"Touching the black face" is a very special traditional custom of the Yi people, which expresses blessing, friendship, love and pleasure.
To date, the Yi people living in the Longlin area, when it comes to festivals or marriage and funeral activities, young men and women who are aunts and uncles, wipe their hands with black smoke from the bottom of the pot, and smear each other's faces to express their congratulations on good luck, happiness and festivity.
The Jumping Bow Festival (or Jumping Gong Festival), known as the "Noisy Che" in Yi language, meaning "Jumping Bow Dance", or "Kong enough", meaning "Happy Celebration, Prayer Blessing", is a grand traditional festival of the Yi people in Napo County and neighboring Funing County, Yunnan Province. The time of the festival varies from village to village, but it is generally held in the first and middle of April in the lunar calendar, and the festival lasts for two days. The main activities of the festival include sacrificing to heaven and earth, ancestors and mountain gods, telling stories about the history of the people, persuading people to drink and sing, dancing and entertaining, and adding food to the reunion
Gathering, etc. The festival is held in the middle of the fourth month of the lunar calendar.
"Torch Festival" is also a grand traditional festival of the Yi people. It is usually held in the sixth month of the lunar calendar. In the evening of the festival, the Yi men, women and children holding torches, groups of people parade homes, hillocks, fields, meaning to avoid the evil spirits, praying for people prosperous food abundance. After the parade, a grand bonfire party is held in the open space or square, where people sing and dance around the bonfire. The next day during the day held horse racing, bullfighting and other cultural and sports activities, the scale of the grand, warm atmosphere. They have combined the traditional Torch Festival with the "June 6" of the Zhuang people, maintaining some of the characteristics of the Torch Festival. Songmao seat" is a part of the food culture of the Yi people, and it is indispensable for them to celebrate festivals, welcome guests, and celebrate happy and sad events. The custom of "Pine Hair Seat" originated in the pre-Qin period, when there were wars between tribes for years. Legend has it that after the Pu people were defeated in a war, the Pu people's leader pointed to the pine tree as an oath: "This tree is an example of the wind does not fall, the snow does not collapse, indomitable, evergreen in all seasons," as an incentive for the people to protect the tribe, against foreign invasion. From then on, the pine tree and the production life of the people of Slang Pu formed an unbreakable bond, and became the main worship of the people of Slang Pu, the protection of God, the symbol of good luck. Slang Pu people must use pine wood to build houses, not any other wood; Slang Pu people want to plant pine trees in the yard on New Year's Day, to worship God to cut "three forks" of the pine branches to put in the worship, and pray for peace; Slang Pu people's ancestor tablets must be made of pine wood; "Torch Festival" torches, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of small pine trees, must be made of pine trees. Must be made of small pine trees, "Torch Festival" households pointing torches, spreading pine incense, drive away harm and evil spirits, pray for peace. Slang Pu people with pine hair paved the ground for banquets, there are valuable guests, the master in the guests when the door sprinkled with pine hair paved the way to welcome the guests, expressed respect for the guests, expressing the guests, the master of the will of good luck and peace, and also specializing in singing songs about pine trees "send you back to the pine tree village".