Torchlight Festival --- "Carnival of the East"
Nadam --- comprehensive grassland event
◆Torchlight Festival: 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar
Torchlight Festival (called Duchu in the Yi language) is a grand traditional festival for the Yi people. In principle, it is held on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month every year and lasts for three days.
The Torch Festival is an ancient and important traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, with deep folk cultural connotations, the sound of the sea at home and abroad, known as the "Oriental Carnival". Different ethnic groups hold the Torch Festival at different times, mostly on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the main activities include bullfighting, goatfighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests, etc. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been recognized as the most important traditional festival in the world. In the new era, the torch festival has been endowed with new folklore functions and produced new forms.
The Torch Festival is the grandest and most joyful annual program of the Yi people. The "Torch Festival" has a long history in the Liangshan Yi area, and there are many legends with different contents depending on the area. According to legend, the heavenly Entei Guzi (the god of the sky in Yi mythology) sent his minions to the mortal world to collect exorbitant taxes after being killed, in order to retaliate, released pests to the mortal world to scourge the people, and the people in the mortal world uncompromisingly, in the lunar calendar, on the 24th of June, the day invited to burn the pests with torches, overcoming the god of the sky, and the people of the Yi ethnic group designated this day as the "Torch Festival".
Today's Liangshan Yi "Torch Festival", along with Liangshan's economic development and social progress, in addition to retaining the traditional form and content of the festival, has been and Liangshan opening up to the outside world to strengthen horizontal ties and promote material exchanges are closely linked to the "torch festival" as a traditional festival.
The traditional festival of "Torch Festival" has added a new meaning with the characteristics of the times.
Liangshan Yi "Torch Festival" activities are colorful, reflecting the rich ethnic and local characteristics. During the festival, people will come from dozens of miles or even hundreds of miles around to gather on a green lawn to hold bullfighting, horse racing, cockfighting, goatfighting, song contests, beauty contests, wrestling, and dada dance competitions to celebrate the event. "On the night of the Fire Festival, torchlight processions and bonfire parties are held. During the festival, large-scale material exchange activities are also organized in Xichang and other places.
Bullfighting is the first major event of the festival. The method of bullfighting is that the winner fights the winner and the loser is eliminated. Some bulls do not want to enter the field, people will lead into a cow in heat to lure, so the two will be on the Chen bulls will be "jealousy" and caused by the fight. The big "Torch Festival" event has as many as several hundred bulls, which can be fought for several days, and it is a great feast for the eyes. The horse racing of the Torch Festival is unique. Horse racing method is to repair a large round running circle on the lawn, so that the participating riders turn on the back of their respective horses, and at the same time, the horse chased, and finally to catch up with the opponent for the win. Torch Festival wrestlers are limited to men, and different dialect areas of the wrestling method is also different, some places to be the opponent fell to the ground for the defeat, and some places to the back of the shoulder first touch the ground for the win.
The songs of the Torch Festival are collectively called "Duo Luohuo", and "Duo Luohuo" is one of the songs of the Torch Festival, because it is full of inspiration, the girls often put the Duo Luo He" is one of the songs of the "Torch Festival", and because it is so inspiring, girls often take "Duo Luo He" as the prelude of the song to be sung for one day. The song of "Torch Festival" can only be sung by young women. Since the beginning of the "Torch Festival" celebrations, there will be a few old people over 60 years old talking to each other, commenting on the shuttle in the middle of the singing girls, they are self-organized beauty selection team. Due to their fairness and reasonableness, the old people are highly respected by the young people. So what are the old people's beauty selection criteria?
With the nation's fraternal peoples, the beauty-loving and sentimental Yi family has his own aesthetic, this beauty, quietly hidden in the deep gazelle of the infatuated young man, faintly ringing in the yellow umbrella underneath the sweet love language in the ....... The night of the Torch Festival is a fascinating night, with gorgeous fireworks in the air and torches on the ground reflecting each other, constituting a colorful picture with red as the main color. The people of all ethnic groups sing and dance in a joyful scene, just as Liu Yazi successively wrote: "The fire trees and silver flowers never sleep, brothers and sisters dance limply and sing all the way to the full moon.
◆Nadam Congress Mid-June
When:
Mid-June, 2007
Contents:
Traditional races such as horse-racing, pivot-robbing, bocce, archery and so on will be held. Horse team performance, ethnic folk square dance performance, the four lesser nationalities team performance, Mongolian team performance horse whip dance, Daur team and Ewenke team respectively perform folk dance, Oroqen team performance "high Xing'anling" dance. During the period of Naadam, activities such as history and culture, economic construction results display, economic and trade fairs, and signing of contracts will be held.
Today, "Naadam" has become a comprehensive grassland event integrating entertainment, sports, economy and culture. Visitors can enjoy a very Mongolian flavor of horse racing, wrestling, archery and other athletic competitions, as well as Mongolian chess, track and field, ball games, tug-of-war, ...