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What are the traditional festivals and customs in Yimen?

Torch Festival is an ancient and important traditional festival for Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu nationalities. With profound folk culture connotation, it enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad and is called "Oriental Carnival". 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. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and produced new forms.

This year's Torch Festival is August 8, 20 15. Let's get together, find your favorite place and feel the lively Torch Festival!

1, Minzu Village

"Torch Festival" carnival is waiting for you.

On August1-August 9, Yunnan Ethnic Village will hold 20 15 Torch Festival Carnival with the theme of "Fire Dance Ethnic Village Carnival Dianchi Night". At that time, people attending the carnival will enjoy authentic folk art programs from Maitreya, Shiping and other places and fire ceremonies of different ethnic groups. In addition, the large-scale song and dance poem "The Call of the Plateau" directed by the cutting-edge director Tang Yong will also be staged continuously.

Tourists celebrate Torch Festival.

On the basis of retaining the original activities such as "Ten Thousand People's Fire Sacrifice, Parade, Bullfighting and Torch Carnival", this year, two time periods of "Classic Torch Festival and Torch Carnival" were further enriched and created, and new projects such as "Long Peng Song and Dance, Fire Woman Talent Show, Torch Run, Mask Fire Dance and large-scale poem and painting" The Call of the Plateau "were launched, which fully restored the folk flavor and made tourists feel the festive feast of many ethnic minorities.

On the night of the Torch Festival on August 8, ethnic minority compatriots put on holiday costumes and held torches to greet every visitor, starting a grand "Torch Parade". Visitors can follow the grand and spectacular parade column and experience dances such as "Big Three-string Dance, Axiyue Dance and Left Foot Dance". In Unity Square, under the leadership of Bimo of Yi nationality, elders of Bai nationality and Dongba of Naxi nationality, all beings worship heaven and earth, take kindling, worship the harvest year and seek peace, which fully shows the mystery and solemnity of the fire sacrifice ceremony. The climax of the activity will be when the "Torch Festival in July" is sung. Around the square, you can hold high the burning torch in your hand, put on your favorite mask, sing and dance with friends and relatives, and vent your pent-up passion!

skill

1. Tickets: August1-August 9, the ticket price of the night show in the scenic spot is 60 yuan/person, and tickets are purchased at 6 pm (this ticket cannot be booked online). Tickets for 90 yuan/person during the day (you can book tickets online, and those who enter the park will not leave before 6 o'clock, but you can participate in evening activities at any time).

2. During the Torch Festival, Yunnan Ethnic Village coordinated more than 2,000 fixed parking lots around for tourists to park. At the same time, according to the actual situation of the day, the traffic police department will temporarily increase the parking spaces on both sides of the road. Among them, the places where tourists can park are: East Gate of Ethnic Village (Dianchi Road). There are seven fixed parking lots: North Gate (Hongta West Road turns to Minzu Village North Road), Hongta Sports Center (Hongta West Road), South Gate (Hubin Road or Guan Jing Road turns to Minzu Village South Road), Tea Culture Grand View Garden (Dianchi Road), Yunnan National Museum (Dianchi Road) and Dianchi College of Yunnan University (7 km turntable).

3. Carnival time in the park: the activity ends at 12: 30 at the latest on the evening of August 8, and the other eight nights end at 1 1: 30 at the latest. After the activity, the managers of ethnic villages will clean up the site.

At least 30,000 people attend the carnival in ethnic villages every year. The organizer hopes you'd better go by bus. The direct routes to ethnic villages are: No.24, No.73, No.44, No.94, 135, No.233, etc.

2. Shilin

Torch Festival staged a feast of Yi culture.

The series of activities of Shilin Torch Carnival started from August 1, and the opening ceremony was held on August 8, with the most concentrated activities from August 5 to 9. This year's Shilin Torch Carnival will take "Chinese Dream, Nostalgia" as the theme. At that time, traditional folk activities such as bullfighting, wrestling, bimo fire sacrifice, national song and dance performances and Yi star singing will be staged one after another, and visitors can experience the folk customs of Sani people in Shilin from multiple angles. At the same time, during the event, Shilin will hold the third Food Culture Festival, and all kinds of tourist foods and local products will appear at the Food Festival, so that tourists can have a delicious and fun Torch Festival.

skill

1, from 8: 00 a.m. on August 8th to 2: 00 a.m. on August 9th, Shilin County banned the passage of large trucks with a capacity of 1 ton or more;

2. From August 8th 17: 00 to August 9th at 2: 00, traffic control will be implemented on Ashima East Road, Ashima South Road, Shilin Middle Road and Shilin Avenue (from the conference center to the administrative center) in the urban area. During the activity, please ask the masses in the county to make reasonable arrangements for travel, try to choose public transport, reduce private car travel and avoid aggravating traffic congestion.

