The knife pole festival: Lisu traditional festival. The Lisu language is called "A Tongde". Held on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. Prevalent in Yunnan Lushui, Fugong and other areas. At that time, men, women and children dressed in national costume, gathered in the knife pole square. Square erected two more than 20 meters long thick wooden pole, 36 or 72 sharp knife, knife mouth up tied to the wooden pole, forming a zigzag trapezoid, where there are three or six places, the two knives crossed into the X-shaped, knife pole top hung with small red flags and firecrackers. Climbing knife pole people mostly young and strong, they wear red cloth clothes, head wrapped in red cloth, barefoot.
Climbing pole in the burning fire and echo the sound of the four sides of the point of light gong began, the boys in the cheers of the people barefoot jump into the fire, jumping around in the fire, known as under the "sea of fire", playing "fire roll". They will also burn the red iron chain in the hands to pass around, known as "pulling the fire chain"; hands will hold the flame to the face pressure, known as "wash the fire face". After the song and dance, the pre-trained young man barefoot jumped on the knife pole, stepped on the sharp knife, hands climbed to support the mouth of the knife, a level up to climb to the top of the firecrackers, will be small flags thrown to the cheering crowd and then a level down to the ground. People have come forward to offer wine. Young people sing and talk about love, social activities. Legend has it that this festival began in the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of War Secretary Wang Ji with troops to the Yunnan Lisu living area to recover the land occupied by foreigners, the organization of the Lisu compatriots to practice martial arts self-defense. Wang Ji was framed and killed on the eighth day of the second month. The Lisu compatriots to carry forward the courageous and tenacious spirit of resistance to the enemy, to symbolize the mountain of swords under the sea of fire to climb the knife pole activities to inspire the spirit of bravery, and then formed a fixed holiday. In modern times, this activity has become a traditional sporting activity of the Lisu people.
Shutdown and Open Door Festival: The "Shutdown Festival" (Buddha's Birthday Festival) of the Dai ethnic group starts from the shutdown on the 15th day of the 9th month of the Dai calendar (the 15th day of the 7th month of the solar calendar) to the opening of the door on the 15th day of the 12th month of the Dai calendar (the 15th day of the 10th month of the solar calendar), which lasts for three months, forming a longer festival period and a series of folk activities. During the festival, believers live in peace and fasting, monks in the Buddhist temple in the clean living cultivation, prohibit people from going out, prohibit men and women to talk about love and marriage gathering activities. To hold fine Buddha activities, silver coins, flowers, food, paper money offered in front of the Buddha, to show piety. After the Open Door Festival, people resumed their normal activities and could get married, visit friends and relatives, and build houses. There are also activities such as setting off fireworks, lighting Kongming lanterns, releasing gaosheng, and dancing during the Open Door Festival, which is a celebration of a good harvest. The content of the festival is closely related to agricultural activities. Lunar calendar six to September for the busy farming season, religious and other activities to reduce to ensure that farming; September after the fall harvest there is more ample time to engage in religious and other activities.
Torch Festival: In ancient times, the Torch Festival was called the "Star Festival". Various ethnic groups have different interpretations of the festival. The Yi ethnic group is mainly for the removal of pests, to celebrate the harvest. Torch Festival origin legend varies: one said that the gods of heaven and earth God struggle, people with torches to help the gods of the earth to exterminate insects to defeat the gods of heaven; one said from the "Nanzhao wild history" and the teacher of the "Dian system", the two books: Nanzhao chief Pirogue attempted to annex another five dao, will be five dao in the Songming building and burned to death, Deng fine dao wife of the charitable advice to husband do not go, the husband is not thus killed, the charity of the closed city dead, Dian people are the day of the burning torch hanging.
Torch Festival is the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Lahu, Hani, Pumi and other ethnic traditions. Yi, Naxi, Jinuo held in the lunar calendar June 24, Bai held in June 25, Lahu held in June 20, the festival period of two or three days. The Wuding Yi believe that the Torch Festival is to grow ears of grain as thick as torches. The descendants of this fire sacrifice to drive away the ghosts and evil spirits in the fields, in order to protect people and animals peace. During the festival, young men and women of all ethnic groups lit torches made of pine wood, to the village field activities, while walking the pine incense scattered to the torch, or rally, singing and dancing, or horse racing, bullfighting, wrestling. In recent times, people have used the opportunity of gathering to socialize or meet lovers and carry out trade and commerce activities on festivals.
