, the Ancient Qiang people, who lived in the Huangshui region in the northwest of China, began to develop in all directions, with one of them cruising toward the southwest of the motherland. To more than 3,000 years ago, the southwest of this cruise to the ancient Qiang people to the national tribal unit, in the southwest of the motherland to form a "six barbarians", "seven Qiang", "nine 氐"，i.e., that is, the history book The so-called "Yue Song Yi", "Qing Qiang", ''insults", "Kunming", "Laoming", and "Liao Ming" often appear in history books. ", "Laobu", "Muomo" and other tribes. When the ancient Qiang people cruised to the southwest, the southwest area already had two ancient ethnic groups that arrived there successively - the Baipu ethnic group and the Baiyue ethnic group. After the ancient qiang people to the southwest, they had a hundred pu, hundred yue long time get along with each other, mutual integration, and absorbed and hundred pu, hundred yue's southern culture. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the integration of Kunming people and burning (Pu) developed into the integration of the bureaucrats. Han to the Six Dynasties, the Chinese historical records of the main residents of eastern Yunnan, western Guizhou, southern Sichuan called the Chaosuo people, and sometimes to Chaosuo, Pu side by side.
Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, there has been a division between the Wu and White barbarians in the Yi ancestor region, with the Wu barbarians developing from the Kunming tribe, and the White barbarians taking the Chaoso and Pu as the mainstay, and integrating with other ethnic groups.
Yi ancestors in the long-term formation and development, the scope of activities throughout the present Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou three provinces in the heart of the zone and part of Guangxi, the core area should be three provinces adjacent to the vast area.
An important feature in the history of the Yi people is the long period of time to maintain the slave possession system. In the 2nd century B.C., during the Western Han Dynasty and before, there was already a division between nomadic tribes and sedentary agricultural tribes in the society of the Yi ancestors. During the period from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, various Yi prehistoric regions continued to differentiate a number of Chaosu Shuai and Yi Wang, indicating that on the basis of conquering the Pu people and other tribes, the Kunming Tribe had basically completed the transition from primitive tribes to the slave-possession system.
8 century 30 s, mongshe dao unified six dao, yunnan yi, white ancestors united the upper echelons of the various ethnic groups set up the south dao slavery regime, the ruling center in the present western yunnan dali bai autonomous prefecture area, the scope of domination reaches the present day eastern yunnan, guizhou west and sichuan south, basically control the yi ancestors of the main distribution area.
The Nanzhao dynasty of slavery had ruled the region of the Yi ancestors for a long time, and could not but have far-reaching influence on the existence and development of local slavery. In the second year of the Tang Dynasty (902), the destruction of the Nanzhao slavery dynasty did not mean that slavery in the Yi Prefecture died out. In the two Song Dynasty for more than 300 years, Rong (Yibin), Lu (Lu County), Li (Han Yuan) 3 states of the Yi ancestors, in the Song Dynasty and the Dali regime in the fight for each other, the emergence of slavery economy relatively prosperous situation. In conjunction with this, the slave system production relations appeared the powerful tribes enslaved the small tribes.
Mongolian Mongol Khan three years (1253), the Mongol cavalry from Sichuan in three attacks on Yunnan, through the Yi region, prompted in the state of division in the Yi region of the loose anti-Mongolian coalition, began to unify under the Luo Luo claim. Correspondingly, the Mongolian aristocracy strengthened the fight for the Yi Zimo that is, the head of the soil, and developed a hereditary official position of the chiefs of the various ethnic groups in the part of the border ethnic areas in order to rule over the local people of the land tribal system. Since 1263 ~ 1287, successively in today's Yuexi, Xichang, Pingshan, Dafang, Zhaotong, Weining and other places to set up the Yi tribesmen.
During the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, the land spanning the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, Shuixi (Dangfang), Wuhu (Weining), Umeng (Zhaotong), Mangdian (Zhenxiong), Dongchuan (Huize), Yongning (Xuyong), Mahe (Pingshan), and Jianchang (Xichang) were linked up and mutually supportive, maintaining basically the same slavery system, which was in keeping with the low social productivity, and the various Yi areas can basically be divided into 3 classes of Toji and Black Bone, White Bone and Household Slave. On the basis of the above hierarchical relationship, the tusi system of the Yi in the Ming Dynasty, such as Shuixi, Jianchang and Wumeng, was still the superstructure of slavery.
