The Torch Festival is known as Du in Liangshan Yi language, which means fire sacrifice. It originated from the fire worship of the ethnic minorities in the southwest, reflecting the folk psychology and belief concept of seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune.
When the way of life from the nomadic to farming-based, people believe that the fire can smoke the field in addition to the evil spirits, the epidemic to the disaster, pest control seedlings, seedlings out of the catalyst, there are prayers for a good year, to attract the light to meet the function of the fortune so that the fire as a mysterious element of the supernatural primitive worship and the gradual formation of a fire as the core of the Torch Festival.
The torch festival generally lasts for three days and nights, divided into three stages: fire sacrifice, fire transmission and fire delivery. On the first day of the fire sacrifice, people how to kill cattle and prepare wine offerings to the ancestors, the evening in the chicken legs to light the sacred fire, the economy of the fire by the Bimoyong fire, the second day of the fire, people gathered at the altar under the sacred fire, held a variety of festive activities. Huh? Right? Sleeping, singing and dancing, etc. On the third day of delivery, when night falls people run around with torches in their hands to gather the torches together to form a pile of huge bonfires, and people sing and dance around the bonfires to their heart's content.
Shuanghe Yi Township "Torch Festival" customs
? The Yi people are an ethnic group that emphasizes fire and can't live without it. Fire culture is an important part of the Yi culture, and the Torch Festival is the grandest and most joyous annual festival of the Yi people. There are more generation legends in their own store. Camp area is different, and. Content varies, according to legend, in a summer long, long ago. Dianchi south shore of a huge insect infestation, insect infestation to the field of rice. 12 were eaten up, and the farmers were anxious. People came up with ideas and ways to eliminate the pests, but there was never a good way to exterminate them all. The night of June 24 of that year, a Yi woman holding. Pine torch paddy field holders to see. Pests, inadvertently found hundreds of pests are to him. Your torch lunged, and the pests were burned to death when they hit the torch. He told his folks about this surprising discovery, and they all followed suit, lifting their living treasure to tease their own field edges to eliminate the pests. Countless torches formed a fire dragon with no end in sight, and that was that. In a few days, the black bugs were all eliminated, and from then on, the townspeople held the rendezvous every year on the evening of June 24 of the lunar calendar. How to Skateboard to Eliminate Pests Later, this opportunity became a unique torch festival. Every day of the torch festival, people in the fish township kill chickens how? Ye Qingqing Peng. And every family. There are a few tables of guests on the point of age people for the most of their own home by the fire to drink white wine.? Men and women butterfly up torches converge together. Jumping fisherman's music singing mountain songs and ditties, exchanging feelings in the heart, that torch as the Yangtze River's fire dragon, in the mountains and fields of the most sweet between the ground flow, very spectacular. It expresses the Yi people's prayers and aspirations for a better life.