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The Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Lahu, Hani and Pumi ethnic groups. It is held by the Yi, Naxi and Jinuo on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month, the Bai on the 25th day of the 6th lunar month, and the Lahu on the 20th day of the 6th lunar month, and the festival lasts for two or three days. The Yi believe that the Torch Festival is to grow ears of grain as thick as torches. Later generations sacrificed fire to drive away ghosts and evil spirits in the fields to keep people and animals safe. During the festival, young men and women of all ethnic groups lit torches made of pine wood, to the village field activities, while walking the pine incense scattered to the torch to the sky to pray for the New Year, in addition to the obscenity of the auspicious; or singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, wrestling; or hold a grand bonfire party, all-night revelry. Now, people also use the opportunity to gather, socializing or lovers meeting, and in the festival to carry out trade activities. Torch Festival

Living in Heqing, Lijiang adjoining the foothills of the five peaks of the Bai and Naxi, to the night of the Torch Festival, to organize fire playing activities. People in the village on all the trees, tied into groups, bundles of saffron, symbolizing "safflower fire tree such as torch". When the first star appeared on the sky, people danced with a handful of lighted torches, sang and danced, and sang a hymn to the "Saffron Fire Tree".　The Pumi people living in Nyingchi County, to the Torch Festival this day, to be held in praise of the fire god activities. According to legend, the Pumi people worship the fire god called Ang Gumi, originally the female ancestor of the Mosuo people. She for the sake of the children and grandchildren and the happiness of the Pumi people living with this ethnic cluster, sneaked into the Palace of Heaven to steal the fire, and their own bodies as a torch to the fire to the earth, so that the Mosuo people and the Pumi people at the same time to get the fire. In order to generations not forget the kindness of Aung Koo Mi, the Pumi people will bring the fire Aung Koo Mi this day is set as a festival in honor of the God of Fire.　Early in the morning of the festival, people will be in their respective villages, planting a large pine tree, symbolizing the incarnation of Angkumi. The tree is filled with small torches, and the number of people in the village is matched by the number of small torches hung on the tree. In the afternoon, after the incarnation has been sacrificed with animals, an old woman, who is the oldest in the village, lights the incarnation on fire. Each participant takes a small torch from the "incarnation" and lights it on the "incarnation" as well. Afterwards, led by an old woman, the crowd dances a potshoong dance around the "incarnation" to praise Aung Koo Mi's dedication to passing on the fire. Salute to the "incarnation", people meet into groups, hand-dancing torches, through the dance in the village, fields, mountains and forests to sing. Pray for the fire god Aung Gumi blessing, blessing the village people and animals prosperous, grain abundance, village peace, everything is as good as it can be ...... fire dance singing kind of Huangping Township is Heqing County, a hot area, affluent products. It is rumored that the inhabitants here are the descendants left behind by Kong Ming and Meng Yu who cantoned their armies here back then. This fertile land was reclaimed by Kong Ming and Meng Yu when they allied **** with each other. And on the night of June 24th, the fire was lit at night, the seeds of grains were sown for the first time, and the deserted meadow has become a good field since then. In order to commemorate this day, every day, the descendants will point torches night battle sowing small spring crops. At that time, the old man and the children waved torches, singing and dancing around the field, and the young people sowing seeds in the field. Labor production and folk activities into one, another flavor.　Throughout the ages, the annual Torch Festival night of all ethnic groups are celebrated in the same region, from the cottage to the town, from the mountains to the dam, everyone lit torches, hand in hand with the foot into a circle singing and dancing. The old man played the usual dusty moon harp, the young man played the flute that has not touched for a long time, and the girls played the mouth string hanging on their chests, praying for a good harvest every year, and the prosperity of six animals, and singing about the good life. Under the moonlight, a handful of torches, a pile of burning bonfires, like a star in the sky fell to earth, everywhere is the world of fire, everywhere is the sea of song and dance. People sing and dance happily, and the lively scene of the torch festival night has been described by many writers throughout the ages.　