Many friends must have heard of the Painted Face Festival recently. Most people probably don’t know it, but friends from Yunnan definitely know it. After all, this traditional festival has a long history. Speaking of 2022 The Painted Face Festival is about to begin again. This time it will last for a long time. So on what month and day is it specifically? Let’s take a look at it in detail below. 1. The specific time in 2022
July 18-August 18, 2022. 2. Which ethnic group does it belong to?
The Painted Face Festival belongs to the Yi ethnic group. 3. The origin of the Painted Face Festival
The Painted Face Festival is the most solemn traditional festival for the Yi people in Qiubei, Yunnan. The Yi people in Qiubei designate the first snake day or pig day in February of each year as the starting day of the "Painted Face Festival". It got its name because ancient ancestors used pot smoke to blacken their faces and exorcise evil spirits. After development, the "Painted Face Festival" has become a carnival activity for contemporary Yi youths to choose their favorite person by applying painted faces. 4. What is smeared on the Flower Face Festival
In the past, the smear on the Flower Face Festival was pot smoke, but now it has gradually developed into black ash made of local fragrant grass and spices. 5. The meaning of the Painted Face Festival
Every year, festivals that are more lively than the Spring Festival are held, including wrestling, tripod fighting, dragon-making eggs, singing folk songs, Xianzi dance, and wiping each other's painted faces with pot ashes, etc. entertainment activities.
Every year at this time, young men and women in Yi villages will chase each other, grabbing soot from pots and stoves, and smear each other's faces black. The darker the smear, the deeper the affection. If you don't want to interact with the other person, try to escape and prevent the other person from smearing cigarette ashes on your body to reject the other person's advances.
As time goes by, the raw materials used to smear the face have now been changed to black ash made from local fragrant grass and spices. Every year, tens of thousands of people participate in the activity of smearing the face. Local people firmly believe that the darker their face is smeared by others, the more good luck and happiness will befall them.
During the festival, Bimo (a priest of the Yi ethnic group) first leads the whole village to hold sacrificial activities to the mountain god. Then, every family kills chickens and sheep, and holds a banquet to welcome guests from afar. Young men and women are smearing each other's faces with soot from pots by the river in the village. The darker one's face is smeared by others, the more good luck and happiness will come to him, his family's crops will grow well, and he will feel happy. All your wishes come true. The climax of the event is when people use pot soot to smear each other's faces with flowers and wish each other good luck and happiness. Every year, it attracts tens of thousands of people to enjoy the carnival and is very lively.