Find information Write at least three representative festivals of each ethnic group in China (including the origin of the name of the festival, the time and the content of the main activities, etc.).

Liangshan Yi Torch Festival

The Torch Festival is a traditional festival held by compatriots of the Yi ethnic group in Liangshan, Sichuan Province, to pray for a good harvest. It is held on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month every year. Yi compatriots will hold up torches, holding yellow umbrellas, drinking wine, eating lumps of meat, and killing livestock to sacrifice ancestors. People wear new clothes, carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics, men participate in bullfighting, sheep, chickens, horse racing, wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string, play the moon piano. At night, they burn torches and roam around in front of and behind the houses; on the third night, they travel around the mountains and fields with torches in groups, with the light of the fire, and then concentrate on lighting bonfires in one place, drinking, singing and dancing with the torches, and continue to play until the end of the day. Xichang, the capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is the most lively.

Tibetan Flower Festival

The traditional Tibetan festival. Also known as the Flower Watching Festival. Popular in the Malcolm County area. Held in the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, the time is usually 3 days to 5 days, some places up to more than 10 days. People with food, tents, riding horses, groups of people to the field to play, enjoy the mountain flowers. They set up tents, boiled ghee tea, filled with green pear wine, while eating and drinking, while enjoying the flowers and blessings. At night, lit a bonfire, singing and dancing. During the festival, but also held wrestling, horse racing and other activities. It is also an opportunity for young men and women to talk about love.

Miao Catch Autumn Festival

The traditional festival of the Miao people. It is circulated in Xiushan County of Chongqing Municipality. It is held on the Autumn Day every year. At that time, people flock to the gathering place from all directions to attend and watch activities such as swinging, lion dance, playing dragon lanterns and going up the knife ladder. About the origin of Catch the gang festival, legend has it that in ancient times, a clever young man, looking for a beloved girl for the people, will be one person sitting in the swing changed into eight people sitting in the swing, attracting people from near and far to swing. On the swing, he finally found his beloved girl. From then on, every fall, people would gather together to swing. Year after year, the formation of the autumn for catching

Dai Water Festival

Generally in the solar calendar April 13 to 15 these three days is also known as the "Bathing Buddha Festival", the Dai language known as the "Bimai" (meaning the New Year), the Dai people in the Dehong region of Xishuangbanna, also known as the festival for the "Shanhan" and "Shangji", the two names originated in the Sanskrit language, meaning the turnover, change and transfer, refers to the sun is already in the twelve houses of the zodiac to start to transition to the new year. A week to start the transition to the new year. The content of the festival, in addition to splashing water, but also to catch the swing, dragon boat racing, bathing Buddha, chanting, chapter Ha singing, cockfighting, peacock dance, white elephant dance, throwing bags, put the high, release the lanterns and other folk activities, as well as other artistic performances, economic and trade exchanges, and so on.

Expanded Information:

Traditional ethnic minority festivals are an important part of the national culture and the expression of the form of the cultural influence of the various ethnic minorities, which is a concrete expression of the cultural influence of the ethnic minorities, in order to A subtle and entertaining form to show the spiritual world of the Chinese nationalities, express the pursuit and yearning for beautiful ideals, wisdom, ethics and morals, is an important carrier to insist on the promotion of the traditional culture of the national minorities and the inheritance of the virtues and customs of the nationalities.

Reference Ethnic Festivals-Baidu Encyclopedia