On the origin of the Torch Festival, there are many beautiful and touching stories circulating in the folklore of the Yi areas in different provinces, one of which says: a long time ago, the sky and the earth were connected. One year, the god of the sky, Siti Gujia, sent Siti Abi to the earth to collect taxes. Due to the disaster on earth and crop failure, people can not afford to pay the rent, the earth there is a can eat copper and iron Hercules Othi Laba tax collector Sijia Abi killed. The gods were furious and sent a flood to drown the people on earth, but the flood was overcome by the people. But the flood was overcome by the people. The gods then released all kinds of pests to the earth to eat the people's crops, and Othiraba and his group gathered around a fire pit to discuss a cure for the pests, and inadvertently found that a pest that fell into the fire pit was quickly burned to death. Thus, the Russian body Raba organized the group to raise the torch burning insects, and ultimately defeated the pests, captured a good harvest. Over time, it became a custom and formed the Yi Torch Festival. The Yi Torch Festival is usually celebrated for three days, the first day of which the whole family gathers and eats wine to congratulate. People cook the meat of livestock and cut it into heaps to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, and then use it to drink wine. In the evening, torches are burned to light the prairie, which usually lasts for three nights. People's emotions are very enthusiastic. People take the village as a unit, holding up torches around the village and the fields to light prairie, as if a thousand fire dragons flying. The next day and the third day, the torch festival into the climax, the whole Liangshan boiling. The young men put on their national costumes and wrapped their headscarves with heroes' knots; the women wore pleated skirts and gathered on the vast grassy dams to engage in all kinds of traditional sports competitions. The boys engage in wrestling, horse racing, and archery competitions, while the women sing, dance, and play the mouth harp.
In some areas, during the festival, pigs and goats are sacrificed to the gods; in some areas, a dog is slaughtered and sacrificed to the "Tian Gong Di Mu" in the fields. People believe that the torch can drive away ghosts and evil spirits, so light the torch to go from door to door to light prairie, while walking on the fire sprinkled with rosin, people call it "send the evil spirits". Undoubtedly, this is the remains of the ancient concept of fire worship.
Torch festival, the most lively place to count the bullfighting arena. Bullfighting is not only a kind of recreational activity, but also a good way to choose the good breed of cattle, which is very positive for agriculture and livestock production. Whose cow wins in the competition means that the young cattle breeder is a hard-working animal husbandry expert, and is often a good object for the girls to choose their spouses. Wrestling is another activity that attracts spectators in the Torch Festival. Two people wrestling, ten thousand people gathered to, family and friends, all come to cheer. Before and after the match, the onlookers play the mouth harp for the girls, and the boys play the moon zither to show their love and admiration.
"Beauty contest" is unique. The "beauty contest" is judged by a respected senior citizen. After the referee announced the start of the "beauty contest", the Yi girls who took part in the contest formed a circle, the latter pulling the former in the hands of the hanapa, while walking and singing beautiful and moving folk songs. This is the place where most of the young men gather to watch, and they are also the most generous. When the boys think that a girl is the fittest, they will give their gifts to the judges and ask them to pass them on to the girl on their behalf. The referee declares the girl who has received the most gifts to be the most beautiful. When the girl who was elected as the beautiful girl came out of the meeting with many gifts on her back and a blush on her face, her friends and relatives gathered to congratulate her; the young men even gathered around the girl, tinkling and strumming the moon-lute to express their own heartfelt feelings.
On the fourth day, a handful of people sweep up the ashes of the torches and offer them with wine and meat for good luck.
color=Red]Zhuang: Welcoming the Heroes[/color]
The Zhuang, who live in southern China, call the Spring Festival the "New Year's Day". On this day, people go out and congratulate each other no matter who they meet, believing that the year can be auspicious. In the Zhuang folk there is also the custom of the late New Year, the Zhuang called "eat Li Festival". "Eat Li Festival" is on the 30th of this month, according to legend, more than 100 years ago, a peasant army of the Zhuang people in the fight against foreign invaders returned in triumph, when the Spring Festival has passed, the Zhuang people in order to welcome them, on the 30th of this month for them to repeat the Spring Festival.
