What to pay attention to when visiting Yi people's homes during the Torchlight Festival
1, Pregnant women don't go to other people's weddings;
2, Don't litter food;
3, Don't go near the spirit tablets in their homes;
4, Don't walk in the fields;
5, You can't light torches in the daytime;
6. No whistling in the house;
7. Women must not touch men's heads;
8. You must not sit under and to the left of piles of things;
9. You must not say fat, heavy, or beautiful to babies;
10. You must drink the wine toasted by the host.
Customs of Yi Torch Festival:
Before the festival: every family prepares food. During the festival, all villages and hamlets make big torches with dry pine wood and pine seeds, and small torches are set up in front of each house, which are lit at night, making the villages and hamlets bright; at the same time, people hold small torches and march in groups on the edge of villages and ridges of mountains and fields, and put the torches and pine seeds into the corners of the fields and fields. Finally, young men and women gather in the square, many torches piled up into a fire tower, flames blazing, people gathered in a circle, singing and dancing, a joyful, all night long. The main activities of the Torch Festival at night, people or lighting torches to the sky to pray for the New Year, in addition to obscenity for good luck, or burning bonfires, the rise of a grand song and dance entertainment activities. During the festival, there are horse racing, bullfighting, archery, wrestling, tug-of-war, swinging and other recreational activities, and the opening of trade fairs.
The torch festival generally lasts three days and three nights, the first day for the "all loaded", meaning to welcome the fire. On this day, villages and cottages will play cattle slaughter sheep and pigs, to wine and meat to meet the fire god, ancestor worship, women have to catch buckwheat buns, tsampa noodles, outside of the people have to go home to eat a reunion dinner, together around the fire to drink home-brewed wine, eat lumps of meat, *** with the sharing of joy and happiness. At nightfall, people from neighboring villages will build an altar at the location chosen by the old man, striking the flint to ignite the sacred fire in the traditional way, and the fire will be sacrificed by Bhima chanting. Then, every family, by the family old man from the fire from the fire point with artemesia sticks tied into the torch, so that children and grandchildren from the old man's hands to take the torch, the first light all over the house every corner, and then the field corners, the hills over, with the light of the fire to drive out the disease and disaster. Finally, they gather on the hillside to play with the torches, sing and dance, and play all kinds of games.
The second day of the Torch Festival is "Dugu", which means glorifying and praising fire, and is the *** of the Torch Festival. At dawn, men, women and children are dressed in festive attire, with boiled lump meat, buckwheat buns, gathered at the altar under the sacred fire, to participate in a variety of traditional festival activities. Thousands of people gather to organize horse races, wrestling, singing, beauty contests, pole climbing, shooting, bullfighting, sheep fighting, cock fighting and other activities. Girls dressed in beautiful clothes dance the "Doloho". On this day, the most important activity is the beauty contest of the Yi family. Elderly people choose a beautiful man according to the image of the hard-working, brave and handsome Blackbody Laba in the legend. The beauty like Nizhang Azhi who is kind, intelligent, beautiful and generous is selected. When evening comes, thousands and thousands of torches, form a fire dragon, from all directions to the same place, and finally form countless bonfires, burning red sky. People dance and sing around the bonfire until late at night, which is a grand and joyful scene, and thus enjoys the reputation of "Oriental Carnival". When the bonfire to go out, a pair of young men and women with love quietly into the hillside, into the bushes, under the yellow umbrella, plucking the moon zither, strumming the mouth strings, telling each other how much they miss each other. Therefore, it is also known as the Yi Torch Festival is the "Oriental Valentine's Day".
On the third day of the Torch Festival, it is called "Doha" or "Dusha" in Yi language, which means sending fire. This is the end of the whole Yi torch festival. When night falls on this day, after sacrificing to the fire god and having dinner, each family lights torches one after another, holding the torches, walking to the agreed place, gathering together, setting up the fire altar, holding the fire ceremony, reciting prayers to the god of fire, praying to the ancestors and the Bodhisattva, granting the descendants health and happiness, granting the earth a good harvest and joy. People dance with torches and chant the words of blessing, "burn the plague, burn the hunger, burn the disease, burn the year of peace and harvest" to pray for the peace of the family, the six animals to prosper. At this time, also with the first day of the slaughter of chicken wings and feathers, etc. together with the burning, symbolizing the evil spirits and the plague of the devil also burned. Then find a larger stone, the lighted torch, chicken feathers, etc. together under the stone, a metaphor for suppressing the devil, to protect the family prosperity, abundant harvest, cattle and sheep fat. Finally, the mountains and villages under the village cottage dragon-like torches together, burning into a pile of bonfires, to show that the people are united as one, *** with the defense against natural disasters.
