What festivals do Yi people have?

The festivals of the Yi people mainly include Torch Festival, Yi Year, Master Meeting, Secret Festival, Song and Dance Festival and so on. Torch Festival is the most common and grand traditional festival in Yi area, usually on June 24th or 25th in the summer calendar. On the Torch Festival, the Yi people, men, women and children, should wear festive costumes, play with livestock, offer spiritual cards, dance, sing, race horses and wrestle. In the evening, we walked around the house and fields with torches, and then got together to light a bonfire and dance. Torch Festival Torch Festival-Carnival of the Yi people: "Torch Festival" is a grand festival of the Yi people, usually held on the evening of June 24th to 26th in the lunar calendar. As night fell, people waved torches, swarmed around the village, crossed Shan Ye, sprinkled rosin powder on each other's torches, lit torches, and Shan Ye was as white as day. According to the custom of the Yi people, sprinkling rosin powder on the torch will make the torch "bang" with a gorgeous spark in generate and raise a fragrance. This is a good wish: the younger generation shows respect to the older generation and wishes them a long life; The elders are caressing the younger generation and wish them good luck; Peer interaction is intimacy and friendship; Young men and women give up on each other, which is the beginning of love. Yi people in southern Shandong and Guishan, during the festival, people play the big three strings, jump "an Xi jumps over the moon", and hold wrestling, bullfighting and other activities. The Yi people in Chuxiong and Maitreya also held traditional "fire sacrifice" ceremonies. On the night of the festival, in the depths of the mountains where the Yi people live together, there are "sleepless fire trees and silver flowers" everywhere, and the scene is very spectacular. Dressing Festival Dressing Festival-Yi Girl Fashion Show: There are two places in Yizhou, Chuxiong where there are dressing festivals. One is the clothing festival in Zhiju village, Yongren county, which is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. One is the Saizhuang Festival in Santai Township, Dayao County, which is held on March 28th every year. Fashion Festival provides an opportunity for young men and women who live in scattered places and have little chance to get together and get to know each other. What girls can show themselves best is to see whose clothes are the most beautiful. Yi women's dresses rely entirely on handmade peach blossoms and embroidery, and it often takes one or two years to make a suit. Therefore, whoever has more clothes and good patterns will be regarded as hardworking, capable and ingenious. Different from the previous way of competition, people no longer wear all their clothes on their bodies, but keep changing clothes. Some girls have to change five or six sets of clothes a day. As a result, another scene appeared at the competition festival: beside the mountain barrel and under the green trees, the old people set up countless tents, cooked food and faithfully guarded the clothes for the girls. Fashion Festival has the nature of competition from the beginning, and it is the earliest fashion show. The difference is that Yi girls are not only designers and producers of clothes, but also "fashion models" in performances. Playing songs-the most popular folk dance in the world: Every harvest, wedding or festival, the Yi people living in Yunnan are as few as dozens and as many as hundreds, surrounded by piles of flaming bonfires, with the quiet and solemn green hills and deep and mysterious awnings around as the background, accompanied by the music beat played by Lusheng, piccolo, Qin Yue and leaves, men and women form a circle hand in hand and set foot to sing counterclockwise. 1986, American international folk art organization once listed this kind of folk self-entertainment song and dance as one of the most popular "top ten folk dances in the world". "Dage" is popular in all parts of Yunnan, not only in Yi nationality, but also in Bai nationality, Naxi nationality and other nationalities, but with different names, such as Dage, Left Foot Dance, Stepping Song and Dancing Lusheng. According to research, "Big Brother" is a transliteration of "Tage". As early as the Han and Tang Dynasties, "Tage" was a very active folk song and dance in the Central Plains and South China. However, the "Yunnan Feather Dance" cast on the bronze drum-shaped shell container unearthed in Shizhai Mountain, Jinning, Yunnan, and the 18 copper buckle unearthed in Lijiashan, Jiangchuan, as well as the solidified dance pattern on the Cangyuan rock painting in Yunnan, are all the same as the image of the Yi people's "big", which may be used as evidence of the ancient origin of the Yi people's "big". There is still a "Tagetu" painted in the Qing Dynasty on the mural of Longtan Temple in Weishan County, Yunnan Province, which is very similar to Daige in Weishan today. Celebration Festival Celebration Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people. Every October in the lunar calendar, the Yi people celebrate New Year's Day, offering sacrifices to each other, singing and dancing, and congratulating the festival. On the eighth day of the first month, adult men in the village gathered at the site of the earth temple behind the village to kill dogs and offer sacrifices to "rice" ("rice" means earth, "rice" means master, and rice means god), and then "Bimo" in the village offered sacrifices to the earth god and invited the tiger god. Eight villagers danced as tigers. "Tiger" has towering ears, thick tail and tiger stripes all over the body. They drew a Chinese character "Wang" on their foreheads and hung a big bronze bell around their necks, which was very dignified. After Bimo said a farewell ceremony and invited the Tiger God, King Tiger led all the tigers into the village. Throughout the Tiger Jumping Festival, the whole village was immersed in a happy atmosphere of welcoming tigers, sending tigers, watching tigers jump and exorcising evil spirits. The local people are convinced that only through the annual traditional jumping tiger, offering sacrifices to the tiger god and praying for the blessings of their ancestors can all the villagers have a bumper harvest every year, a prosperous population and a happier life.