The Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the () ethnic group?

The Torch Festival is an ancient and important traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups;

The Torch Festival is held on the 24th or 25th day of the 6th lunar month and lasts for three days. All the ethnic groups of the Yi language branch have to celebrate the Torch Festival, which is also called the Star Festival, commonly known as the "Star Festival in the sky and the eve", which is equivalent to the New Year of the Yi Calendar. The main activities include sheep fighting, cock fighting, bullfighting, wrestling, song and dance performances, and beauty contests.

Early in the morning of the festival, people will be in their respective villages and cottages, planted a large pine tree, symbolizing the embodiment of the Angkor Mimi. How many people in the village, we must hang a small torch on the tree to match the number of people. In the afternoon, after the incarnation has been sacrificed with animals, the oldest woman in the village will light the incarnation on fire.

Participants each take a small torch from the incarnation and light it on the incarnation as well. Afterwards, the crowd led by the old woman, the ring "incarnation" dance potshang dance, singing praise to the Angkumi dedication to fire. Salute to the "incarnation", people meet into groups, hand-dancing torches, through the dance in the village, fields, mountains and forests to sing. Praying for the God of Fire, Aung Koo Mee blessing, blessing the village people and animals, grain abundance, village peace, everything is as it should be.