In addition, in order to meet the needs of the development of ecological civilization and the construction of a strong tourist county, the use of wooden torches is prohibited in the Torch Festival, and a new torch developed from eco-friendly materials is used in a unified way.

"two districts"

See the most authentic ancestor worship ceremony of Yi people.

August 7 -9 20 15 "Two Districts" in Kunming (Ruodian Industrial Park and Jiaozishan Tourism Development Zone) Torch Festival and Auspicious August Blessing Mountain-the fifth Jiaozishan Tourism Festival was held in two districts. The original ecological ancestor worship ceremony, fire worship ceremony, traditional bullfighting, wonderful cultural performances and other colorful and distinctive activities will present a cultural feast of Yi religion, philosophy, history, folk customs and ethics.

The organizer will invite Bimo from Liangshan Prefecture in Guizhou, Chuxiong in Sichuan, Honghe and Wenshan, Weishan, Eshan and Luquan in Dali to attend the ceremony. The original ecological sacrificial ceremony will show the audience the purest traditional Yi culture by reading sacrificial scriptures, making sour soup and offering ancestral water. Digging wood for fire, chanting and offering fire, dancing fire ... The solemn ceremony of burning fire added luster to the whole party.

3. Dongchuan

Torch Festival meets Mid-Autumn Festival

A series of cultural activities jointly sponsored by the Youth League Committee of Awang Town in Dongchuan District and Awang Chamber of Commerce will be held in Awang from August 7th to August 5th, 20 15. At that time, there will be festivals with their own characteristics, such as the Bull Running Festival, Shimen Muduo Yi Secret Branch Festival and Yantou Sun Valley Torch Festival.

Among them, Tuotuo Yishan Bull Running Festival is scheduled to be held on August 7, 20 15 (Friday, June 23, lunar calendar). The event will take the largest natural depression as the venue and the original Yi village in Bainijing as the fulcrum, and organize and carry out the red earth bull-running festival in the mountains with strong Yi characteristics.

Shimenmuduo (Totan) Yi People's Dense Branch Festival is scheduled to be held on August 8, 20 15 (Saturday, June 24, lunar calendar), and the activity will rely on the original Dense Branch Forest to carry out sacred tree sacrifice and blessing activities; Yi parents' street banquet; Yi instrumental music, song and dance performances; Yi girl "duo" preliminaries; Yi people singing competition; Yi people's cultural activities such as carnival and dance.

The Yantou Sun Valley Torch Festival is scheduled to be held on August 9th (Sunday). Organized by the Sun Valley Yi Culture Village, there will be activities such as offering sacrifices to Vulcan, performing the unique customs of Yi people, singing and dancing with a bonfire of 3,000 people, etc.

The secret tour of Rocky Canyon is scheduled for Wednesday, August 12. The activities will be based on Kistler Village, Taoquan Swimming Pool Base, Asparagus and Space Vegetable Science and Technology Demonstration Base, and organize carnival activities such as water race, river ditch stone search, popular science study and Kistler visit.

4. Luquan

You can also win a thousand yuan prize for taking pictures during the Torch Festival.

The Torch Festival in Luquan is grand every year, and this year is no exception. Listening to Yi music, tasting delicious soup pots and watching traditional bullfighting ..... will not lack colorful activities.

During the Torch Festival this year, "Happy Luquan People, Passionate Torch Festival" will be held at the same time. You can upload the Yi folk customs and happy moments captured by your mobile phone at any time, and have a chance to win a thousand yuan prize.

It is understood that contestants need to pay attention to the official WeChat of Feng Jia Guzhen, and reply to this official WeChat to upload their works. When uploading, please indicate the author's name, telephone number, ID number, shooting location and name of the work. The first prize 1, the second prize 3 and the third prize 6 of this activity. Among them, the first prize is 2888 yuan.

5. Yimen

Times "Personal Tailor" Torch Festival

On August 8 this year, Baiyi Village, Shijie Town, Yimen County will join hands with Urban Times to create a "privately customized" torch festival for readers.