The Stone Forest scenic area brings together tens of thousands or even 100,000 Chinese and foreign tourists. People holding torches, drinking, singing and dancing, held a bonfire party, the stone forest has become a "night sky", everywhere by the fire shining bright through the Jing. Around the bonfire side of the Yi young men play the flute, strumming the big three strings, playing and dancing, the girls with the happy melodious ethnic music clapping and dancing, strong and cheerful rhythm so that tourists are also excited to join the ranks of the dance, often a dance is the sky.
"Torch Festival" is also a grand festival of the Bai people, which is held on June 25 of the summer calendar every year. It is the Bai people in the fall harvest before wishing a bumper crop, people and animals thriving activities. That night, each door are erected in front of a column of torches, the village entrance to the village public large torches, inserted on the red and green paper flags, writing some auspicious phrases. Villagers are holding up torches in the field parade for a week to catch and destroy pests. In addition, there are also "around the three spirits", "play the sea will", etc., when the boat, release and other cultural activities.
Meibu Song: A grand traditional festival of the Jingpo people. The name "Meineng Zongge" is a translation of the Jingpo word, meaning "dancing with a large group". Festival time in the first month of the lunar calendar after the fifteenth of the nine days, held on both days. The festival was originally a ceremony to honor the Jingpo god "Mudai". There is a Megamind Square with four Megamind pillars in the center, which are about 20 meters high. The two sides of the pillars are painted with patterns: the right side is painted with ferns as a sign of unity and forward movement; the left side is painted with a number of quadrangles in different colors, indicating the migration routes of the ancestors of the Jingpo people. In the middle, there are two long knives hanging high between the two pillars, symbolizing the valiant and resolute character of the Jingpo people. At the lower end, there is a horizontal board that connects the four eyeball pillars together, and the board is painted with the sun, the moon, horses, dragons, rabbits, tigers, cows, pigs, dogs, chickens, grain, agricultural tools and other patterns. There are two high platforms next to the pillars, which indicate that they are looking to the future. Various ethnic musical instruments, such as large point gongs and drums, are hung on the wooden stakes surrounding the platforms.
People gather in the plaza dressed for the festival. First, the ceremonial music is played, and the sound of the shengpipe, drums and sharp point gongs resonates with the sound of gold, and then a line of Jingpo women appear on the stage. They carry baskets of gifts containing eggs, glutinous rice and rice wine. At this time, the ceremonial cannons are fired and the girls make a toast to the elderly and the guests. Immediately after, to the accompaniment of music and drums, men holding long knives and women holding flower fans or colorful handkerchiefs line up behind the "brain pair" (the leader of the dancers) and dance in an orderly fashion. The "Brain Shuang" is an old man who wears a peacock feather hat and wields a long knife, walks in front of the group, and leads the dancers to walk out in various symbolic shapes. People give each other gifts to toast, follow the dance, all night long.
March Street: "March Street", also known as "Guanyin City", is a grand festival of the Bai people and the street. Every year in the lunar calendar, March 15 to 20, in the Cangshan Mountain west of Dali city in the foot of the peak, in the wilderness along the stream.
Legend has it that when the Nanzhao Dynasty, on the fifteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, the "Goddess of Mercy" came to Dali to preach and say, and all the believers took a bath and fasted, and went to the Buddhist temple to worship and chant the scriptures. The custom has gradually evolved into a trade fair and national event with strong national characteristics.
Qing Dynasty, Sichuan, Tibet, Jiangnan provinces have merchants to this trade. It is not only a place of exchange, but also a place for performing various dances and horse races and competitions.
March Street crowd, merchants gathered, horse racing, archery, singing Dabenqu, jumping whip, lively and unusual. As the movie "Five Golden Flowers" sung in the song: "Once a year in March Street, the four sides of the people to come, the people of all ethnic groups sing, horse racing and singing to do business." . Has developed into a prosperous annual material exchanges among the people of all ethnic groups in western Yunnan and national sports and cultural and artistic congresses, to strengthen the unity of all ethnic groups, promote economic exchanges between ethnic groups, played a positive role.
In recent years, at home and abroad and the provinces and cities have come to the wind, the peak of 200,000 people.
