What are you going to do for the torch festival with rich ethnic customs?

Torch Festival is an important traditional festival of Yi, Bai and Naxi nationalities in China. It has a long history, which embodies the belief and worship of the ancestors of ethnic minorities on fire and expresses people's good wishes for a bumper harvest and the elimination of epidemics. So what should we do in such a festival with rich ethnic customs? Find out now.

You may like the characteristics of the Yi Torch Festival.

What will people do on Torch Festival? Take the Yi Torch Festival as an example. According to their traditional custom, the Torch Festival lasts for three days.

On the first morning, people gathered by the river to kill pigs, cattle and sheep. Women are busy cooking buckwheat buns at home, grinding Ciba noodles and preparing cooked food for the next two days. In addition, there is an important content on this day, that is, every household should kill a chicken, look at the chicken tongue, chicken gall and chicken soup to predict the good or ill luck in the coming year, and then roast the chicken to worship the ancestors, hoping that the family will be safe and the livestock will flourish.

The next day, people from four towns and eight departments, wearing holiday costumes, poured into the torch field surrounded by green hills from dozens or even hundreds of miles of huts in Fiona Fang. The activities of this day can be described as brilliant. Traditional events include bullfighting, horse racing, sheep fighting, wrestling, cockfighting, pole climbing, sheep catching, shooting, singing contest, beauty contest, costume contest, eagle catching chickens, dancing "picking lotus", playing with fire handles, playing with fire and so on. This series of festivals is full of original taste and local flavor.

On the third day of Torch Festival, we will continue the unfinished activities of the previous day. At the end of the day, when the sun is shining red in the sky, he leads the winning bull, Ayi holds the unbeaten rooster, and the young people are surrounded by "torch beauties". Amy follows the wrestling hero back to the hut, lights the torch made of Artemisia sticks or thin bamboo, and holds a sacred "fire-sending" ceremony. The festive atmosphere of the Torch Festival is coming. Yi men, women and children hold high the torches in their hearts to celebrate the harvest, pray for peace and wish good luck.

Torch Festival is called "Carnival of the East" in the world and attracts many tourists every year. As early as the Ming Dynasty, Yang Sheng 'an, a scholar, marveled at the grand occasion of the carnival night of Torch Festival, leaving a poem sung through the ages: "Clouds cover the red sun, and there are just mountains, and the torches are uneven. Ten thousand lotus flowers open the sea, and the stars are under the earth one day."