When is the Torch Festival?

Torch Festival is held on June 24th or 25th of the lunar calendar.

Torch Festival of Yi nationality is a traditional festival in Yi nationality area, which is popular in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other Yi nationality areas. Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu also celebrate this festival. Torch Festival is usually held on June 24th or 25th of the lunar calendar for three days. On June 24th of the lunar calendar, the Big Dipper in bucket handle pointed out that all ethnic groups in Yi language branch should celebrate Torch Festival.

Although there are different opinions about the origin of Torch Festival, its origin is most directly related to the worship of fire. Its purpose is to use fire to repel insects and protect crops. Torch Festival is called Du Ze in Liangshan Yi language, which means offering sacrifices to fire. In the two sacrificial songs "Sacrificing Vulcan" and "Sacrificing Pots and Sacrificing Stones", there are descriptions of the miracle of Vulcan Ayidiegu. The original form of Torch Festival, in short, is the ancient fire worship. Fire is a symbol of the Yi people's pursuit of light.

Folk Culture of Torch Festival

Due to the long-term diachronic development (in time dimension) and regional evolution (in space dimension), the folk cultural connotation presented by Torch Festival can not be a single form in the early stage, but a compound form, which contains many activities in traditional society, including religion, belief, ethics, singing and dancing, skills, folk aesthetics and other rich connotations. The "Torch Festival Legend" widely circulated among the people provides the possibility of analysis and research.

The Yi area is called the hometown of fire. Yi people are good at singing and dancing, adhering to the tradition of music and dance and oral art handed down by their ancestors for thousands of years. Songs, legends and even epic performances formed in the custom of Torch Festival are also an important inheritance in the "oral and intangible cultural heritage of mankind".

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Torch Festival.