What are the important festivals of Yi people?

1, Torch Festival

Torch Festival is a grand festival of Yi people. Except Bailuo people in Muyang, Funing County, Yi people all over the country celebrated grandly and even spread to Han people. According to the Yi solar calendar, June 24th of the lunar calendar is the most correct day when the sun shines at noon, so it is regarded as a festive day.

2. Flower Face Festival

Flower Face Festival is popular in Qiubei County. It is held every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month for three days. Every festival, young men and women in every Yi village get together to kill pigs and chickens, prepare wine and meat rice, respect the gods first, then invite the elderly to eat the best wine and meat first, and then everyone sits around and toasts each other to eat meat.

After dinner, go to the village head and tail, and wipe each other's faces with ink and pot ash until they are covered in black and too tired to laugh. This is why the Flower Face Festival is named.

3. Grass Horse Festival

Cao Ma Festival is popular in Aza branch. Aza paid tribute to the service horses who accompanied their ancestors in their long journey to find their way, and prayed for the protection of crops. Every year in August of the lunar calendar, he chooses Horse or Rat Day to celebrate Grass Horse Festival. Neighboring villages do not choose the same day, which is convenient for them to visit each other and congratulate each other on the festival. On this day, every household makes grass horses, inserts all kinds of wild flowers and dresses up as colorful horses.

4. February 8.

The eighth day of the second lunar month is an annual festival of Weishan Yi people, which is grand and warm. Every village has to hold activities, among which "gateway" and "offering sacrifices to Miku" are the same activities. On this day, all villages have to cut off some branches to block the entrance to the village, and outsiders are not allowed to enter the village. The activities of offering sacrifices to Miku are held within ethnic groups, and women are not allowed to participate.

5. Shahubi Festival

"Shahubi" is the Weishan Yi language, which means "tasting new wheat", and the time is in the middle of April of the lunar calendar. In this festival, every family worships their ancestors with new wheat flour and glutinous rice dipped in honey, and invites relatives and friends to taste new products to celebrate the bumper harvest in Koharu. On this day, a married daughter should visit her family with a rake and other gifts.

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