What are the songs played at the Yi Torch Festival?

The origin of the Torch Festival has been described in a variety of ways, but its origin is most directly related to the nature worship of fire, which is expected to use fire to drive away insects and protect the growth of crops.

The Torch Festival is called "Du Zai" in Liangshan Yi language, which means "Offering Fire". In the ceremonial songs "Offering to the Fire God" and "Offering to the Potter's Stone", there is a narration of the divine performance of the fire god, Ayidigu. The original form of the Torch Festival, in short, is the ancient fire worship. The "Offering to the God of Fire" and "Offering to the Stone of the Pot" are songs sung at the torch festival.

The Yi region is rich in torch songs, although the form is diverse, but there is a fixed torch song, due to the different pronunciation of the Yi dialect, the size of the Liangshan Yi called "DuZe DuoLuoHo", "DuZe" that is, the fire, "DuoLuo", "DuoLuo", "DuoLuo", "DuoLuo", "DuoLuo", "DuoLuo" and "DuoLuo", "DuoLuo". "Duo Luo" means wishing, "ho" that is, for the song; Yunnan Chuxiong Yi Nuosu branch known as "Duo then Duo amount", "Duo then

The torch festival of the Yi people has always been the most solemn, and gradually developed into a set of festival songs and tunes.