What are the traditional festivals of Bai nationality?

Introduction: Bai is a minority, and many people may not know it, but everyone has seen one or two Bai festivals. So, what festivals do the Bai people have? What are the traditional festivals of Bai nationality? The following is my detailed introduction to the traditional festivals of Bai nationality. Interested friends come and have a look.

Bai nationality festival

Torch Festival, March Street (a national festival), Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and winter solstice are the traditional festivals of Bai people. Besides, Bai people, like Han people, celebrate the Spring Festival every year from the first day to the tenth day of the first lunar month. On the first day of the first lunar month, there is a custom of grabbing new water. Whoever receives the first soup spring in the new year will be very lucky in the new year. From the first day to the fifth day, you are not allowed to touch metal utensils except kitchen utensils, splash water or sweep the floor. Sacrifice to heaven and earth on the second day and mountains and grasslands on the third day. When the Bai people in Nujiang worship their ancestors before dinner on New Year's Eve, outsiders are forbidden to be present. On New Year's Eve, you should get back what you lent to others, otherwise it will be difficult to find money and poor food in the coming year. Therefore, things borrowed from other people's homes must be returned to others before the New Year's Eve. The seventh day of the lunar calendar is Women's Day. Women don't cook, carry water or do any other work, but entertain themselves. On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is men's day, and men rest. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the ancestor worship festival. Killing is prohibited during the annual March rally of the Bai people in Yuanjiang County or during the Tian Zi Temple Fair. Bai people in Yunlong county are not allowed to wander around in July and a half.

What are the traditional festivals of Bai nationality?

1, Mid-Autumn Festival

During the festival, every Bai family has fruit cakes. When he rose to Dongshan in the same month, he bought a seat to worship the world and kowtowed to the moon. Then invite friends and relatives home to taste moon cakes and watch the moonlight. In the evening, we will also send moon cakes to relatives and friends. In addition to moon cakes, there are fresh fruits, steamed corn, beans, etc. to show the maturity of the five grains and celebrate the bumper harvest. There are many housewives in Bai families.

In Dali, Xizhou, Yufeng and Qiaohou, making moon cakes is considered as a test of women's cooking skills. Bai people near Kunming want to eat bait noodles at night. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Bai people in Heqing County will also hold activities of drifting river lanterns. People will drift along the river with special paper lanterns with candles or lanterns in them. Let's see whose lights are drifting far away and are not easy to go out. Some also hang colorful lanterns on both sides of the river and dance with dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and crane lanterns. By then, the two sides of the strait will be brightly lit and set each other off. Young men and women also take part in dragon boat rowing, duets and other recreational activities.

2. Bai people receive Yincui gorge.

The time for Bai people to pick up Yincui gorge is February 13th of the lunar calendar every year, which began in Nanzhao period. According to historical records, during the Nanzhao period, when Zhang, the chief of the country, asked to cede the throne to Uman, he married a white girl in order to maintain friendly relations with the Uman Montessori tribe, and went to Mengshechuan (now Weichuan) every year to take Yincui gorge back to Dali for a holiday. Later, after the death of Yincui gorge, the Bai people in Dali built the Yincui gorge hall in Nihao Mountain, and held a sweeping activity here on February 13th of the lunar calendar every year, and took Yincui gorge back to Dali for the festival according to the custom before her death.

On February 1 1 every year, the Bai people in Dali, dressed in Bai costumes, arrive at Longyushan on time to hold a memorial service of chanting scriptures in worship of Yincui gorge, and hold a get-together with the local Yi people, beating the whip, playing songs and singing duet. /kloc-On the morning of 0/3, they rode a white horse (meaning to pick up Yincui gorge) and carried the Bai costumes changed by Yincui gorge, and took Yincui gorge back to Dali to participate in festivals such as Sanlingwei. They waved red flags, blew waves, beat gongs and drums, drank white songs while walking, and left Weishan happily and returned to Dali. If Yincui gorge rains that day, they will be even happier, thinking that Dali Bazi will have a good weather and a bumper harvest this year. Bypass the Three Souls and send Yincui gorge back to Weishan.

This traditional folk festival, from Nanzhao to the present, has lasted for a long time every year. After 1978, due to the limitation of conditions, the white horse was no longer used when picking up Yincui gorge, and instead, the person carrying Yincui gorge's clothes, the ceremony and grand occasion remained the same.

