1, "Guanyin Festival" is a festival of the Bai people, "Guanyin Festival" is also known as "March Street". Legend has it that Guanyin opened up this area, so that here, "the grain harvest", people to commemorate the merits of Guanyin, booked this time to meet here.

2, according to legend, the end of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, the demon Rakshasa entrenched in Dali, brutality, daily eating human eyes thirty-six pairs, the people suffer. During the Tang Dynasty (627-649 AD), the Goddess of Mercy from the Western Paradise subdued the Rakshasa. Fearing that the rakshasas would return, Guanyin came to Dali every year from the 15th to 22nd day of the third month of the lunar calendar to preach and teach, and good men and women came to Dali one after another. Later on, Guanyin was worried that the people would be delayed in their agricultural production if they came to listen to the sutras and receive the teachings every year, so she advised the believers to bring their agricultural and sideline products for exchange when they came to the meeting, and this gradually formed a regular trade fair, the Jiezi. Because it is held every year in March of the lunar calendar, it is also known as the "March Festival".

3, "March Street" event held in the west of Dali City, under the Cangshan Mountain, the time for the annual summer calendar March 15 to 20, when the Bai people come here to sing, dance, theater, horse races, held a variety of recreational and sports activities. With the history of the Bai social and economic development, this event gradually developed into a material meeting of all ethnic groups, along so far there have been more than a thousand years of history. During the meeting, the streets are crowded, filled with a variety of goods, where people are free to buy and sell, farmers with the animal skins and dug up herbs, to the exchange of goods they need.

4, after the liberation of the March Festival, more prosperous and prosperous, the activities are more colorful. Its duration was extended to 7 to 10 days, the number of people as many as 15 million people, the total trade amounted to millions of yuan, listed livestock more than 10,000 heads. The medicinal herbs listed in the March Festival include almost the majority of Yunnan's medicinal herbs. In addition, the nearby cultural groups and industrial and agricultural surplus performance team in the session to perform colorful ethnic cultural and artistic programs. In the past, horse races were often held, which was one of the most attractive activities in March Street. Due, Western Yunnan Bai Yi, Naxi, Tibet, Miao and other ethnic groups swarthy riders gathered at the foot of the Cangshan Mountain, just wait for a call, the horse swiftly as if flying, jumping walls over the moat, wildly run, breathtaking.

5, it has played a positive role in promoting the unity of the people of all ethnic groups and material exchanges.