What are the traditional festivals of the Bai people? The traditional festivals of the Bai people include March Street and Torch Festival.

March Street, also known as "Guanyin City", is the grandest festival of the Bai people.

It is held every year from March 15th to 20th in the lunar calendar at the foot of Diancang Mountain in the west of Dali City.

Initially it was a religious activity, but later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants from Sichuan, Tibet and Jiangnan provinces came here to trade.

After the founding of New China, March Street has developed into an annual material exchange and national sports and art conference.

The Torch Festival is held every year on the 25th day of the sixth lunar month. It is a traditional festival of the Bai people. On the day of the festival, men, women, old and young gather together to worship their ancestors.

Through activities such as worshiping torches, lighting torches, playing with torches, and jumping on torches, we wish for a bumper harvest and prosperity for livestock.

What are the festivals of the Bai people? The main festivals of the Bai people include the "Great New Year", "March Street", "Rao Sanling", "Torch Festival", "Playing with the Sea", "Sun Worship", etc.

Like the Han people, they also celebrate Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc.

Among them, "March Street" and "Torch Festival" are distinctive and famous far and wide.

? New Year's Day The Bai people living in Bijiang, Yunnan, have their own unique annual calendar.

They determine the season based on the growth of the trees.

When the peach blossoms bloom, it is March for them, and when the lacquer leaves grow to five inches, it is May... In this way, they regard the year as not twelve months, but thirteen months.

During the year, March and December are their rest months.

March is the March Festival, and twelfth month is the New Year's Day.

However, there is only one day for the New Year, and this day is not fixed. It is agreed upon by the elders of each clan in the village every year.

After the New Year was confirmed, in the early morning, all members of the village, led by a prestigious old man, brought home-brewed rice wine and glutinous rice cakes, and went to the big tree at the head of the village to hold a tree sacrifice ceremony to wish good weather and prosperity in the coming year.

, a bumper harvest.

The memorial ceremony is complete. People will first give one of the New Year gifts they brought to the elderly, and then toast each other with New Year wine and cake... After the memorial ceremony, everyone goes back to kill the New Year pig.

If it is agreed that we will cook meat together on this day, the pig-killing family will give one-tenth of the meat for everyone to cook and eat; if not, the pig-killing family will also donate pork to the families who do not raise pigs to show solidarity.

Friendship.

March Street March Street: Also known as Guanyin City or Guanyin Meeting in ancient times, it is said to have a history of more than a thousand years. It is held every year in March of the lunar calendar at the foot of Zhonghe Peak in Xicang Mountain in Dali City.

The content of the festival was originally a Buddhist temple fair, where grand lectures and worship activities were held.

It is a traditional festival of the Bai people. It is held every year at the foot of Zhonghe Peak in the ancient city of Dali and on the open land beside the Zhongxi River.

During the "March Street" period, merchants from as far away as thousands of miles away and as close as neighboring counties come from all directions to participate in transactions.

Market commodities range from medicinal materials to food, furniture, and livestock. It is the largest gathering place for commodity trading in western Yunnan.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a tyrant who hoped for immortality. He listened to an attendant and ate a pair of human eyeballs every day, which brought serious disaster to the local Bai people.

At that time, there was a warrior who was full of magical power. In order to eliminate evil spirits and harm to the Bai people, on one day in March, he used a clever trick to lure the tyrant to the foot of Zhonghe Peak in Cangshan Mountain. He summoned a divine dog to bite the tyrant's throat.

Drink up his blood, destroy this demon king, and eliminate the harm to the Bai people.

In order to commemorate this great day when the warriors and the Bai people were saved, people gather at the foot of Cangshan Mountain every year from the 15th to the 20th of the third lunar month to sing and dance.

Year after year, the annual "March Street" is formed.

Now during the "March Street", in addition to exchanging materials, there are also performances of ethnic songs and dances, sports and other activities.

In particular, the riders of all ethnic groups participating in the horse racing meeting gathered at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, whipped their horses, and rushed towards the Erhai Lake like clouds and mist. The scene was truly spectacular.

The Torch Festival is held every year on June 25th of the lunar calendar. It is the most solemn and grandest festival for the Bai people.

On this day, every village will set up tall torches, and each family will set up small torches.

As night falls, large and small torches are lit together, like thousands of fire dragons galloping all over the mountains and plains. People go to the fields to catch insects and eliminate harmful insects.

Families that have just given birth to a baby invite the villagers to a "wedding wine" under a large fire torch to wish the mother and child a safe life.

Rao San Ling is held every year from the 23rd to the 25th of April on the lunar calendar.

At that time, the Bai people worship the Golden Turtle Temple, Shengyuan Temple, and Chongsheng Temple, and at the same time sing and dance all night long on the grass in front of the temples.

New Year's Eve is an annual festival for the Bai people of Dali to "grab the first water".

When night falls, the girls and boys are busy dressing up.

They put on colorful national costumes, carried a bunch of firecrackers in their hands, and carried a bucket of water on their shoulders. They marched through the village and alleys with smiles on their faces, and came to the well.

At midnight, we could hear firecrackers blasting, and everyone was scrambling to "get the first shot."

After each household carries the "tau water" they "robbed" home, they use it to make soup balls, noodles and other foods. After cooking, they put them in bowls or plates and deliver them respectfully from door to door.

In the hands of the elderly, I wish them a happy new year, happiness and health.

After the old man accepts the gift, when returning the dishes, he puts a few cents in the dishes to express New Year's Eve.