The Origin of Chuxiong Torch Festival

The origin of the Chuxiong Torch Festival is that the Yi people of the Luowu branch in Shuangbai County, Chuxiong, say that the torch festival is in honor of the magpie girl.

The Torch Festival is a symbol of the Yi culture, the annual festival of the Yi people, the most important and grandest festival in the Yi tradition. It is the most important and grandest festival in the tradition of the Yi people. It has profound folk culture connotation and is famous at home and abroad, and is called the "Carnival of the East". Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture is one of the two Yi Autonomous Prefectures in China, and it is also the most popular and grandest area of China's torch festival. On May 20, 2006, the torch festival (Yi torch festival) was listed as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

On May 25, 1981, the People's Congress of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture passed a motion to determine the "Torch Festival" as the legal holiday of the Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and in 1986, the "Torch Festival" was formally included in the "Regulations on the Autonomy of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture" as the legal holiday of the Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture Autonomous Regulations. From 1983 onwards, officially led by the state and municipal governments to take turns to celebrate the Torch Festival in Chuxiong Lucheng every year, since then, led by the government, all the people involved in the Torch Festival has become the most grand, the most grand and the most rich in national characteristics of the traditional festivals of the Chuxiong Prefecture.

Chuxiong Torch Festival diet

Torch Festival is also a year to eat the festival, although Chuxiong Yi people around the organization of the Torch Festival and the content of the activities are different, but a family, a village people to make the best meal, the family **** feast, village **** feast or invite the four sides of family and friends, guests **** feast customs are universal.

The Chuxiong Yi people, due to their living environment, have formed a unique dietary practices, animal food, mainly pigs, goats, cows, chickens, insects; plant food, mainly wild mushrooms, plants, flowers, leaves, the main staple of rice, bulrush, wheat, taro, buckwheat and so on. The production methods include burning, frying, steaming, boiling, pickling, pounding, chopping and so on. Drinks are mainly small stove rice wine, fire pot wine, tea, pumpkin, plantain, buckwheat, etc. can be made into sweet wine.

There are many Chuxiong Yi recipes, such as sheep eight bowls, fried peach blossom, dry fried plantain heart, buckwheat poop, pickled tsubaki, corn rice, cold plantain, pork boiled volin, watercress, cold tree flowers, tofu intestines, fish heart grass, boiled wild yam, mushrooms, frogs, cold green radish, cold rowan pine branches, fried soapnut teeth, and so on.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chuxiong Torch Festival