Among the festivals and customs in Baoshan, you can see the "Knife Rod Festival" of the Lisu people on the eighth day of the second lunar month. You can also join the masses in Baoshan Duanyang Flower Street, Baoshan Temple Fair, and the Dai "Water Splashing Festival" Wait and enjoy the joy brought by the ethnic style and folk art.
Baoshan Duanyang Flower Street
Held time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year
Held: Baoshan Flower Street
Festival introduction: Duanyang Festival every year , Baoshan Duanyang Flower Street is filled with flowers all over the city. The flowers compete for beauty, and all things are traded in the market, forming the unique Baoshan Flower Street in southern China. Baoshan people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year by wrapping rice dumplings in every household in the city to pay homage to the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. In the streets and lanes of the city, all kinds of flowers, grass, birds, fish, lamps, medicinal materials, snacks, local specialties, etc. are competing for the market. The Duanyang Flower Street has become a traditional festival for Baoshan people.
Baoshan Temple Fair
Hold time: the first month of each year
Hold location: Yuhuang Pavilion and other temples on Taibao Mountain
Festival introduction: Baoshan, Yunnan The temple fairs are diverse and interesting. The grandest temple fair in Yunnan is the "Joint Fair" in Xishan when more than 30 temples and nunneries including Yuhuang Pavilion, Doumu Pavilion and Bao'en Temple were prosperous on Taibao Mountain in Yunnan. For two consecutive days, the incense was flourishing, the crowds were endless, and it is very lively. Temple gatherings are rare, but climbing to the Taipei Mountain in Baoshan, Yunnan Province on the first and second day of the Lunar New Year has become a new custom for urban and rural residents, which can be regarded as the "aftermath" of the temple fair
The Blang people's "New Year's Pig Rice"< /p>
Held time: The twelfth lunar month of winter every year (around the Chinese New Year)
Held location: Brown Village
Festival introduction: Brown people kill New Year pigs and eat New Year pig rice. It is an important ceremony for the Blang people to celebrate the harvest and welcome the New Year every year. It is also the best time for relatives and friends to send blessings to each other and visit relatives and villages. The Blang people's New Year's Pig Rice is truly a special meal: pickled vegetables mixed with raw meat, pickled vegetables mixed with roasted skin, pickled vegetables mixed with cooked uncooked vegetables, pork belly dipped in pig's blood, fried lean meat with garlic sprouts, fried pork liver with onions and ginger, fried sourdough. Meat, tripe lung soup, bean tip and tofu soup, nine vegetables and one soup, unique.
Lisu Knife Festival
Held time: the seventh day of the second lunar month every year
Location: mainly held in Tengchong and Longling Lisu settlements< /p>
Festival introduction: The Lisu people are an industrious and brave nation with rich national culture and art and unique traditional festivals. The most solemn of the festivals is undoubtedly the "Knife Rod Festival". Every year on the seventh night of the second lunar month, the Lisu people light a raging fire in the sword pole field. In the San Chong Zuhuang Temple in the center above the sword pole field, there is a portrait of Wang Ji, the Minister of War in the Ming Dynasty, and an incense stand. The warriors who were ready to descend into the sea of ??fire and mount the sword gathered in the temple to worship and return to the hall.
As night falls, the activity of descending into the sea of ??fire begins. Hundreds of lit incense sticks are densely inserted on the ground, forming a winding fire path, which is the incense path. The warriors (Xiang Tong) walked out of the Sam Chong Temple, tiptoed barefoot, and nimbly made a fire path on the incense road to the fire pond. They jumped barefoot into the fire pit, jumped and rolled in the red charcoal fire, took a bath in the fire, wiped their faces with charcoal, and passed the red-hot fire chain to each other. The activity in the sea of ????fire did not end until all the charcoal fire in the pond was extinguished. Early in the morning on the eighth day of the lunar month, at noon, the knife pole loading activity began. People danced a warm and cheerful three-string dance. Warriors in red clothes walked under the knife pole and performed a series of sacrificial activities. Then the elders took the lead, holding the blade in hand and stepping on the blade barefoot to climb onto the knife pole. After reaching the top, the elders threw five long flags to the ground and loudly wished people and animals safety and a good harvest. People below lit firecrackers. For a time, the sound of firecrackers, drums, singing, dancing and cheering all came together, forming a thrilling scene.
The Lisu New Year custom of "Tiao Ga"
Held time: the first to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year
Held location: Lisu village
< p>Festival introduction: Tiaoga is the most solemn traditional cultural activity of the Houqiao Lisu people. Every year from the first day to the thirteenth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, it is the New Year's Day for the Lisu people. During the five days from the first to the fifth day, people dance the Sanxian dance during the day and the ga at night. They forget to eat and sleep. This situation can be said to be unparalleled by any nation. The movements of Tiaoga are very simple: the body is slightly tilted and circled in the counterclockwise direction, the left foot takes a step forward, and the right foot steps forward rhythmically three times, and so on. Although the dance is simple, there are many people participating, and both young and old can dance gracefully.The dancing Ga
has two or more heads, playing the roles of gods and people respectively. It tells an ancient legend to people in the form of dialogue
: Finally, Ga Tou sang various prayers and blessings according to the characteristics of each family. For example, families with little labor hope for good luck and a lot of money in the future; for young people who have reached marriage age, they wish to meet the one they love as soon as possible and live a harmonious life... The activity of Tiaoga is very important for studying the Lisu people. The inheritance and development of culture, art and cultural awareness are of great value.
Dai Water Splashing Festival
Hold time: usually in mid-June of the Dai calendar (that is, about ten days before and after the Qingming Festival in the lunar calendar)
Held: Every household of the Dai people
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Festival introduction: Water Splashing Festival is an ancient traditional festival of the Dai people. During the Water Splashing Festival, children chop bamboo to make water guns, and various paper-cuts are pasted on the door frames and windows of every house. Dai men, women and children put on their festive costumes and went up the mountain in groups to pick wild flowers to make flower houses. At noon, the women each carry a load of water and pour it on the Buddha statue to wash away the dust. Then the young men and women carried wooden buckets and washbasins and chased each other. You and I splashed, and the water splashed.
Plow and Rake Fair
Hold time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year
Held: Daguanmiao Village at the foot of Ailao Mountain, Hetu Town
< p>Festival introduction: On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the farmers who have worked hard for a year have spent the new year happily, and it is time to attend the "Plow Festival". The "Plow Club" is the farmer's own street: all the buyers and sellers are farm tools; the buyers and sellers are all farmers. Those who live near mountains and forests sell wooden utensils such as plows, sticks and hoes; those who live in bamboo forests sell bamboo utensils such as poles and baskets."Potato Fair" on Daoren Mountain
Hold time: the 25th day of the sixth lunar month
Location: Daoren Mountain
Festival Introduction: "Yangcai Festival" on Daoren Mountain - National Festival in Baoshan, Yunnan Province, Daoren Mountain, 3566 meters above sea level, stands majestically on the bank of Lancang River. On the top of the green peak, the fields are as vast as flat fields, and wild coriander that has been growing for thousands of years grows densely and airtight. The "Roche Fair" is the longest-lasting "labor-oriented" entertainment among many folk activities in Baoshan, Yunnan. Love event. From the Torch Festival to the Mid-Autumn Festival, young men and women of almost all ethnic groups pick wild vegetables on the top of Qingfeng Peak to benefit the market, and play folk songs to express their feelings. Their simple and honest style and innocent charm are really fascinating.