3. Resignation Day

Traditional festivals of Bai nationality in Yunnan. It is held on the last night of December in the lunar calendar every year. Bai people think tonight is the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so the dinner is very rich. It is said that the kitchen god will return to the earth from the sky that night, so every household, rich or poor, must come up with the best food to worship the kitchen god. Sacrifice to the kitchen god, then the door god, and finally the ancestors. Set off firecrackers during the sacrifice. In the evening, pine wool collected from the mountain is laid under the altar in front of the ancestral temple in the main hall, which means laying a blanket, indicating that the ancestors will sit down and serve dinner for their ancestors when they get home. That night, no matter young or old, we all ate together at the party, which is commonly known as making our families happy. After dinner, the parents led the family to worship their ancestors in class, kneeling and kowtowing, and then the children in the mountain field paid tribute to their grandparents or parents in turn. The elders in the family manage money and give some money to the younger generation. After that, grandparents and their grandchildren stayed in the hall, drank rice tea in the morning, wished the New Year's life as beautiful as flowers and honey, and then rested in each room.

4. March Street

March Street, also known as Guanyin City, Guanyin Street and Guanyin Festival, is a grand festival and street festival for the Bai people in Dali, Yunnan Province. It is held at the foot of Diancang Mountain in western Dali from March/kloc-0 to 20 every year. At first, it was full of religious activities, and later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants from Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet and Jiangnan provinces came here to trade, mainly mules, horses, mountain products and medicinal materials. Farmers also bought farm animals and farm tools for spring ploughing.

5, around the three spirits

It is held every year from April 23rd to 25th of the lunar calendar. At that time, Bai people will worship Jingui Temple, Shengyuan Temple and Chongsheng Temple, and at the same time enjoy singing and dancing all night on the grass in front of the temple.

6. Young crops association

Bai folk festivals in Xishan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. Young crops will be held every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. There are many grain temples in local Bai villages, some of which are one village and one temple, and some are several villages and one temple. On this day, people collectively offered sacrifices to the "young prince" in the Grain Temple with the village as the unit. At that time, kill pigs collectively. After breakfast, representatives of each family planted pine nuts on the designated mountain, and then the temple fair distributed a five-color green seedling made of paper to each family and planted it in their own fields to pray for a bumper harvest in Miao Zhuang.

7.torch festival

June 25th of the annual summer calendar is the most grand festival for the Bai people. On this day, every village will erect a high torch and every family will set up a small torch. As night falls, the torches are lit together, just like thousands of fire dragons flying all over the mountains. People walk in the fields, catching insects and killing pests. Families with newborn babies invited villagers to drink "wedding wine" under the fire to congratulate their mother and son on their safety.

8. Double Ninth Festival

Bai Double Ninth Festival Every year on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, a well-off and three-generation separated Bai family will slaughter a fat sheep and stew it into a whole mutton soup for the whole family to drink. Also prepare chestnuts, walnuts and wine. People living in poverty should also try to eat sheep's head and feet. Bai people spread such a folk song: on September 9, chestnut and walnut shochu. I ate sheep's head and feet, whole lamb soup, boiled chestnuts and walnuts. On this day, Bai people in the dam area of Heqing County will take fruits to Luofeng Mountain to occupy a sunny day. On the top of Luofeng Mountain, there is a big stone in Fiona Fang, which is 100 feet high. It is called a rain stone. Before people come to the stone, they sing and dance and praise the sunny stone. When the sun goes down, people knock off a piece from a cloudy stone and take it home to check whether it is sunny or not.

9. March 3rd

March 3rd is a traditional festival of Bai people. Every March is an auspicious day for Zhai Lao. March is a busy farming season, and people hope that crops will be smooth from sowing to harvesting in that year, so the main activity of the festival is to offer crops to God.

10, grab the first water

New Year's Eve is an annual festival for the Bai people in Dali to grab the first water. When night falls, all the girls and boys are busy dressing up. They put on gorgeous national costumes, carried a string of firecrackers in their hands and a bucket on their shoulders. They marched in every corner of the village and came to the well with smiles on their faces. At midnight, only firecrackers were heard, and everyone scrambled to "grab the first sip of water". Every household picks up the robbed "head water" and goes home, then uses it to make soup balls, noodles and other foods, cooks them in bowls or plates, and respectfully sends them to the elderly from door to door to congratulate them on their happy, happy and healthy New Year. After the old man accepts the gift, he puts a few cents in the dish to show his age when he returns it. I wish the younger generation healthy growth and happiness ... The activity of "grabbing the first water" fully embodies the national tradition of the Bai people to respect the old and love the young.