Kangxi, Yongzheng years, the Qing dynasty in the Yi region to implement the "return to the stream", to the land Secretary, the land eye, the power of the slave owners to a heavy blow. With the development of social productive forces, part of the region more rapidly from slavery to feudalism transition.
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Culture and Art
The Yi people can sing and dance well. The Yi folk have a variety of traditional tunes, such as climbing the mountain, entering the door, welcoming guests, eating wine, marrying, crying and mourning. Some tunes have fixed words, while others do not, and are improvised. Mountain songs are divided into male and female voices, and each region has its own unique style of mountain songs. Yi musical instruments include the gourd sheng, mabu, bawu, mouth string, moon zither, flute, three strings, chimes, copper drums, big flat drums and so on. The Yi dances are also quite distinctive, divided into two categories: group dances and solo dances, most of which are group dances, such as "Jumping Songs", "Jumping Music", "Jumping Moon", "Fighting Songs and Dances" and "Fighting Songs and Dances". There are two types of dances, most of which are group dances, such as "Jumping Song", "Jumping Music", "Jumping Moon", "Playing Song and Dance" and "Pot Zhuang Dance". They are characterized by cheerful movements and a strong sense of rhythm, and are usually accompanied by the flute, moon zither, and three strings.
Yi: a people who can sing and dance
Liangshan is the home of song and dance, and the Yi are a people who can sing and dance.
Liangshan Yi music style is simple and ancient, with many varieties and distinctive and strong national characteristics. Folk music in the folk songs and folk literature are closely related, many universally circulated long lyric poems, such as "Amo Nijar", "Ai A Gluttony", "Ajar Nun", "Ace Niu Niu" and so on. All of them were sung in the form of songs. In addition to narrative songs, there are songs sung during marriage, such as "Jatai", songs sung during torch festival, such as "Du Huo", songs sung during labor, such as "Ploughing Song", "Pastoral Song", etc. There are also mountain songs, such as "Butuan Song". In addition, there are mountain songs, such as Butuan Gosheng mountain songs, children's songs and so on.
Yi folk songs vary in style depending on the region. The folk songs in the southern part of Liangshan Mountain are high and exciting, the folk songs in the central and western part are soft and beautiful, and the folk songs in the eastern part of Enuo region are thick and simple. In the past, the Yi folk songs, in general, gave people a sense of depression, but its simple and beautiful ethnic and regional flavor is very distinct. Folk instrumental music is not for accompaniment, but developed independently and formed its own system. The striking thing is that it shows a great span of history and space. Commonly, there are mouth string, moon zither, horse cloth, gourd sheng, huqin, Yi xiao, Jian flute, suona and so on. In addition, wood leaf blowing, i.e. playing music with a leaf, is also a favorite folk music of the Yi people. Harmonica and Yueqin are very common, and almost all women. Almost all women, young and old, have a mouth string hanging in front of their lapel, ready to play at any time. Mouth string is a unique and simple musical instruments, by several pieces of about seven or eight centimeters long thin reed composition. There are two kinds of bamboo and copper, the least two, up to five or six pieces. Bamboo tone deep, low. Copper tone crisp, beautiful. Blowing with the fingers to pluck the yellow piece, the use of the oral cavity **** sound changes in tone. Reeds in addition to the sound. Also issued a very beautiful overtones, constituting a wider range of musical tunes. Yueqin is mostly loved by young and middle-aged men, and there are many excellent folk Yueqin players. 50s. Liangshan Yi girl Shama Wuzhi in Moscow World Youth Festival played the yueqin. It was warmly praised.
Liangshan Yi folk dance is often inseparable from singing and instrumental music. One type of folk dance is produced in the production of labor dance such as buckwheat dance, bunting dance, felt weaving dance, etc., most of the simulation of labor action and performance of the production process. Another category is in the festivals or in the marriage of the joy of the scene in the common dance such as jumping pot Zhuang, jumping "all fire", the foot dance, was felt dance, reed to dance. Some of them show the hard work of farming and herding. The joy of the harvest, some show the bravery of the war, the pursuit of love.
From the Yi folk art in the flower of Liangshan song and dance, not only in the Chinese and foreign stage a show of splendor, but also in the modern life all over the open. Today, in Liangshan city and countryside can often be seen men and women, young and old, hand in hand, stepping on the national flavor of the beat, joyfully dancing da body dance. Dasuo is the phonetic translation of Yi language, meaning "Tap Dance" or "Tap Dance", which is a kind of collective dance created on the basis of the traditional Yi songs and dances. It is a collective dance based on traditional Yi songs and dances, with concise and fast movements, melodious and smooth music, rich local flavor and strong color of the times, which was formed in the 80's and quickly popularized in the whole state and pushed to the outside of the state and the outside of the province in the momentum of the ethnic dance in the southwest of the country. In 94 Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival guests from home and abroad and Yi compatriots hand in hand, around a pile of green fire, jumping together, melting into one family. Jumping together, fused into a family, the scene is warm and spectacular. The atmosphere is cordial and touching.
