Yuxi Lingxiu Torch Festival Essay 2016

Torch FestivalTorch FestivalStudents, do you know which famous ethnic group's festival is the torch festival? Let me tell you about it! The Torch Festival is a festival of the Yi nationality. The sun has not yet climbed over the mountains, the door of every house in the cottage is opened by coincidence. People cheerfully cleaned up the house and outside. Men, women and children are dressed in holiday costumes, busy fire slaughter chickens, preparing holiday meals. At sunrise, the bullring became a sea of joy. People surrounded the bullring. The sturdy bull, in the master's tease, in the audience's cheering, staring at the blood red eyes, tenaciously against each other's horns. After several thrilling fights, the winning bull wearing a red cloth, in the master's traction, around the field, proudly accept the people's cheers and admiration. Night fell, just a few stars in the sky, the young people lighted the already prepared torches, ran out of the house door, around the house three times, and then ran to the fields, ran to the mountains and rivers. Standing on a high place to look down, only to see a "fire dragon" on the ground through. The fire in the sky and the shouts in the sky made every cottage boiling. Look, the bonfire is burning. The people of the cottages are all gathered together. The old man came, playing the usual dusty Yueqin; the young man came, playing the flute that had not touched for a long time; the girls came, hand in hand and feet touching the feet to pick up the joyful dance; the children came, around the fire singing, jumping, chasing, frolicking ...... The firelight illuminated the face of every Yi family member, and also brightened up the heart of every Yi family member. The firelight illuminates the face and heart of every Yi family member. Listen, the pleasant singing, sang the praise of the people to the happy life, sang the people to the hope of a better future. The Torch Festival is not a simple festival, it is a symbol of the hard-working, brave and indomitable spirit of our Yi family.