Traditional Festivals and Customs of Various Ethnic Groups

1. Yi Ethnicity

The Yi ethnic group in Yunnan is mainly distributed in the southern part of the Hengduan Mountains, the Mourning Mountains, the Wumeng Mountains, and the basins of the Jinsha River, the Honghe River, and the Nanpanjiang River. The Yi have their own language and script. The reverence for tiger, blackness, fire and martial arts are some of the distinctive features of the Yi culture. And the Yi's October solar calendar is comparable to the world-famous Mayan civilization. The Torch Festival and the Jumping Gong Festival are the traditional festivals of the Yi people.

2. The Bai People

The Bai people mainly live in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan. The Bai worship white, in addition to the "March Street", "around the three spirits", "Torch Festival" and the Han Chinese New Year's Day, the Bai also generally worship a village side of the protection of the God a "The Lord", there are welcome to the God of the race and so on, no wonder people call the Bai culture in daily life in a "encyclopedia of folklore".

3, Hani

Hani mainly live in the south of Yunnan on both sides of the Red River in the Mourning Mountains, is a typical terraced rice farming on the Yunnan plateau. The Hani people are a creative people, they rely on the mountains, creating a terraced culture that makes the world wonder. Whenever the dragon festival in February of the lunar calendar, which is called Angmadu by the Hani people, the Hani people will hold a grand street wine feast.

4, Zhuang

Yunnan's Zhuang 80% of which live in southeast Yunnan Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. The Zhuang women are good weavers, and the Zhuang brocade they weave is famous for its brilliant colors and exquisite patterns. The costumes of the Zhuang are very expressive of the aesthetic characteristics of the Zhuang people. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, a song festival is held, and young men and women from within a radius of dozens of miles flock to the song street to sing songs to each other and look for mates.

5, Dai

The Dai are the descendants of the Baiyue ethnic group from Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi in ancient times. The Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Yunnan Province and the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in the west of Yunnan Province are the main settlements of the Dai. The Dai practice Southern Theravada Buddhism. The Bayeux Sutra, which can be called the encyclopedia of the Dai nation, and the Water Splashing Festival, Peacock Dance, Bamboo House, and Tutu Skirt flaunt to the world the romantic mood of this nation.

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Yi Ethnic Group

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Bai People

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Hani Ethnic Group

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Strong Ethnic Group

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Dai Ethnic Group