Lunar calendar 2019 torch festival time torch festival is the festival of which nationality

The Torch Festival is held every year in Yunnan, and this year is no exception.The time of this year's Torch Festival has been confirmed, and the related vacation time has also been determined.If you want to learn about the culture of a place, you can try to learn about the local festivals and activities.

Lunar Calendar Time

Torch Festival 2019: Friday, July 26, 2019, the 24th day of the 6th month of the Year of the Heihai (Year of the Pig)

The Torch Festival, also known as the Star H? Festival, is an ancient traditional festival of ethnic minorities, which mostly falls on the 24th day of the 6th month of the Lunar Calendar, with different ethnic groups holding their torch festivals at slightly different times. The main activities in the Torch Festival include bullfighting, goatfighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty pageants and so on. In the new era, the torch festival has been given new folklore functions and produced new forms.

Which ethnic group's festival is the Torch Festival

The Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, which has deep folk cultural connotations and is called the "Oriental Carnival". Different ethnic groups hold the Torch Festival at different times, mostly on the 24th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar, and the main activities include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cock fighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests, etc. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been recognized as the most important festival in the world, and it is the most important festival in the world. In the new era, the torch festival has been endowed with new folklore functions and produced new forms.

Yi Torch Festival Celebrations

First Day of the Torch Festival: Fire Sacrifice

On this day, villages and hamlets slaughter cows and kill goats, share them collectively, and prepare wine and meat to offer to their ancestors. When night falls, people from neighboring villages will set up an altar at a location chosen by the elders, light the sacred fire by striking a stone in the traditional way, and have the Bimo (the Yi folk priest) recite scriptures to offer the fire. Then, every family, adults and children will take the torch made of artemisia grass from the hands of Bimo, and roam around the corners of the fields, following the legend of Ash ugly woman who drove away insects with fire.

The second day of the Torch Festival: Passing the Fire

On this day, every family gathers under the sacred fire of the altar to hold various traditional festival activities. The boys are expected to emulate the legendary Ati Raba, racing horses, wrestling, singing, bullfighting, goatfighting, and cockfighting. The girls follow the example of the legendary ugly woman, dressed in beautiful clothes, holding up butter umbrellas, dancing "Doloho", Dasi dance. On this day, the most important activity is the beauty contest of the Yi family. Elderly people have to follow the legend of the Ati Raba hard-working and brave, heroic and handsome and Ash ugly woman kind and intelligent, beautiful and generous standards from the boys and girls selected once a year in the beauty of men and women. When night falls, a pair of loving men and women, in the mountains, on the banks of the stream, under the yellow oil umbrella, strumming the moon lyre, playing the mouth string, telling each other how much they love each other. Therefore, some people call the Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival the "Valentine's Day of the East".

The Third Day of the Torch Festival: Sending Fire

This is the climax of the entire Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival. When night falls on this day, everyone races around with torches in their hands. Finally, people will gather the torches together to form a pile of huge bonfires, and the happy people will gather around the bonfires to sing and dance to their heart's content.

The three days and three nights of the Torch Festival are all unique, each night after dinner, the first by a family to start lighting torches, and then scrambled to light up the torches to the outside of the village, the people sang a torch song, singing with the spread of the torches resounded through the valley. Subsequently, according to the agreed direction and form a fire dragon to the public **** recreation ground, they will be concentrated into a pile of torches burned into a big fire, the whole village people around the fire, happy dancing games.

What are the activities of the Torch Festival

Fire Festival: On this day, villages and cottages will slaughter cows and kill sheep, collectively share, and prepare wine and meat offerings to ancestors. When night falls, people from neighboring villages will set up altars at locations chosen by the elders, light the sacred fire by striking stones in the traditional way, and have the Bimo (Yi folk priests) recite scriptures to offer the fire. Then, every family, adults and children will take the torches made of artemisia grass from the hands of Bi Mo, and roam around the corners of the fields, following the legend of Ash ugly woman who drove away insects with fire.

Transmission of Fire: On this day, families gather under the sacred fire at the altar to hold various traditional festival activities. The boys are expected to emulate the legendary Ati Raba, horse racing, wrestling, singing, bullfighting, goatfighting and cockfighting. The girls follow the example of the legendary ugly woman, dressed in beautiful clothes, holding up butter umbrellas, dancing "Doloho", Dasi dance. On this day, the most important activity is the beauty contest of the Yi family. Elderly people have to follow the legend of the Ati Raba hard-working and brave, heroic and handsome and Ash ugly woman kind and intelligent, beautiful and generous standards from the boys and girls selected once a year in the beauty of men and women. When night falls, a pair of loving men and women, in the mountains, on the banks of the stream, under the yellow oil umbrella, strumming the moon lyre, playing the mouth string, telling each other how much they love each other. The festival is also known as the "Valentine's Day of the East", which is the most popular festival in China.

Sending Fire: This is the climax of the Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival. When night falls on this day, everyone will hold a torch and run around. Finally, people will get the torches together to form a pile of huge bonfires, and the happy people will gather around the bonfires to sing and dance to their heart's content.

Bullfighting: In a large circle surrounded by people, two fierce and sturdy bullock horns against the horns, in the master's yell, the audience's shouts of desperation to fight. The final victor will be awarded a prize, and the owner of the bull will be praised for his skill as a farmer and for being able to raise such a good bull.

Wrestling: Wrestling is very popular among the Yi people, and there are two kinds of wrestling: tripping and non-tripping, and losing by falling; different villages elect the strongest and most capable wrestlers to compete, and the winners are awarded prizes, and their own villages also celebrate and encourage them with wine, goats, cows, and other delicacies.

Bonfire party: the night hangs low, people eat fragrant roast meat, and then pine branches to light a flame, holding a torch around a circle, praying for the elimination of pests and diseases, and praying for a good harvest for years to come. Enthusiastic crowd, the torch into a pile of bonfires, thousands of Yi children jumped up the "big three string" dance, all of them instantly immersed in the sea of fire, song, dance and flowers in the sea, singing and dancing until the sky spit the white, rooster singing dawn.

No matter when the torch festival is held, that day is the young boys and girls to ignite the love seedling, conveying the love of a good time, the girls wearing their own sewing clothes to show dexterity of handicrafts, young men in a variety of competitions and performances to win the hearts of the girls and smiles. At this moment, they have found a sweetheart, according to customary male can snatch the female on the token, as a token of love; they also take the all-night singing and dancing, expressing love for each other, sheer affection and fire, illuminating the night sky, but also illuminated the hearts of lovers.