What, what, what constitutes the feast of the Torch Festival.

Singing, dancing and torch are the three basic elements of the Torch Festival feast.

But the Torch Festival will have many interesting activities, including bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests and so on.

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 "Oriental Carnival".

Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festivals at different times, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and produced new forms.

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The celebration of the Torch Festival of Yi people generally lasts for three days and nights, and is divided into three stages: welcoming fire, playing with fire and sending fire.

1, the first day of Torch Festival: offering fire.

On this day, all villages will slaughter cattle and sheep, share them collectively, and prepare wine and meat to worship their ancestors.

When night falls, people near the village will set up an altar at the location selected by the old man, and tap stones to light the flame in the traditional way. Bimo (a Yi folk priest) will recite the scriptures and offer sacrifices to Vulcan. Then, every household, adults and children will wander in the corner of the field with torches made of wormwood from Bimo, imitating Asher's legend of fire repellent.

2. The second day of Torch Festival: spread the fire.

On this day, every family gathers under the sacred fire of the altar and holds various traditional festivals.

Boys should imitate the legendary Atiba, horse racing, wrestling, singing, bullfighting, fighting sheep and cockfighting.

The girls imitate the legendary Ash, wearing beautiful clothes and holding butter umbrellas, dancing "Doloho" and body dancing. On this day, the most important activity is the beauty contest of Yi family.

Old people should choose handsome men and beautiful women from boys and girls once a year according to the legendary Atiba's standards of diligence, courage, heroic spirit, kindness, intelligence and beauty.

As night falls, a pair of sentient men and women, in the mountains, by the stream, under the butter umbrella, pluck Qin Yue, bounce the strings and tell each other about their lovesickness. Therefore, some people call Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival "Valentine's Day in the East".

3. Torch Festival Day 3: Send fire.

This is the climax of the entire Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival.

On this day, when night falls, everyone will run around with torches.

Finally, people gathered torches together to form a huge bonfire, and happy people gathered around the bonfire to sing and dance heartily.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia _ torch festival