Torch Festival is the biggest traditional festival of Yi people, which falls on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Sani people (a branch of the Yi people) rebelled against the tyrannical toast. In order to celebrate the victory, this day was designated as the Torch Festival. Torch Festival usually lasts for three days. On the first day, the whole family got together. In the next two days, there are many colorful activities, such as wrestling, horse racing, bullfighting, boat racing and tug-of-war. Then, hold a big bonfire party and party all night.

2. Supplementary Festival

Yi people living in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places will hold an annual festival on February 10th and 11th of the lunar calendar after the New Year, which is called "Malong Fire" in Yi language.

On the morning of the tenth day of the second lunar month, every family prepares a big reunion dinner, then the housewife will toast her husband, and then the whole family will have lunch together. At noon, men, big and small, gathered at the home of two "Magongba" to drink.

"Ma Gongba" is said to be the embodiment of the leader when the ancestors fought. People only drink and don't eat at his house. The next day, men, women and children gathered on the dance floor, led by two "Magongba", and danced the bronze drums according to the route delineated by "Mullah" (the old master) and "Sanan" (the pioneer).

After the dance, "Yangba" (the player who plays five times) plays five times again, and then people have lunch on the spot, and everyone toasts each other to celebrate the festival.

Step 3 celebrate festivals

Celebration Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people. Every October in the lunar calendar, the Yi people celebrate New Year's Day, offering sacrifices to each other, singing and dancing, and congratulating the festival.

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Yi people are distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Yi people claim to have a large number, which varies from place to place, including "Sunuo", "Misa", "Luoluo", "Sani" and "Axi". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), "Yi" was adopted as the unified name of the whole country.

Its ancestors flourished in Dianchi Lake and Du Qiong (now southeast of Xichang, Sichuan) as early as ancient times. One of them, in the name of Kunming, engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry around Erhai Lake in Yunnan today, and established Nanzhao slave regime around the 8th century.

Yi language belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and there are six dialects. Yi people have their own characters, which are the earliest syllabic characters in China. Each glyph represents a meaning, and the total number of characters exceeds 10,000, of which more than 1,000 are common, which was formed in13rd century. 1957 adopted the Yi language standardization scheme, identified 8 19 standardized Yi languages, and started the trial.

Yi culture and art have a long history, and there are many valuable documents in the works of history, literature, medicine and calendar recorded in Yi language. Cosmic Man's Literary Theory discusses the view of nature in the form of questions and answers, which is an important work in the history of Yi people's philosophical thought.

The History of Southwest Yi People is of great value to the study of Yi people's history and culture. There are also epics such as Meige, Zhan and Arugul, which have been translated into many languages and widely circulated at home and abroad. The popular folk group dance is Dance Music. Traditional arts and crafts include painting, embroidery, silverware, sculpture and painting.

There are many forms of Yi costumes. Men like to wear black narrow-sleeved left oblique-breasted tops and pleated wide pants to wrap Baotou, and tie a slender conical "hero knot" in the right front of Baotou. Women like to wear large breasted right-breasted blouses and pleated long skirts with edges or embroidery, and some wear aprons and belts to wrap their heads;

Men and women like to wear "Jawa" when they go out. This kind of clothes is like a cloak, knee-length, with long spikes at the lower end, made of wool, mostly black. Houses have obvious local characteristics, and Liangshan area is mostly civil structure, commonly known as "tile house". There are many flat-topped adobe houses in Yunnan, commonly known as "adobe houses". Guangxi is a residential building shaped like a "dry fence".

Yi people used to worship animism and ancestors. Among the sacrificial activities, the Dragon Boat Festival is the biggest. The Dragon Boat Festival chooses a dragon day in the middle of February, March and April. Everyone in the village brought a bowl of rice and a small piece of salt, and the old man prepared incense and sacrificed collectively under the dragon tree.

The Yi people in Yunnan choose the first Dragon Day of the first month to hold the Dragon Boat Festival. After the sacrifice, everyone sat on the floor, regardless of age. Eight people have a big table. They bring their own food and meat. This is a large-scale rally. After the young men and women are engaged, they should make preparations for the wedding reception. Pigs and chickens are often used at wedding banquets, but mutton is generally not used (mutton is used for funerals).

The Shiping Yi people in southern Yunnan have the habit of inviting men and women to eat and drink before marriage. Yi people in western Yunnan, when they marry their daughters, build a shed with branches on the courtyard towel or dam for guests to drink, smoke, eat and sit around. Folk call this temporary shed made of branches "green shed"; There is a folk custom of "beating sheep" and "beating cattle" to welcome guests.

If there are visitors, they must be killed first and then treated. According to the identity and closeness of the visitors, they are treated as cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens respectively. Before killing animals, bring live animals to guests, ask them to have a look, and then kill them to show respect.

Wine is a welcome gift for guests. In Liangshan, as long as guests come into the house, the host must entertain them with wine first, and then cook various dishes. The fat pig is the most decent meal for the guests. In the middle of eating, housewives should always pay attention to the food in the guest's bowl, and replenish what they can't finish at any time to show their sincerity in hospitality.

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