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What are the traditional festivals of Bai nationality?

Traditional Bai festivals include March Festival, Torch Festival, Around the Three Souls Festival, Shi Baoshan Song Festival, Running Pig Festival and so on.

1, March Festival

March Festival is held at the foot of Diancang Mountain in western Dali from March 15 to February1day every year. According to traditional customs, trading during the day and singing and dancing in the campsite at night are very lively. In addition to material exchange, there are duets, dancing, archery, horse racing and ball games. Also held, there are white plays and lantern plays.

2. Torch Festival

The Bai Torch Festival is held in Baitunzhai every year on June 25th of the lunar calendar. On the festival day, men, women and children get together to worship their ancestors. Through activities such as torch worship, lighting, lighting torches and jumping torches, I wish crops a bumper harvest and six animals a prosperous life.

3, around the three spirits

Bai people's wandering around the Three Tombs is a traditional festival popular in Yunnan Province and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. "Three Souls Around Taiwan" is a kind of self-entertainment competition that spreads in the Bai villages around Cangshan Erhai Lake in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and the Bai people have a spring outing before busy farming.

4. Shi Baoshan Song Club

Shi Baoshan Song Club has a history of thousands of years. Every year from July 27th to the first day of August in the lunar calendar, a song concert is held in Shi Baoshan, Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province. At that time, Bai people from Jianchuan, Eryuan, Lijiang, Dali and Lanping will gather in one place, plucking the strings and searching for spouses with songs.

5. This main part

Jehovah is a unique religious belief of the Bai people in Dali. The concept of Dali Bai people is "to protect the Lord in the local environment", and it is the patron saint of a village or several villages. No matter men, women and children, they should go to worship the gods, hoping to bless them and the fierce wife, dutiful son and loyal minister of Ligustrum lucidum believed by the Bai people in the village.

Bai traditional dress

Bai nationality is a minority nationality in the southwest frontier of China, mainly distributed in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. Bai people advocate white, women's headdress represents Dali's "romantic love", and dance props are overlord whip; Men are wearing tie-dyed mandarin jackets and holding dance props and octagonal drums.

The headdress worn by Bai girls also has the meaning of "romantic love". Because on the headdress of Bai girls, the drooping ears represent the wind in Shimonoseki; Gorgeous floral decorations are flowers of Shangguan, the whiteness of the hat top is the snow of Cangshan, and the arc is the moon of Erhai Lake. So that's what they look like now.