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What festivals do Bai people have?

1, Torch Festival

It is held in Baitunzhai on June 25th of the lunar calendar. Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, which has profound folk culture connotation and is called "Carnival of the East". Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festivals at different times, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. The main activities are bullfighting, goat shooting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests and so on. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and produced new forms.

2. White people surround the Three Tombs.

The traditional festivals in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province are one of the national intangible cultural heritages. It is a grand traditional festival for the Bai people in Dali, and it is also a life-rich Bai people's song and dance. The phenomenon of Bai people surrounding the Three Tombs originated in Nanzhao period in Tang Dynasty, and it was also recorded in Yang Qiong's Notes on Central Yunnan in Qing Dynasty. "Around the Three Souls" is a competition for the Bai people to entertain themselves in their leisure time, which is spread in the Bai villages around Cangshan Erhai Lake in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. This is a grand gathering of the local Bai people for a spring outing before the busy farming season.

3. This main part

This major festival is a religious festival of the Bai people in Dali. Jehovah is a unique religious belief of the Bai people in Dali. The concept of Dali Bai people is "to protect the Lord in the local environment", and it is the patron saint of a village or several villages. The Bai people in Dali believe in various names, including legendary gods, rulers of past dynasties, loyal ministers, dutiful sons, martyrs and a few natural gods. No matter men, women and children, they should go to worship the gods, hoping to bless them and the fierce wife, dutiful son and loyal minister of Ligustrum lucidum believed by the Bai people in the village.

4. Butterfly Club

Folk call it "Butterfly Club", which is a folk entertainment custom of Bai people. Popular in Dali, Yunnan. Every year around April 15th of the lunar calendar, Cangshan near butterfly spring has the most colorful butterfly, as big as a palm and as small as a coin. People nearby went to watch butterflies, hold picnics, talk about performing classical music, and pray for good weather, so that young people can fall in love and find the right person.

5. Haixi Song Festival

June 25th of the lunar calendar is an annual traditional Haixi Song Festival in Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which was held in Haixi, a natural mountain reservoir in Longmen Shebazi, niujie, Eryuan County.

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