What about the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan?

The Yi people in Liangshan are warm and friendly. For thousands of years, the Yi people in Liangshan have thrived in this land rich in ancient culture, magical legends and fascinating natural landscapes, inherited and retained the quaint, rich and unique cultural traditions of the Yi people in China, and created unique and excellent national cultures in the form of Liangshan's natural closure, including astronomy, astrology and calendars.

Yi people's religious belief is still in the primitive religious stage, and the concepts of nature worship, totem worship, ancestor worship and animism are widespread in society. "Bimo", a priest and "Suni", a wizard of this nationality, have a certain influence in Yi areas, especially in Liangshan areas adjacent to Sichuan and Yunnan.

Custom festivals:

Yi Year: Yi Year is a grand traditional festival for Yi people 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.

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.