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Yes, it's not a story, it's a legend!
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The Torch Festival is for the sake of gathering together to buy farm tools for harvesting millet, but also for the love of young men and girls, and for the continuation of the fire by the fire pit.
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Yi Torch FestivalThe origin of the story:
The god of heaven, Sija Abi, and the warrior of the Yi tribe, Atiraba, wrestled in a contest, but Atimaba threw Sija Abi to death, and the god was furious and sent a large number of locusts.
and the moths came to bite the crops, and the crops were spoiled very badly. In order to deal with these pests, Ataraba led the Yi people to go to the fields with torches to burn the pests on the evening pants on June 24 of the lunar calendar, and the crops were saved.
The meaning of the Torch Festival:
The meaning of the Torch Festival is a good harvest, because the Torch Festival is a traditional festival integrating praying for a good harvest, worshipping ancestors, and entertaining in the Yi nationality.
At the heart of it is praying for a good harvest. And the Torch Festival, also known as the carnival of the East, is the Yi, Bai, and Naxi people.
The festivals of many ethnic groups such as the Kino ethnic group have a profound connotation of national culture.
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The Yi Torch Festival is a grand festival, so do you know the origin story of the Yi Torch Festival? See below.
01 There are several versions of the origin story of the Yi Torch Festival, and the official version is:
The god of heaven, Sija Abi, wrestled with the Yi warrior Athiraba, and Atimaba threw Sija Abi to death, and the gods were furious and sent a large number of locusts and borers to bite the crops, and the crops were badly ruined. In order to deal with these pests, Atilaba led the Yi people to go to the fields with torches to burn the pests on the night of June 24 of the lunar calendar, and the crops were saved.
02 It is also said that the gods made Sija Abi to collect taxes in the world, and was killed by Athilaba, the gods were furious, and released the flood to destroy the crops and the homes of the Yi people, and later the flood was governed by the Yi people, and the gods sent a large number of pests to damage the crops, and the Ataraba and the Yi people in order to save the crops, held torches to the fields on the night of June 24 of the lunar calendar to burn pests, so this day is called the Torch Festival.
03 The Yi people of the Yi tribe and the Yi people of Mile County believe that the Torch Festival is due to a slave riot. A story of the slave Ah Zhen who tied a torch to the horn of a sheep, set fire to the slave owner, rescued the slave, and set the slave free.
04 There is another version of the Torch Festival of the Luo Wu branch of the Yi nationality, the story of the Luo Wu branch of the Yi nationality about the Torch Festival is that there is a girl in the Luo Wu branch who is looking for a very beautiful girl, she is in love with a boy named Ah Long, but the men of the twelve tribes in the vicinity have taken a fancy to her, and threatened the lives of the villagers of the Luo Wu branch, asking the girl to go on a blind date with them, the girl had no choice but to decide to go on a blind date with them on the night of June 24, and the blind date ignited the fire that night, for her beautiful love, the girl jumped into the fire and burned to death, In order to commemorate this brave girl, the Luo Wu branch of the Yi nationality designated this day as the Torch Festival.
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