Torch Festival of three days and three nights, are unique, each night after dinner, the first by a family began to light torches, and then scrambled to light up the torches to the village, people sing the torch song, singing with the spread of the torches resounded through the valley. Subsequently, according to the agreed direction and form a fire dragon to the public **** recreation ground, they will focus the torch into a pile of big fire, the whole village people around the fire, happy dancing games.　In the reform and opening up, the party's national policy shining today, the torch festival gives a newer mass, entertainment, diversity of content. People not only inherit and carry forward the part of its excellent traditional culture, but also dissolve into the breath of the times, constituting a new scene. For example, during the festival, foreign tourists, tourists from inside and outside the province came in large numbers, people doing business came in large numbers, outsiders far outnumbered the locals, and the torch festival became a torch festival

Attracting people from all walks of life to come to sightseeing, tourism, and trade negotiation means and opportunities. A variety of mass cultural and sports performances are also more colorful than one year, the folk festival has naturally become a regional festival, from the village festival to the urban and rural festivals, from a single ethnic festival has become a multi-ethnic **** with the festival. Not many people really know and understand the Yi people, but when it comes to the "Torch Festival" and "Axi Moon Jumping", people will not feel unfamiliar. But then again, to understand the original flavor of the torch festival or in the countryside, especially away from the urban areas of the remote villages to have folk customs of authentic flavor.　On the first night of the Torch Festival on June 24 of the lunar calendar, children sing, dance, hide-and-seek, but also do a game called "eagle catching chicks. By a person pretending to be "eagle", the rest of the people in a long line, in turn, grabbed the front of a person's back hem, the first person pretending to be a long line of "mother hen" to protect the back of the "chickens". The "eagle" desperately trying to catch the back of the "chickens", the back of the "chickens" to see the "eagle" to catch, the front of the "hen". The "mother hen" also tries to catch the "eagle", and if the "eagle" is caught by the "mother hen", she has to act as the "mother hen" to defend the chicks. If the eagle is caught by the hen, it will come to act as a mother hen to defend the chicks. The chick at the back has to swing to avoid the eagle on the one hand, and "squeak" on the other. Before the game of "Eagle Catching Chicks", the hen should spread her wings to protect the chicks (the one who pretends to be a hen stretches out her hands) and learns to call like a hen, "Goo Lai! Gulai!" Only then can the eagle begin to catch the chick.　In addition to "eagle catching chicks", there is also a smaller "fox protecting stones" game. That is, a person pretending to be a mother fox, hands and feet on the ground, under the body of three stones pretending to be a fox, a person pretending to be a tiger to catch "mother fox" under the stone, the mother fox kicked the tiger, the tiger will have to come to replace the mother fox to guard the fox.　When people burn a bonfire on the big open dam and play various games, the constraints between the upper and lower generations disappear in the atmosphere of this festival. As the saying goes, the Torch Festival is a festival of play, and there is nothing wrong with playing for three days. Even the new daughters-in-law who just took over their in-laws for the first Torch Festival (newlyweds of Liangshan Yi people usually start sitting in the pot from the Torch Festival). Even the new daughters-in-law (Liangshan Yi newlyweds usually start sitting on the pots from the Torch Festival), who have just been brought to their in-laws' home for the first Torch Festival, hide their faces half-covered by their shawls and watch the spectacle from behind their in-laws.　People go home and rest until the moon rises over the eastern mountains. The girls were so excited that they didn't sleep, so they helped each other dress up. Preparing for the next day's dress, and prepare dry food, meat, fruits and other things, in order to better travel to the place where they meet for the festival.　The Torch Festival is not only a traditional festival for every family, but also a festival for relatives and friends of all families to socialize and get together.

