When will the Yi people celebrate the Spring Festival?

Different regions are different. Liangshan, large and small, is relatively well preserved because of Yi culture. As upstairs said, they celebrated the year of the ancient Yi people, that is, the last days of the October solar calendar of the Yi people. Influenced by the Han culture, Yunnan-Guizhou area celebrates the Lunar New Year just like the Han people, but all Yi people celebrate a festival at the same time, that is, the Torch Festival on June 24th of the lunar calendar!

The festivals of the Yi people mainly include Torch Festival, Yi Year, Master Meeting, Secret Festival, Song and Dance Festival and so on. Torch Festival is the most common and grand traditional festival in Yi area, usually on June 24th or 25th in the summer calendar. Every Torch Festival, the Yi people, men, women and children, should put on their festive costumes, beat livestock, offer spiritual cards, dance, sing, race horses and wrestle. In the evening, we walked around the house and fields with torches, and then got together to light a bonfire and dance.

Torch Festival-Carnival of the Yi people: "Torch Festival" is a grand festival of the Yi people, usually held from June 24th to 26th in the lunar calendar.

As night fell, people waved torches, swarmed around the village, crossed Shan Ye, sprinkled rosin powder on each other's torches, lit torches, and Shan Ye was as white as day. According to the custom of the Yi people, sprinkling rosin powder on the torch will make the torch "bang" with a gorgeous spark in generate and raise a fragrance. This is a good wish: the younger generation shows respect to the older generation and wishes them a long life; The elders are caressing the younger generation and wish them good luck; Peer interaction is intimacy and friendship; Young men and women give up on each other, which is the beginning of love.

Yi people in southern Shandong and Guishan, during the festival, people play the big three strings, jump "an Xi jumps over the moon", and hold wrestling, bullfighting and other activities at the same time; The Yi people in Chuxiong and Maitreya also held traditional "fire sacrifice" ceremonies. On the night of the festival, in the depths of the mountains where the Yi people live together, there are "sleepless fire trees and silver flowers" everywhere, and the scene is very spectacular.

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