When is the Yi New Year?

The Yi New Year is celebrated from October to mid- to late November of the lunar calendar. The Yi New Year is a grand traditional festival of the Yi people in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and is called "Kushi" in Yi language. The time of the New Year varies from place to place, but most of them are celebrated on auspicious days from October to mid- to late-November of the lunar calendar every year.

Other festivals of the Yi people:

1. Torch Festival

The Torch Festival, a traditional festival of the Yi people, is held on June 24 of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for three days. During the festival, people dressed in costumes, concentrated in the village near the dam or gentle slope, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep fighting, wrestling, beauty pageant, etc., the activities of the content of colorful and lively.

2, the Dragon Festival

Yunnan Shiping, Yuanyang, Weishan area of the Yi ethnic group will be twice a year to sacrifice the Dragon Festival, the first time in the summer month of February, the first day of the dragon, the second time in the fall before the harvest, known as "compensation for the dragon," which means thanks to the Dragon King of the grace of the rain.

3, Ikebana Festival

Yi people in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province, every year on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar to hold the Ikebana Festival, in order to wish for the happiness and well-being of the six animals, a good harvest.

Expanded Information

Customs of the Yi people:

1. Diet: The Yi people have a unique style of dietary raw materials and ways of eating. Staple food type food for potatoes, corn, buckwheat, rice and so on. Side food type food 1 are meat, beans, vegetables, seasonings, drinks. Meat to cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, hospitality needs to kill animals to kill cattle is expensive, sheep, pigs, followed.

2. Architecture: The Yi people have created various kinds of dwellings rich in characteristics in the process of adapting to nature. Liangshan Yi folk houses for the "tile board room"; Guizhou and Yunnan, northern and central is the "earth palm house", "square towers", "stacked wooden house "and" Xiamen piece of room "; Guangxi and eastern Yunnan is" dry bar "housing.

3, clothing: Liangshan Yi traditional dress, both men and women wear right-overlapping lapel coat, wear wulva, pi felt, wrapped tied legs, usually barefoot, winter wear hemp shoes. Men's heads are wrapped in a middle bun, with different styles in different sub-dialect areas, and the left ear wears ornaments such as honey wax beads and silver earrings.

China.gov.cn - Yi Ethnic Groups