How many days is Kuzaza Festival in Honghe Prefecture?

Kuzaza Festival in Honghe Prefecture lasts for three to five days.

"Kuzhazha", also known as "June Festival", is a traditional folk festival of Hani Nobi people in Yuanjiang Hani Dai Yi Autonomous County, Yuxi City. It begins on the first monkey praying day in May every year and lasts for three to five days. This is a grand festival to wish crops a bumper harvest and the health of people and animals. Different villages will choose different days to hold it.

"Bitterness" means "digging" in Norbi; "Zhazha" means "eat", while "Bitter Zhazha" means that you can dig food. In June, when the rice turns yellow and the corn is in full bloom, people will get a bumper harvest from the earth. Therefore, "bitter and firm" means that summer welcomes autumn, expecting a bumper harvest, which means that the mountain people are eager for a bumper harvest after hard work.

Therefore, after planting seedlings every year, Hani people of all sizes in Hani Shanzhai began to sharpen their knives, kill pigs and sheep, celebrate the festival of "bitter and firm", welcome the arrival of seedling season, and expect seedlings to grow sturdily, grow rice with big ears and long ears, so that every household can live a good life of adequate food and clothing.

During the festival, people will choose spacious open spaces in villages and village heads as entertainment places to celebrate the festival, set up autumn mills with a straight pine tree cut down the day before, and then set drums and swings to renovate the sacred houses to kill pigs and sheep. Every household cooks glutinous rice, brings the prepared pigs, cows, sheep and other meals to the altar near Moqiu, and invites the respected elders in the village to "open autumn".

An important festival in Honghe Prefecture.

Torch Festival of Yi nationality is popular in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other traditional festivals of Yi nationality, and it is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

The origin of Torch Festival is related to people's worship of fire, and its purpose is to drive away insects and protect crops with fire. During the Torch Festival, big torches made of dried pine nuts and pine nuts were erected in every village, and small torches were erected in front of every door, which were lit at night to make the villages brightly lit.

People walked around the fields and houses with small torches, and put torches and pine nuts in the corners of the fields. Young men and women played and danced around the big torch in the village all night. During the festival, there are horse racing, bullfighting, archery, wrestling, tug-of-war, swinging and other recreational activities, and commodity fairs are held.