The national music of the Yi people includes songs and instruments.
Yi songs are: historical poetry, love songs, songs of joy, custom songs - within the song and a happy wine song, calling the soul song, send ghost songs, witch tune and other tunes; from the name of the points, the song has a Russian, Ya, left, such as the grid. "Russia" is the meaning of singing, can be sung on various occasions, the atmosphere is more relaxed and casual; "Ya" is a kind of solo song, the singers are generally young men and women, mostly touching the feelings; "left" is a wedding song, the wedding song is a kind of wedding song. " is a wedding song, in the wedding night, by the host and the guest each out of two singers dance and sing; "G" is a memorial to the dead or ancestor worship activities sung in chorus, a person leading the singing, the crowd to learn to sing, lyrics by the leader improvisation; "Bi" refers to the Yi ethnic group. Bi" refers to the songs sung by Yi Bimo during religious activities, which we call religious music to differentiate it from "Rus". The music includes singing and dancing music, mouth-string music and leaf-blowing music, each of which has many tunes. In addition, there are a variety of musical instruments: the moon zither is one of the favorite instruments of the Yi people, with two strings, which has a strong artistic expression; the mouth string is made of bamboo and copper, shaped like a bamboo leaf reed, with a reed tongue in the middle, which is used to adjust the tone by controlling the breathing; the "Mabu" is one of the unique musical instruments of the Yi people, whose blowing is characterized by the use of nostrils to inhale and make the puffing of the cheeks continuously. Mabu" is one of the unique instruments of the Yi people, its blowing is characterized by the use of nostrils to inhale, so that the drum cheeks continuously send gas, can be imitated baby crying, birds singing; gourd sheng and suona, mostly used to play the folk songs and tunes of the Yi people.
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Costumes
The costumes of the Yi people are not the same everywhere. In the Liangshan and Qianxi areas, men usually wear black narrow-sleeved, right-slanted tops and wide-legged pants with many pleats, while in some areas they wear small-legged pants and store small locks of long-haired headgear in the center of the front part of the head and tie a pincer knot on the right side. Women to retain more national characteristics, usually wrapped around the head of the head, there are waist and belt; some parts of the women have the habit of wearing long skirts. Men and women go out clad in rubbers. Jewelry has earrings, bracelets, rings, collar row flowers, etc., mostly made of gold, silver and jade.
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Customs and Habits
"Jumping Vegetables" - the Yi people's singing and dancing to accompany the meal: "Jumping Vegetables", i.e., dancing to serve the food. It is a unique form of serving food and the highest etiquette of banquets for the Yi folk in the Wuliang Mountains and the Mianluo Mountains in Yunnan, which is a traditional food culture with a long history of perfect combination of dance, music and acrobatics.
When banquets are held, square tables are usually set up along the two sides, and guests sit around the three sides, leaving a "jumping dish" channel in the middle. Three gongs opened the "jumping vegetables" prelude: gongs, reedsheng, three strings, muffled flute, leaves and other folk music played; in the girls and boys "wu wah li - thi thi thi" yell, only to see the top of the tray with the Yi family men hands arching bowing, footsteps suddenly high, suddenly low, suddenly sharp and slow, another person head and arms each supporting a dish (***24 bowls) followed by the entrance. They were accompanied by a simple and pure folk music concerto, their faces made a funny state strange look, dancing crooked to and fro but easy, beautiful, smooth, coherent dance steps, one after the other on the stage. The two hand towel partner, the strange appearance, like colorful butterflies play flowers like before, after, left, right to escort them.
A pair of food hand to dish four tables, partner to 32 bowls of food set back into the palace gossip array, each bowl of food is like a "chess piece". Since the positioning, all according to the ancient rules of the table one by one, not at all chaotic.
