What are the traditional festivals of the Lisu people?

1, Cuoshi Festival

Lisu people call the annual festival "Cuoshi". Nujiang region of the Lisu people in the new China before the establishment of the main to the observation of the weather to determine the time of the New Year, so there is no uniform, determined date, but most of them are in the summer calendar from December 5 to the first ten of the first month of the following year within the period of time, that is, the cherry blossom season.

2, the knife pole festival

Dehong, Tengchong Lisu ethnic group of people every year on the 17th day of the second lunar month, "knife pole festival". Two days of activities, the first day "under the sea of fire", with chestnut firewood burned into a large pile of coals, the show began, five people barefoot around the coals jumped out and jumped in, and then "hit the fire rolls", that is, in the coals of the fire rolled; "wash the face of fire! ", that is, holding up the coals to wash their faces; and finally in the coals burned iron chain in the hands to pass around, called "pulling the fire chain", the performance finished the crowd dance together.

3, Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival is an important festival of the Lisu people. Every year from the ninth to the tenth lunar month, when the new grain, corn began to harvest, every family boiled wine to taste the new. Men, women and children gather in the village square, burning bonfires, the old man playing the pipa, Yueqin, singing and dancing, recounting ancient history; young men and women dance in a circle, dancing while drinking wine, singing and dancing, and then leave in joy.

Expanded

Lisu customs:

1, Totem:

Yunnan Lisu clan totem, there are tigers, bears, monkeys, goats, snakes, birds, fish, bees, buckwheat, hemp, tea, bamboo, teak, frost, fire and so on more than 20 kinds. Lisu also fire, frost as a totem to worship. Some clans are named after plants and animals, but do not take them as objects of worship.

2. Religion:

The Lisu people generally believe in primitive religion, which is the worship of nature and the concept of the soul as the basic content, in case of disease and disaster when the killing of sacrificial activities as the main form of existence in the Lisu area. In recent times, Christianity and Catholicism have been introduced to the Nujiang area, and some Lisu people have turned to Christianity and a few to Catholicism.

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