Traditional festivals of Yi people

Traditional festivals of the Yi people include Torch Festival, Yi Year, Gongtiao Festival, Flower Face Festival and Rice Market Festival.

1, Torch Festival (June 24th of the lunar calendar)

Torch Festival is the biggest traditional festival of Yi people. Torch Festival is a festival for the Yi people to resist the tyrannical toast and celebrate their victory. Torch Festival is celebrated for three days. On the first day, the whole family will get together. The next day, there will be wrestling, horse racing, bullfighting and other colorful activities, as well as a bonfire party with singing and dancing.

2. Year of the Yi people (October of the lunar calendar)

In the Year of the Yi Nationality, the Yi language called "Kush" is a sacrificial and celebratory folk festival that integrates many folk issues such as ancestor worship, entertainment, catering and entertainment, and clothing system. It is held every year165438+1on an auspicious day around October 20th. The cycle of the Yi people's New Year Festival is three days, but before the official New Year, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to ancestors and inviting ancestors home for the New Year began.

3. Jumping public sacrifices (the first and middle days of the fourth lunar month)

Tiaogong Festival is a Yi language, which means to celebrate, pray and bless, and it is also the most solemn festival of the Yi people living in the border area of Guangxi and Yunnan in Napo County. It is said that the ancestors led the Yi people to defend their territory, were trapped in the mountains, made bows and arrows out of bamboo in a crisis, rose up and resisted, and finally returned to China successfully.

4. Flower Face Festival (from the eighth day to the tenth day of the second lunar month)

Flower Face Festival is popular in Qiubei County. During the festival, young men and women in Yi villages get together to kill pigs and chickens, prepare wine and meat rice, offer sacrifices to the gods first, then invite the elderly to dinner with the best wine and meat, and then everyone sits around and toasts each other to eat meat.

5. Mizhi Festival (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month)

Secret festivals are also called "offering secret branches". Traditional festivals of Yi people. Mizhi Festival is popular in Yi areas in southern Yunnan. Sani people in Lunan usually hold it from rat day to horse day on the first day of the first lunar month, which lasts for seven days. During the seven-day sacrifice, people worked hard, men could go hunting in the mountains, and women did needlework at home. The first day of sacrifice is the most solemn.