The Yi people around the prevalence of patrilineal small family system, young children often live with their parents. The status of women is low. Inheritance is divided equally among the sons, and extinct estates are generally owned by close relatives. In the history of the Yi people, the father and son of the name, this custom in Liangshan Yi residents have continued until the founding of the country. Monogamy is the basic system of marriage among the Yi, and a high bride price is required to marry a daughter-in-law. Staggered marriages from the table are more popular, and the husband's death is practiced in the transfer of the house. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, some of the Yi areas in Yunnan Province still maintained the public housing system, and the Liangshan Yi maintained a strict hierarchical endogamous marriage. Historically, the Yi people practiced cremation, and before the founding of the People's Republic of China, residents of Liangshan and Yunnan along the Jinsha River still practiced this burial custom. Other areas have gradually changed to upper burials since the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Costumes:
The costumes of the Yi people are varied and colorful, which are the concrete embodiment of the traditional culture and aesthetic consciousness of the Yi people. In the long process of historical development, the Yi people living in different areas have created and formed their own different dress customs, which occupy an important position in the composition of Yi material folklore. According to the regional and branch performance of Yi clothing folklore, Yi clothing can be divided into six types: Liangshan, Wumengshan, Honghe, Southeast Yunnan, West Yunnan and Chuxiong, and each type can be divided into several styles. Several of them are introduced here. (1) Liangshan type is mainly popular in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province and neighboring counties, as well as the Jinsha River basin in Yunnan Province. Due to the specific natural geographic environment caused by the isolation of the large and small Liangshan Mountains and the social form of slavery at a specific stage of history, their costumes are simple and unique, and they have maintained the cultural characteristics of the traditional costumes in a more complete way. Both men and women in Liangshan wear right-over-obeisance coat with big lapel. Men, women, children and the elderly all wear rubbers, felt, wrapped legs and felt socks. Men's hair for the traditional "heavenly Bodhisattva", that is, save a lock of long hair in a bun on the top of the head, most of the head coiled black or dark blue scarf, and often wrapped into a cone-shaped, oblique inserted in front of the forehead, known as the "heroes knot", the left ear to wear honey wax beads, silver earrings and other ornaments. Under the pants, and due to language, geographical differences and have large, medium and small trouser leg points, the most characteristic jewelry that is "Tuta", is slung across the body of the belt, woven with fine cowhide bands, with white giant clams inlaid on the surface of the belt. Women wear skirts and headgear, and after giving birth, they wear hats or wrap them around their heads. They wear silver, coral, jade, shell and other earrings on both ears, with heavy neck trimmings and silver collar plates. Under the pleated skirt, the adult skirt is divided into three sections, the upper section of the skirt waist, the middle section of the tube, the lower section of the wrinkled. More in the waistband wear a triangular purse, bag surface finely decorated with a variety of patterns, the lower end of the colorful belt, used to hold things. In addition, they wear a string, a needle and a decorated swineherd's tooth on their chests, which they believe can ward off evil spirits. The traditional clothing material to self-weaving and dyeing of wool and linen fabrics, preferring black, red, yellow and other colors, the process can be used to pick, embroidery, inlaid, rolling and other techniques, fire sickle, goat horns, ferns and other patterns is its traditional pattern, under the sub-Ino, St. Chad, the bottom of the three styles. Diet
The main food in the life of the Yi people is corn in most areas, followed by buckwheat, rice, potatoes, wheat and oats. Meat, mainly beef, pork, mutton, chicken, etc., like to cut into large chunks of large pieces (fist size) to cook, the Han Chinese call it "steely meat". The big and small Liangshan and most of the Yi people forbid eating dog meat, do not eat horse meat and frogs and snakes and other meat. The Yi are fond of sour and spicy food, and are addicted to wine, and have the etiquette of treating guests with wine. Wine is indispensable for solving all kinds of disputes, making friends, weddings, funerals and other occasions.
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Dwellings
The structure of Yi houses is the same as that of the surrounding Han Chinese in some areas, and the Yi residents in Liangshan Mountain mostly use board roofs and earthen walls; there are houses shaped like "dry bars" in the Yi areas of Guangxi and eastern Yunnan.
Tudu Palm House--Yi unique residential architecture: The Yi's "mud palm house" is very similar to the Tibetan stone building, with the same flat roof and the same thickness. The difference is that its wall is made of clay, and when it is built, it is fixed with plywood, filled with earth and tamped layer by layer to form an earth wall (the so-called "dry barricade"). The production of flat roof is also similar to the stone building, also has the function of the sun field. The earth palm house is distributed in central Yunnan and southeast Yunnan. This area of the soil is delicate, dry and wet moderate, for the construction of earth palm house provides a large number of convenient and easy to obtain materials and conditions.
