It is also called "Catching New Street". In Dai language, it is called "Ma'er". Yunnan Xinping, Jinggu around the Dai traditional festival, every year after the Lunar New Year (the first day of the first month of the Lunar calendar) festival. According to local custom, after the Spring Festival to catch three streets, each street ten days. The first street is for teenagers, the second street is for unmarried young people around 20 years old, the third street is for married adults. Catch the second street girls head flowers, wearing a new flower dress, carrying a number of special gabion lunch box to each of their boyfriends a box, lunch box containing bacon, glutinous rice, jacket a cloth cover. Sometimes the parents of the girl's boyfriends come to see the fun, but also can get the girl to send a box of rice, to enjoy the delicious, and proud of it. When the boy finishes his meal, he puts some candies, threads and other small gifts in the gabion box and sends them back to the girl as a token of his appreciation. On this day, the young men also put on beautiful clothes, bring wine and food, come to find their lovers **** drink, young men and women together to drink, sing, dance, and have fun until late at night before dispersing.
The Dai Water Festival
Also known as the Buddha Bathing Festival, or Lenghe Shanghan, it is a traditional festival of the Dai, Achang, Brown, Wa, and De'ang ethnic groups, as well as Thai-speaking peoples and Southeast Asia, and of overseas Thai settlements, such as Hong Kong's Kowloon City and the Zhonghe District of Taiwan's New Taipei City, where people get up in the morning and bathe in the Buddha's name, and then begin celebrating for several days. Afterward, they begin several days of celebrations, during which they throw pure water over each other in prayer to wash away the past year's misfortunes.
Yi Torch Festival
The Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, which has deep folk cultural connotations and is known as the "Carnival of the East", with the main activities of bullfighting, goatfighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing. The main activities include bullfighting, goatfighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances.
Lisu Knife and Pole Festival
Lisu Knife and Pole Festival, the Lisu language is called "A tangde", which means "climbing knife festival", it is a festival of the Lisu people who live in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. It is a traditional festival of the Lisu and Yi ethnic groups living in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Lushui County, Yunnan Province. The festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first month of every year, and the performers perform "climbing the mountain of knives" and "going down to the sea of fire", which expresses the spirit of the Lisu people who are not afraid of difficulties and dangers.
Bai March Street
March Street, also known as the "Guanyin City", "Guanyin Street", "sacrifice Guanyin Street
March Street, also known as "Guanyin City", "Guanyin Street", "Festival of Guanyin Street", the Bai traditional grand festival, but also the Bai traditional folk material exchanges and cultural and recreational activities of the event, popular in Yunnan Dali and other places, every year in the lunar calendar, March 15 to 21 in the west of the city of Dali, the foot of the point of the Cangshan Mountain, initially, it is with the color of the religious activities, and later gradually changed into a grand exchange of materials.
Hani Girl Festival
The festival is held on the fourth day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that in ancient times, a beautiful local girl fell in love with a handsome young hunter, but her parents betrothed her to the one-eyed son of the Tusi, the girl was devastated, the fourth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the girl went up to the mountains to cut firewood, and met a girl in the marriage was similarly unfortunate, and after they told each other about their plight, they jumped off a cliff together to kill themselves. After the incident, the Hani people think that can no longer interfere with the marriage of young people, to let the girl free to choose their own love interest, so booked the fourth day of the second month of the lunar calendar for the Girl's Day. Festival early in the morning, the unmarried young man to the lover to borrow beautiful clothes and pants, dressed as a girl's likeness, accompanied by their lovers dance entertainment, until the sun to the west before they return home. Married men on this day to be particularly diligent, early in the morning to get up early to carry water, chopping wood, and will be boiled wash water to his wife to use, and then cooking, feeding chickens, ducks. After these chores, they must quickly go to the square in the walled village to gather, and the first to arrive will be the diligent. After returning home, they continued to serve their wives until late at night.
Tibetan Snow Festival
Snow Festival is Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions of the Tibetan people's traditional religious festivals, most of them in the Tibetan calendar in early February, mid-April or mid-June, the specific date varies from place to place, the Snow Festival in Tibetan according to the interpretation of the Tibetan language is to eat yogurt Festival, and therefore also known as the "yogurt festival", because the snow festival during the Tibetan opera performance and the scale of the grand sun Buddha ceremony, so some people also called "Tibetan opera festival", "sun Buddha festival".
Huashan Festival of the Miao People
Huashan Festival, also known as "stamping on Huashan", "jumping flowers", etc., is a traditional festival of the Miao people, popular in the south of Sichuan Province and the south-east of the central and western Yunnan Province, the festival varies from place to place. Festivals vary from place to place, usually held before and after the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, during the festival, the Miao people in full costume gathered to the traditional jumping field ping, young men and women jumping field in the center of the flower poles dancing, young men are also climbing poles, horse races, archery, singing, dancing, beauty pageants and other competitions.
HaNi Zalet
Zalet is the biggest festival of the HaNi ethnic group, which is also known as "Yilai HeShi" because it takes place in the 10th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, i.e., the 10th month of the lunar year. During the festival, people stop going up to the mountains to produce and work, and eat and drink and have fun in the house or go out to visit relatives and friends. String of friends, during the festival, but also held a horse race, playing gyro, jumping bamboo tube dance and other activities.
Tibetan Ghee Lantern Festival
The first month of the Tibetan calendar, the 15th is the last day of the Chuanzhao great puja, this day, the Tibetan people live in the place will be more colorful ghee sculpture into the birds, flowers, fishes and insects and figures, celebrating the ghee Lantern Festival, the monks and laypeople all over Tibet, as well as the folk art masters with the local abundance of ghee and Tibetan pigment, to make exquisite ghee flowers. They use locally produced ghee and Tibetan pigments to produce exquisite ghee flowers, many of which are also used to form serial stories with multiple panels to tell the ancient legends of the Tibetan nation.
Lahu Moon Festival
The Moon Festival is a Lahu agricultural festival, also known as the "Haba Festival", which means the moon, and is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Lahu calendar. It is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Lahu lunar calendar. The festival is held in the evening when the moon rises, and each family selects the best fruits and melons as offerings, arranges them on a gabion table, and carries them to the place of sacrificing to the God of the Mountain (behind the walled village) to sacrifice to the moon, which is the season of the people's cultivation. Under the moonlight, the whole village men, women and children gathered around the gabion table to dance the Lusheng dance and celebrate the festival.
Mongolian Horse Milk Festival
Horse Milk Festival is a traditional festival of the Mongolian people, mainly to drink horse milk wine, popular in Inner Mongolia Xilingol League and Ordos part of the pastoral areas, usually held in the second half of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the date is not fixed, a one-day, in order to celebrate a good harvest, and each other's blessings, in addition to preparing enough horse milk wine, but also to the "hand-picked meat" hospitality, and hold horse racing activities, please folk singers sing toast to the old Mongolian doctor offerings and so on.