What to pay attention to when you go to the Yi people's houseEach ethnic group has its own customs and taboos
One. Behavioral taboos:
1. Avoid riding a horse and not dismounting when you meet someone.
2, taboo pregnant women to and from the wedding of others.
3, the baby is not a full month to avoid seeing people who stink of fox.
4, not allowed to stir the pot of stone, and more taboo from the fire across the top.
5, avoid using the grain in the hands to throw play.
6, avoid playing cuckoo.
7, the spirit card is the embodiment of the ancestral spirit, prohibited outsiders close or unclean things placed around.
8, taboo engagement, New Year's Eve killed pigs and sheep and other livestock without gall sweat or spleen dark roll.
9, avoid killing livestock not first burned within the ancestral sacrifice, but first by the dog, cat, chicken touch.
10, avoid walking in the middle of the field during the torch festival, so it will attract insects.
11, avoid walking around with torches in the daytime, and avoid walking out of the house with two torches lit one after another.
12, someone at home to go out and travel, avoid sweeping the garbage out.
13, taboo in the house to play the mouth string, whistling, not closing the door at night.
14, forbidden to cut down the sacred tree or in the sacred tree next to the loud noise and play.
15, taboo hoe, axe together or put together.
16, taboo and people have a grudge when the face of the other side of the broken branches, spit, beat chickens, beat dogs, cut broomstick, patting the head of the handkerchief.
17, can not touch the man's "heavenly bodhisattva".
18, women are not allowed to touch the man's head, not to mention from the man's hat across.
19, avoid public farting.
20., to the Yi family guests, can not sit in the pile of things and sleeping berths below and to the left.
21, the host wine and meat hospitality, the guests should taste, to show appreciation.
ii. Language taboos:
1, avoid using "fat", "heavy", "beautiful" and other praise for the baby.
2, taboo in front of the crowd straight talk about urine, stool, fart, childbirth and so on, and more taboo mantra with the content of the language similar to the genitals of both sexes.
3, taboo between brother-in-law and daughter-in-law and brother-in-law jokes.
4, avoid casually laughing and joking with Bima, Suni.
5, avoid saying unlucky words when the family is out.
6, taboo in the person has a disease, say death and injury and so on.
7, avoid cursing others without reason.
iii. Dietary taboos:
1, forbidden to eat horses, mules, dogs, cats, monkeys, snakes, frogs and other meat.
2. Avoid eating food that is broken by chopsticks when stirring.
3, pull the sheep to the hall ready to kill, the sheep suddenly screaming people avoid eating.
4. Avoid eating grain seeds.
5. . Chicken jumped over the rice is taboo to eat.
6. Avoid eating meat cut with a sickle.
7, men are avoided to eat the flour of the mill shaft broken when pushing the mill.
8, forbidden pregnant women to eat roe deer meat, rabbit meat, forbidden children to eat chicken stomach, chicken tail, pig's ear, sheep's ear. It is forbidden to eat chicken ileum.
9, avoid burning buckwheat poi, bao gu poi from the right side of the fire (guest side) into the take out.
10, the Yi people to entertain guests with wine for the best, at the table, the Yi people are warmly persuaded to drink, and you talk to each other, there is "no wine is not respect," said. If the host does not drink the toast, he will be considered to look down on him.
How do the Yi people over the Torch FestivalThe Yi Torch Festival is the most solemn and grand traditional festival of the Yi people. Every year, from June 24 to 27 of the lunar calendar, the villages and cottages of the Yi people will hold grand sacrificial activities, sacrificing to the sky and the earth, sacrificing to the fire, sacrificing to the ancestors, dispelling evils, and praying for the prosperity of six animals and the abundance of five grains, which embodies the good wishes of the people of the Yi people in respecting the laws of nature and pursuing a happy life.
The Torch Festival is a large-scale festival in Yunnan Nationalities Village in addition to the Water Splashing Festival. Every year during the Torch Festival, the scenic area will launch some unique festival activities. In retaining the "fire, parade, bullfighting, torch playing jumping and *** torch carnival" and other original activities on the basis of this year's Torch Festival also specially invited the Yi mute performance team, the white suona band, fighting goat team, etc., to further enrich and create a "wonderful Torch Festival, the classic Torch Festival, Happy Torch Festival The "Wonderful Torch Festival, Classic Torch Festival and Joyful Torch Festival" were further enriched and created. At the same time also launched a new "Torch Festival beauty pageant, Naxi Dongba fire, torch jumping race" and other special projects.