Li, secretary of the Party branch of Jiagu Village Committee, said that all villagers in Baiyi Village can sing and dance, and a suona team of 10 people, a lantern dance team of 20 people and a flower inspiration team of 30 people were spontaneously formed in the village. "It is a farmer to roll up his trouser legs and an actor to wash mud." On the Torch Festival, the village not only prepared a unique traditional feast of Yi people to entertain readers, but also organized villagers to light a bonfire on the Little Square. In the evening, villagers will dance left-footed with readers to celebrate Torch Festival. At that time, readers will walk into Yi families, chat with them, eat fruits and drink good wine.

6. Dali

Feel the tradition in the birthplace of Nanzhao ancient country

Every household in Weishan, Dali has to light their own torches every year to welcome this festival. Tens of thousands of people from villages and villages in Weishan County, the birthplace of Nanzhao ancient country, will gather in the ancient city to celebrate the festival with the residents of the ancient city and Chinese and foreign tourists, such as Yi people's singing performance, Dong Jing ancient music performance, flame sacrifice ceremony and torch festival fireworks display. By then, the 2-kilometer-long Nanzhao Ancient Street will be full of scenes such as making torches, planting colorful flags, winding green vines, sending blessings and erecting torches.

We went to Weishan for the Torch Festival. Besides having fun, there were many delicious foods, such as mung bean cake, shredded pork bait, rice noodles, bean jelly, rice noodles, grilled fish bait, chilled shrimp with ice powder, hot oil powder, beef rolls, etc., all of which could satisfy everyone's taste buds.

7. Chuxiong

17 Activities Play Torch Festival

Chuxiong 20 15 Yi Torch Festival will be held in Chuxiong on August 7-9. The activities are divided into three sections: characteristic theme activities, mass carnival activities and business and economic activities. * * * There is a 17 main activity, which is interesting and participatory.

In the main activities, the Torch Festival reception organically combines Yi culture with modern elements, fully demonstrating the charm of Yi culture; The lighting ceremony focused on the traditional customs and fire culture charm of the Yi people. High-altitude fireworks decorate the festive atmosphere and light up the city carnival; Yi Opera Exhibition brings together exquisite Yi operas and small drama programs, showing the original ecological dance of Yi people. ...

In addition, during the Torch Festival, a carnival of left-footed dancing for 10,000 people and a special food exhibition of "mutton soup pot" of Yi people will be organized, so that visitors can enjoy the carnival, taste Yi food and feel the unique food culture and customs of Yi people.

8. Maitreya

Play Ashi Moon Dance Festival

The most distinctive Torch Festival in Honghe Prefecture is Maitreya Festival, but it will be renamed Ashiyueyue Festival after Maitreya Torch Festival, starting from August 7 and ending on August 9.

Axi is a branch of Yi people, and Axi people can sing and dance well. "A Xi jumps over the moon" is one of their favorite and most popular folk excellent collective dances. "An Xi Leaps over the Moon" has a lively rhythm and unrestrained dances, including old-age dances and youth dances. The old man plays a small three-string dance with gentle and steady steps. At 2: 30pm on August 7th, a 10,000-person jump on the moon was held in the gymnasium and Hu Quan Ecological Park. In addition, the fire sacrifice ceremony of the ancient Yi people, in which many men and women were naked and painted in various colors, was primitive and simple, and worth experiencing.

During the event, the traditional food festival of "Maitreya Taste" will be held in Honghe Water Town, where traditional Maitreya snacks can be tasted.

9. Yuxi

Ten thousand people dance with flowers and drums.

Eshan is the first Yi Autonomous County in China, and the hometown of flower and drum dance of Yi people in China.

The theme of this year's Emei Mountain is "Passion Meet Torch Festival, Carnival Night". In addition to the sacred ceremony of drilling wood for fire, torch relay and lighting, mass bonfires, dancing flowers with thousands of people, "Yi Mountain Rhyme" song and dance evening, Yi original ecological song and dance performance, Yi traditional cockfighting competition and other activities were staged one after another. During the Torch Festival, all the villages in the county lit torches. From the county seat to the township, the whole Eshan County is dancing with a flaming torch and immersed in the ocean of joy.

In Emei Mountain, in addition to the Torch Festival, 10,000 mu of high-fragrance ecological tea garden lingers, Yi people's ancient bamboo sea manor is full of bamboos, street hot springs are well known, and Yuxi manor Eshan Fengwo manor is fresh and natural. Bamboo banquet, tea banquet and pigeon banquet are very famous in Yulin, with beautiful scenery, various customs and delicacies, which will definitely make you have a lingering leisure and holiday experience.