Torch Festival is an ancient and important traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu nationalities. It has a profound folk culture connotation and is well-known at home and abroad. It 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, goat 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.

This year's Torch Festival is August 8, 215. Let's get together, find your favorite place and experience the lively Torch Festival!

1. Ethnic Villages

Torch Festival Carnival is waiting for you

From August 1 to August 9, Yunnan Ethnic Villages will hold the 215 Torch Festival Carnival with the theme of "Fire Dance Ethnic Villages Carnival Dianchi Night". At that time, the people participating in the carnival will enjoy authentic folk art programs from Maitreya, Shiping and other places and fire ceremonies of different ethnic groups. In addition, the large-scale sound and dance poetry and painting "The Call of the Plateau" directed by the cutting-edge director Tang Yong will also be staged continuously.

Tourists celebrate the Torch Festival

On the basis of retaining the original activities such as "Fire Sacrifice, Parade, Bullfighting and Torch Carnival for 1, People", this year, two time periods of "Classic Torch Festival and Torch Carnival" are further enriched and created, and new projects such as "Longpeng Song and Dance, Fire Girl Talent Show, Torch Running, Mask Fire Dance and Large-scale Music and Dance Poetry and Painting" The Call of the Plateau "are launched.

On the night of the Torch Festival on August 8th, ethnic minority compatriots put on festive costumes and held torches to greet every visitor, and started a grand "Torch Parade". Visitors can follow the grand parade column and experience dances such as "Big Three-string Dance, A-Xi Dance, and Left Foot Dance" for themselves. In Unity Square, under the leadership of Bimo of Yi nationality, elders of Bai nationality and Dongba of Naxi, all beings worship heaven and earth, take kindling, worship bumper years and seek peace, so as to fully show the mystery and solemnity of the fire ceremony. The climax of the activity will be when "Torch Festival in July" is sung. Around the square, you can hold high the flaming torch in your hand, put on your favorite mask, sing and dance with friends and relatives, and vent your pent-up passion!

Tips

1. Tickets: During the period from August 1 to August 9, the night ticket price of the scenic spot is 6 yuan/person, and tickets will be purchased at 6 pm (this ticket cannot be booked online). Admission to 9 yuan/person during the day (you can book tickets online, and those who enter the park before 6 o'clock can always attend evening activities)

2. During the Torch Festival, Yunnan Ethnic Village coordinated more than 2, fixed parking lots around for tourists to park, and according to the actual situation of the day, the traffic police department will temporarily increase the parking spaces on both sides of the road. Among them, the places where tourists can park are: East Gate of Ethnic Village (Dianchi Road),? There are seven fixed parking lots: North Gate (Hongta West Road turns to Minzu Village North Road), Hongta Sports Center (Hongta West Road), South Gate (Hubin Road or Guanjing Road turns to Minzu Village South Road), Tea Culture Grand View Garden (Dianchi Road), Yunnan National Museum (Dianchi Road) and Dianchi College of Yunnan University (7 km turntable).

3. carnival time in the park: the activities will end at 12: 3 am at the latest on the evening of August 8, and at 11: 3 pm on the other eight nights. After the activities, the managers of ethnic villages will clear the area.

4. Every year, there are at least 3, people who take part in the carnival in ethnic villages. The organizers hope that you'd better go there by bus. The direct routes to ethnic villages are: No.24, No.73, No.44, No.94, No.135, No.233 and so on.

2. Shilin

Torch Festival staged a feast of Yi culture

The series of activities of Shilin Torch Carnival will be started from August 1st, and the opening ceremony will be held on August 8th, with the most concentrated activities from August 5th to 9th. This year's Shilin Torch Carnival will take the theme of "Chinese Dream, Yi Nostalgia". At that time, traditional folk activities such as bullfighting, wrestling, bimo fire offering, national song and dance performances, and singing by Yi people's stars will be staged one after another, and tourists will be able to experience the folk customs of Sani people in Shilin from multiple angles. At the same time, during the event, Shilin will hold the third Food Culture Festival, and all kinds of tourist foods and local products will appear at the food festival, so that tourists can have a delicious and fun Torch Festival.

