Yunnan Lantern Festival customs are: Bai Qing Girl Festival, Dai burning white firewood festival, Dehong Jingpo Minnao longitudinal song festival, Lijiang stick will be and Chuxiong Yongren Race Dress Festival.
1, the white green girl festival
This day Jianchuan County, Diannan, Yang Cen and other places of the white women get together, specifically asked to tie a green girl idol, dress her in white dress, carry her to the swing on the swings, the crowd around her dancing and singing, and then to the sea to the river to hold a sacrificial ceremony. In the evening, one person holds an idol of the "Green Girl" as a guide, followed by all the women, who walk around the village streets and sing the long narrative song "Green Girl" as they walk.
The women then return to the village grounds and swing with the "Green Girl" until late at night. At the end of the day, the "Green Girl" is sent into the Haio River.
2, Dai burning white firewood festival
Preceding by the faithful to cut white firewood, stacked to the temple in the standby, the night of the festival, will be white firewood stacked shelves such as Pavilion, the temple bhikkhu, Shamans focused on reciting the sutra, and finally by the elders ignite the firewood Pavilion, a time when the firecrackers, flames in the sky, the onlookers, a sea of people, the brilliant all night long. Concentrated chanting bhikkhu, shaman by the elders rate to the village outside the forest practice for seven days. In the daytime under the tree chanting sutra, the night in the tree under the sleep. At the end of the seven-day period, and then gathered in the square to recite the sutra, all night long. After sunrise, the festival ended, bhikkhus and shamans went back to the Buddhist temple.
3, Dehong Jingpo Minnao Song Festival
Also known as the Minnao Song, is a traditional festival of Jingpo people in Dehong, meaning "dance". Generally held on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the festival period of four to five days. Jumping Minao Song should be held in a wide square or lawn.
4, Lijiang stick will
It is said that the earliest in Lijiang Yuhuangge held, the local lamas towards the temple chanting, the villagers into the incense to worship Maitreya Buddha, and then gradually evolved into a trading session of agricultural tools, which are used as axe handles, hoe handles, hammers and other wooden stick stick the most, so the short version of the "stick will be".
5, Chuxiong Yongren Sai suit festival
Sai suit festival for living scattered, usually difficult to have the opportunity to get together to meet the young men and women to provide an opportunity to confess their love. The most important way for the girls to show their charms is to see whose clothes are the most beautiful. The Yi women's clothes are all handmade with peach blossom and embroidery, and it often takes one or two years to make a set of clothes. Therefore, whoever has more clothes and good patterns will be seen as a hardworking, capable and dexterous person.