.
Tie the green dragon, white elephant is not a simple matter, the old artists first use wood to make the frame, paper paste body, cloth to do the elephant trunk and dragon head, dragon tail. To be strong, light and image. When playing the green dragon, white elephant, people hide in the dragon body elephant stomach, some people are responsible for lifting the dragon, moving the elephant, some specializing in tugging the dragon head, tail and trunk, so the green dragon will be able to raise his head, open his mouth, shut his mouth, swing his tail, the white elephant will be up and down, left and right, flinging his nose.
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Lisu "Qash" festival
Lisu people can sing and dance, regardless of the men and women of young and old, everyone can sing and double jump, and especially like to the song, especially to the New Year, the singers can be a few days of the song on the continuous. After the liberation of hu shui, gongshan, yunlong around the lisu people still organize hot springs song habit, every year on the occasion of the new year, are to bring the food, back rows of cooking utensils rushed to the state capital of nujiang six ku north of twelve kilometers in the hot springs, to participate in the "spring race song will be". At that time the turbid springs on the side of the tents, a sea of people, famous singers from all over the world and on a round, beautiful and moving songs one after another, that is, late into the night, the songs are still in the bear to be the campfire to be echoed next to the fire. This annual "Tang Chi Zhai song will", has been to carry out more than ten days.
Shooting crossbow competition is also an important part of the Lisu Festival, people in the gathering of song and dance at the same time, young and middle-aged men often take out their favorite crossbow, in a hundred paces away from a target, than to test the skills of each person. Lisu people, the crossbow is essential, almost every family has, the men are familiar with the crossbow with wild mulberry or other hardwood made of crossbow line with cattle. Generally young men with crossbows must use a lot of strength to string, can be called a strong crossbow. Crossbow arrows made of bamboo or hardwood. In order to improve the power of the crossbow, Lisu people often in the arrow coated with raw grass and other poisonous plant juice, so as to play a "see blood to seal the throat", shot that is the role of death.
Because of the different regions, around the New Year's activities are also different, some of the New Year's Eve to first feed salt to the plowing oxen, in order to show respect for the ploughing oxen a year of hard work; some of the pine tree planted in the door of the house, so that its representative of the God of the mountains, to the wine and meat offerings; some of the New Year's Eve food in the people eat and drink before scooping up a spoonful of the dog to eat first, because they think that the world's five grains of the seeds, is the dog flew through the painstakingly to the palace of heaven to be to come, so to first comfort the dog for this great work.
In addition to the "Qash" festival, Lisu generally in other unified festival, just in the Nujiang River in some areas to the calendar October (Lisu natural calendar of drunkenness month), in the half-month after the harvest harvest harvest festival, the festival, villages and villages to cook wine and kill pigs, gatherings to eat and drink, singing and dancing, day and night.
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