What are the customs of Yunnan's Rice Thread Festival?

It is well known that rice noodle is a kind of food unique to Yunnan, and the rice noodle festival is also a traditional folk festival of the Han people in Hongta District of Yuxi. Yuxi people have an indissoluble love affair with rice noodles, and the streets and alleys are full of rice noodle stores, which play the rice noodle eating method to the fullest extent. The Yuxi people's love affair with rice noodles has existed since ancient times, and has given rise to one of the longest festivals in the world - the Rice Noodle Festival. The festival has been going on for 300 years, and was originally a temple festival to welcome the gods in the New Year. Every year, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the first three days of March, divided into villages, sub-streets, according to the agreed schedule, take turns to welcome the worship of the "Lord of the soil" (local people believe in a kind of God) like a tour (also welcome the "City God" and "Ancestor God"), in order to pray in the new year, family happiness, everything goes well, peace and security, have a good harvest. In Yuxi City***, there are four "earth masters", "earth masters" to which village, which street, is the festival of the place. Village lanterns will be organized to welcome God, perform lanterns and dragon lanterns, lion dance and other folk songs and dances to celebrate, lasting two to three days. In addition to killing sacrifices, but also on stage singing lanterns, theater. Some invite famous actors from other villages to perform jointly, and some invite temporary lantern classes to perform, when each family kills chickens and buys meat, prepares wine, prepares rice noodles, and picks up daughters and sons-in-law and other relatives and friends to go home for the festival

. Since every family eats rice noodles during the festival, it is called the "Rice Noodle Festival". After the founding of New China, the old custom of welcoming and worshipping the "landlord" has gradually disappeared, but the festival still requires the preparation of rice noodles, starting from the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, and ending on the third day of the third month of the Lunar Calendar. The cost of the rice noodles is not high, and it is widely believed that the festival will not bring down the family even if it is held every day. The rice noodles of the festival are very rich, there are eel rice noodles, small pots of rice noodles, cold rice noodles, rice noodles with sauce, chicken rice noodles, shredded chicken rice noodles, stewed meat rice noodles, rice noodles in casserole, etc., and of course there are also rolls of vermicelli (also a kind of food made of rice).

Nowadays, people call the Rice Noodle Festival "Reunion Festival", "Harvest Festival" or "Bean Bran Festival". On this festival, people would bring their married daughters and sons-in-law and invite their friends and relatives to gather together to watch performances and dragon lantern dances, but the rice noodles were never removed from the feast.

In recent years, the government departments concerned to circulate in the folk of the rice noodle festival organization, held the first rice noodle festival, the dragon dance, lion dance and other folk cultural activities and rice noodle festival combined with the merchandise exhibition and sale of tourism and tourism unity, from January 31 lasted to March 14

Day, lasted one and a half months. The festival is held in full accordance with the folk customs handed down from village to village, rotating through the rice noodle festival.

Old Han traditional festival. Popular in yunnan yuxi area. Held every year from the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar. On this day, people will be the land master from the temple, the villages take turns to welcome the festival, praying for the land master blessing the next year's harvest. The day when the Land Master comes to a village is the "Rice Thread Festival" of that village. The whole village makes offerings, and each household entertains friends and relatives with rice noodles. The festival reaches its climax on the eighth day of the second month, when the land lord is sent back to the temple. That's why it's also called the "Second