What are the festivals in Yunnan

1, Tiger Festival

Time: the first eight days of the first month of the lunar calendar to the first fifteen days of the first month

Location: Shuangbai County

Introduction: Shuangbai County, the generation of the Yi people in the wheat rushing, the first day of the first month of the first eight days of the first month of the lunar calendar to the first fifteen days of the Tiger Festival, known as the Yi language, "Luo Ma! ". Is the day, the village adult men in the village after worship the Lord of the earth, by the sorcerer divination selected 8 people. These eight people wearing painted tiger spotted felt cloak, face, feet, hands painted with tiger stripes, make-up for the tiger, under the leadership of the black tiger head jumping all kinds of production, life, reproduction of the dance, to the whole village for the families to drive away the ghosts and ghosts, the Yi language known as "Luo Ma Nai Bo".

2, Jinden Temple Fair

Time: the first nine days of the first month of the lunar calendar

Place: Jinden Park

Introduction: the traditional Jinden Temple Fair held in the Jinden Park, from the first eight days of the first month of the first ten days of the Mingfeng Mountain is full of incense. Kunming's snacks such as roasted erbium blocks, cans and cans of rice noodles, scratching powder, rose rice cold shrimp and other snacks can be seen all over the mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and all kinds of specialties, and temple fairs around the world is almost the same, it's very lively. There will be a variety of famous local products and flavorful food at the market, and there will be a variety of flowers competing in the gardens, as well as various recreational activities in the park and large-scale cultural performances for the public.

3, the 15th of the month stick stick will

Time: the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

Location: Lijiang Dayan ancient city

Introduction: Naxi people also called this "Mirage", meaning that the husband and wife go to buy household utensils. On this day, the four sides of the eight townships and even Baoshan, Dali, Tibet merchants, are transported to the local specialties, to the meeting to trade, a variety of lively and unusual, is one of Lijiang's most distinctive festivals. Festivals have material trading, flower exhibition and sale, religious and folk activities.

4, Yi Family God Hunting Festival

Time: the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar to the third day of the second month

Location: nine townships

Introduction: Yi Family God Hunting Festival in the nine townships area, during the festival, the Yi people also organized a variety of folk activities such as jumping big three strings, Yueqin Dance, the King of Whip, and so on, and the singing of love songs, bullfighting, etc. The festival is held in the Jiuxiang area.

5, Ikebana Festival

Time: the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar

Location: Huashan, Dayao County

Introduction: On the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, Huashan, Dayao County, at an altitude of 3,600 meters, is full of mountain flowers. The local Yi people pick all kinds of flowers, braided into a flowery plaque, trellis, symbolizing good luck; in front of the house in the field and cattle and sheep on the flower, praying for a bumper harvest, six animals prosper; people also arrange each other flowers, and send the blessing of peace and well-being, love and long meaning far away. Forest flowers, men and women and young and old and the reed-sheng circle "singing", young couples are snuggling and singing, laughter. The origin of Ikebana Festival says a lot, the most widely circulated is the legend of Miyilu. Legend has it that Miyilu is a smart and beautiful Yi girl, in order to save the sisters from the abuse of bullies, false body promise, in the wedding with the bullies **** drink poisoned wine with tasseled flowers, sacrificing themselves to rid the people of harm. For this reason, every year when the tasseled flowers bloom, Huashan Yi will hold a grand flower festival, in honor of the beautiful and kind Miyilu.

6, February 8th

Time: the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar

Location: Baishui Terrace

Introduction: the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the most lively Naxi festival, especially in the township of three dams of white most lively. During the festival, tens of thousands of participants from near and far, as well as Tibetans, Yi, Hui and other ethnic minorities to participate in the activities mainly in the beautiful scenery of Baishui Terrace. People first kill chickens and offer sacrifices to the sky and to various gods, and then perform songs and dances, which are very lively.

7, Tasseled Flower Festival

Time: the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar

Location: Zixi Mountain in Chuxiong

Introduction: Tasseled Flower Festival is an important ethnic festival in the area of the Zixi Mountain in Chuxiong Prefecture, the local Yi people believe that Tasseled Flower is a symbol of good fortune, is not allowed to pick. Whenever the festival comes, the nearby Yi people gather in Zixi Mountain, Bench Mountain and other places, **** with the activities held to worship the flower god and ancestors.

8, March 3

Time: the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar

Place: Kunming

Introduction: The third of March is a festival for Kunming people to travel in the spring, enjoy the flowers, and trek in the green. During the festival, there are different mass activities in various parks and scenic areas. Xishan Forest Park and Jinden Park are especially lively.

