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What are the traditional festivals of Bai nationality?

Traditional Bai festivals:

1. Torch Festival: Torch Festival is called Fuwangwu in white language. It is held on June 25th in the summer calendar every year. On the festival day, men, women and children get together to worship their ancestors. Through activities such as torch worship, lighting, lighting torches and jumping torches, I wish crops a bumper harvest and six animals a prosperous life.

2. Around the Three Souls: Every year in late April of the lunar calendar, the Bai people hold a "Around the Three Souls" for three or four days. During the festival, thousands of men, women and children dressed in national costumes, played musical instruments, sang and danced, and gathered in Shengyuan Temple, the capital of the gods, to hold sacrificial ceremonies and various cultural activities.

3.? Shanghai Opera Party: Generally, it starts from July 23rd of the lunar calendar and lasts for three to five days. Due to the different legends of origin, the time of playing the sea meeting has always been different, generally ranging from three to five days. Deng Chuan, Shangguan and Xizhou began to visit the sea on July 23rd, and Dali and Shimonoseki began to visit the sea on the eighth day of August, with similar contents.

4. Tree Flower Festival: On February 15th of the lunar calendar, Bai Peasant Association, also known as Bai Tree Flower Festival. Before and after the Tree Flower Festival, Bai villagers always plant several "bee trees" and several "irises" in front of their houses to express their feelings of "missing the past and their ancestors". Sanyingbazi has the reputation of "Huaguoba", which is closely related to the legend and custom of Tree Flower Festival to some extent.

5. Butterfly Club: April 15th of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that it is a folk festival of loyal love between Xia Lang and Wengu, young men and women of Bai nationality.