Yi houses are mostly three or five rooms. The center one is the hall, which is the meeting place of family members and also the place for receiving guests. On the left side of the wall, there is a fire pit with three pieces of stone in the shape of tripods and pots, which is called "pots and pans". The pot is strictly prohibited from stepping across, otherwise it is considered unlucky. Above the pot, with contempt rope hanging a rectangular wooden frame, covered with bamboo strips, for baking beast dried meat or garlic, pepper, chili with. The fire pit is used for cooking, burning tea, heating and lighting. The old and the young of a Yi family often sit around the fire pit and talk about the joy of family life, and the fire pit has become a place for the Yi to pass on their culture. In general, the Yi people's families lay a straw mat by the fire, wrapped in a blanket and sleep.
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Calendar
Yi October Solar Calendar Comparable to Mayan Civilization: The calendar is a symbol of human civilization. The Mayan culture, which is famous all over the world, has a calendar as one of its essences. In the past, the lunar calendar prevailed in most parts of China. However, in China's Yi ethnic group, there is still a little-known ancient calendar - the Yi October Solar Calendar. It is presumed that this calendar originated from ancient Fuxi and has a history of about ten thousand years. It traces the history of China's civilization back to the three ancient civilizations of Egypt, India and Babylon.
Yi October solar calendar to 12 sessions of the phase cycle, 3 phases of the cycle for a period of time (month), that is, 36 days in January, 30 phases of the week for a year. 1 year, 10 months, 360 days, the end of the 10-month period, plus 5 "New Year's Day", commonly known as the "over the October year", the whole year for 365 days. Every three years plus 1 day, that is, leap year (leap day), for 366 days.
According to the evidence, the Yi people to the sky graves, in fact, is the ancients used to watch the stars and the astronomical observatory, and the Yi solar calendar has a very close connection. The Yi October solar calendar is a long and mysterious ancient calendar, which has a profound relationship with Chinese Confucianism, Taoism and yin-yang doctrine, and there are still many "codes" to be deciphered and studied.
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Religion and Important Festivals
The religion of the Yi people has a strong primitive religious color, and worships many gods, mainly the nature worship and ancestor worship. In nature worship, the most important is the belief in spirits and ghosts.
The festivals of the Yi people include "Torch Festival", "Yi Year", "Worship of the Lord", "Mizhi Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", "Jumping Festival", and "Jumping Festival". The main festivals are "Torch Festival", "Year of the Yi", "Worship of the Lord", "Mizhi Festival", "Song-jumping Festival", etc. The "Torch Festival" is the most common and grandest traditional festival in the Yi ethnic area, usually held on the 24th or 25th day of the 6th month of the summer calendar. At the Torch Festival, Yi men, women and children, dressed in festive costumes, play animals to offer spiritual cards, dance and sing, horse racing and wrestling. At night, they carry torches around their homes and fields, and then gather together to burn bonfires and dance.
Torch Festival - Carnival of the Yi people: "Torch Festival" is usually held in the evening of the 24th to the 26th day of the 6th lunar month, and is a grand festival of the Yi people.
When night falls, people waved torches, groups of people around the village, over the mountains and fields, each other to each other's torches to sprinkle rosin powder, playing a torch battle, the mountains shine as day. According to the Yi custom, in the torch sprinkled rosin powder, so that the torch "bang" up a brilliant sparks, and raised a fragrance, is to express a kind of good wishes: the younger generation of the old generation sprinkled, is to respect, wishing longevity; elders to the younger generation sprinkled, is to caress, wishing good luck; Peers sprinkled each other, is a close friendship; young men and women sprinkled each other, it is the start of the love affair.
Lunan, Guishan and other places of the Yi, during the festival, people play the big three strings, jumping "A fine jumping moon", while wrestling, bullfighting and other activities; Chuxiong, Mile and other places of the Yi, but also held a traditional "fire" ceremony. On the night of the festival, in the mountains of the Yi minority, everywhere is "fire trees and silver flowers night sky", the scene is very spectacular.
The most popular global folk dance: Whenever there is a harvest, a wedding or a festival, the Yi living in Yunnan, as few as dozens of people, or as many as hundreds of thousands of people, gather around a pile of roaring fires, with the surrounding silence and solemnity of the green mountains and the deep, mysterious sky as the background, and with the reedsheng, piccolo, moon zither and leaves playing the musical beat, men and women holding hands. To the beat of the music played by the lusheng, piccolo, moon zither and tree leaves, men and women hold hands and form a circle and sing in a counterclockwise direction, all night long.
In 1986, the U.S. International Folk Art Organization listed this folk dance as one of the top ten most popular folk dances in the world.
