The Flower Street of the Dai people
It is also called "Chanxin Street". It is called "Ma'e" in Dai language. This traditional festival of the Dai people in Xinping and Jinggu areas of Yunnan is celebrated every year after the Lunar New Year (the first day of the first lunar month). According to local custom, after the Spring Festival, three streets must be visited, each street lasting ten days. The first street is for teenagers, the second street is for unmarried young people around 20 years old, and the third street is for married adults. The girls who went to the second street wore flowers on their heads and new floral dresses. They carried several special bamboo lunch boxes, one for each of their boyfriends. The lunch boxes contained bacon and glutinous rice, and a cloth cover for their coats. . Sometimes, although the girl's boyfriend's parents come to watch the fun, they can also get a box of lunch from the girl, enjoy the delicious food together, and feel proud of it. After the meal, the boy puts some candies, silk threads and other small gifts in the bamboo basket and gives them back to the girl as a reward. On this day, young men also put on beautiful clothes, brought fine wine and food, and came to have a drink with their lovers. Young men and women drank, sang, danced and had fun together until late at night.
The Water Splashing Festival of the Dai Nationality
Also known as the Buddha Bathing Festival, also known as Lenhe Shanghan, it is a celebration of the Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, Deang and Thai-speaking ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. It is a traditional festival, and people in places where Thais live overseas, such as Kowloon City in Hong Kong and Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, get up early in the morning to bathe and worship Buddha. After that, celebrations begin for several days. During this period, everyone uses pure water Sprinkle on each other and pray that the troubles of the past year will be washed away.
The Torch Festival of the Yi people
The Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups. It has profound folk cultural connotations and is known as "Carnival of the East", the main activities include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, etc.
The Knife Rod Festival of the Lisu people
The Knife Rod Festival of the Lisu people is called "Atangde" in Lisu language, which means "Climbing Knife Festival". It is a festival that lives in Nujiang, Yunnan Province. The traditional festival of the Lisu and Yi people in Lushui County, Lisu Autonomous Prefecture is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Performers perform "Up the Knife Mountain" and "Down into the Sea of ??Fire", which shows the Lisu people's fearless spirit.
March Street of the Bai Ethnic Group
March Street is also known as "Guanyin City", "Guanyin Street" and "Guanyin Street". It is a traditional grand festival of the Bai ethnic group and a traditional folk festival of the Bai ethnic group. A grand gathering of material exchanges and cultural activities, popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places, it is held every year from the 15th to the 21st of the third lunar month at the foot of Diancang Mountain in the west of Dali City. Initially it had the color of a religious event, and later it gradually turned into a grand event. Material exchange meeting.
Girls’ Day of the Hani people
The festival is celebrated every year on the fourth day of the second lunar month. It is said that in ancient times, a beautiful local girl fell in love with a handsome young hunter, but her parents betrothed her to the chieftain's one-eyed son. The girl was devastated. On the fourth day of the second lunar month, the girl went up the mountain to cut firewood and met a man who was interested in marriage. The girl who also suffered the same misfortune, after telling each other about their difficulties, jumped off the cliff and committed suicide together. Afterwards, the Hani people believed that they could no longer interfere with young people's marriages and that girls should be free to choose their own lovers, so they designated the fourth day of the second lunar month as Girls' Day. In the early morning of the festival, unmarried young men borrow beautiful clothes from their lovers, dress up like girls, and dance and entertain with their lovers until the sun turns west before returning home. Married men have to be particularly diligent on this day. They get up early in the morning to carry water, chop wood, bring boiled washing water to their wives, and then cook and feed chickens and ducks. After finishing these housework, they must quickly gather in the square in the village, and whoever arrives first is regarded as diligent and neat. After returning home, he continued to serve his wife until late at night.
The Shoton Festival of the Tibetan people
The Shoton Festival is a traditional religious festival for the Tibetan people in Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions. It mostly falls on the first and fourth days of the second month of the Tibetan calendar. Held in mid-month or mid-June, the specific dates vary from place to place. In Tibetan, the Shoton Festival is interpreted as a festival for eating yogurt, so it is also called the "Yoghurt Festival" because there are grand and lively Tibetan operas during the Shoton Festival. There are performances and a grand Buddha-showing ceremony, so some people also call it "Tibetan Opera Festival" and "Buddha-showing Festival".
The Huashan Festival of the Miao Nationality
The Huashan Festival, also known as "Stepping on the Flower Mountain", "Dancing for Flowers", etc., is a traditional festival of the Miao Nationality, popular in southern Sichuan and central and western southeastern Yunnan. The festival dates vary from place to place, usually held around the Dragon Boat Festival in May of the lunar calendar. During the festival, the Miao people dress up and gather at the traditional jumping field. Young men and women dance on the flower pole in the center of the field. Young men also perform pole climbing and horse racing. , archery, singing, dancing, beauty pageants and other competitions.
Zalut of the Hani people
Zalut is the biggest festival of the Hani people. Because it is held in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, it is also called "Yilaheshi", which means the tenth festival. During the festival, people stop going to the mountains to produce and work, and instead eat, drink and have fun at home, or go out to visit relatives and friends. During the festival, activities such as horse racing, spinning tops, and bamboo tube dancing are also held.
Tibetan Butter Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Tibetan calendar is the last day of the Chuanzhao Dharma Assembly. On this day, flowers and birds made of colorful butter sculptures are often displayed in places where Tibetans live. Fish, insects and human figures celebrate the Butter Lantern Festival. Monks, lay people and folk artists from all over Tibet use local butter and Tibetan pigments to make exquisite butter flowers. Many butter flowers also form a series of stories in multiple frames to tell the story of Tibet. The ancient legend of the nation.
The Moon Festival of the Lahu people
The Moon Festival is a farming festival of the Lahu people, also called the "Haba Festival". The Lahu phonetic "Haba" means the moon. It falls on August 10th in the Lahu calendar Held on the fifth day of the month, it was originally a sacrifice to the moon to celebrate the harvest. The sacrifice was held at night when the moon rose. Each family selected the best fruits as sacrifices, arranged them on a bamboo table, and carried them to the place where the mountain gods were worshiped (behind the village) and offered them as sacrifices. People set apart the moon for the farming season. Under the moonlight, the whole village, men, women, old and young, danced Lusheng dance around the bamboo strip table to celebrate the festival.
Mare Milk Festival of the Mongolian people
Mare Milk Festival is a traditional festival of the Mongolian people. It is mainly about drinking mare milk wine. It is popular in Xilingol League of Inner Mongolia and some pastoral areas of Ordos. Usually Held in late August of the lunar calendar, the date is not fixed and lasts for one day. In order to celebrate the harvest and bless each other, in addition to preparing enough kumiss, guests are also entertained with "hand-grilled meat", horse racing events are held, and folk singers are invited to sing congratulations. , giving gifts to the old Mongolian doctor, etc.