What Yi culture does the Yi Torch Festival reflect?

The ancient I word of Liangshan Yi people about Torch Festival says: "The pig is in Kuyashuo, so there is no need to choose a day." It means that the pig month is the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, and Kuya is the ninth night after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This day is the most beautiful, and the Torch Festival can be celebrated anyway. It is reported that the day around Diza, the bustling center of the Torch Festival in Puge County, is the "Dragon" Day around June 24th of the lunar calendar. It is said that this is a very auspicious day. Longri road is full, and there will be a good harvest at the end of the year.

On Torch Festival, the official date of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is June 24th of the lunar calendar. However, people have not been there according to the official requirements. People in several dialect areas in Liangshan have different torch festivals.

Liangshan folk hold Torch Festival on specific days every year, which is not fixed. Every year, when the local people find that buckwheat grains turn black in the field, they will invite Bimo, the most prestigious in this area, or Degu, who can choose divination, to choose an auspicious day to see which day is most suitable for starting the Torch Festival. Ritual is a form of important sexual affairs, not a normal form of human social labor. Torch Festival The whole festival itself is a large-scale ceremony. Of course, we should not be careless when choosing the date.

Ritual has a strong purpose, "ritual behavior itself is its purpose". Through the performance of sacrificial ceremonies, it can help to achieve the effect that people can't achieve in real life. Logically speaking, ritual behavior is based on a belief. The purpose of the Torch Festival is to achieve the purpose of "good weather, abundant crops, prosperous livestock, healthy people, exorcism and avoiding the cold" through the prayers mentioned in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to ancestors, lighting torches and sending torches. For the Yi people who farm in mountainous areas, all this is related to whether they can live a good life this year, and no one dares to be careless. Choose the date carefully. The mountain climate and phenological conditions vary from place to place. As the saying goes, "One mountain has four seasons, and ten miles are different." According to the phenological phenomenon of "buckwheat seeds have turned black", torch festival is chosen as a blessing day, which is of course different from place to place. Administrative means can't set the date of Torch Festival, because people don't want to risk holding it on inappropriate local days. If the Torch Festival is held on the day stipulated by the government, it will happen. If it doesn't go well this year, no one will pay. Nothing is more important to the farming people in mountainous areas than the prosperity of six livestock, the well-being of the people and the bumper harvest of crops, which is related to their livelihood. Yi people in Yinuo, Sichuan do not celebrate Torch Festival, but should celebrate Torch Festival in ancient times. It is said that there was a red snow during the Torch Festival one year, and the crops were not harvested. Everyone thinks that this is because of the Torch Festival, so the Torch Festival will not be held in Enoch area in the future.