Dali Traditional Festivals

Dali is the main settlement of the Bai people, with a strong ethnic flavor. The festivals and events of the Bai people are mostly concentrated between March and April every year, such as March Street and Around Three Spirits are traditional festivals. Other festivals include: the Chicken Festival, which is held from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in Jizu Mountain of Binchuan; the Juggling Sea Festival, which is held on the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth lunar month in Caicun of Dali; the Shibaoshan Singing Festival, which is held for three days at Shibaoshan Shizhong Temple at the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar; and the Torch Festival, which is held on the 25th day of June in the Tunzai Village of Bai people. Ge Gen Hui, held on the fifth day of January in Dali Three Pagodas Temple. Butterfly will be held on the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar; Jizu Mountain pilgrimage will be held from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.