Which ethnic group is the Sanduo Festival

Sanduo Festival is a traditional festival of the Naxi people.

The Sanduo Festival, also known as the "Sanduo Festival", or "Sanduo Song" in the Naxi language, originated from the Beiyue Temple Fair in Yulong Village, Baisha, Yunnan Province, China. As a traditional festival of the Naxi people, it is a grand festival of Naxi tradition, held annually on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar.

The "Sanduo" is regarded as an important symbol of the traditional culture of the Naxi people, and represents the Naxi people's love of peace, advocacy of harmony, and the national spirit of self-improvement. The festival has been held for more than a thousand years, and it has become a large-scale national cultural event with unique style, solemnity and great influence involving the Naxi people and other nationalities*** in northwestern Yunnan, as well as a landmark festival of the Naxi people.

Three Duo Festival origin legend:

According to legend, in ancient times there was a hunter, in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain found a piece of exotic snow stone, so back home, walked to the present temple site, the snow stone is unusually heavy, rested to rest. And then want to back up to catch the road, the snow stone heavy can not be moved, people think this is a miracle, on the ground to build a temple offerings.

Naxi people believe that the three is the largest and most authoritative people, he is a sheep, so every year on the eighth of February and August sheep day, to use the whole sheep grand ceremony. During the temple fair, is the camellia early blooming season, then, a sea of people, fireworks, flowers in all directions, people scattered picnic, believers burn incense kowtow. This temple will be the grand and atmosphere, the crown of Lijiang all temples and festivals first.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Naxi Sando Festival