What is the traditional festival of Yi people ~

Traditional festivals-New Year's festivals and various activities during festivals show the traditional folk customs of a nation. Yi people have many traditional national festivals, such as Torch Festival, Yi calendar year, Mizhi Festival and Flower Arrangement Festival. According to its traditional social functions, it can be divided into five categories: sacrificial festivals, festivals, commemorative festivals, social festivals and agricultural festivals. Sacrificial festivals mainly include Torch Festival, Mizhi Festival, Gonggong Festival (Gonggong Festival), Dragon Boat Festival and Torch Festival. Among them, Torch Festival is the most popular. The annual festivals mainly include the Yi calendar year of Liangshan Yi people and the "February 8" of the Yi people in Ailao Mountain area of Yunnan Province. Memorial festivals mainly include the Yi Flower Arrangement Festival in Chuxiong, Yunnan. Social festivals mainly include Yunnan Dayao Yi People's Clothing Festival and Chuxiong Mouding Yi People's March Meeting. Agricultural festivals, such as the sheep shearing festival and buckwheat festival in the middle of June in Liangshan and Liang Xiao Yi people's lunar calendar. Torch Festival-? ：

Torch Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people, which includes folk customs such as offering sacrifices to gods, fields, praying for a bumper harvest and offering sacrifices to evil spirits. The Yi people in Sichuan and Yunnan are generally held around June 24 of the lunar calendar, while the Yi people in Guizhou are mostly held around June 6 of the lunar calendar. During the festival, chickens are killed before dinner and a lighting ceremony is held after dinner. Families use pine, fine bamboo and wormwood poles as torches to light up every corner of the room from the roof, saying, "Burn out the source of evil, the whole family is safe, the grain is abundant and the six livestock are prosperous!" " The torch bypassed the house and joined the torch parade in the village. After the fire, we held a bonfire party and danced and sang all night. Torch Festival generally lasts for three days, and cultural activities such as dancing, horse racing, bullfighting and wrestling will be held during the festival. During the Torch Festival in Yongren, Yunnan Province, a giant torch with a height of about seven or eight meters was erected in front of each house and burned for three nights, in order to make the six animals prosperous and the people healthy. When the Yi people in Guizhou celebrate the Torch Festival, the most distinctive song is the competition song, which is a good opportunity for young men and women to communicate and choose their spouses. During the Torch Festival, the Yi people in Guangxi killed cattle to sacrifice to the mountain gods, and then held horse racing, bullfighting, wrestling, kicking shuttlecock and other recreational activities. Secret details:

Mizhi Festival is a festival for the Yi people to pray for a bumper harvest in the western hills of Maitreya, Yunnan, Guishan and Weishan in Shilin area. It is usually held in the winter of the lunar calendar. At that time, every family donated money to buy sheep for slaughter and went to the forest to worship the "Mizhi God" in order to bless the harvest of crops. After the sacrifice, the whole village went up the mountain to catch sparrows for a day, and young men and women often took this opportunity to fall in love. Palace Festival (Palace Dance Festival):

Gongtiao Festival is a traditional festival in Napo area of Longlin, Guangxi and Yi area in eastern Yunnan. It is held in April and May of the lunar calendar every year. Dragon Boat Festival:

Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival popular among Yi people in Shiping, Yuanyang, Weishan and other places in Yunnan. It is held two or three times a year. The first time is the Dragon Day in February of the lunar calendar, and the second time is held before the autumn harvest. Dragon Boat Festival is the first grand event every year. Yi calendar year:

The Yi calendar year is generally in the middle and late October of the lunar calendar after the autumn harvest. Different regions and villages choose different festival dates. Generally speaking, this festival lasts for three days. On the first day, in the early morning, we lit a fire at home to welcome our ancestors and worship them, which was called "Kushi". Then, the villages kill pigs, bake buckwheat cakes and send wine and meat to their parents' homes. The next day is called "Dobo". The children took cooked food to a nearby fruit tree for dinner. Middle-aged men go out to pay New Year greetings in droves. Middle-aged and elderly women stay at home to entertain guests. Young men and women get together to sing and dance, or engage in horse racing, swinging, wrestling and other recreational activities. On the third day, it was called "Afama Ji Bo", which means to send away the ancestors. In the early morning, people hold ancestor worship ceremonies to pray for ancestors to bless their children and grandchildren. Then, hold traditional entertainment activities, such as horse racing, wrestling, autumn grinding, pot jumping and so on. February 8:

February 8, the eighth day of the second lunar month, is a festival for the Yi people in Ailaoshan District of Yunnan Province to celebrate the harvest of the old year. On New Year's Day, the whole family get together and have a big dinner. Then, young people and old people take each other and visit relatives and friends. In the evening, young men and women held a grand "singing" activity on the open-air dam in the village. Young Yi men in mountainous areas will also swing vines and fly over deep streams during festivals, and girls will choose their lovers during the viewing period. Flower arranging festival:

The Flower Arrangement Festival is a popular traditional festival among the Yi people in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province, and is held every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month. On holidays, people collect red flowers such as azaleas and camellias, weave them into garlands and hang them on doors, and insert them in the corners of doors, houses, stables, cattle and farm tools to wish happiness and well-being, prosperity of six livestock and abundant crops. If flowers are inserted into the old man's head handkerchief, it means wishing the old man a long and healthy life; Put flowers on the couple's bun, clothes and lusheng to show their lifelong commitment. During the festival, young men and women are dressed in costumes, wearing flowers, singing and dancing, and girls and boys can arrange flowers for each other to express their love. Buckwheat Festival:

Qiaocai Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi people in Malipo, Funing and Napo in southeastern Yunnan. Every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, when the wheat is ripe, the local Yi people will get together, dance with the cheerful buckwheat, and sing while playing drums, praising buckwheat's deep affection for raising Yi children. Then a new buckwheat tasting ceremony was held. Buckwheat Festival usually lasts for three days, and now it has developed into one of the important contents of local cultural tourism.