When is the 20 19 Yi Torch Festival?

Torch Festival is a festival for ethnic minorities, and different ethnic minorities have different ways to celebrate it. When is the Torch Festival of the Yi people? Next, let's take a look at the date of the 20 19 Yi Torch Festival and the national culture of this issue.

Q: What is the date of the 20 19 Yi Torch Festival? What day?

A: 20 19, Friday, June 24th and July 26th of the lunar calendar.

What is the Torch Festival?

Torch Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day, is an ancient traditional festival of ethnic minorities, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festival at slightly different times. The main activities of the Torch Festival include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests and so on. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and produced new forms.

What is the origin and legend of Torch Festival?

The gods fought against the land god, and people used torches to help the land god destroy insects and defeat the gods.

The other is from Nanzhao unofficial history and Yunnan Department of Normal School. These two books contain: Pirog, the leader of Nanzhao, attempted to annex the other five imperial edicts and gathered them in Songming Building to burn them. Deng Ruo's wife advised her husband not to go, lest he be killed. With shrewd wisdom and persistent love for her husband, Charity found her husband's body and buried it smoothly.

Interpretation of Torch Festival by Different Nationalities

Naxi language

Old Apu, the son of God, was jealous of the happy life on earth, and sent an old God to the earth, asking him to burn the earth into a sea of fire. God will come to this world and see a man carrying a big child, but the child is leading him. He felt strange. After careful questioning, I realized that the child he was pregnant with was a nephew and the child he brought was a son. Because his elder sister-in-law is dead, this man thinks he should take good care of his nephew. God will be deeply moved by the virtue of human beings, thinking that people are so kind that they can't bear to hurt them, so he told that person that God burned the world and asked him to tell people to light torches at the door in advance on June 25 to avoid disaster. So thousands of families lit torches that night, and the gods thought that people had been buried in the fire, so they fell into a deep sleep and never woke up. Later, Naxi people designated this day as Torch Festival.

Lahu people

There lived a good man and an evil man on the mountain. The wicked only eat human eyes. On June 24, the good man wrapped the goat horn with beeswax, lit the beeswax and told the goat to find the wicked. Seeing the sparks, the wicked thought that people would hit him with muskets, so they quickly hid in the hole and blocked the hole with stones. As a result, he was drowned by the water flowing out of the hole. From then on, people no longer worry about evil people eating their eyes, so they can engage in production safely. Therefore, the Lahu people designated this day as the Torch Festival.

Bai (ba)

In the legend of the Bai torch festival, there is also the famous legend of Anan (that is, Manan). The story is generally consistent with the female legend Manan and the burning Song and Ming Pagoda, which is the result of the cross evolution of the legend of characters and the legend of Torch Festival.

Yi ethnic group

A long time ago, there was a Hercules named Sliabi in the sky, and there was a Hercules named assiba on the ground. Both of them are capable of pulling out mountains. One day, Sri Abi was going to wrestle with Attila, and Attila had something urgent to go out. When he left, he asked his mother to entertain Sri Abi with a plate of discus. Sri Abi thought that Attila Ba must have great strength after eating discus, so she left quickly. After Atila Ba came back, she heard from her mother that Sri Abi had just left, so she ran after him and tried to wrestle with him. As a result, Sri Abi was killed When God Entiguez knew this, he flew into a rage and sent a large number of locusts and moths to eat the crops on the ground. On the night of June 24th in the lunar calendar, Attila cut down many pine branches and wild Artemisia branches, tied them into torches, led people to light torches, and burned insects in the fields, thus defeating the deadly plans of the gods. Since then, the Yi people have designated this day as the Torch Festival.