Is the torch festival to burn the pests?

No. This is to pray for the blessing of the fire god Ang Gu Mi, and to bless the prosperity of the whole village, the abundance of grains, the safety of the village, and the ...... of everything going well

Thank you, you can ask if you don't understand,

Hello. The Yi people believe that the torch festival is to grow ears of grain as thick as torches. Later generations used this fire to drive away the ghosts and evil spirits in the fields at home to ensure the safety of people and animals.

Superstition, don't believe it. Those are left over from the older generation, nothing more

If fire could burn ghosts, there wouldn't be so many haunted places in this world.

1. The legend of the Torch Festival of the Naxi people.

The son of the gods, Rauap, is jealous of the world.

's happy life, send an old heaven to the world, and ask him to burn the world into a sea of fire. God will come to the world, see a man carrying an older child on his back, the younger child is leading away, he felt strange, a careful question to know that the child on his back is a nephew, the child is a son, because his brother and sister-in-law are dead, the man thinks that he should take good care of his nephew.

God was deeply moved by such earthly virtues, and thinking that the hearts of the people were so kind, that they could bear to harm them, he told the man the news that the gods had burned the world, and asked him to tell the people to light torches at the door beforehand on the 25th of June, so as to avoid the disaster.

So all the houses lit torches that night, and the gods thought that the people had perished in the fire, so they fell into a deep sleep and never woke up. Later, the Naxi people designated this day as the Torch Festival.

2. The legend of the Torch Festival of the Lahu people.

On the mountain live a good man and an evil man, and the wicked eat the eyes of men. On June 24, the good man wrapped beeswax around the goat's horns, lit the beeswax and told the goat to find the wicked.

When the wicked man saw the sparks, he thought that they were coming at him with muskets, so he hurried into the cave and blocked the entrance with stones, only to be drowned in the water that came out of the cave. From then on, people no longer worry about the wicked coming to eat their eyes, and they can produce in peace. Therefore, the Lahu people designated this day as the Torch Festival.

1. King Samui fought against the alien race, his head was cut off, and when the stars appeared, he grew another head to fight with him. In the end, due to the betrayal of the spies, after cutting off the head and sweeping the neck with a sharp knife grass, the head of King Samey could no longer grow, and he could not be resurrected. It is said that the red spots on the sharp-knife grass were stained red by the blood of King Samey.

Later the Samui people are on June 20 every year.

Fourth, twenty-five are to be beaten to commemorate King Samui and look for his heroic spirit.

2. The good god Afan stole open the gate of heaven and sowed grains, so that the happy life on earth surpassed that of heaven. When the gods saw this, they were furious and sent Hercules to the earth to vent their anger. He wrestled with Hercules and threw him to the ground, causing him to crush a pit, and then the rain turned into a blue lake (Lunan Tamsui Lake).

In order to commemorate this human hero, people perform bullfighting, wrestling, sheep slaughtering, torch lighting and other activities on the 20th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar to show their mourning.

3. The slave owner put many poor brothers in prison, and the poor man Ah Zhen tied torches to the horns of the sheep, rushed to the mansion, burned the slave owner, and burned the ropes on the hands of the poor people. To commemorate this victory, people carry torches and parade.

Extended information: The Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, with profound folk cultural connotations, known as the "Oriental Carnival". Different ethnic groups hold torch festivals at different times, most of them are on the 24th of June in the lunar calendar, and the main activities include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing performances, beauty pageants, etc.

In the new era, the torch festival was endowed with a new folklore function, giving rise to a new form.

Once upon a time, there was a strong man in heaven named Sija Abi, and on earth there was a strong man named Athiraba, both of whom had the strength to pull out mountains. One day, Abi was going to wrestle with Athraba, but Athraba was in a hurry to go out, and when he was leaving, he asked his mother to entertain Abi with a plate of discus. Sija Abi thought that since Atimlaba had eaten discus, he must have had a lot of strength, so he hurried away.