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"Torch Festival" celebrated *** three days: Torch Festival Day 1: Fire Festival. On this day, everyone wears their beloved dresses and is happy. Villages and hamlets will slaughter cows and sheep, and set up banquets with various kinds of meat and sweet and fragrant wine, which are fragrant and overflowing, to honor the gods, and the gods will praise them. When night falls, people from neighboring villages will set up an altar at a place chosen by the old people, light the sacred fire by striking a stone in the traditional way, and have the Bimo (Yi folk priests) recite scriptures to offer the fire. Then, every family, adults and children will receive from the hands of Bimo with artemesia made of torches, swimming Torch Festival

walking in the field corners, following the legend of Ash ugly woman with fire to drive away insects.　　The second day of the Torch Festival: passing the fire. On this day, families gather under the sacred fire at the altar to hold various traditional festival activities. The boys are expected to emulate the legendary Ati Raba by racing horses, wrestling, singing, fighting bulls, sheep and chickens. The girls follow the example of the legendary Ashima, wearing beautiful clothes, holding up butter umbrellas, singing "Doloho" and dancing the Dasi dance. On this day, the most important activity is the Yi beauty contest. Elderly people have to select the annual beauty contest from among the boys and girls according to the criteria of the legendary Ati Raba, who is industrious, brave and handsome, and Ashima, who is kind, intelligent and beautiful. At nightfall, a pair of loving men and women, in the mountains, on the banks of the stream, under the yellow umbrellas, plucking the moon lyre, playing the mouth string, telling each other how much they love each other. Therefore, some people call the Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival the "Valentine's Day of the East".　　The third day of Torch Festival: sending fire. This is the climax of the entire Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival. When night falls on this day, everyone will run around with torches in their hands. Finally, people will get together with the torches in their hands, forming a pile of huge bonfires, happy people will gather around the bonfire to sing and dance, the scene is extremely spectacular. Therefore, it is also known as the "Oriental Carnival Night".

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Festival day, the cottage family should be erected in front of a number of torches, ready for activities. At the same time in the village near the choice of an open area, in the middle of the ground erected a 10 to 20 meters long pine, the top of the pine across the top of a stick full of red paper flowers, the edge of the green pine around the flammable firewood piled up into a pagoda-shaped torch, as the venue for the event. In the evening, the host of the festival led the gong and drum team to beat the gong and drums, Walled House heard the sound of gongs and drums that go out and light torches, men, women and children holding torches to the activities of the place to converge. After people arrived, the host gave a call, everyone lifted the torch to the pagoda-shaped torch to run, will be lit. A moment of fire in the sky, the sound of joy, everyone held a small torch around the big torch, dancing "harvest dance", singing a harvest song, singing and dancing, passionate and exuberant. At the end of the song and dance, people from different families held torches to their own fields, scattered torch parade, has been to swim all over their fields, as an expression of the elimination of pests, wishing and praying for rain and wind, to ensure that a good harvest, peace of mind, the wish of the six beasts of prey. Zijin Yi Torch Festival, to the three towns of Songshuping festival scene for the big, every year there are thousands of people to participate. There is also an orderly monument in the activity place, which describes the formation and continuation of the Torch Festival here. In recent years, with the Yi compatriots economic and cultural living standards, the atmosphere of the Torch Festival is also more than one year grand, the county national cultural team to the Torch Festival harvest dance as the material for the choreography of the Yi dance "Copper bells ringing to celebrate the harvest," to participate in the provincial and local performances won praise.

