Which festivals belong to the traditional festivals of ethnic minorities?

1. Horse Milk Festival

The traditional festival of the Mongolian people. To praise the horse and drink horse milk wine as the main content, so the name. Mainly popular in Inner Mongolia Xilingol grasslands and Ordos pastoral areas. Usually held in the second half of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the date is not fixed, for one or two days.

For the celebration of the harvest, each other blessing, in addition to prepare enough horse milk wine, but also to the whole sheep seat hospitality guests, and held a horse race, please folk singers sing toast to the old Mongolian doctor dedication and Ulaanmu Riding cultural performances or movies and other activities. It is rumored that the Naadam event originated from this.

2, Water Festival

It is the New Year's festival of China's Dai, Achang, Brown, Wa, De'ang and other ethnic minorities and certain ethnic groups in the Central and Southern Peninsula. It is the grandest traditional festival of the year for the Dai people. Chinese Dai festival in the Dai calendar in June and July (about ten days after the Qingming Festival). Now fixed in the calendar April 13 to 15. During the festival, people splash water on each other for blessing and hold activities such as worshipping Buddha, racing dragon boats, releasing gaosheng, and lighting Kongming lanterns.

3, knife pole festival

Yunnan border round horse mountain around the Lisu people's annual traditional sports festival. Time is the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. The festival comes from a legend that commemorates Wang Ji, a military minister who was aware of the plight of the border people during the Ming Dynasty.

4, Torch Festival

It is the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups of traditional festivals, has a deep folk cultural connotations, known as the "Oriental carnival". Different ethnic groups hold the torch festival at different times, mostly on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the main activities are bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty pageants and so on.

5, March Festival

It is a grand festival or street festival of the Bai people. Because it is held around March 15 to 21 of the lunar calendar every year, it is called the March Festival.