Zalet: the traditional grand festival of the Hani people." Zalet" is the translation of the Hani language, also known as "big year". In October of the lunar calendar, also known as the October year, in the lunar calendar in October the first day of the Dragon held to the end of the Monkey Day, which lasted five days. Hani people believe in primitive religion, Zalet Festival is mainly dedicated to the gods and ancestors. Activities during the festival include: ① On the day of the festival, each family should kill a red-furred rooster in the patio and cook it on the spot to show sacrifice to the sky. All members of the family should eat a piece of chicken, and married girls can't eat it. ② Each family should put some wine and food on the roadside in the morning and evening to indicate offering to ancestors. ③Three rice balls and some cooked meat are sent to the oldest person of the highest generation in the clan to show that the clan members are not forgotten. ④From the third day of the festival, villagers gather outside the priest's house in the afternoon with their own food and wine, presided over by the priest, dance the point of sword drum, and ask singers to sing long traditional folk poems. After the festival, each family wine and food set in the center of the village street, *** with the feast, *** with the blessing, *** with entertainment, so it is also known as "street feast".
During the festival, young men and women can freely interact, talk about love, mood entertainment. Each family to kill chickens and pigs, pounding glutinous rice poop, the dumplings to honor the gods and ancestors, symbolizing human reproduction, the prosperity of six animals and grains.
Ghee Lantern Festival: Tibetan traditional event. Tibetan language called "Meiduo but Jie", popular Tibetan area. In the first month of the Tibetan calendar on the fifteenth (lunar March) held. Also known as the "first month fifteenth lantern will". According to legend, the yellow religion founder ZongKaBa had to Lhasa DaZhao temple in the statue of Sakyamuni dedication ghee flower and a large number of lamps, ghee lamps, etc., this is the later ghee lamps will be the origin of the lamps, in the light of the festival period, the temple has "jumping god" and other cultural and artistic activities, the actors and actresses twenty to thirty people wearing masks, dressed in embroidered robes in the loudhailer, oboe, cowhide drums, gongs, drums and other instrumental accompaniment under the side of the song and dance. At night, the temple lights, hanging lanterns, the main street set up a display of ghee flowers on the shelf. Ghee flower with ghee with a variety of bright colors pinched and made of flowers, fruits, birds and animals, cattle, horses and livestock, buildings and pavilions, extremely sophisticated. Yunnan Diqing naturalization temple, east bamboo forest temple, with the Tibetan area of the temple as hanging flowers, sizeable, very lively.
Washing cattle feet: Naxi and Brown agricultural customs. Activities and time are different. The Naxi people carry out activities twice a year, generally in the lunar calendar June 10 to 30 and September 10 to 30 of the two time periods were selected one day held. On the day of the festival, the village as a unit to get together for dinner, and will be tired of the plowing ox wash clean, feed 12 wheat cakes, grass 1 bundle, the cow's horns but also hung on a string of cakes, said to comfort the plowing ox. Brown wash cattle feet mainly popular in Yunnan Shidian, on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, by the village old man and the head of the red paper wrapped in joss sticks inserted in front of each household hall, the next day to take a goat, all over the door of each household, with a willow branch to sweep the door, in order to wish the owner of the Qingji peace. The master used a ladle of cold water to pour on the village old man and the headman to wash away the cow's footsteps. At noon, the village old man will take the sheep to the outside of the village under a big tree to slaughter, each family with a bowl of rice, cooking mutton rice, collective **** meal, praying for the whole village people and animals peace.
Moon Festival: Lahu agricultural festival. Lahu voice "Haba", meaning the moon. Held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The original sacrifice to the moon to celebrate the harvest. The ritual is held at night when the moon rises. Each family selects the best fruits and melons as offerings, arranges them on gabion tables, and carries them to the place where the mountain god is sacrificed to the moon. Under the moonlight, all the men, women and children of the village gather around the gabion table to dance the Lusheng dance and celebrate the festival.
In the belief of Hinayana Buddhism place, sacrificing the moon to join the fine Buddhist content, the location changed in the Walled City Zang room. By the Buddha in the Zang room hung a painted moon pattern of white cloth, in the white cloth below the table, incense burner, wax table and other Buddhist paraphernalia. Before dark, people with fresh cucumbers, bananas, pineapples and other offerings for the Buddha, light incense and candles, burn paper money, the Buddha chanting prayers. After fine Buddha, they go to the activities inside the walled village. The old people gather to drink and roast tea; the young people gather at the singing field to dance with Lusheng and sing traditional songs, and those who can sing the historical origins of their people are awarded the title of singers.