[color=Red]Buyi: girls rush to carry the first load of water [/color]
The Buyi, who live on China's southwestern border, keep watch all night on New Year's Eve every year. At dawn, the girls compete to go outside the house to pick water, who first pick back the first water, who is the most diligent girl. The Jingpo people there like to hold target shooting activities before the Spring Festival, and the girls are the organizers and referees of this activity. They hang embroidered purses on bamboo poles with threads and swing them from side to side in the tips of trees, inviting young men to shoot. Whoever shoots down the purse first, the girls give the wine as a prize. The purse usually contains a coin, a few grains of grain and a few decorative beads as a symbol of happiness.
[color=Red]Hani: Swinging[/color]
A few days before the Spring Festival, villages inhabited by the Hani ethnic group are already bustling with activity, and the women are busy pounding poi. Ba Ba is a cake made from glutinous rice. And the young men are busy going up the mountain to cut bamboo and prepare to set up swings. The swings there are more than ten meters high, and the Hani people, young and old, love to swing. During the festival, everyone wears their favorite clothes to swing, everywhere showing a lively, harmonious festival scene.
[color=Red]Dai: throw chaff bag [/color]
Dai young men and women love to throw chaff bag game, during the Spring Festival, young men and girls throw each other chaff bag to see who threw accurate, to see who caught. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man's body to wear a belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. When the parents see their daughters return with their head cloths and horses, they hold a banquet.
In addition, April 13 every year is the Dai New Year, but also the Dai people's grandest festival - Water Splashing Festival, they see the splashing of water as a symbol to drive away evil spirits, good luck and good fortune, but also regard this day as the most beautiful, most auspicious day.
[color=Red]Alpine People: "Around the Furnace" [/color]
The Alpine people, who live in Taiwan Province of China, have a different kind of fun when they celebrate the Spring Festival. On the evening of New Year's Eve, families sit around a round table with hot pots and pans and have a meal, called a "hibachi". The women, who usually do not drink alcohol, will also take a symbolic sip of wine as a sign of good luck. "Vegetables are eaten without being cut with a knife, but are washed and boiled with their roots, as a sign of wishing long life to the parents. If someone in the family is away, a seat should be left empty and the person's clothes should be placed on the empty seat to show that the whole family misses him.
[color=Red]Manchu: hanging the flag for the New Year [/color]
Manchu people divided into "red, yellow, blue, white" four flags. Spring Festival, the red flag people in the door posted red hanging flag, yellow flag people in the door posted yellow hanging flag, blue flag people in the door posted blue hanging flag, white flag people in the door posted white hanging flag. These hanging flags are beautifully patterned and colorful, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year.
During the festival, the boys ganged up to set off firecrackers, or ride the homemade wooden plows of various kinds, in the hillock, on the ice whooshing speed. Young girls and young daughters-in-law wearing newly made flowery clothes, in groups of three or five, split up into families to play Garaha (pig or cow's kneecap bone). From the first to the fifth night, people also voluntarily organized to twist rice-planting songs to pay homage to the New Year, a strong rice-planting team, not only in the village to twist, but also to the outside village to twist. Onlookers are often so happy that they forget about fatigue and cold. There are even enthusiastic spectators - straight along with the rice-planting team to the townships and households, until dawn to return.
[color=Red]Bai: "put high up"[/color]
Yunnan Bai compatriots New Year's Eve, there is a kind of celebration called "put high up". The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole big bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, after ignition can be the whole big bamboo collapsed into the sky 100 feet, become a veritable "high rise". Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, young men and women are "throwing the embroidered ball" activities. Where the catch can not catch the embroidered ball, to give each other souvenirs, many times lost the ball and redemption of souvenirs, is to say that accept each other's love.
[color=Red]Dong: Lusheng will[/color]
Guizhou, Hunan Dong compatriots, during the Spring Festival prevailed a kind of "playing Dong years" (also known as the Lusheng will be) of the mass activities. This activity is similar to the Han Chinese "reunion", but more joyful and enthusiastic than "reunion". This kind of activity is generally organized by two villages **** with the agreement. The two teams officially hold a Lusheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages, accompanied by music, dance, and enjoy the joy.
