Brief introduction of Lisu traditional festivals

1. The traditional festivals of Lisu people include Kuanji, Xinmi Festival, Knife and Handle Festival, Torch Festival and Harvest Festival. The harvest year is one of the most solemn traditional festivals of Lisu nationality, which is equivalent to the New Year of Han nationality. Before the festival, people will slaughter pigs and sheep and brew water wine. On the day of the festival, people will dress up and hold activities such as shooting crossbows, dancing and singing.

2. Lisu people belong to the South Asian type of Mongolian race, and their national language belongs to Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. Their writing is divided into old and new Lisu languages, and they generally believe in primitive religions.

3. Lisu nationality originated from the ancient frontier ethnic groups and has a certain relationship with Yi nationality. They are mainly distributed in Nujiang River and Enmeikaijiang River (a tributary of Irrawaddy River), that is, the border areas of Yunnan, China, Tibet and Kachin, Myanmar, and the rest are scattered in other parts of Yunnan, China, northeastern India and the border areas of Thailand and Myanmar.