Lisu Traditional Festivals Lisu Introduction

1. The traditional festivals of the Lisu people include the Kuoshi Festival, the New Rice Festival, the Knife Stalk Festival, the Torch Festival, and the Harvest Festival. The festival is one of the grandest traditional festivals of the Lisu people, equivalent to the New Year of the Han Chinese, before the festival, people have to slaughter pigs and goats, brewing water wine, the day of the festival, people will dress up, but also to hold a crossbow shooting, dancing, singing and other activities.

2, Lisu belongs to the Mongoloid South Asian type, the national language of the Sino-Tibetan Tibetan-Burmese language Yi language branch, the text is divided into the old and the new Lisu, generally believe in the original religion.

3, the Lisu people originated from the ancient Qiang ethnic group, and the Yi people have a relationship of origin, the main distribution of the Nujiang River, Enmekai River (tributary of the Irrawaddy River) Basin area, that is, China's Yunnan Province, Tibet and Myanmar Kachin border area, the rest of the diaspora in the rest of China's Yunnan Province, India's northeastern region, Thailand and the border areas of Myanmar.