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The Torch Festival has been passed down to the present day, has become an important festival of the Yi people to celebrate the program are: Bullfighting: in the people surrounded by a large circle, the two ferocious sturdy bullock horns against the horns, in the master's yells, shouts of the audience in the desperate struggle. The final victorious bull will be decorated with red colors and prizes, and everyone will come forward to praise the owner of the bull for being a good farmer and raising such a good bull.　Wrestling: Wrestling is very popular among the Yi people, and there are two kinds of wrestling: tripping and non-tripping, and the one who falls down is the one who loses; different villages elect the strongest and most capable wrestlers for the competition, and the winners are not only awarded prizes, but also celebrated and encouraged by their own villages with wine, sheep, cows and other delicacies.　In addition, there are wonderful archery competitions, and the venue is always gathering many youngsters on horseback and Yi girls in brightly colored costumes, who sing and dance to each other, while the onlookers sing and sing along with them, filled with joyful singing and smiling old people everywhere, and even visitors from afar are infected with the festive atmosphere.　Passionate bonfire party At night, people eat fragrant barbecue meat, and then light a flame with a pine branch and run around with a torch in their hands, praying for the elimination of insect pests and diseases, and praying for a good harvest in successive years.　Enthusiastic crowd, the torch into a pile of bonfires, thousands of Yi children jumped up "big three strings" dance, all of them instantly immersed in the sea of fire, sea of song, sea of dance and the sea of flowers, singing and dancing until the sky spit the white, rooster sings the dawn.　Torch Festival is also a good time for young boys and girls to ignite their love and convey their feelings, the girls wear their own sewing clothes to show their dexterity, and the young men in all kinds of competitions and performances to win the girls' hearts and smiles.　At this moment, they all find their sweethearts, according to the custom of the male party can snatch the female party on the token, as a token of love; they also take the all-night singing and dancing, expressing their love for each other, sheepish love and burning fire, illuminating the night sky, but also illuminates the hearts of the lovers.

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The Torch Festival is known as "Du Zai" in Liangshan Yi language, which means "Fire Sacrifice". The original form of the festival, in short, is the ancient fire worship. In today's mountainous society, we can still find the concept of belief and cultural core of this festival, "Fire Sacrifice", in the examination of various folklore events.　On August 4, 2010, thousands of people in Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, dressed in festive costumes, danced and sang with unique ethnic characteristics, kicking off the Sixth China - Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival. The Liangshan Yi Torch Festival is one of the first intangible cultural heritage lists announced by China, and is one of the top ten folk festivals in China and one of the top ten famous festivals in Sichuan, and has been included in the "World Intangible Cultural Heritage Approval Program in 2010" by UNESCO.

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Due to the long-term development (in time dimension) and regional evolution (in space dimension), the connotation of folk culture presented by the Torch Festival is not likely to be the same as that of the early single-form, but rather a composite form, which includes a wide range of activities in the traditional society, and embraces the rich connotations of religion, beliefs, ethics, songs and dances, skills, folk aesthetics and so on. It has a rich connotation. The widely circulated "torch festival legend" provides us with the possibility to analyze and study it.

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Want to see the original flavor of the torch festival, go to Puge it! Puge is the birthplace of the Torch Festival. The development of infrastructural facilities in the Yi region is slow, and most of the torch festivals in each place end in one day, with everyone going home to eat and stay at night, and then going to other townships to join in the fun the next day. The torchlight festival in the whole Yi area lasts for half a month, and the activities of the festival mainly include bullfighting, horse racing, sheep fighting, cock fighting and beauty contests.　While the races are exciting, the off-site farm food is also very interesting! I use the word interesting to describe it because the Yi people have never been very careful about their food, and there are even ways of eating that are described by outsiders as "crude". For example, Tuotuo meat, is the pig, cow, sheep with skin and bones cut into fist-sized chunks, boiled in white water, dipped in salt, wood ginger (a local plant root, has a flavoring effect), chili peppers, torn and eaten.　