Check the weather in advance, choose the right clothes according to the temperature, and book a hotel in advance to avoid finding a place to stay. Every year from March 15 to March 21 of the lunar calendar is the traditional national festival of Dali - March Festival, is the traditional Bai folk material exchanges and cultural and recreational activities of the event, to this time, the west of the city of Dali at the foot of the point of the Cangshan Mountain March Street is exceptionally lively. Legend has it that the March Street is the Dali ancestors dreamed of the moon palace market in the sky, woke up after the dream at the foot of the Cangshan Mountain to imitate the moon palace market and passed down, so it is called the moon street.
During this period, you can not only go to the foot of Cangshan Mountain to see all kinds of stalls, trading, tasting snacks, there are all kinds of lion dances, horse racing, dancing, archery, singing activities, an opportunity for you to experience the Yunnan ethnic customs. During the March Festival, the March Street Racecourse is crowded and bustling almost every day.
Passionate horse racing performances are staged here, equestrians on horseback to show standing, inverted, multi-people stacked standing and other thrilling action, there is also a very special program called "running horse pick up Hada", which may be the most ornamental program, sometimes seemingly a simple action will make you amazed, can not help but applaud for the horse and rider. Sometimes a seemingly simple action will make you amazed, and you can't help but applaud the horses and riders. In addition to horse races, you can also watch archery competitions for free at the racecourse.
Samuella feels that archery is a necessary skill for almost all ethnic minorities, and although you usually watch the Olympic archery events, the archery on the streets of March is a different kind of flavor. They use a crossbow called the national crossbow of the soil, is made of wood and bamboo sticks, athletes have to be away from the target 20 meters away from the yellow line outside the arrow, far away, almost can not see the bull's-eye, can see how difficult it is.
The most important part of the March Festival is the free market on March Street, which is very crowded during the day, so many locals and tourists who know their way around will choose to go to March Street at night, which is both cooler and more convenient, and even if it is at night there are still police cars patrolling the area, which is very safe. Some of the vendors will be dressed in their own ethnic costumes, with an old Yi woman selling her own woven belts and a young Bai girl selling her own woven bamboo baskets and carriers.
You want to bargain with her, she will also be aggrieved to say that knitting this need to be a long time, and sell flowers, sell medicinal herbs, sell tobacco, the bazaar is sold in the common household goods, these buyers and sellers are basically village farmers, will not use the electronic payment, so go to shop when you need to take a little cash on the body. The simple stone road has a very different market atmosphere from the big city.