[color=Red]
Yi: jumping tiger [/color]
Shuangbai County, Yunnan Province, the Yi people have a New Year's Eve, "jumping tiger festival" special customs, the eighth day of the first month, the entire village of adult males set in the back of the village site of the land temple, kill the dog dedication! "Mimi Si" ("Mimi" means earth, "Si" means master, the fan Si that is the meaning of the Lord God of the earth), followed by the village "Bimo "8 villagers disguised as tigers dancing, "tigers" two ears high, tail thick, covered with tiger stripes, forehead painted with a Chinese character "king", hanging a large copper bell on the neck, majestic. After the "Bima" read the rituals to invite the tiger god, the tiger king led the tigers into the village.
The entire jumping tiger festival period, the village up and down men, women and children are immersed in the welcome tiger, send the tiger, watch the tiger jumping and drive away the evil spirits and monsters in a joyful atmosphere, the local people are convinced that only through the annual tradition of jumping tigers, tiger god and pray for the blessing of the old ancestors, all the villagers in order to be able to harvest, prosperous, more than one year more beautiful and happy.
[color=Red]Sani: food dumplings [/color]
New Year's Eve, the Sani language called "Si Rub period". New Year's Eve night for ancestors, eat New Year's dinner, is very solemn. In the afternoon, in front of the door of the house inserted green branches, hanging a straw hat on the branch. This is a silent notice: Do not enter! No talking! Even the people in the house are not allowed to raise their voices.
There is an interesting phenomenon in the Sani language: "dumplings" and "New Year's Eve" is the same word, called "Kaozima". Because the New Year must eat dumplings.
For half a month from the first day of the first month of the new year, people have a lot of fun. On the first night of the first day of the bonfire party, folk songs, three-stringed hu solo, simple and lyrical. The thumping and thumping of the sanxian is soaring, and people sing and dance to the music.
Sacrificing the mountain god on the second day of the lunar month and sending sparks on the fourth day of the lunar month are meant to expel disasters and show the power of human beings.
Every year, the second day of the Spring Festival in the afternoon, the farmers to take the cow out, around the village center to walk around a few times, in its forehead wear red cloth tied flowers, expressed its contribution to the year's respect. Also feed it rice and fat pork, to show their close companion's condolences.
The Sani people, from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the month, have activities to honor their ancestors. The cohesion of this nation and the good things in traditional morality can be found in their reverence and remembrance of their ancestors.
Respondent: 儍啲愛上you - Level 3 2008-3-21 10:32
The Yi Torch Festival is also known as the Yi Year. In the eyes of the Yi people, fire symbolizes light, justice, prosperity, and a powerful force that can destroy all evil. The Torch Festival is a festival of joy, love and happiness for the Yi people.
On the origin of the Torch Festival, there are many beautiful and touching stories circulating in the folklore of the Yi areas in different provinces, one of which says: long ago, the sky and the earth were connected. One year, the god of the sky, Siti Gujia, sent Siti Abi to the earth to collect taxes. Due to the disaster on earth and crop failure, people can not afford to pay the rent, the earth there is a can eat copper and iron Hercules Othi Laba tax collector Sijia Abi killed. The gods were furious and first sent a flood to drown the people on earth, but the flood was overcome by the people. But the flood was overcome by the people. The gods then released all kinds of pests to the earth to eat the people's crops, and Othiraba and his group gathered around a fire pit to discuss a cure for the pests, and inadvertently found that a pest that fell into the fire pit was quickly burned to death. Thus, the Russian body Raba organized the group to raise the torch burning insects, and ultimately defeated the pests, captured a good harvest. Over time, it became a custom and formed the Yi Torch Festival. The Yi Torch Festival is usually celebrated for three days, the first day of which the whole family gathers and eats wine to congratulate. People cook the meat of livestock and cut it into heaps to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, and then use it to drink wine. In the evening, torches are burned to light the prairie, which usually lasts for three nights. People's emotions are very enthusiastic. People take the village as a unit, holding up torches around the village and the fields to light prairie, as if a thousand fire dragons flying. The next day and the third day, the torch festival into the climax, the whole Liangshan boiling. The young men put on their national costumes and wrapped their headscarves with heroes' knots; the women wore pleated skirts and gathered on the vast grassy dams to engage in all kinds of traditional sports competitions. The boys compete in wrestling, horse racing and archery, while the women sing, dance and play the mouth harp.