In addition to the pile of meat, Puge's barbecue is also famous, many Xichang people specialize in driving two hours to support, until the Huang family barbecue head office opened in Xichang, Xichang people do not have to run around so much.　Authentic Huangjia barbecue, the signboard is green, above the boss's head is the one.　Outside the Torch Festival venue, there is an open-air stall, selling the very Pug grilled meat. I asked the young man how much a piece, he smiled and held up three fingers: "large and small are the same, just pick. Don't greed big, fat meat, can't eat hold up." I can not help but laugh, this kid honest and straightforward cute, no wonder three yuan a "high price" can be in a fast food stalls surrounded by business is still booming. Picked a small piece of near the ribs, while wondering whether it can be comparable to Guangdong's roasted suckling pig, while biting down, the skin is hard, not crisp, the gravy is very rich, fragrant and not greasy, but strictly speaking can only be regarded as a pile of meat another interpretation, basically the original flavor of the meat.　Small pieces of meat do not top belly, fast food products and not to the appetite, we decided to temporarily away from the venue, to the foot of the mountain in the spiral bun mountain county town to find ready to do the pickled vegetable chicken soup.　Yi region and even the entire Sichuan region like to eat rooster, its meat is more tender. And the Yi's sauerkraut is different from our common pickled sauerkraut made from Chinese cabbage, mustard greens and potherb mustard. Their sauerkraut is boiled with green vegetables or radish stalks and leaves, air-dried for 10 days or so to spare, it is full of green food. The chicken soup with sauerkraut is also cooked with local millet peppers, so it's a bit spicier and good for soaking up rice.　Chicken is indeed very tender, pickled cabbage is not sour at all, you can also eat a light vegetable flavor, if you have eaten the dried vegetable porridge or dried vegetable soup in Guangdong, probably can guess a flavor.　The next day, we rushed back to Xichang to attend the Liangshan Torch Festival. The beauty pageant in Xichang is very grand, and the "best" beauties from all townships are concentrated here, and the beauties are as attractive as the food.　Look after the beauty, we decided to Qionghai side of the Nongjiale breath, but also taste the highest attendance rate there drunken shrimp chili. The principle of making drunken shrimp here is similar to that of drunken shrimp and drunken crab in Chaoshan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but the ingredients are special, except for a small amount of wine, sugar and vinegar, the main ingredient is red chili pepper crushed and chili pepper seeds. Put the fresh shrimp on the bottom of the bowl, immediately covered with a thick layer of crushed chili peppers, and then add other seasonings, that is, cover the bowl with a plate, to be careful to prevent the raw shrimp out of the mouth, can be eaten after 20 minutes. I think this dish renamed "choke shrimp" is more appropriate, because the shrimp may not be drunk, certainly by the sea of chili peppers to choke down, a little "cruel" way of eating.　Xichang City District 410 food market, is only really in Xichang soaked people know the concentration of food, hidden in the Huangjia Lane. Most of the stalls here don't have a name, but if you ask around, everyone knows about them. During the day, you can't miss the corn poop and corned beef with wine, and at night, you can't miss the barbecue in the "stir-fry style. [1]

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The Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Lahu, Hani and Pumi ethnic groups. It is held on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month for the Yi, Naxi and Jinuo, on the 25th day of the 6th lunar month for the Bai, and on the 20th day of the 6th lunar month for the Lahu, and the festival lasts for two or three days.

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1, a long time ago, there is a Hercules in the sky called Sjak Abbey, there is a Hercules on the ground called the A body Raba, two people have to pull the strength of the mountain. One day, Sjak Abi wanted to wrestle with Atiraba, but Atiraba had to go out on urgent business, and when he left, he asked his mother to serve Sjak Abi with a plate of discus. Thinking that Ati Rabah must be very strong since he had the discus for his meal, Sjak Abi rushed off to the Torch Festival