In addition to a strong lineup of ethnic minorities to stop the door to toast to welcome guests and Yi flower waist song and dance, three red, big three strings and other musical instruments accompaniment, and *** good-looking cattle king scramble, sheep fighting contest, *** lively Yi fire rituals, the taste of folk folklore completely restored, so that tourists can feel a number of ethnic minorities *** four, to experience a unique carnival event.
Preparation
Before the festival, each family prepares food; during the festival, they gather together and sing and drink. During the Torch Festival, the village to dry pine wood and pine seeds tied into a large torch erected in the village, the door of each house erected small torches, lit at night, the village a bright; while people holding small torches marching in small groups in the village side of the ground, mountain ridge ridge, the torches, pine seeds inserted in the field corners. From a distance, the fire dragon reflects the sky, winding and undulating, very moving. Finally, young men and women will gather in the square, many torches piled up into a fire tower, singing and dancing all night long.
Selection
One of the important programs of the Yi Torch Festival is the selection of handsome men and women. The Yi people have their own unique aesthetics, and the jury is made up of highly respected folk elders, and the selection is absolutely fair. The conditions of beauty should not only look at the appearance but also look at the character of speech and behavior. For example, the conditions of beauty are: thick black hair, thick eyebrows, big eyes, high nose, long neck, delicate red panel, well-proportioned body (can not be too thin), decent speech and demeanor, good character, hard-working and many other conditions. The conditions of handsome men are different: brave and good at fighting, with a good instrument and a strong body. He should be graceful in speech and behavior, wear a hero's knot, a hero's belt and sword, a black woolen cloak, and hold a steed in his hand. Nowadays, this is the annual torch festival in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the competition.
Carnival
The torch festival usually lasts three days and three nights, the first day for the "Du Zai", meaning to welcome the fire. On this day, villages and hamlets will play cattle slaughter sheep and pigs, to wine and meat to meet the fire god, ancestor worship, women have to catch buckwheat buns, tsampa noodles, outside the people have to go home to eat a reunion dinner, together around
Expression of the Yi Nationality of the works of Chinese painting - the author of the Dixie Shaoying
The fire pond to drink home-brewed wine, eat lumps of meat, **** with the sharing of joy and happiness. When night falls, people from neighboring villages will set up an altar at a location chosen by the old man, strike flint in the traditional way to light the sacred fire, and have the Bimo (priest) recite sutras to offer the fire. Then, in every household, the old man of the family receives a torch made of artemesia sticks from the fire pit, and his children and grandchildren take the torch from the old man's hand and shine it all over every corner of the house, and then the corners of the fields and the hills, using the light of the fire to drive away illnesses and calamities. Finally, they gather on the hillside to play with the torches, sing and dance, and play all kinds of games.
The second day of the Torch Festival is "Dugu", which means glorifying and praising fire, and is the *** of the Torch Festival. At dawn, men, women and children are dressed in festive attire, with boiled lump meat, buckwheat buns, gathered at the altar under the sacred fire, to participate in a variety of traditional festival activities. Thousands of people gather to organize horse races, wrestling, singing, beauty contests, pole climbing, shooting, bullfighting, sheep fighting, cock fighting and other activities. Girls dressed in beautiful clothes dance the "Doloho". On this day, the most important activity is the beauty contest of the Yi family. Elderly people will choose a beautiful man according to the image of the hard-working, brave and handsome Blackbody Laba in the legend. The beauty like Nizhang Azhi who is kind, intelligent, beautiful and generous is selected. When evening comes, thousands and thousands of torches, form a fire dragon, from all directions to the same place, and finally form countless bonfires, burning red sky. People dance and sing around the bonfire until late at night, which is a grand and joyful scene, and thus enjoys the reputation of "Oriental Carnival". When the bonfire to go out, a pair of young men and women with love quietly into the hillside, into the bushes, under the yellow umbrella, plucking the moon zither, strumming the mouth strings, telling each other how much they miss each other. Therefore, it is also known as the Yi Torch Festival is the "Oriental Valentine's Day".
