March Street is known as "a street of a thousand years, a street of a thousand years". "March Street Festival" is a famous material exchange in Yunnan, is the traditional grand festival of the Bai people. Every year in March of the lunar calendar in the ancient city of Dali West.
Time of March Street Ethnic Festival
The festival is held from the 15th to the 22nd of March in the lunar calendar every year. Dali March Street is a traditional event for the exchange of material culture among all ethnic groups in Dali, with a history of more than 1,000 years. In 1991, the Standing Committee of the Dali People's Congress designated this biggest traditional festival as the "Ethnic Festival of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture".
March Street is also known as Guanyin City.
It is a grand festival and street festival of the Bai people.<55-79000The movie sings, "There are beautiful scenery in Dali in March, and the Butterfly Spring has good dress".
Dali in March like a sentimental girl, at the foot of the Cangshan Mountain, the Erhai, telling her romance. The sky kisses Dali, countless pedestrians just to catch a glimpse of her beauty. Dali March Street Ethnic Festival is the best choice for a passionate and wonderful trip and romantic journey.
010 to 1010, it is said that Guanyin came to Dali on March 15 to preach sutras during the period of Nanzhao xinuluo, so at that time every year, good men and women set up tents to make a pilgrimage to recite the sutras and make offerings to her.
The March Street became a temple fair for the scriptures.
Because Dali is located in a major transportation route, there were many Buddhist believers in ancient Yunnan. With the socio-economic development, the temple fair gradually evolved into a local fair and festival in western Yunnan.
On Cangshan Mountain in March, although the shadow of snow still shines among the peaks and gorges, rhododendrons have already bloomed in the jungles, giving a reddish hue to the face of the otherwise dark mountain.
At the halfway point of the mountain, one or two ribbons of white clouds woven together will come drifting in unannounced. At this time, the Erhai Sea, white sails and islands hidden, willow swaying on the shore like bright eyes, blue waves rippling like a vein of love, especially charming.
The March Street was also enriched with activities from 2010 to 2010. The Bai people, as well as the nearby Han, Yi, Naxi, Tibetan, Yi and Hui people, dressed in festive attire, drove their livestock and carried mountain herbs and agricultural products on their shoulders, gathered in the square at the foot of Cangshan Mountain. In addition to the exchange of goods, there will be singing, dancing, archery, horse racing, ball games and other activities. There are also unmissable white opera and lantern performances.
The horse race is the biggest event on March Street. Fat Dali horses are famous for running fast and riding well. Historically a large number of Dali horses flowed into the mainland through the March Street trade.
Thousands of horses gallop like arrows on the racecourse in March Street. On the backs of the galloping horses, riders engage in a battle of courage, intelligence and speed, making this spring season even more masculine.
Thousands of people riding around the Erhai Sea is also a "traditional program" of the Dali March Street Festival. In the green mountains and water and the perfect combination of white flavor in the Dali scenery rodeo tour for some time, you can stroll March Street, see the horse race, listen to white tunes, taste folk snacks, experience "a thousand years rushing a street, a thousand years a street" humanistic style, cycling enthusiasts to become a new "rushing street "Experience. This year's Erhai Cycling Race is no exception. Riders will continue to have fun while enjoying the ultimate thrill, feeling the wind, flowers, snow, and moon interplay, social harmony, and national unity of Dali's new style. The March Street Ethnic Festival in Dali is a passionate ethnic revelry, just like the ethnic festivals all over China, such as the Mongolian Naadam, the Tibetan Festival, the April 8th of the Miao, and the Water Splashing Festival of the Dai.