550 words of Yi people's composition on Tiaogong Festival

Palace adjustment lasting for three days is a traditional festival in Yi villages in Napo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Yi festival. Yi people's public holiday has been circulated for more than 1000 years. It was originally a festival to celebrate the triumph of soldiers and commemorate victory. The time to celebrate this festival varies from place to place, but most of them are concentrated in the early April of the lunar calendar.

Yi dance Festival has a set of organizations, whose members are mainly (hereditary, representing God), Nan (or "Sanan", representing land tribute), Pa, and some old people in the village. They are also the hosts of ethnic customs affairs in the village. The organization's office is a hotel in the village.

Generally, there is a three-day public sacrifice, which mainly includes offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, ancestors and mountain gods, telling the history of our nation, singing and dancing, eating and drinking, etc. One grand occasion is indispensable, that is, the group dance held on the dance floor.

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Gongtiao Festival, also known as Bow Jumping Festival, is the biggest festival of the Yi people in Napo, Guangxi and Funing, Yunnan. According to legend, it is to commemorate the warriors who returned home in triumph in ancient times. It's been around for thousands of years. The specific time of festivals in each village is similar, which is the first day of April in the lunar calendar. The contents include offering sacrifices to ancestors, gods and ancestors, preaching national history, singing and dancing, performing entertainment and so on. A village held a public dance festival, and several nearby villages came to participate. It was very lively. During the festival, all the men, women and children in the village put on festive costumes. Bimo (the wizard, meaning teacher in Yi language) preached the achievements of his ancestors, led everyone to worship, and then drank and sang. Everyone played bronze drums and lusheng, followed the traditional dance pace around the golden bamboo grove, from slow to fast, from low tide to high tide, and celebrated heartily. Young people performed dances such as Jumping off the Gate and Crossing the Broken Bridge, which symbolized hunting and killing the enemy, expressing their memory of their ancestors' heroic and martial spirit and their victory in resisting national oppression. Surrounded by holiday food, everyone can eat and dance, punctuate Bimo's chanting, praying and blessing ceremonies from time to time, and hold horse races and various performances during the period. After dark, young men and women flocked to every property, taking turns dancing, praying and even partying all night.

At that time, people will wear certain clothes, and girls will wear white jackets, blue cloth pants, leggings, collar earrings and ribbons around their waists. The young man was wearing four brand-new jackets with collars exposed, and nine young people gathered in the square with long poles (symbolizing the long hair used by their ancestors) and blue robes. "Master Gong" led many people to worship their ancestors with pig heads, boarded the bamboo platform, and officially announced the start of the Golden Bamboo Dance. "Ma Gongba"-the leader wears a white hat, robes and new shoes and socks, leading the masses to dance on the lusheng and gongs and drums. The dance lasted two days. At noon on the third day, all men, women and children climbed to the top of the mountain together, worshipped their ancestors again under the auspices of "Shigong", and then left one after another.

Related legends

According to legend, in ancient times, Jiugong, the leader of the Yi people, led troops to war and was defeated in a war. The enemy pursued the victory, but in desperation, Jiugong got into a golden bamboo forest to take refuge. The enemy threw arrows at the forest, but the golden bamboo formed a natural barrier and could not be killed. In a rage, people dispersed into bamboo and marched. Nine princes used their quick wits to ignite bamboo leaves and confuse the enemy. The enemy mistakenly thought that Jiugong was practicing witchcraft and retreated without fighting. Jiugong did not forget Jin Zhu's saving life, and in April of the lunar calendar, he led his people to plant a Jin Zhu in the center of the square as a souvenir. From generation to generation, it has formed a traditional festival of the Yi people in Napo area.