. When Atiraba returned, he heard from his mother that Sjar Abi had just left, so he chased after him to have a wrestling match with him, and Sjar Abi was killed by the fall. Knowing this, the sky god Entiguz was furious and sent a large number of locusts and borers to eat the crops on the ground. A body Raba will be in the old calendar June 24 that night, cut to many pine branches, wild artemisia branches tied into torches, led the people lit up, to the field to burn insects. Since then, the Yi people have designated this day as the Torch Festival. --Liangshan Yi "The Legend of Torch Festival" 2, Sa Mei King and foreigners to fight, head was cut off, to the stars appear and grow a head to fight with them. Finally, due to the betrayal of the spies, cut off the head with a knife grass swept across the neck, the head of the King of Samui will never grow out, death does not come back to life. It is said that the red spot on the knife grass is the blood of the king of Samui red. Later, the people of Samui would light torches on the 24th and 25th of June every year to commemorate King Samui and search for his spirit.　3. The Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan Province, when families drink wine, eat lumps of meat, and kill animals to sacrifice their ancestors. People wear new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, goat and chicken fighting, horse racing and wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string and the moon zither. In the evening, they put torches in front of and behind the houses; on the third night, they traveled around the mountains and fields with torches in groups, with the light of the fire, and then they gathered in one place to light bonfires, played with torches, drank wine, sang and danced, and continued to play until dawn. --The Torch Festival of the Saimei People" by the Saimei branch of the Yi ethnic group 4. The good god, Afan, stole open the door of the sky and scattered grains to make the happy life on earth surpass that in the sky. Seeing this, the god of heaven was furious and sent Hercules to the earth to take out his anger. Apan hated Hercules' dominance and wrestled with him, dropping Hercules to the ground and crushing out a pit, which was later turned into the blue Long Lake (Lunan Freshwater Lake) by the heavenly rain. In order to commemorate this earthly hero, people carried out activities such as bullfighting, wrestling, slaughtering sheep and burning torches on the 24th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar to show their condolences. --Yi Sani Tribe's "Sani People's Torch Festival" 5. The slave owner Nalanglang put many poor brothers in prison, and the poor people, such as A Zhen, tied torches on the horns of their goats, rushed to Nalanglang's mansion and burned the slave owner to death, and at the same time burned the ropes on the hands of the poor people. To commemorate this victory, people carried torches in procession, which became a custom. -- "The Torch Festival of A Thin People" by A Thin Tribe of Yi 6. There was a beautiful and capable girl in Luodu Yi family, who fell in love with the Yi boy, A Long, a long time ago. But the men of twelve nearby tribes came to propose marriage, among them, there was a landlord who said fiercely and brutally that if they didn't agree, they would wash the cottage in blood and make the whole cottage suffer. The girl had no choice but to agree to a match on June 24th. Matchmaking period, the girl dressed in snow-white clothes, black coat, chest tie a piece of flower apron, burned a big pile of fire. The heads of the twelve divisions also came. The girl looked y at Ah Lung and then jumped into the fire. Ah-Long and a few young men tried to hold her back, but they only managed to tear off the corner of her coat. People rushed in from all directions, but she had already sacrificed herself to death. In her honor, the twelve lads lifted up the big ox and pushed it towards each other, with the winner being the one who pushes it down. After that, they killed the bull and drank wine, sang and danced. Later on, the Yi family designated June 24 as the Torch Festival. The corner of the clothes torn off by Aaron became the belt of the Yi women, and the smoke from the burning girl was transformed into the morning mist of the cottage. It is said that when the magpies chirp in the early morning, the figure of the girl will appear faintly in the distance of the Yi mountains, so people call her the Magpie Girl. --The Magpie Girl by Yi Luowu Branch 7. Jealous of the happy life on earth, the son of the God of Heaven, Laopu, sent an old general of heaven to the earth and asked him to burn the earth into a sea of fire. When the general came to the earth, he saw a man carrying an older child on his back and holding a younger one by the hand. He was surprised and asked about it, but he realized that the child on his back was his nephew and the one he was holding by the hand was his son, and since his brother and his sister-in-law had died, the man thought that he should take good care of his nephew. God will be y moved by such human virtues, thinking that people's hearts are so kind, how can we bear to harm them, they will be the gods burned down the earth's news to the man, to tell him to tell the people in June 25th day before the door lit torches, so as to avoid disaster. So thousands of families are in this night lit torches, the sky god thought people have long been in the fire in the sea of perdition, they fell into a deep sleep, never woke up. Later, the Naxi people designated this day as the Torch Festival. --Naxi "Torch