9, Dongba will

Time: the fifth day of the third month of the lunar calendar

Location: Lijiang Yushuizhai

Introduction: Naxi settlements of Dongba gathered in the central part of the country - Lijiang Yushuizhai, where the annual Dongba will be held in a grand scene. On this day, the dongba came early to yushuizhai dongba shiluo temple. They light the incense burner, burn big incense, pay homage to the gods and ancestors, pay homage to the founder of Dongba, Dongba Shilo, and recite sutras and do puja.

10, Race Clothes Festival

Time: March 28 of the lunar calendar

Location: Yi area

Introduction: Dayao Yi Race Clothes Festival, also known as Clothing Festival, is held on the 28th day of March of the lunar calendar every year. During the festival, the local Yi girls, wearing several sets of flowery clothes, gather in the Santai District Song Jumping Ground, form a circle, sprinkle pine hairs in the young man's Yueqin, oboe accompanied by the hands and dance. After dancing for a while, they exit the dancing field, change to a new set of clothes, and come back to dance, so as to test the dexterity, richness and beauty of the girls. Sightseeing at the Yi Race Dressing Festival is a pleasure for the eyes. Race to dress on the field, colorful, full of bright green and flowery costumes, so you can not see. Yi women not only embroidered flowers on their hats, clothes and waistbands, but also embroidered all kinds of patterns on their satchels and shoe insoles. And each person's craftsmanship, composition, color are different from each other, each has its own unique style. Wind, rain, thunder and lightning, day and night stars, landscape, wood and stone, flowers, birds and animals, all kinds of characters can be embroidered. Composition on the complexity and simplicity of the real, the image of the exaggerated deformation, color contrast contrast, breathtaking.

11, Horse Racing Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

Location: Maifeng Mountain Racecourse

Introduction: Shangri-La Horse Racing Festival has a long history, is the most grand traditional folk festival of Shangri-La County people of all nationalities, and also the Tibetans in the spring of a grand rally, the festival has been developed into a national sports competitions and folklore festival. Now the festival has developed into a national sports competitions and folk art activities of the exchange event. The festival is usually held around the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar, and usually lasts for three days. During the festival, in addition to the traditional equestrian competitions and performances, there are also yak races, cattle pulling kongs and other programs that are rare to see on weekdays. The participants are not only local Shangri-La herders, but also horse teams from neighboring areas such as Mangkang, Xiangcheng, Inacheng, Litang, Batang, and Derong, etc. The festival is a great opportunity for local residents to bring their families to Shangri-La and enjoy the festival. During the festival, local residents travel with their families, pitching tents at the foot of the mountains and dams, picnicking and feasting. When the horse race starts, people gather on the spacious lawn to watch the wonderful performance of riders from all over the world. Horse racing has than the speed, than the pace, than the horse gun flag, running horse pick up and so on.

12, Shangri-La String Festival

Time: the seventh day of the fifth month to the ninth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

Location: Deqin County

Introduction: Shangri-La String Festival is a fixed festival in Deqin County, held once a year. During the festival, each township will send out a folk art performance team to Deqin County to participate in ethnic folk art and costume performances. The content of the string, hot bar and folk dance, toast, blessing song and a variety of folk songs, etc., in order to show the folk customs and promote the national culture. Deqin County is adjacent to Shangri-La and belongs to the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which is known as the hometown of strings. The Tibetan people living here are known as "dancing when they can walk and singing when they can talk". String has been passed down in Deqin more than 700 years of history, every Buddhist activities and festivals night, people will be around the campfire, accompanied by string melody singing and dancing. The stringed instrument is also known as Tibetan hu, or "bingyong" in Tibetan. The sound is bright and broad, with the rough style of the plateau. Strings is the Tibetan men must have a musical instrument, almost everyone has, in addition to accompaniment, ensemble, but also can be played solo. Both men and women can dance the string dance, which is both rigid and soft, and beautifully stretched.

13, Huashan Festival

Time: the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar

Location: Northeast Yunnan and Yunnan around

Introduction: Northeast Yunnan and Yunnan around the Miao, the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, "stamping on Huashan Festival". Every year on June 6, the Miao family will put on the festival dress, go to the high mountains to plant a flower tree, hold the song, dance Lusheng dance, bullfighting, lion dance, climb the flower pole and other activities. Among them, the striking thing is climbing the flower pole, who climbs high, will give a pig's head and good wine prize to who. The lion dance is also one of the most important activities of the festival, and if a lion dances well and climbs high, it is also rewarded with wine and a pig's head. Bullfighting is also carried out during the festival, when bullfighting enthusiasts from all over the world to bring tall and majestic bulls, a head of spirited, open up difficult to assess the winner. The winning bull is led by the owner to the flower pole, around the pole for a week, and then draped in red and colored.