"Playing songs" throughout Yunnan, not only the Yi, even the Bai, Naxi and other ethnic groups are prevalent in this form of song and dance, just called differently, such as "playing songs", "left-footed dance", "step on the song", "jumping Lusheng" and other names. According to the evidence, "playing songs" is the "Tap Song" transcription. As early as in the Han and Tang dynasties, the "song" has been our country in the Central Plains and the southern folk very active folk song and dance. And Yunnan Jinning Shizhai mountain unearthed copper drum-shaped shell storage cast on the "Dian feather dance" and Jiangchuan Lijia mountain unearthed 18 pendant-tailed people even arm ring dance of the copper buckle ornaments, as well as solidified in Yunnan Canyuan and other places on the cliff paintings on the dance pattern, the dance pattern and the Yi "song" image is the same, which may be used as the origin of the Yi "song" ancient and long supporting evidence.
To this day, the mural paintings of Longtan Temple in Weibao Mountain, Weishan County, Yunnan Province, still retain a "Song Treading Diagram" drawn by people in the Qing Dynasty, which is very similar to the singing of the Yi ethnic group in Weishan today.
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The Torch Festival Legend
A long time ago, there was a Hercules in the sky called Sjak Abi, and there was a Hercules on the ground called Athi Laba, and both of them had the strength to pull up mountains. One day, Sjak Abi wanted to wrestle with Ati Laba, but Ati Laba had to go out on some urgent business, and when he was leaving, he asked his mother to treat Sjak Abi with a plate of discs. Sjak Abi, thinking that Ati Laba must be very strong since he had the discus for his meal, left in a hurry. When Atiraba came back, he heard from his mother that Sjarabi had just left, so he chased after him and wanted to have a wrestling match with him, which resulted in Sjarabi being thrown to his death. Knowing this, the god Enteguz was furious and sent a large number of locusts and borers to eat the crops on the ground. A body La Ba will be in the old calendar June 24 that night, cut to many pine branches, wild artemisia branches tied into torches, led the people lit up, to the field to burn insects. Since then, the Yi people have designated this day as the Torch Festival.
Today is the Torch Festival, I am very happy.
In the afternoon, my mom took me to the street to buy torches. Along the way, I saw many torch sellers, shouting and selling at the same time, so busy that they were sweating. The people who bought the torches were scrambling to be the first to buy them, and it was very lively. We bought two torches and a bag of rosin and ran happily to our house.
At night, we went downstairs to make torches. We first lit the torch, a moment of fire jumping happily, hastily sprinkled rosin, "Huo" sound, the fire will become bigger, the original flame is blue and red, this time into purple, yellow, red and blue. The flames lit up the night sky, reflecting mom's smiling face.
Mom asked me, "Do you know the origin of the Torch Festival?" I said, "No." Then we went home to look up the information. By looking up the information, I finally understood that the Torch Festival came from the clever Yi people to protect the crops and destroy the pests. Knowing the origin of the Torch Festival, I like the brave Yi people's most common and grandest traditional festival, the Torch Festival, even more.
(Written on 2008 Torch Festival)
June 24th of the lunar calendar is a special day in the Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and of course, that day is celebrated in a special way. It is not like the Chinese New Year as the firecrackers like hustle and bustle, not like the Mid-Autumn Festival as quite quiet, it is the flame to drive away the night's stillness, with the rise of the fire declared its hustle and bustle, seemingly quiet but hustle and bustle, seemingly. The fire is a fire, and the fire is a fire, and the fire is a fire, and the fire is a fire.
A long time ago, there is a Hercules in the sky called Sjak Abi, there is a Hercules on the ground called Athiraba, both have the strength to pull mountains. One day, Sjah Abi wanted to wrestle with Ati Rabah, but Ati Rabah had to go out on some urgent business, and when he was leaving, he asked his mother to treat Sjah Abi with a plate of discs. Sjak Abi, thinking that Ati Laba must be very strong since he had the discus for his meal, left in a hurry. When Atiraba returned, he heard from his mother that Sjarabi had just left, so he chased after him and wanted to have a wrestling match with him, which resulted in Sjarabi being thrown to his death. Knowing this, the god Enteguz was furious and sent a large number of locusts and borers to eat the crops on the ground. A body La Ba will be in the old calendar June 24 that night, cut to many pine branches, wild artemisia branches tied into torches, led the people lit up, to the field to burn insects. Since then, the Yi people have designated this day as the Torch Festival.