In some areas, during the festival, pigs and goats are sacrificed to the gods; in some areas, a dog is slaughtered and sacrificed to the "Tian Gong Di Mu" in the fields. People believe that the torch can drive away ghosts and evil spirits, so light the torch to go from door to door to light prairie, while walking on the fire sprinkled with rosin, people call it "send the evil spirits". Undoubtedly, this is the remains of the ancient concept of fire worship.
Torch festival, the most lively place to count the bullfighting arena. Bullfighting is not only a kind of recreational activity, but also a good way to choose the good breed of cattle, which is very positive for agriculture and livestock production. Whose cow wins in the competition means that the young cattle breeder is a hard-working animal husbandry expert, and is often a good object for the girls to choose their spouses. Wrestling is another activity that attracts spectators in the Torch Festival. Two people wrestling, ten thousand people gathered to, family and friends, all come to cheer. Before and after the match, the onlookers play the mouth harp for the girls, and the boys play the moon zither to show their love and admiration.
"Beauty contest" is unique. The "beauty contest" is judged by a respected senior citizen. After the referee announced the start of the "beauty contest", the Yi girls who took part in the contest formed a circle, the latter pulling the former in the hands of the hanapa, while walking and singing beautiful and moving folk songs. This is the place where most of the young men gather to watch, and they are also the most generous. When the boys think that a girl is the fittest, they will give their gifts to the judge and ask him to pass them on to the girl on their behalf. The referee declares the girl who receives the most gifts to be the most beautiful. When the girl who is elected as the beauty carries many gifts on her back and walks out of the meeting place with a blush on her face, her friends and relatives gather around to express their congratulations; the young men even gather around the girl, tinkling and strumming the moon-qin to express their own heartfelt feelings.
On the fourth day, a handful of people sweep up the ashes of the torches and offer them with wine and meat for good luck.
color=Red]Zhuang: Welcoming the Heroes[/color]
The Zhuang, who live in southern China, call the Spring Festival the "New Year's Day". On this day, people go out and congratulate each other no matter who they meet, believing that the year can be auspicious. In the Zhuang folk there is also the custom of the late New Year, the Zhuang called "eat Li Festival". "Eat Li Festival" is on the 30th of this month, according to legend, more than 100 years ago, a peasant army of the Zhuang people in the fight against foreign invaders returned in triumph, when the Spring Festival has passed, the Zhuang people in order to welcome them, on the 30th of this month for them to repeat the Spring Festival.
[color=Red]Buyi: girls rush to carry the first load of water [/color]
The Buyi, who live on China's southwestern border, keep watch all night on New Year's Eve every year. At dawn, the girls compete to go outside the house to pick water, who first pick back the first water, who is the most diligent girl. The Jingpo people there like to hold target shooting activities before the Spring Festival, and the girls are the organizers and referees of this activity. They hang embroidered purses on bamboo poles with threads and swing them from side to side in the tips of trees, inviting young men to shoot. Whoever shoots down the purse first, the girls give the wine as a prize. The purse usually contains a coin, a few grains of grain and a few decorative beads as a symbol of happiness.
[color=Red]Hani: Swinging[/color]
A few days before the Spring Festival, villages inhabited by the Hani ethnic group are already bustling with activity, and the women are busy pounding poi. Ba Ba is a cake made from glutinous rice. And the young men are busy going up the mountain to cut bamboo and prepare to set up swings. The swings there are more than ten meters high, and the Hani people, young and old, love to swing. During the festival, everyone wears their favorite clothes to swing, everywhere showing a lively, harmonious festival scene.
[color=Red]Dai: throw chaff bag [/color]
Dai young men and women love to throw chaff bag game, during the Spring Festival, young men and girls throw each other chaff bag to see who threw accurate, to see who caught. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man's body to wear a belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. When the parents see their daughters return with their head cloths and horses, they hold a banquet.
In addition, April 13 every year is the Dai New Year, but also the Dai people's grandest festival - the Water Festival, they see the splashing of water as a symbol to drive away evil spirits, good luck and good fortune, but also regard this day as the most beautiful, most auspicious day.
