What festivals are there in Yunnan?

Torch Festival, Tiger Puff Festival, Flower Arrangement Festival, etc.

Yunnan's characteristic festivals include Torch Festival, Tiger Puff Festival, Flower Arrangement Festival, Costume Competition Festival, Mouding March Festival, Water Splashing Festival, Closing Festival, Dragon Sending Festival, Daughter's Day, Song Festival, Around the Three Tombs, Pear Flower Festival, Seedling Planting Meeting and our main meeting.

Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu nationalities in Yunnan, 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 Flower Arrangement Festival is a traditional festival with characteristics of Yi people, especially the festival held by Dayao County Government of Yunnan Province. On the eighth day of the second lunar month, the local Yi people will put cherry blossoms and other flowers collected from the mountains on doors, farm tools and some sacred places. Water-splashing Festival, also known as Bathing Buddha Festival, has a history of hundreds of years. During the festival, Dai men, women and children put on festive costumes, and women each picked a load of clear water to welcome the Buddha's blessing. After that, people opened the clams and threw water at each other to express their blessings, hoping to wash away diseases and disasters with holy water in exchange for a better and happier life. Xishuangbanna Lahu Festival is the largest and most grand festival of Lahu nationality in Xishuangbanna. The festival period is the same as the Han Spring Festival, so people call it Lahu Spring Festival. During the festival, the Lahu people gathered together to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony to pray for a bumper harvest, national prosperity and people's peace. Dai folk festivals. Popular in parts of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The summer calendar is held on the fifth day of May. During the festival, unmarried young men and women dressed in costumes sang love songs in a circle under the trees at the edge of the village. Then, the young man threw jiaozi to the girl he liked. If the girls were interested, they were picked up, and both of them went to a secluded place nearby to talk about love and didn't leave until sunset.