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What festivals do Bai people have?

I. March Street

March Street is also called "Guanyin City" and "Guanyin Street"; "Sacrificing Guanyin Street" is a grand traditional festival of the Bai people, and it is also a grand gathering for the exchange of traditional materials and cultural activities of the Bai people. It is popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places. March Street is held at the foot of Diancang Mountain in western Dali from March 15 to 2 1 Sunday every year. At first, it was full of religious activities, and later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting.

Second, the Torch Festival

Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of 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.

Third, the Bai people's encirclement of the Three Souls.

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 Sanling tour of Bai people originated in Nanzhao period of Tang 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.

Four. 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.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) 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.

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Dietary characteristics of Bai nationality;

Bai people's daily diet is rich in varieties, and they often change their patterns to change their tastes. Such as: Baba, bait block, glutinous rice balls, etc. Because there are fresh vegetables all year round, there are fresh vegetables and all kinds of pickles for every meal. Most Bai women are good at pickles, and there are many kinds of pickles. In addition to pickling fresh vegetables, they also make bean paste, lobster sauce, noodle sauce or pickled pickles.

The meat of Bai nationality is mainly pork. In addition to cooking with fresh pork, they also like to pickle Nian pig and process it into exquisite flavor foods such as ham, sausage, pig liver, liver blowing (fresh liver is filled with seasoning and dried) and rice sausage (cooked with glutinous rice). In winter, Bai people like big pot of beef soup. Add mustard, radish, onion and other condiments to eat together.

Most Bai people like drinking, and brewing is the main sideline of Bai families. Because of the different raw materials and methods used, there are many kinds of home-brewed wines. When making wine, more than 40 kinds of medicinal materials are often used to make koji and make various kinds of liquor, among which kiln wine and dry wine are traditional wines. There is also a glutinous rice liqueur, which is specially brewed for women and pregnant women. It is said that it has nourishing and prolactin effects.

Drinking tea is another hobby of Bai people. Bai people pay great attention to drinking tea twice every morning and noon. Morning tea is called "morning tea" or "hangover tea". Bake it as soon as you get up, and adults drink it. There is "rest tea" or "thirst-quenching tea" in afternoon tea, and rice flowers are put in it like a milk fan, including children.

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