Festival Legend" 8, the mountain lived a good man and an evil man, the evil man specializes in eating people's eyes. June 24 this day, the good man with beeswax wrapped in goat horns, lit the beeswax and called the goat to find the evil man, the evil man saw the sparks, thinking that people take a musket to hit him, they rushed to hide in a cave, and blocked the cave entrance with a stone, and the result was drowned by the water coming out of the cave. From then on, people no longer worry about the evil person to eat their eyes, and they can engage in production in peace and quiet. Therefore, the Lahu people designated this day as the Torch Festival. --In the torch festival legends of Bai and Yi, there are also the famous legends of Anan (i.e., Man Aman), Mrs. Pak Chieh and Mrs. Charity, the storyline of which is largely the same as that of the legends of the female characters Man Aman and Fire Burning Song Ming Lou, and is the result of the cross-diffusion of the legends of the characters and the torch festival legends. It is the result of the cross-fertilization of the character legend and the torch festival legend.　10, Dali area, there is the legend of Princess Anan: "Han Yuanfeng, Ye Yu (now Dali) woman Anan, the wife of the chief Man Aana. Na for the Han general Guo Shizhong killed, want to wife South, South said, can be from three things when you are allowed to: a do curtain to sacrifice the former husband; a burned the former husband's clothes, easy to the new clothes; a so that the people of the country know that I married with the gift. Zhong as he said. Tomorrow, gather the people of the country, Zhang Songcurtain sacrifice to his husband, under the fire. Nan Zang knife out, once blazing, burning husband's clothes, that is to lead the knife to break his neck, servants in the fire. When the June 25th also, the people of the country mourning, every year to be the day of the torch hanging, called the star back to the festival.　11, the beginning of the Tang dynasty in yunnan territory there are six tribes, known as "six edicts". The southernmost tribe Mengshezhao also known as Nanzhao. Nanzhao increasingly powerful, one day, the king of Nanzhao PiLuGe invited the other five Zhao leaders to meet. Mrs. Charity, the wife of the chief of Dengqinzhao, thought that Pilogak had bad intention and tried to persuade her husband not to go there. But her husband did not listen, when she was leaving, Mrs. Charity tearfully put an iron ring on her husband's arm, in order to protect his body.　After that, PiLuGe really burned the chiefs gathered SongMingLou, five edict chiefs have not been spared. In the face of the ashes of Songming Building, Mrs. Charity cried out in pain. She threw herself in the ashes and pulled out the iron ring worn by her husband, and then she recognized his body and transported him home. Later, Pi Luoguo heard about this intelligent and virtuous Lady Charity and wanted to marry her. But how could Mrs. Charity marry again, after burying her husband, she closed the city to kill herself and follow her husband, leaving behind this touching story which is very touching.　Since then, the white people of yunnan will have a torch festival, to commemorate the "burning song ming lu" historical story and the brave and intelligent lady charity. --The King of Nanzhao burned Songminglou, and Mrs. Charity was martyred for her loyalty. 12. Guo Shizhong, a lieutenant general of the Han Dynasty, killed the chief of Dali's Man'ana and found the chief's wife, Mrs. Anan, very pretty, so he wanted to take her as his wife. Mrs. Anan pretended to agree, but put forward three conditions for sacrificing her late husband. However, during the sacrifice of her husband, Anan set fire to the hearth and jumped into the blazing fire to burn herself to death. Anan's loyalty and bravery won the admiration of the people. From then on every year in the day of Anan's death, the white compatriots will light torches, string township tour village, in order to commemorate. ------- General Guo killed his husband wants to dominate his wife, the chaste lady fire self-immolation 13, according to legend, in ancient times, there is a named ten vigorously the devil, on earth to destroy people's happy life. When people found out, they went up and questioned him. Ten vigorously and brutally asked people to wrestle with him, but also demonstrated by tipping over a head of strong cattle (since then, the torch festival is the first to fight cattle). His provocative behavior angered a Yi hero named Bao Cong. He stepped out of the crowd and wrestled with the ten strong for three days and nights. The people played the three strings and piccolos, clapped their hands and stomped their feet to support Bao Cong, and finally defeated Ten Power. The devil was angry and released locusts and other pests to spoil the hard-earned crops. So the people gathered again and lit a torch to burn the pests, and finally all the pests were burned to death, which happened to be the 24th day of the 6th month. Later, in order to commemorate this victory, people would kill cows and slaughter goats on this day and hold