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What are the special festivals in Yunnan?

According to the ancient Yi solar calendar, the Yi people in Yuanyang Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province live twice a year. The Yi solar calendar divides a year into 10 months. Every month, the rat day lasts for one month, and the 12 zodiac cycles three times, and the pig day ends at the end of the month, with 36 days per month. There are 360 days in a year, and the remaining five or six days are New Year's Day. 10 months is not counted. Every summer solstice will usher in a three-day New Year's Day. The first day is the day of receiving ancestors, the second day is the day of offering sacrifices to ancestors, and the third day is the day of seeing them off. Off-year is the solstice of winter, with only two days, one for receiving ancestors, one for seeing them off, and three for celebrating ancestors in leap years. After increasing contact with the Han nationality, the Yi people in Yuanyang County also spend the Spring Festival with the Han nationality, but they still retain strong national characteristics. In the three days before the Spring Festival, every household will kill the Year Pig. Clean the house and outside, plant pine trees in front of the door, and insert pine branches at the door and beside the stable in front of the stove. I wish you a happy life in the coming year. Don't spend the night at other people's homes on New Year's Eve, and pay off all the things borrowed from others. On New Year's Eve, it is forbidden to say unlucky words, swear words and beat your wife and children. The father or the eldest son led the whole family, with trays filled with wine, meat, rice, water and other sacrifices, offering sacrifices to ancestors, heaven and earth, earth, water, sun, moon, dragons, stoves and so on in turn, and then offering sacrifices to doors, columns, water tanks, livestock stables, large agricultural tools and so on one by one. After the whole family sits down, take a little from each meal and put it outside the door for homeless wild ghosts. Then bring the dog a bowl of rice. It is said that all the crops were drowned in the first flood year, and the dog got back the grain seeds from the gods, so the dog was comforted first on New Year's Day. Wait until the dog is full, and then the whole family will have dinner together. On the morning of the first day of the first month, at dawn, all the men fired their guns and went to the well to worship the water god, trying to get the new water back first. As dawn dawned, the whole family got up, put on holiday costumes to welcome the God of Wealth, and then wrapped jiaozi to sacrifice to all the gods. Make another jiaozi and stick it on the child's forehead, indicating that the child is one year older. The Yi people in Yuanyang call the first day of the first month "Queen's Day". Women don't do or do less housework, while men do all the cooking. No matter how big the zongzi is, the rice should be steamed fully, which means it is more than enough all year round. On the first day of the first year, I kept my knife and axe still all day, never left the village entrance, never went out to be a guest, and never went to the vegetable garden to get food. Visiting relatives and friends began in the second and third days of junior high school, and women took their children back to their parents' homes. The woodcut Invitation invites relatives and friends to celebrate the only traditional festival of Dulong every winter or twelfth month. The Dulong language is called "Kakwa", which is an annual festival of Dulong. The length of the festival mainly depends on the preparation of food, usually two or three days or four or five days. There is no fixed date for festivals. All ethnic groups are free to choose a good auspicious day to start the new year. Dulong people live in the Dulong River valley between Gaoligong Mountain and Dailika Snow Mountain, and are one of the ethnic groups with less population in China. After choosing an auspicious day for the China New Year, all families invited their relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year. They carved a gap in a special piece of wood, which was an "invitation" to send people to the invited village. There are several notches carved in the wood, which means that a ceremony will be held in a few days to celebrate New Year's Day. Those who receive the woodcut "invitation" should bring all kinds of food to show their respect and congratulations. When the host and the guest meet, they should drink a bottle of water wine and sing to each other. In the evening, the whole village and guests gathered around the bonfire, tasted food and watched young men and women dance "pot dance" to celebrate the annual harvest. When making a toast, the man drank the wine. After drinking, he threw the wine bowl into the bamboo frame hanging above the fire pit to indicate good luck, with the bowl mouth facing up as a good sign.