Bai nationality is the 5th largest minority in China, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and other provinces. According to documents, the Bai nationality is a nationality with a high degree of inhabitation, with three branches: Minjia, Lemo and Nama, which are deeply influenced by Chinese culture.

the ancestors of the Bai nationality are the ethnic groups formed by the fusion of the indigenous Kunming people, Heman people around Erhai Lake, the Miao people and Qiang people in the south of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and some ethnic groups such as Bo people, Yi people, Bo people, Ailao people, Yunnan people and Han people.

Bai people are mainly distributed in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Dali is the ethnic origin, ancestral home and main settlement of the Bai nationality, and about 81% of the Bai nationality in China live here. In addition, there are Bai communities in Kunming, Lijiang, Nujiang, Diqing, Baoshan, Yuxi, Chuxiong, Wenshan, Lincang and other cities in Yunnan.

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Bai Festival

1 and March Street

March Street is also called "Guanyin City" and "Guanyin Street"; "Sacrificing Guanyin Street", a traditional grand festival of Bai nationality, is also a grand gathering of traditional folk materials exchange and cultural activities of Bai nationality, which is popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places.

March Street is held at the foot of Diancang Mountain in the west of Dali every year from March 15th to 21st. At first, it was full of religious activities, and later it gradually became a grand material exchange meeting. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, businessmen from Sichuan, Tibet and Jiangnan provinces came here to trade. It is not only an exchange place, but also a garden for performing various dances, horse racing and competition.

2. Torch Festival

Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, which has profound folk culture connotation and is called "Oriental Carnival".

Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festival at different times, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. The main activities are bullfighting, sheep fighting, chicken fighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests and so on. In the new era, Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and produced new forms.

3. Around Sanling

Bai people around Sanling, a traditional festival in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. It is a grand traditional festival for the Bai people in Dali, and it is also a kind of mass song and dance of the Bai people with rich flavor of life.

Bai people's circling around Sanling originated in Nanzhao period of Tang Dynasty, and it was also recorded in Notes on Central Yunnan by Yang Qiong, a Bai scholar in Qing Dynasty. Around the Three Spirits is a self-entertaining God-welcoming competition among the Bai people in the slack season, which is spread in the Bai villages around Cangshan Erhai Lake in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It is a grand gathering of local Bai people for a spring outing before busy farming.

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