When Atimraba returned, he heard from his mother that Sjaja Abi had just left, so she chased after him and wanted to have a wrestling match with him, but Sja Abi was thrown to his death. When the god Enticus learned of this, he was furious and sent a large number of locusts and borers to eat the crops of the earth. On the night of the 24th day of the sixth month of the old calendar, Athrapa cut down many pine branches and wild artemisia branches and tied them into torches, and led the people to light them and go to the fields to burn insects.

Since then, the Yi people have set this day as the Torch Festival. ——Liangshan Yi Nationality, "The Legend of the Torch Festival".

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In ancient times, on a high mountain, there was a castle, and in the castle lived a toast, who developed a pair of mouse eyes, broom eyebrows, and a silver carp mouth, with a pointed and convex chin, and a thin face covered with pockmarks, and people gave him the nickname - "Black God". This "black god" does all kinds of evil, and has a large group of family members and thugs under his command, brutally ruling and oppressing the Yi people. He cleverly set up a name, expropriated and extorted extortion, paid a tax to him for giving birth to a child, paid a mountain rent for hunting, and collected a fishing donation ...... for fishing in the riverAll kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have forced the people to breathless.

In order to resist the cruel rule of this "black god", there were many uprisings, but the fortified castle of Tusi was difficult to capture, and many people were captured and executed.

There was a clever and capable shepherd, his name was Zaka, who came up with a way to outwit Toast Castle. He secretly connected with the poor people of Jiujiu Village, and decided to lock up the sheep of each family in the stable from June 17, and only feed some water every day, no forage, and starve for seven days and seven nights. The rebels hurried to make pikes at night, sharpened bamboo sticks, sharpened machetes and axes, and tied torches to each goat's horn, and they agreed to revolt on the night of June 24.

On this night, when the moon had not yet appeared, and the breeze in the woods of the mountain was blowing gently, only a long horn was heard, and the first "torch mother" was the trumpet, and the rebels immediately opened the door of the stable, lit thousands of torches tied to the horns, and drove the sheep to attack the castle of the "Black God".

The innumerable flock of sheep was already starving, so they scrambled up the hill to eat the leaves and grass by the light of the fire. Zaka led the rebellious people and bravely rushed towards the castle, and the sound of drums and shouts of killing shook the earth. The "Black God" hurriedly climbed to the castle to take a look, only to see that the mountains and fields had become a sea of fire, and the people who had surrounded the castle from all sides had begun to attack the city gates.

The Black Demon God "ordered his servants and thugs to defend the city gates, but he quietly burrowed into the ground and prepared to escape. By this time, the rebel armies had breached the castle and were pouring in. People searched everywhere, but they couldn't see the "black god".

Later, Zaka arrested the chief butler for interrogation, and the chief butler, who was afraid of death, knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy, and led Zaka and his party to the entrance of the cave where Tusi was hiding.

Zaka told the chief butler to go down to the cave first and tell the "Black God" to come out and surrender. This usually fox-like and pretending to be a powerful butler was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground and couldn't get up. Everyone was looking, and suddenly, a dagger flew out of the hole.

Sharp-eyed, Zaka swung a machete and knocked the dagger down.

When Zaka and the others saw that the "Black God" could not survive, they decided to burn him with a torch. So at the sound of an order, thousands of torches immediately piled up a hill around the cave, only to see that the raging fire burned more vigorously, and in a moment, the ground was also burned red, and the evil toast "Black Evil God" was buried in the torches. In order to commemorate the victory of this struggle against tyrannical rule, the 24th day of the sixth lunar month was designated as the "Torch Festival".

The Torch Festival is a common festival of many ethnic groups in Yunnan, which is usually held on the 24th day of June of the lunar calendar or the 25th day of the lunar calendar. Among them, the torch festival of the Yi and Bai ethnic groups is the most grand and representative. The Yi Torch Festival comes from an ancient legend:

A demon named the Ten Powers came to the human world to destroy people's happy lives. A strong man named Bao Cong on the ground wrestled with him to determine the victory. After losing the fight, the demons release all kinds of pests to trample on people's crops.

Bao Cong gathered people to light a torch to burn the pests and protect the people's happy life. This day happens to be the 24th day of the month of Acacia Annul.