There are many traditional festivals of the Bai people. The "March Street" with a history of thousands of years is the grandest annual festival of the Bai people. It is now named the "March Street National Festival".
There are also national festivals such as the "Torch Festival" (also known as the Star Festival).
March Street: Also known as Guanyin City. It is said that during the Nanzhao period in Xinuluo, Guanyin came to Dali to preach sutras on March 15th. Therefore, every year at that time, faithful men and women would set up tents to worship, chant sutras and offer sacrifices.
March Street became a temple fair where Buddhist scriptures were preached.
Because Dali is located on a traffic thoroughfare, there were many Buddhist believers in Yunnan in ancient times. With the development of social economy, temple fairs gradually evolved into local trade fairs and festivals in western Yunnan.
Dali Qianlong Juren Normal University has a poem: "Black silk scarf and crested shoes, go together in groups to go to the Moon Street. March Street of the Bai Nationality Dali March Street is a famous material exchange meeting in Yunnan Province and a traditional grand festival of the Bai people.
It is held every year from the 10th to the 21st of March in the lunar calendar in the west of Dali Ancient City. Since 1991, it has been designated as the "Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture March Street Ethnic Festival". With the development of society, the festival period of March Street has been gradually extended, usually to 3 days.
to 5 days, and as many as 10 days; in addition to large-scale material exchanges, entertainment and sports activities such as horse racing and ethnic songs and dances are also held. Extended content: The Bai ethnic group is the 15th largest ethnic minority in China, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou.
Hunan and other provinces, among which Yunnan Province has the largest population of Bai people. They are mainly concentrated in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. In addition, the Bai people also have their own language in Sichuan Province and Chongqing City. The Bai language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
The Chinese language has been commonly used by the Bai people since ancient times. The Bai people are unique in art, and their architecture, sculpture, and painting art are famous at home and abroad. In the process of formation and development, they interacted with the surrounding ethnic groups and created a splendid cultural heritage.
Economic and cultural.