The "Touch Your Black" event is held in Canyuan in May.
The China Wa Sigangli Touch Your Black Carnival gives full play to the advantages of ethnic cultural resources and the characteristic effect of cultural support for tourism development, fully demonstrates the originality, innovation, internationality, branding, fashion and participation of the carnival, and raises the popularity and influence of cultural tourism in Canyuan, Wa Mountain. The "Touch Your Black" Carnival is a business card of Canyuan's unique tourism industry.
The "Touch Your Black" festival is a carnival for the Wa people living here. It is a very lively festival where families start to prepare medicinal mud as early as possible, just waiting for the drums of the festival to beat and start to smear you!
There are three main venues for this event, namely, the Touch Your Black Square, Hulu Town and Cangyuan Ondine, where the Touch Your Black Square and Hulu Town here contain a lot of activities, such as 10,000 people smearing the blackness, one hundred wooden drums, and 1,000 people flinging their hair in a dance, in addition to the exciting Wa Bullfighting Competition, the Awa People's Grand Sacrifice of the Spirit of the Ox Ceremony, and the Wa Weaving and Tapestry Exhibition.
And in Cangyuan Wunding, one of the last primitive tribes in China, a festival will be celebrated soon, with folk activities such as pulling wooden drums, playing songs, shooting crossbows, and grinding bamboo to make fires, which carries a certain sense of mystery, and allows you to learn about a lot of ethnic cultures!
The China Wa Si Gang Li Touch Your Black Carnival is a large-scale tourism and cultural festival that the Canyuan County Party Committee and government have been working on since 2004, and it is held from May 1 to 4 every year in the beautiful Canyuan County. Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County is located in the southwestern part of Lincang City, Yunnan Province, with a total population of 185,600 people, of which the Wa ethnic group accounts for 80% of the total population, and it is the county with the longest border line and the largest population of the Wa ethnic group in Lincang City, with its well-preserved Wa culture and flavor, and it has become even more united with the nationalities and the prosperity of the ethnic folk culture under the correct leadership of the county party committee and government in recent years.
"Touch your black" is translated from Wa.
"Touch your black" is translated from the Wa language, which means "here is what we are pursuing, what we are looking forward to, stick to it, stick to it until forever and ever". Wa is a nation that values spiritual life more than material life, therefore, Wa people are always optimistic and carefree.
They utilize their spare time to enjoy the joy brought by songs and dances. They believe that there is only one time in this life and no matter rich or poor, they all end up facing the same cycle of reincarnation. Therefore, they must cherish their one and only life and survive happily, which is the phonetic translation of the Wa language "touching your black". The old man used to say: "I was born because I exist, and I exist because I am happy".
Come to Cangyuan in May and experience the unique "Touch Your Black" activity.