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What are the traditional festivals of the Yi people 8 traditional festivals of the Yi people

1, Torch Festival, Torch Festival - Carnival of the Yi people: Torch Festival is generally held in the evening of June 24 to 26 of the lunar calendar, is a grand festival of the Yi people. At that time to kill cattle, kill sheep, sacrifices to ancestors, some areas also sacrificed to the Lord of the earth, feast with each other, eat lumps of meat, *** wishing a bumper harvest. Torch Festival is generally celebrated for 3 days, the first day of the family get-together, after 2 days of wrestling, horse racing, bullfighting, boat racing, tug of war and other colorful activities, and then held a grand bonfire party, all-night revelry.

2, the Yi year, the Yi year, the Yi language known as "Kus", "Ku" that is, the year, "S" that is, the new, meaning the New Year, is the size of the traditional rituals and celebration of the Yi people in the Liangshan Mountains, the "Kus" that is, the new year. Kus" is generally selected in October of the lunar calendar, the season when the crops are harvested.

3, Racewear Festival, Racewear Festival - Yi girls fashion show: Chuxiong Yi State, there are two places have Racewear Festival. One is the Race Dress Festival in Zhi Tho Village, Yongren County, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year.

4, Mizhi Festival, Mizhi Festival, also known as the "sacrifice Mizhi", Yi folk traditional festivals. Mizhi Festival Popular in the Yi region in southern Yunnan, especially in Shilin, one of the important ritual festival of the Yi Sani people, generally in the first of the month of November in the lunar calendar, the first rat day to the horse day, lasted seven days.

5, make up the annual festival, living in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places of the Yi residents, in the new year after the lunar calendar, February 10 and 11, but also had a festival, the Yi language called this festival for the "hemp dragon fire". In the ritual activities, to sacrifice the largest scale dragon.

6, Mute Festival, Mute Festival is Yunnan Xiangyun Yi unique festival, has a history of thousands of years, in September 2009, was included in the Yunnan Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List.

7, Girl's Day, "Girl's Day" is the Valentine's Day of the Aru people of the Yi ethnic group, the time for the first cattle day after the Spring Festival each year, is the traditional festival of the Aru people of the Yi ethnic minority branch in Jinping County, Honghe Prefecture, "A Pei Festival".

8, Ikebana Festival, Ikebana Festival is the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Dayao County, Mount Zunhua area of the Yi people's traditional festivals, every year on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the whole of Mount Zunhua of the Yi people's sons and daughters have to pick back the red tasseled flowers, put on the festive attire to commemorate the memory of a beautiful girl.