Traditional festivals of all ethnic groups

Traditional festivals of various ethnic groups include Torch Festival and Wooden Drum Festival.

Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, which has profound folk culture connotation and is called "Carnival of the East". Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festivals at different times, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. The main activities are bullfighting, goat shooting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests and so on.

The Wa Wooden Drum Festival is equivalent to 65438+February in Gregorian calendar, which is the season when the Wa people used to hold the village wooden drum festival. In 2002, April 10 to 12 was designated as the Wa ancient grazing festival. Wooden drum is a unique drum of Wa nationality. Most of them are carved from the whole wood of mangroves, with a diameter of 0.8 meters and a length of about 2 meters. Wa people use it to worship, call the police, gather villagers or entertain.

The development of traditional festivals

Traditional festivals in China are diverse in form and rich in content. They are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, the legal system of a "civilized society ruled by law" and the basic framework of a regional civilized country. The origin and development of festivals is a "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society, and it is the product of the evolution of civilization from apes to humans.

The traditional festivals in China are loaded with myths, legends, astronomy, geography, numbers, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. Documentary records can be traced back at least to Zheng Xiao and Shangshu in Xia Dynasty. By the Warring States period, a year was divided into 24 solar terms, which was basically completed. Later traditional festivals are closely related to these solar terms.