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Traditional festivals of Han nationality in Yuxi. It started in the Qing Dynasty and has been passed down to this day. It was originally a festival to welcome God during the Spring Festival. Every year, from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of February, villages and streets divide up and worship the idols of the "landowners" in turn according to the agreed schedule (some of them greet the "city god" and "ancestors"). There are four "landlords" in Yuxi City, and which village and street the "landlords" go to is the festival there. The village lantern festival will team up to meet the gods and perform folk songs and dances such as lanterns, dragon lanterns and lion dances for three days. Besides killing animals and offering sacrifices, there are lanterns and stage performances. Some invited famous actors from other villages to perform together, and some invited temporary lantern classes to perform. At that time, every household would kill chickens to buy meat, prepare wine and rice noodles, and take their daughters, sons-in-law and other relatives and friends home for the New Year. On February 16, the "local master" returned to the temple and performed for five days in Juleshe (or a specially invited professional troupe), an amateur gentry class of Yunnan opera. It was changed to three days in the late Republic of China. Because we must eat rice noodles and sing lanterns during the festival, it is called "rice noodle festival" and also called "Lantern Festival". After the founding of New China, the old custom of greeting and offering sacrifices to "local landowners" has gradually disappeared, but during the festival, women's beer was kept. # 127; The custom of preparing rice noodles to entertain daughters, sons-in-law, relatives and friends is still passed down, and the festival cultural activities are more colorful. Especially since 1980s, municipal art galleries and township cultural stations have used the "Rice Noodle Festival" to carry out healthy and beneficial mass cultural activities, and often invited local and municipal professional performance groups to perform festivals in the countryside. In order to adapt to the new situation of rural economic construction, in recent years, some towns and villages have carried out some reforms on the time of "rice noodle festival" For example, Yanhe Town stipulates that the holiday period of each office is one day, starting from the first day of the second lunar month and ending on the ninth.