What are the traditional festivals of the Yi people?

The traditional festivals of the Yi people are as follows:

1, Torch Festival

Every year, June 24th of the lunar calendar is Torch Festival. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Sani people (a branch of the Yi people) rebelled against the tyrannical toast. In order to celebrate the victory, this day was designated as the Torch Festival. Torch Festival usually lasts for three days. On the first day, the whole family got together. In the next two days, there are many colorful activities, such as wrestling, horse racing, bullfighting, boat racing and tug-of-war. Then, hold a big bonfire party and party all night.

2. Smith Festival

Miss is a tree god. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the whole village will kill pigs to worship the tree god. Pray for tree gods to bless and eliminate disasters, and bless the whole village to prosper people and animals and harvest crops.

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Celebration Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people. Every October in the lunar calendar, the Yi people celebrate New Year's Day, offering sacrifices to each other, singing and dancing, and congratulating the festival.

4. 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. On festivals, young men and women in every Yi village will 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 will sit around and toast 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.

5. Grass Horse Festival

Caoma Festival is popular in Azha, Yi people. It is a tribute to the service horses who accompanied their ancestors to find their way through a long journey and prayed for the protection of crops. Every year in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, they choose horses or rats to celebrate the 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; Make a horse reed from pumpkin leaves and fill it with kitchen ash and grass seeds. Sacrifice ancestors before killing chickens that night. Before dinner, put chickens and good dishes in the horse's mouth and put them in the grass in the west of the village.