What are the traditional festivals of Yi people?

The traditional festival of Yi people is Torch Festival, which lasts for three days on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year. During the festival, people dressed in costumes gather on the flat dam or gentle slope near the village, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep shooting, wrestling, beauty contests and so on. The activities are colorful and lively. In the morning, people will sacrifice to their ancestors; At night, you should bring a torch around the crops, which means burning pests and praying for a good harvest.

In addition, the Yi people in western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan will celebrate the Mountain Festival on the third day of the third lunar month. The Yi people in Shiping, Yuanyang and Weishan in Yunnan have to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival twice a year. The first time is the dragon day in February in the summer calendar, and the second time is before the autumn harvest, which means thanking the dragon Lord for the rain and dew.

The Yi people in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province hold the Flower Arrangement Festival every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month, wishing happiness, well-being, prosperity of six animals and abundant crops. The Yi people in Napo, Guangxi and Funing, Yunnan hold the Bow Jumping Festival in April of the lunar calendar, and the third day of March of the lunar calendar is the forest protection festival of the Yi people in Longlin, Guangxi.

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The staple foods of the Yi people are potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice. Non-staple foods include meat, beans, vegetables, spices and drinks. Carnivores are mainly cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and they kill animals when entertaining guests. Killing cattle is the most expensive, followed by sheep and pigs. Beans are mostly soybeans, beans, peas and so on. There is a way to eat soybeans, which the Yi people call "Dulaba", that is, grinding soybeans into pulp and cooking them with sauerkraut.

Seasoning mainly collects three kinds of wild plants, one is the leaves of "Halagu", the other is the roots and flowers of the tree "Muku" and the other is the roots of the herb "Qipaicheke". All three plants have peculiar smells.

Drinks are mainly wine, and Yi people mainly entertain guests with wine. The Yi proverb says that "tea is the most important thing for Han people, and wine is the most important thing for Yi people", and "wine is a feast, and you can't kill pigs and sheep without wine", which shows the importance attached to wine. Yi people's wines mainly include altar wine, barrel wine and water wine.