When will the Yi people in Daliangshan celebrate the New Year?

The annual festival of the Yi people is at the end of October in the lunar calendar.

The Year of the Yi Nationality is a grand traditional festival of the Yi nationality in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, which is called "Kush" in Yi language. October to the middle and late November of the lunar calendar is a good day to celebrate the China New Year.

Yi people are mainly distributed between the plateaus and coastal hills in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and mainly gather in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in China.

Yi customs

Torch Festival: A traditional festival of the Yi people, which falls on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for three days. During the festival, people dressed in costumes gather on the flat dam or gentle slope near the village, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep shooting, wrestling, beauty contests and so on. The activities are colorful and lively. In the morning, people will sacrifice to their ancestors; At night, you should bring a torch around the crops, which means burning pests and praying for a good harvest.

In addition, the Yi people in western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan will celebrate the Mountain Festival on the third day of the third lunar month. The Yi people in Shiping, Yuanyang and Weishan in Yunnan have to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival twice a year. The first time is the dragon day in February in the summer calendar, and the second time is before the autumn harvest, which means thanking the dragon Lord for the rain and dew.

The Yi people in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province hold the Flower Arrangement Festival every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month, wishing happiness, well-being, prosperity of six animals and abundant crops. The Yi people in Napo, Guangxi and Funing, Yunnan hold the Bow Jumping Festival in April of the lunar calendar, and the third day of March of the lunar calendar is the forest protection festival of the Yi people in Longlin, Guangxi.