14, Yi Torch Festival

Time: Lunar June 24 to June 26

Location: Shilin, Chuxiong, Dali

Introduction: June Torch Festival, is the Yi Bai Naxi Hani Lahu Pumi and other ethnic people **** with the traditional festivals, festivals for the Lunar June 24-26 days between, one to three days. The festival is held between the 24th and 26th day of the 6th lunar month, ranging from one to three days. Festival activities should be ethnic and not the same, but the point of the torch is not listed outside. On the 24th day of the 6th lunar month, the Big Dipper is pointing to the handle of the star, and the Yi language branch of the nation will have the Torch Festival, which is also called the Star Festival, and there is a saying that "the star is back in the sky and in addition to the eve", which is equivalent to the New Year of the Yi Calendar. The main activities of the Torch Festival in the night, people or lighting torches to the sky to pray for the New Year, in addition to obscenity for good luck, or burning bonfires, the rise of a grand song and dance entertainment activities. Torch Festival, but also to hold the traditional wrestling, bullfighting, horse racing and other activities.

15, Naxi Torch Festival

Time: Lunar June 25 to June 27

Location: Lijiang Danyan Ancient City

Introduction: Naxi Torch Festival to the Lijiang Danyan Ancient City is the most lively, the Naxi people in accordance with the ancient rules of the Torch Festival to be three days in a row, the point of the torch of the three nights. Every day in front of the door to point a pillar like a thick and big torch, the village youths are holding a thin and long small torch, along the ridge, mountain road, walking and singing until late at night. The brighter the torch burns, the more auspicious it is, and the happier the people are.

16, Lijiang July will

Time: the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Location: Lijiang

Introduction: Lijiang July will be another important festival of the Naxi people, will be about ten days. Because of the plunge horse, cattle and other large livestock trading, also known as "July plunge horse will". July will, a long history, known far and wide. During the festival, the Naxi people holding livestock, with agricultural and sideline specialties and a variety of Chinese herbs, to the ancient city of Danyan to catch the meeting. Stroll will, see the exhibition, see the show, from the street to the venue of three kilometers of road traffic never stop. Sunset and dusk, the lights, the four sides of the street, the new street and the square, the crowd.

17, Denpa Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Location: Tibetan areas

Introduction: Denpa Festival is one of the Niru Tibetan traditional festivals with strong characteristics, but also Tibetan agricultural areas of productive traditional festivals. At that time, men, women and children dressed in festive attire, held a collective sacrifice to the mountain gods, fairy cave and Yu Manganese scripture ceremony, eliminating disasters and driving away evil spirits, praying for a bumper crop, six animals thrive. In addition, also held horse racing, target shooting, bullfighting, dancing pot Zhuang dance and other recreational activities.

18, Yao Panwang Festival

Time: October 16 of the lunar calendar

Location: Yao region

Introduction: Panwang Festival is a grand festival of the Yao people on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar (Panwang's birthday). During the festival, people kill chickens and pigs, drink old wine, sing the Panwang song, dance the Panwang dance, singing and dancing all night long. This festival originates from an ancient legend, in ancient times, King Ping and King Gao were at war, King Ping encouraged people to assassinate King Gao with heavy gold and the promise of marrying three princesses as a reward. Pango went to war and killed the High King. The King of Appraisal married the third princess to Pan Guo and named her King Pan. Pan Wang and the three princesses gave birth to six men and six women, and passed down the twelve surnames of the Yao family, so Pan Wang was worshipped and sacrificed as an ancestor.

19, Guxi Festival

Time: the sixth or seventh or eighth day of the Lunar New Year on the lunar calendar

Location: Ninglang County, Lijiang

Introduction: The Pumi people are one of the hereditary ethnic groups living in the territory of Ninglang County in the Lijiang area, and the Guxi Festival is a grand traditional festival of the Pumi people. The word "吾" means "year" and "昔" means "new", and "吾昔" means "new year". My yesteryear festival is generally held on the sixth or seventh or eighth day of the lunar month. According to the norm, the festival is usually held for nine days. Nowadays, most of the Pumi areas still attach great importance to this festival, and some of the Pumi areas celebrate New Year's Eve on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year together with the Han Chinese.

20, Gedong Festival

Time: Tibetan calendar December 26 to December 29

Location: Shangri-La

Introduction: Gedong Festival that is jumping God Festival, meaning that nine kinds of food braised potluck meal, is a Tibetan Buddhist monasteries specifically organized a jumping God to drive away the ghosts of religious activities. Each monastery Gedong Festival time varies, Shangri-La Kardan Songtsenlin Temple in the Tibetan calendar December 26 to 29. 26th for the jumping god preview; in the monastery, 27, 28th for the chanting of the puja; 29th for the jumping god mask dance, masks of various kinds, there are horses, deer, monkeys, yaks, dogs, crows, pigs, tigers, etc., the dance has oboe, drums, trekking and other instrumental accompaniment, the atmosphere is very mysterious, the duration of 1 The dance is accompanied by instrumental music such as suona, drums and trekking.