On the third day of the Torch Festival, it is called "Doha" or "Dusha" in Yi language, which means sending fire. This is the end of the whole Yi torch festival. When night falls on this day, after sacrificing to the fire god and having dinner, each family lights torches one after another, holding the torches, walking to the agreed place, gathering together, setting up the fire altar, holding the fire ceremony, reciting prayers to the god of fire, praying to the ancestors and the Bodhisattva, granting the descendants health and happiness, granting the earth a good harvest and joy. People dance with torches and chant the words of blessing, "burn the plague, burn the hunger, burn the disease, burn the year of peace and harvest" to pray for the peace of the family, the six animals to prosper. At this time, also with the first day of the slaughter of chicken wings and feathers, etc. together with the burning, symbolizing the evil spirits and the plague of the devil also burned. Then find a larger stone, the lighted torch, chicken feathers, etc. together under the stone, a metaphor for suppressing the devil, to protect the family prosperity, abundant harvest, cattle and sheep fat. Finally, the mountains and villages under the village cottage dragon-like torches together, burning into a pile of big bonfires, to show that the people are united as one, *** with the defense against natural disasters.
Activities
During the torch festival held traditional wrestling, bullfighting, horse racing and other activities. These activities come from the legend of the hero Heitilaba's victory over the Demon King (or God of Heaven), who wrestled and wrestled with the Demon King and taught people to light torches to kill locusts transformed into evil spirits, which protected villages and crops. To commemorate this event, every year, the torch festival, we must symbolically repeat the story of the legend, and gradually become the main content of the festival activities.
Do the Yi people take a vacation during the Torch Festival?
The Torch Festival is equivalent to the Yi people's New Year (Chinese New Year), I have been in Sichuan's Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the Torch Festival, the whole city unified three days off, including the traffic police and various enterprises and institutions. As with Chinese New Year, the three days were celebrated with firecrackers and rich food.
When is the 2012 Torch Festival of the Yi people
June 24 on the lunar calendar, a check of the lunar calendar will know
What is the symbol of the Torch Festival for the Yi people?
What does the torch festival symbolize for the Yi people?
Fire is a symbol of the Yi people's pursuit of light.
The totem worship of the Yi people is fire, which symbolizes the fire-like passion and endlessness, and the torch festival held by the Yi people is a kind of ceremony of the totem worship.
The origin of the Torch Festival has different legends. One said that the gods of heaven and earth struggle, people with torches to help the gods of the earth to exterminate insects to defeat the gods of heaven. One said from the "Nanzhao wild history" and the teacher "Dian Department". These two books: south edict chief PiLuoGe attempted to annex another five edicts, will be five edict chiefs gathered in the SongMingLou and burned to death, deng fine dao wife charitable advice husband do not go, the husband is not thus killed, charitable to the wisdom of the savvy and obsessive love for her husband, find her husband's body and successfully buried, Dian people is the day of the torch hanged. Shilin Yi Sani people regard the Torch Festival as a festival to commemorate the victory of the people in the struggle with the devil; Wuding Yi people believe that the Torch Festival is to grow the ears of grain as thick as a torch. The descendants of this sacrificial fire to drive home the field of ghosts and evil, in order to protect human and animal peace.
The Yi Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people. Every year, from June 24 to 27 of the lunar calendar, the villages of the Yi people hold grand rituals to sacrifice to the heavens and the earth, to fire, to ancestors, to drive away the evils, and to pray for the prosperity of the six animals, and for the abundance of grains, which embodies the good wishes of the Yi people to respect the laws of nature and to pursue a happy life.
The Torch Festival generally lasts three days and three nights, the first day for the "all loaded", meaning to welcome the fire. On this day, villages and cottages will play cattle slaughter sheep and pigs, to wine and meat to meet the fire god, ancestor worship, women have to catch buckwheat buns, tsampa noodles, outside of the people have to go home to eat a reunion dinner, together around the fire to drink home-brewed wine, eat lumps of meat, *** with the sharing of joy and happiness. At nightfall, people from neighboring villages will set up an altar at a location chosen by the old man, striking the flint to light the sacred fire in the traditional way, and the Bimo (priest) will recite scriptures to offer the fire. Then, in every household, the old man of the family receives a torch made of artemesia sticks from the fire pit, and his children and grandchildren take the torch from the old man's hand and shine it all over every corner of the house, and then the corners of the fields and the hills, using the light of the fire to drive away illnesses and calamities. Finally, they gather on the hillside to play with the torches, sing and dance, and play all kinds of games.
