When are the festivals around the Three Spirits of Bai nationality?

April 23 to April 25 of the lunar calendar is the Three Spirits Festival of the Bai people every year. Bai people living in hundreds of villages in Cangshan Erhai area take villages as units, carrying sacrificial utensils, simple luggage, food, cooking utensils and so on. , spontaneously formed a "three souls around" worship team, from all directions to the venue. "Around Three Souls" is actually a big collection of Bai folk culture, a big performance of all kinds of music, song and dance art, and a collection of almost all kinds of performing arts popular among Bai people in Dali.

"Around the Three Souls" embodies the ancient Bai nationality's "master" Bai nationality and social sacrificial culture, and carries many important historical and cultural information and original memories of the Bai nationality. Due to the long-term farming history and relatively stable cultural environment in Dali, a large number of primitive farming etiquette were preserved in the activities around the Three Gods.

Sacrificing gods in the form of singing and dancing has become an important factor to maintain and continue the Bai cultural tradition. The cultural connotation of the activities of encircling the Three Spirits not only conveys the worship of farming and the belief of the Lord, but also conveys the very important reproductive worship information of the Bai people.

"Around the Three Souls" is a kind of folk cultural activity with stable time and space. In the long-term development process, the song and dance art it contains not only formed its own unique fixed mode, but also developed and improved its skills through the activity itself.