21, the Bai people around the three spirit

Time: April 23 to April 25 in the summer calendar

Location: Dali, Eryuan, Binchuan, Weishan and other places

Introduction: around the three spirit is the Dali Bai people's grandest traditional song and dance festival, is the Bai people's carnival. At that time, Dali, Eryuan, Binchuan, Weishan and other places of the Bai people, men and women, young and old, dressed in costumes, from all directions in groups to the Cangshan Erhai, people singing and dancing, all night long parade and prayers. In Dali there is a "around three spirit" of the proverb: three days stroll north, four days stroll south, five days back home.

22, Hani Gatangpa Festival

Time: January every year

Location: Hani area

Introduction: Gatangpa Festival is the new year of the Hani people, the time in the first month of the year from the second to the fourth day. During the festival, men, regardless of age, make a gyro, and everyone goes to an open field to conduct a gyro-playing competition.

23, Jinuo Te Mouk Festival

Time: February every year

Location: Jinuo cottage

Introduction: Te Mouk Festival is the new year of the Jinuo people, February 6 to 8 every year, the Jinuo cottage will be held in a grand rally, the men hit the drums plagiarized cattle, the women sang and danced, then the Jinuo cottage to the guests will be warmly received. Guests will be warmly received. The legend of Te Mouk is interesting. Legend has it that in ancient times, the ground occurred a huge flood, a couple put their children into a large wooden drum, leaving them a knife and a copper bell, let them drift along the water, and to them every day, as long as the drum rang, that the water has receded, it can be used to cut through the drum skin out of the knife. Wooden drum drifted seven days and seven nights, drifted to the Kino Mountains, the floodwaters recede, brother and sister out of the drum, on the Kino mountains married, reproduction of offspring, became the ancestors of the Kino tribe, every year the Te Mauk Festival is in honor of them.

24, Dai Water Festival

Time: April every year

Location: Dai area

Introduction: Dai New Year, also known as the Water Festival, is the Dai people the grandest festival of the year, by the Gregorian calendar from April 13th to the 15th, lasts three days. At that time, people first go to the Buddhist temple to bathe in Buddha, and then splash water on each other to express their sincere blessings and wash away the troubles and hard work of the past year.

25, Kunming International Culture and Tourism Festival

Time: May every year

Location: Kunming

Introduction: Kunming International Culture and Tourism Festival is held during the first of May every year, usually lasts for five days, and the Kunming Carnival, which is held at the same time, lasts for three days. Carnival, brightly dressed ethnic singing and dancing, large parade floats, making the spring city of Kunming has become a veritable "sea of carnival". Tourism Festival during the main activities are the opening ceremony and float parade, float parade at night, the square ethnic song and dance show, the West Temple Tower Square water carnival, Yunnan special and ethnic snacks, such as a long street feast. These activities are held in the city's various plazas, parks, pedestrian streets and scenic spots, such as Dongfeng Square, Taoyuan Square, Nanping Pedestrian Plaza, World Horticultural Expo Park Gate Square, Cuibei Lake Square, Guandu Square, Bijie Square, Jinbi Square, Shilin, Nine Townships, Yunnan Nationalities Village, East Temple Street and so on.

26, the Dai Shutdown Festival, Open Door Festival

Time: July, October every year

Location: Dai area

Introduction: the middle of the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar (Dai September 15) is the Dai Shutdown Festival, that day, the men and women of the villages and villages are to the temple of the Buddha pray for blessings. In the three months from then to the Open Door Festival, young men and women can talk about love, but they cannot get married or go out. The Open Door Festival in mid-October of the Gregorian calendar (December 15 of the Dai calendar) symbolizes the end of the rainy season for three months, and from now on, young men and women can start to fall in love freely or hold weddings. A grand gathering is held on the day of the festival, which coincides with the completion of the rice harvest, so it is also a celebration of the harvest.

27, Luoping International Rape Flower Culture and Tourism Festival

Time: February-April every year

Place: Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province

Introduction: China-Yunnan-Luoping International Rape Flower Culture and Tourism Festival is held in Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, which lasts for two and a half months, from the opening of the festival to the closing of the festival in the middle of April every year. China Yunnan Luoping International Rapeseed Cultural Tourism Festival presents to domestic and foreign tourists in front of not only the beautiful natural scenery, rich ethnic customs, there are a colorful number of thematic tourism activities.