[color=Red]Alpine People: "Around the Furnace" [/color]
The Alpine people, who live in Taiwan Province of China, have a different kind of fun when they celebrate the Spring Festival. On the evening of New Year's Eve, families sit around a round table with hot pots and pans and have a meal, called a "hibachi". The women, who usually do not drink alcohol, will also take a symbolic sip of wine as a sign of good luck. "Vegetables are eaten without being cut with a knife, but are washed and boiled with their roots to wish for the longevity of the parents. If someone in the family is away, a seat should be left empty and the person's clothes should be placed on the empty seat to show that the whole family misses him.
[color=Red]Manchu: hanging the flag for the New Year [/color]
Manchu people divided into "red, yellow, blue, white" four flags. Spring Festival, the red flag people in the door posted red hanging flag, yellow flag people in the door posted yellow hanging flag, blue flag people in the door posted blue hanging flag, white flag people in the door posted white hanging flag. These hanging flags are beautifully patterned and colorful, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year.
During the festival, the boys ganged up to set off firecrackers, or ride the homemade wooden plows of various kinds, in the hillock, on the ice whooshing speed. Young girls and young daughters-in-law wearing newly made flowery clothes, in groups of three or five, split up into families to play Garaha (pig or cow's kneecap bone). From the first to the fifth night, people also voluntarily organized to twist rice-planting songs to pay homage to the New Year, a strong rice-planting team, not only in the village to twist, but also to the outside village to twist. Onlookers are often so happy that they forget about fatigue and cold. There are even enthusiastic spectators - straight along with the rice-planting team to the townships and households, until dawn to return.
[color=Red]Bai: "put high up"[/color]
Yunnan Bai compatriots New Year's Eve, there is a kind of celebration called "put high up". The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole big bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, ignited after the whole big bamboo can be collapsed into the sky 100 feet, become a veritable "high rise". Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, young men and women are "throwing the embroidered ball" activities. Where the catch can not catch the embroidered ball, to give each other souvenirs, many times lost the ball and redemption of souvenirs, is to say that accept each other's love.
[color=Red]Dong: Lusheng will[/color]
Guizhou, Hunan Dong compatriots, during the Spring Festival prevailed a kind of "playing Dong years" (also known as the Lusheng will be) of the mass activities. This activity is similar to the Han Chinese "reunion", but more joyful and enthusiastic than "reunion". This kind of activity is generally organized by two villages **** with the agreement. The two teams officially hold a Lusheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages, accompanied by music, dance, and enjoy the joy.
[color=Red]
Yi: jumping tiger [/color]
Shuangbai County, Yunnan Province, the Yi people have a New Year's Eve, "jumping tiger festival" special customs, the eighth day of the first month, the entire village of adult males set in the back of the village site of the land temple, kill the dog dedication! "Mimi Si" ("Mimi" means earth, "Si" means master, the fan Si that is the meaning of the Lord God of the earth), followed by the village "Bimo "8 villagers disguised as tigers dancing, "tigers" two ears high, tail thick, covered with tiger stripes, forehead painted with a Chinese character "king", hanging a large copper bell on the neck, majestic. After the "Bima" read the rituals to invite the tiger god, the tiger king led the tigers into the village.
The entire jumping tiger festival period, the village up and down men, women and children are immersed in the welcome tiger, send the tiger, watch the tiger jumping and drive away the evil spirits and monsters in a joyful atmosphere, the local people are convinced that only through the annual tradition of jumping tigers, tiger god and pray for the blessing of the old ancestors, all the villagers in order to be a good harvest, the people are thriving, and the year is more than one year more beautiful and happy.
[color=Red]Sani: food dumplings [/color]
New Year's Eve, the Sani language called "Si Rub period". New Year's Eve night for ancestors, eat New Year's dinner, is very solemn. In the afternoon, in front of the door of the house inserted green branches, hanging a straw hat on the branch. This is a silent notice: Do not enter! No talking! Even the people in the house are not allowed to raise their voices.
There is an interesting phenomenon in the Sani language: "dumplings" and "New Year's Eve" is the same word, called "Kaozima". Because the New Year must eat dumplings.
For half a month from the first day of the first month of the new year, people have a lot of fun. On the first night of the first day of the bonfire party, folk songs, three-stringed hu solo, simple and lyrical. The thumping and thumping of the sanxian is soaring, and people sing and dance to the music.
The second day of the festival is dedicated to the God of the Mountain, and the fourth day of the festival is dedicated to sending sparks to expel disasters and show the power of people.