Tips

1. From 8: a.m. on August 8th to 2: a.m. on August 9th, large trucks with a tonnage of over 1 ton are prohibited from passing in Shilin County;

2. From 17: on August 8 to 2: on August 9, traffic control will be implemented on Ashima East Road, Ashima South Road, Shilin Middle Road and Shilin Avenue (from the conference center to the administrative center) in the urban area. During the activity, the masses in the county are requested to make reasonable arrangements for travel, try to choose public transportation, reduce private car travel and avoid aggravating traffic congestion.

in addition, in order to meet the needs of the development of ecological civilization and the construction of a strong tourist county, wooden torches are forbidden to be used in Torch Festival, and new torches made of eco-friendly materials are used uniformly.

"Two Districts"

See the most authentic ancestor worship ceremony of Yi people

From August 7 to 9, the torch festival of "Two Districts" in Kunming (Ruodian Industrial Park and Jiaozishan Tourism Development Zone) and the fifth Jiaozishan Tourism Festival were held in two districts in 215. The original ancestor worship ceremony, fire worship ceremony, traditional bullfighting, wonderful cultural performances and other colorful and characteristic activities will present a cultural feast of Yi people's religion, philosophy, history, folk customs and ethics.

The organizer will invite Bimo from Liangshan Prefecture, Guizhou, Chuxiong, Honghe and Wenshan in Sichuan, Weishan, Eshan and Luquan in Dali to attend the sacrificial ceremony. The original sacrificial ceremony will show the audience the purest traditional culture of Yi nationality by reciting the sacrificial scriptures, making sour soup and offering water for the ancestors. Digging wood for fire, chanting the sutra of offering fire, and dancing the fire ... The solemn ceremony of offering fire added luster to the whole party.

3. Dongchuan

Torch Festival Meets Moon Festival

Awang's first series of cultural activities, jointly sponsored by Awang Town Youth League Committee and Awang Chamber of Commerce in Dongchuan District, are scheduled to be held in Awang from August 7 to August 15, 215. At that time, there will be Tuilao Yi Mountain Bullfighting Festival, Shimenmuduo Yi Mi Zhi Festival, and Yan.

Among them, the Tuoluo Yi Mountain Bullfighting Festival is scheduled to be held on August 7, 215 (Friday, June 23, lunar calendar). The event will take the largest natural concave ground as the venue and the Tuoluo Bainijing original Yi village as the fulcrum, and organize and carry out the Alpine Red Earth Bullfighting Festival with strong Yi characteristics.

Shimen Muduo (Tuotan) Yi People's Dense Branch Festival is scheduled to be held on August 8, 215 (Saturday, June 24, lunar calendar), and the activity will rely on the original Dense Branch Forest to carry out sacred tree sacrifice and blessing activities; Yi parents street banquet; Yi instrumental music, song and dance performances; Yi girl's "Duo Le He" preliminary contest; Yi people's singing contest; Yi people's carnival, dancing and other Yi cultural activities.

The Yantou Sun Valley Torch Festival is scheduled to be held on Sunday, August 9th, and will be organized by the Sun Valley Yi Culture Village, with activities such as offering sacrifices to Vulcan, performing strange customs of Yi people, singing, dancing, dancing and bonfire with three feet, etc.

The Strange Rocks Canyon Discovery Tour is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, August 12th. The activities will rely on Kistler Village, Taoquan Swimming Pool Base, Asparagus and Space Vegetable Science and Technology Demonstration Base, and organize carnival activities such as water race, river ditch stone search, popular science study and visiting Kistler.

4. Luquan

Taking photos during the Torch Festival can win a thousand yuan prize

Luquan has a very grand Torch Festival every year, and this year is no exception. Listening to Yi people's music, tasting delicious soup pots and watching traditional bullfighting ..... there will be no shortage of colorful activities.

During the Torch Festival this year, the "Happy Luquan People, Passion Torch Festival" will be held at the same time. You can upload the folk customs and happy moments of Yi nationality captured by your mobile phone at any time and win a thousand yuan prize.

It is understood that participants need to pay attention to the official WeChat of Fengjia Ancient Town, and they can upload their works by replying to this official WeChat. When uploading, they should indicate the author's name, author's telephone number, author's ID number, shooting place and name of the works. There will be 1 first prize, 3 second prizes and 6 third prizes in this activity. Among them, the first prize is 2888 yuan.

5. Yimen

Times "personal tailor" Torch Festival

On August 8 this year, Baiyi Village, Shijie Town, Yimen County will join hands with Metropolitan Times to create the "personal tailor" Torch Festival for readers.

