What are the ethnic festivals?

Festivals of various ethnic groups are:

1, Saiyi Festival

Dayao Yi's Saiyi Festival, also known as the Clothing Festival, is held on the 28th day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, and the legend says that it is in honor of a Yi girl named Mibolong. She sacrificed her life to get rid of bullies and turned into a beautiful bird after her death. During the festival, the local Yi girls with several sets of flowery clothes, gathered in the Santai District Song Jumping field, formed a circle, sprinkled with pine hair in the young man's Yueqin, oboe accompanied by the hands and dance.

2, Girl's Day

Girl's Day is the Red River Hani Yiche people's festivals, the time for the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, according to legend, is to commemorate a pair of martyrdom in the face of rape and death of the lovers. During the festival, people carry pork and yellow-dyed glutinous rice to the back of the mountain under two chestnut trees, which are said to be the embodiment of the dead lovers, to have a picnic, sing and dance to pay tribute to the beautiful girl and her faithful partner.

3, Snowdon Festival

Snowdon Festival is Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions of the Tibetan people's national festival, in 2006 was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In Tibetan, "snow" is the meaning of yogurt, "ton" is "eat" "feast" means, snow festival according to the Tibetan interpretation is to eat yogurt. Tibetan interpretation is to eat yogurt festival.

4, July will

Lijiang July will be, is an important festival of the Naxi people, held in mid-July in the summer calendar, will be held one to two weeks to mules and horses, cattle and other large livestock trading, so called "July mules and horses will be". The site has changed three times, but are in the outskirts of Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County.

5, Torch Festival

The Torch Festival is also known as the Star Festival of some ethnic groups, is the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups of the ancient traditional festivals, has a deep folk cultural connotations, is known as the "Oriental Carnival". Torch Festival is generally in the lunar calendar June 25, also in June 24, its main activities are bullfighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing performances.