Cockfighting Festival is a traditional national festival of Bai people, which falls on the eighth day of the second lunar month.

1, the eighth day of the second lunar month is the cockfighting festival of the Bai people.

2. Bai cockfighting Festival, the eighth day of February in the summer calendar, is a traditional cockfighting festival of Bai people. On this day, people in villages put on holiday costumes, catch a rooster carefully fed in advance, comb it clean, tie a red silk thread around their necks, then hold the chicken over their heads with both hands and kowtow in the hall, praying for ancestors to bless their chickens to win.

3. The origin of Cockfighting Festival is related to the worship of chickens by Bai people. There is a proverb among the Bai people: "Build a business with chickens and build a house with pigs." . According to legend, the ancestors of the Bai nationality got rich by raising chickens. Future generations remember the hardworking spirit of their ancestors, constantly rushing for food like chickens, and also respect the heroic and tenacious spirit of chickens. Therefore, Bai people especially like to hold cockfighting activities, which have been passed down from generation to generation and evolved into cockfighting festivals year after year.