various activities of the Torch Festival, which reflects the spirit of the Yi people's struggle for a happy life in spite of violence. --Warriors wrestle with the devil, and the crowd lights torches to burn the sky bugs 14. A long time ago, the sky and the earth were connected. One year, the god of the sky, Sidi Gujia, sent Sidi Abi to the earth to collect taxes. Because of the disaster on earth and crop failure, people can not afford to pay the rent, the earth a can eat copper and iron Hercules Othi Raba will be the tax collector Sijak Abi killed. The God of Heaven was furious and first sent a flood to drown the human beings on earth, but the flood was overcome by the people. God also released a variety of pests to the earth to eat the people's crops, Russia and the body of Raba and the group gathered around the fire pond to discuss ways to cure the bugs, inadvertently found that a fall into the fire pond of the bugs were quickly burned to death. Thus, the Russian body Raba organized the group to raise the torch burning insects, and ultimately defeated the pests, captured a good harvest. Over time, it became a custom and formed the torch festival of the Yi people. --Killing the tax envoys angered the gods, burning torches and fighting pests 15, the Yi people of Mile County believe that the torch festival originated from a slave riot, these slaves bundled torches on the horns of the goats, attacked the home of the slave master, burned the slave master to death, and gained their freedom.

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1, the torch festival customs and legends of the formation of the same origin of the Yi language branch of the peoples of the original worship, especially the belief in fire has a more direct link, in the Southwest of the Yi branch of the peoples of the torch festival activities are still maintained to smoke the field in addition to the evil spirit of the fire, to expel the epidemic to go to the disaster, to destroy insects to protect seedlings, urge seedlings out of the ears, pray for a good year, to attract the light to meet the blessing of the folk function, between the folklore, the folklore, the folklore, and the folklore, and the folklore, and the folklore of the festival. The folklore function, the folklore psychology and the concept of faith is to tend to good luck and avoid bad luck. The torch festival legend of Liangshan Yi reflects the primitive worship of fire as a supernatural force with mysterious elements, and still coalesces the original folk genes of torch festival customs and legends, which belongs to the early form of torch festival customs, and its cultural kernel is the worship of fire, which is the cultural tradition of revering fire and honoring the sun with the Yi torch festival of the diziqiang system

Language branch of the ethnic groups. 2. There are a lot of different texts in the Torch Festival legend, which have different origins but are similar to each other, and the structure of the text is structured according to the narrative program of the struggle between man and god → man's victory over the god → god's retaliation → man's victory over the god once again → victory and harvest celebrations. These different texts all have a strong humanistic spirit and all end with the announcement of man's victory and god's defeat, which is different from the god-dominated narrative in myths. With the development of society, historical changes, the transfer of the core problem of human existence (from nature to society) and the intensification of the contradictions and conflicts of the class society, the legends of the Torch Festival are closely intertwined with the vast and complex social life of the various ethnic groups, and then become a way of verbal narration to express the conflicts of the ethnic groups and the conflicts of the classes. This kind of legend is a secondary torch festival customary legend, the theme is to glorify ancestors and heroes.　2. The penetration of traditional moral concepts into the torch festival customary legends is reflected in the intersection of female character legends and torch festival legends. Whether it is the early magpie girl, or later Anan, Mrs. Charity, most of them have a kind of **** the same "cast fire to burn themselves" fate of the end, this kind of legend on the one hand, reflecting the dark reality of the national oppression and class oppression and political intrigue within the ruling class, on the other hand, it is a "a woman is not more than two husbands," the rigidity of a woman. On the other hand, it is a legend of a strong woman who "does not change her husband", which is meant to express the virtue of temperance. From the magpie girl, Anan to Mrs. Charity, a martyrdom, martyrdom, martyrdom, martyrdom of the loyal image of the country, people will be the fate of these kind and courageous female characters and the torch festival legend tightly linked together to express a particular historical period of people "into the virtuous and strong and denigrate the obscene and evil" feelings and aspirations. This kind of legend should belong to the later.