It is a festival mainly practiced by the Bai and the Yi, and it is a kind of festival to wish for a good harvest and prosperity of people and animals. Torch Festival has a long history, early records: the Bai torch festival is the lunar calendar June 25, Yi torch festival is the lunar calendar June 24th. During the festival, different regions have different ceremonies and amusement methods. Bai and Yi, a torch should be erected in front of the house, the village should be erected at the entrance of a high 15 meters or so of the big torch, flowers and fruits, at night, men, women and children converge on the square, lit torches, singing around the fire, but also with the candlelight powder sprinkled with torches, the atmosphere is joyful, lively, the girls should be colorful bracelets line baked on the fire to eliminate the evil; just married guys, when the torch burns! "open bucket" dusted down, will swarm, grab its "open bucket" on the simulation of the knife, go, in order to get your son early; Torch Festival night, the family also prepared a small torch, manpower a column, people holding up torches, peer fields, some also ride a horse to raise the torch Mercedes, the far away from the formation of a curved line of torches, the fire, the fire, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch, the torch. From a distance to form a curved fire dragon, the scene is extremely spectacular. This night, often sleepless all night.
(White Lord Festival)
"The Lord" means "the realm, the family of the Lord of the blessing", is the unique religious beliefs of the Bai people. Villagers, regardless of promotion and wealth, pain and suffering, birth and parenthood are to go to the main temple to pray for blessings. Villages of the Bai people believe in the Lord of the gods, martyrs and chaste women, filial piety and loyalty have built the Lord of the temple. The temple is magnificent, and the statue of the Lord is superbly sculpted and beautifully modeled. Whenever the birth anniversary of the Lord, we have to kill pigs and slaughter sheep, held a grand festival, called the "Lord Festival". The main festival is very grand, there is a complete set of sacrificial rituals, accompanied by pleasant music and folk song and dance performances, forming a unique culture of the Lord of the Bai people region.
(March Street Ethnic Festival)
"March Street" is also called "Guanyin City". Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Yonghui of the Tang Dynasty, Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, came to Dali to preach in the white language, and the more the audience gathered, the more the bazaar was formed. Because Dali is the southern Silk Road, an important port of commerce, so the March Street commodity economy is increasingly developed, and gradually evolved into a strong ethnic characteristics of the rally.
Every year from March 15 to 21 on the lunar calendar, is the Dali March Street session, and since 1991 as the Dali Prefecture Ethnic Festival, so called "March Street Ethnic Festival". At that time, in the ancient city of dali west cangshan mountain in and peak foothills held a grand rally, western yunnan ethnic minorities, and even all over the country merchants gathered, Chinese and foreign tourists flocked to, where livestock, medicinal herbs, tea, copper and other specialty products material trade fairs and arts and sports event, unprecedented scale, such as the flow of people. Riders by the corner of the skill, singing like the sea, really a good show. "Once a year, March Street, in all directions. People of all nationalities sing, horse racing and singing to do business", this is the "March Street" lively, cheerful scene of the real portrayal.
(Butterfly Club)
Butterfly Club location in the Butterfly Spring, the time for the lunar calendar April 15. Legend has it that it is a traditional event held for the Bai people to commemorate the Xia Lang and Wen Gu who threw themselves into the spring to fight against the feudal marriage.
(Pumi Pilgrimage Festival)
The Pumi Pilgrimage Festival takes place between the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month. People dress up in costumes and go to nearby mountains on horseback or on foot to celebrate the festival. In addition to the worship of the mountain gods, there are horse racing, wrestling, archery and other recreational activities. After the picnic, another road is chosen to go down the mountain, without returning to the original road, in order to signify the resignation of the old and welcome the new, and good luck in the coming year.
(Lisu broad time festival)
broad time festival lisu traditional festival, also known as the "welcome to the new festival", held on November 20 every year in the lunar calendar, during the festival, the families like to use pine branches decorated with the front of the house, the whole village young and old like to blow the gourd sheng around together, jump welcome to the new dance, sing welcome to the new song, and hold a grand ceremony to send the soul, the soul of the new festival, and the new festival, and the new festival. A grand ceremony is held to send away the bad spirits of the past year. The festivals are lively and colorful, with rich and colorful flavors, such as playing and dancing songs and archery competitions.
(Naxi stick festival)
The first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day, is the Naxi traditional festival "stick festival", the most characteristic is the exchange of bamboo and wood farming tools during the festival, the nearby rural masses and vendors set up stalls in the farmers' market. This is a bamboo, wood and iron agricultural tools exchange event, a variety of lively and unusual. Farmers from neighboring counties, and even farmers and merchants from Dali, Baoshan, and Tibet, carry local specialties to the gathering to sell and then buy the needed items, while farmers around Lijiang also buy farming tools and needed supplies for the preparation of spring plowing.
(Naxi mules and horses)
Mules and horses will be the Lijiang Naxi traditional folk festival, held in the middle of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, will be one week to trade mules, horses, cows, goats and other livestock, but also exchanges of local products. Dali, jianchuan, heqing, zhongdian, yongsheng and other areas of the farmers come to buy mules and horses and lijiang copper, listed mules and horses tens of thousands of head. Will also hold a variety of entertainment activities, horse racing, theater is the most popular festival content.
(Buddhist festivals)
Dai in June of the Bathing Buddha Festival, is the Dai New Year, outsiders called "Water Festival.
The "Mawasa" (September 15, Dai calendar) and "Wolwasa" (December 15, Dai calendar), that is, "closed the door festival" and "open the door to the festival! The "Closed Door Festival" and "Open Door Festival" are held on December 15 of the Dai calendar. The whole 3 months is the period of purification and fasting.
Fine, that is, giving. Is the faithful to the temple monks donation activities. There are numerous festivals, fine at least 7 times or more in a year.
"Milligan", that is, taboo days, time in the Dai calendar in February.
"Podpa", i.e., the ascension of monks.
"Trace Pawwa", i.e., sacrifice to Buddha Mountain.
"Songsangka", time the Dai calendar, May 15, for the bhikkhu assembly day.
"Sowing Dong", that is, the erection of the flagpole.
"Kiguangluo", i.e., burning white piles of firewood to congratulate Pazhao on his ascension to heaven.
(Taliou Poa Festival)
Taliou people living in Yongsheng Liude Township, but not the Torch Festival, but the "Poa Festival".
On the morning of June 24th of the lunar calendar, women get up early and start to spring sticky fire poop. Each family must have a plate, each plate twelve poi, the bottom one of the largest, the top one of the smallest, built into a tower. After breakfast, each family carries their own poi and dances along with the gourd sheng and drum bands as they pass through the mountain gate and walk up to the altar of dedication to worship the gods and ancestors. After the sacrifice, everyone dances joyfully with the gourd sheng, and burns firewood to barbecue the poi for Chinese food. The young men and women here take this opportunity to sing songs to each other and look for their sweethearts.
(Naxi Three Duo Festival)
Naxi traditional festival, held on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year in Beiyue Temple. This is the Naxi sacrifice to the protection of the nation's God "three dozen" and held a grand festival, in addition to the Beiyue Temple to hold festivals, the Naxi people are to be held in their own homes to hold a grand sacrifice to the "three dozen" ceremony. During the festival, the Naxi people also held a number of top recreational activities, but also like to picnic in the field during this period, to carry out a variety of exchange activities.