Introduction of Torch Festival
The grandest festival after the Spring Festival. In addition to the collective activity of erecting big torches in villages, every household prepares delicacies and food and all kinds of festival supplies.
Before the festival, sold all over the street is the torch festival symbols - with bamboo gabion colored paper paste tied small rising bucket, small torch, paper fire incense bags and special for women to use to dye the red nails of the root of the fenghuangxian flower, etc., the festive atmosphere is very strong.
Mad Torch Festival
1, the origin of the torch festival
On the origin of the torch festival, the main legend circulating among the Bai people in Dali is to commemorate the bravery and cleverness of Mrs. Bojie. Legend has it that more than 1,300 years ago, Pirogue, the king of Nanzhao, in order to annex the other five edicts (small kingdoms in the Erhai area, designed to invite the chiefs of the remaining five edicts under the name of ancestor worship, and then set fire to Songminglou.
Which Deng fine dao master Mrs. Bo Jie visionary, beforehand has expected the unpredictable, and afterwards and loyal. And for planing her husband's bones, ten fingers are planed out of blood, so the torch festival when the white young women have to dye their nails red in honor of.
2, the torch festival customs
In the torch festival day each village or area to *** erect a large torch, full of colorful small triangular flag, and then hang the "torch fruit". The top should also be decorated with a large symbol of the Torch Festival - "three consecutive rises" of the "bucket", written on the "national prosperity and people's safety! ", "wind and rain" and other words.
When the flames rise, men, women and children will sing and dance around the torch tree, the children scramble to burn down the torch fruit, meaning to welcome good luck. And adults will be children on the Dragon Boat Festival began to bring the colorful rope cut down, burned with the torch, meaning to get rid of disease and evil seek peace and prosperity.
The climax of the torch festival is to play with torches, so the competition prairie play, joyful. After the prairie play, young people should be in groups, holding small torches to the fields, to the torch to sprinkle rosin powder, to the cereals to illuminate the ears, the intention is to eliminate pests and diseases to ensure a good harvest.
Yuanyang Torch Festival
Yuanyang County Xinjie Town Yi Torch Festival and National Wrestling Games will be held from July 27 to 29 in Yuanyang County Xinjie Town, you remember the previous year was taken away from the cattle? Want to see this year's wrestling champions?
Cultural performance
Time: July 27, 19:30-20:30
Location: Xinjie Town Terrace Square
Bonfire party
Time: July 27, 20:30-21:00
Location: Xinjie Town Terrace Square
Wrestling Match
Time: July 28, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Noon 13:00-18:00 pm
July 29, 8:00 am-10:00 am
Noon 10:00-11:30 (Award Ceremony and Closing Ceremony
Venue: Terrace Square, Xinjie Town