Li Chengchun, secretary of the Party branch of Jiagu Village Committee, said that all the villagers in Baiyi Village are good at singing and dancing, and the village spontaneously formed a suona team of 1 people, a lantern dance team of 2 people and a flower inspiration team of 3 people. "It is a farmer to roll up his trousers and go to the field, and an actor to wash the mud." On the day of Torch Festival, the village not only prepared a unique traditional feast of Yi people to entertain readers, but also organized villagers to build a bonfire on the Little Square. In the evening, villagers will dance left-footed with readers to celebrate Torch Festival. At that time, readers will walk into Yi families, chat with them, eat fruits and have a good drink.

6. Dali

Feel the tradition in the birthplace of Nanzhao ancient country

Every household in Weishan, Dali should light their own torches to welcome the festival every year. Tens of thousands of people from villages and villages in Weishan county, the birthplace of Nanzhao ancient country, will gather in the ancient city, and together with the residents of the ancient city and Chinese and foreign tourists, they will carry out colorful activities to celebrate the festival, such as the Yi people's singing performance, the performance of ancient music in the Cave Sutra, the ceremony of offering the sacred flame to the fire, and the fireworks show of the Torch Festival. At that time, the 2-kilometer-long Nanzhao Ancient Street will be filled with scenes such as making torches, planting colorful flags, winding green vines, sending blessings and erecting torches.

During the Torch Festival in Weishan, besides having fun, there are many foods, such as green bean cakes, shredded pork bait, rice noodles, bean jelly, rice noodles, roasted bait blocks, shrimp with ice powder, hot oil powder, beef roll and so on, which can satisfy everyone's taste buds.

7. 17 activities in Chuxiong

Play Torch Festival

Chuxiong 215 Yi Torch Festival will be held in Chuxiong from August 7 to 9. The activities are divided into three sections: special theme activities, mass carnival activities and business and economic activities. * * * has 17 main activities, which are more interesting and more participatory.

In the main activities, the Torch Festival welcoming party will organically combine Yi culture with modern elements, and fully display the charm of Yi culture; The fire ceremony focused on displaying the traditional customs and fire culture charm of Yi people. High-altitude fireworks decorate the festive atmosphere and illuminate the city's revelry; The exhibition of Yi Opera brings together fine Yi Opera and small drama programs to show the original dance of Yi people ...

In addition, during the Torch Festival, a carnival of dancing with ten thousand people's left feet and a special food exhibition of the Yi people's "sheep soup pot" will be organized, so that tourists can enjoy the Yi cuisine and feel the unique food culture and customs of Yi people at the same time.

8. Maitreya

Play around the Axi Moon Dance Festival

The most distinctive torch festival in Honghe Prefecture is Maitreya, but it will be renamed Axi Moon Dance Festival after Maitreya Torch Festival, which will start on August 7 and end on August 9.

Axi is a branch of Yi people, and Axi people can sing and dance well. "A Xi Tiao Yue" is one of their favorite and most popular folk excellent collective dances. "A Xi Leaps to the Moon" has a bright rhythm and bold and unrestrained dance, including old people's dance and youth dance. The old man plays the small three-string dance, and his steps are gentle and steady. At 2: 3 pm on August 7, the stadium and Huquan Ecological Park held a 1,-person A Xi jump on the moon. In addition, the ancient Yi people's fire sacrifice ceremony, in which many men and women painted naked in various colors, is primitive and simple, and is worth experiencing.

During the event, the traditional food festival "Maitreya Taste" will be held in Honghe Water Town, where you can taste all the traditional Maitreya snacks.

9. Yuxi

Ten thousand people dance with flowers and drum dances

Eshan is the first Yi Autonomous County in China and the hometown of flower and drum dances of the Yi people in China.

This year, the theme of Eshan is "Meet the Torch Festival Passion and Carnival Night". In addition to the sacred ceremony of drilling wood for fire, kindling transmission and lighting, mass bonfires, dancing with flowers, "Yishan Rhyme" song and dance party, Yi original ecological song and dance performance and Yi traditional cockfighting competition are staged one after another. During the Torch Festival, villages lit torches all over the county. From the county seat to the township, the whole Eshan County danced with flaming torches and was immersed in the ocean of joy.

In Eshan, besides the Torch Festival, ten thousand mu of ecological tea garden with high fragrance lingers, Yi people's Guzhuhai Manor is full of bamboos and small street hot springs, and Yuxi Manor's Eshan Fengwo Manor is fresh and natural. Bamboo banquet, tea banquet and pigeon banquet are well-known in Yulin, with beautiful scenery, amorous feelings and delicious food, which will definitely give you a lingering leisure and holiday experience.