The second day of the Torch Festival is "Dugu", which means glorifying and praising fire, and is the *** of the Torch Festival. At dawn, men, women and children are dressed in festive attire, with boiled lump meat, buckwheat buns, gathered at the altar under the sacred fire, to participate in a variety of traditional festival activities. Thousands of people gather to organize horse races, wrestling, singing, beauty contests, pole climbing, shooting, bullfighting, sheep fighting, cock fighting and other activities. Girls dressed in beautiful clothes dance the "Doloho". On this day, the most important activity is the beauty contest of the Yi family. Elderly people will choose a beautiful man according to the image of the hardworking, brave and handsome Blackbody Raba in the legend. The beauty like Nizhang Azhi who is kind, intelligent, beautiful and generous is selected. When evening comes, thousands and thousands of torches, form a fire dragon, from all directions to the same place, and finally form countless bonfires, burning red sky. People dance and sing around the bonfire until late at night, which is a grand and joyful scene, and thus enjoys the reputation of "Oriental Carnival". When the bonfire to go out, a pair of young men and women with love quietly into the hillside, into the bushes, under the yellow umbrella, plucking the moon zither, strumming the mouth strings, telling each other how much they miss each other. Therefore, it is also known as the Yi Torch Festival is the "Oriental Valentine's Day".
On the third day of the Torch Festival, it is called "Doha" or "Dusha" in Yi language, which means sending fire. This is the end of the whole Yi torch festival. When night falls on this day, after sacrificing to the fire god and having dinner, each family lights torches one after another, holding the torches, walking to the agreed place, gathering together, setting up the fire altar, holding the fire ceremony, reciting prayers to the god of fire, praying to the ancestors and the Bodhisattva, granting the descendants health and happiness, granting the earth a good harvest and joy. People dance with torches and chant the words of blessing, "burn the plague, burn the hunger, burn the disease, burn the year of peace and harvest" to pray for the peace of the family, the six animals to prosper. At this time, also with the first day of the slaughter of chicken wings and feathers, etc. together with the burning, symbolizing the evil spirits and the plague of the devil also burned. Then find a larger stone, the lighted torch, chicken feathers, etc. together under the stone, a metaphor for suppressing the devil, to protect the family prosperity, abundant harvest, cattle and sheep fat. Finally, the mountain village villages and villages under the dragon like torches together, burning into a pile of bonfires, to show that the people are united as one, *** with the defense against natural disasters.
Why do the Yi people have a "Torch Festival"
The Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi people, just like the Spring Festival. Every year, in the early morning of the 24th day of the 6th lunar month, the Yi men, women and children put on their festive dresses, that is, the most beautiful clothes, and gather together to drink and celebrate during the day, and engage in activities such as bullfighting, wrestling, horse racing, archery, etc. At night, a bonfire is held. At night, a bonfire party is held, that is, a pile of wood is lit, and everyone sings and dances around the fire, but also holds up torches in procession. Countless torches traveled through the fields, mountains and forests, and the scenery was very beautiful. The young men play the flute, the moon zither and the big three-stringed string, and the girls dance the beautiful and joyful "A Tiny Moon Dance". How did the Torch Festival come about and why do the Yi people celebrate it? Legend has it that it is to commemorate an ancient heroine who was smart, chaste and died against violence. It reflects the desire of the Yi people to drive away evil and pursue a better life.
Every year on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the Yi people in the southwest of China to hold the traditional "Torch Festival". On the day of the festival, young men with green or blue cloth wrapped around the head, tied into the "heroes knot", the girls put on pleated skirts, gathered to the village square to go. On the square, a tower-shaped pile of firewood was built with dry wood and pine branches, and a three- or four-foot-high cui wood was erected in the center of the pile, with strings of red flowers hanging from the top of the wood. Men, women, and children after dinner are carrying torches to the square to light the pile of firewood, in the sound of gongs and drums around a roaring fire singing, dancing.
Why do the Yi people have a torch festival? Legend has it that a long time ago, the Yi people have a young man called Duo Ajia want to, he is very powerful, often use their own strength for the people of the village to do good, the Yi people love him very much. The Hercules in the sky knew about this and wanted to compete with Duo Ajawu, so the two of them started a competition on a vast mountainside. The villagers set up an incense burner on the hillside and prayed for Duo Ajawan's victory. The boys played the sanxian and the girls sang songs in support of their hero. The Yi family Duo Ajawu fought with Hercules on the hillside for three days and three nights, and finally overcame Hercules and threw him down on the hillside. After his defeat, Hercules was so enraged that he grabbed a handful of incense ash from the incense burner, which turned into countless flying locusts that flew into the ground and plagued the crops. The hero Duo Ajia wanton let the people find pine branches, tied into a torch, lit and burned all those locusts that devoured the crops.
The day when Duo Ajawu wrestled with Hercules was the 24th day of the 6th lunar month. Therefore, every year on this day, the Yi family would light torches and hold wrestling, dancing and other recreational activities, in order to commemorate the hero Duo Ajawan and celebrate the harvest.