Origin of the Torch Festival What are the customs of the Torch Festival?

The Torch Festival is a festival in the Yi nationality region, popular in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou, the time of the Torch Festival is the 24th day of June in the lunar calendar, the festival time is 3 days, there is a saying that the stars return to the sky and Chinese New Year's Eve, which is equivalent to the New Year of the Yi nationality, and singing and dancing, horse racing and bullfighting activities will be held during the festival.

The Torch Festival is a festival of the Yi people.

The Torch Festival is a festival in the Yi region, popular in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other Yi areas, the Torch Festival.

It is the 24th day of June in the lunar calendar, and its scene is very grand and spectacular, and it is the festival with the largest number of participants and the most rich national characteristics.

The festival time of the Torch Festival is 3 days, and it is also known as the Xinghui Festival, which is popular"The stars return to the sky and Chinese New Year's Eve"It is said that it is equivalent to the New Year of the Yi people, so this festival is particularly important in the Yi area.

During the festival, young men and women of all ethnic groups light torches made of pine, go to the village fields to hold various interesting activities, scatter rosin incense on the torches while walking, sing and dance, or horse racing, bullfighting, wrestling, people will take advantage of the opportunity to gather, enter the meeting of ** people or carry out business activities.

The origin of the Torch Festival:Although there are many theories about the origin of the Torch Festival, its origin should be most directly related to the nature worship of fire, and its purpose is to use fire to repel insects and protect the growth of crops. The Torch Festival is called in the Liangshan Yi language"Duz"Namely"Sacrificial fire"meaning; In the ritual songs "Sacrifice to the God of Fire" and "Sacrifice to the Pot Zhuangshi", there are descriptions of the gods of the fire god Ayidiegu.

The original form of the Torch Festival, in short, is the ancient fire worship. Fire is a symbol of the Yi people's pursuit of light.

The customs of the Torch FestivalIn the Yi area, the worship and sacrifice of fire is very common, and the Yi people in Luxi County, Yunnan Province, on the first day of the first lunar month and the 24th day of June, the housewife chooses the fattest piece of meat and throws it into the burning fire pit to pray for the blessing and safety of the fire god. The Yi people in Yongren County are also burying the fire on the second or third day of the first month of the late month, which is called Kai"Vulcan Society"The Yi people of Liangshan regard the fire pond as the sacred wide grinding place where the god of fire lives, and it is strictly forbidden to touch and cross.

In 2016, the Torch Festival in Xichang arrived, and young men and women of all ethnic groups lit torches made of pine wood, went to the village and fields, and sprinkled rosin incense on the torches while walking, or held gatherings, sang and danced, or horse racing, bullfighting, and wrestling. In modern times, people have used gatherings to socialize or meet with lovers, and to carry out business activities on festivals.

The Torch Festival is a folk legend of the Naxi peopleDue to the long-term diachronic development (in the time dimension) and regional evolution (in the curvature of the spatial dimension), the connotation of folk culture presented by the Torch Festival cannot still be a single form in the early days, but a composite form, which includes a variety of activities in traditional society, and contains rich connotations of religion, belief, ethics, song and dance, skills, folk aesthetics, etc.

According to the legend of the Naxi people, Lao Apu, the son of the god of heaven, was jealous of the happy life in the world, and sent an old god to the world 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 inquiry to know that the child on his back is a nephew, the child is a son, because the 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 thought that the hearts of the people were so good, and how they could bear to harm them, so he told the man the news that the gods had burned the earth, and asked him to tell the people to light torches at the door beforehand on the twenty-fifth day of June, so as to avoid calamity.

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.

The Yi area is known as the "hometown of fire", the Yi people can sing and dance, uphold the ancestors of thousands of years of inheritance of the best dance tradition and oral art, in the torch festival custom formed by the song, legend and even epic performance is also an important inheritance of the "human oral and intangible cultural heritage".

The Torch Festival originated from the worship of fire by ethnic minorities in the southwest. The torch festival is the traditional festival of the Yi nationality, the Bai nationality, the Naxi nationality and other ethnic groups, the people of ancient times believed that the fire can smoke the field to remove the trouble, chase away the plague and go to the disaster, so the fire is worshiped as a super-self-conscious filial piety and talk about the power, the main prudent erection of the torch festival has bullfighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing, and so on.

The Torch Festival is also called the Xinghui Festival, the word "Xinghui" is in the Bai language, and the "Torch Festival" of the Bai nationality is on June 25 of the lunar calendar every year.

The torch festival of the Yi, Naxi, and Kino ethnic groups is held on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month, and the Lahu ethnic group is held on the 20th day of the 6th lunar month, and the festival usually lasts for 2-3 days.

The torch festival presents a rich folk cultural connotation, including religion, belief, song and dance, skills and many other aspects, and the torch festival of each ethnic group has its own characteristics.

1. Origin and legend: A long, long time ago, heaven and earth were interconnected socks, and people and gods could communicate with each other. Until one summer, the god of heaven Siti Guci sent Geng Ding to provoke mortal debt collection, and happened to meet Jalan Di Haoxing, who was very dissatisfied with the matter of paying rent to the sky, so he and Geng Ding Youjiao made an appointment to have a wrestling match, and if he lost, he would pay the rent on time.

However, in the course of the game, Geng Ding was killed by a mistake, and the angry god Siti Guci threw a large number of official insects (locusts) into the world, ruining many crops. The witty and brave Jadi Haoxing led the people to make torches with bamboo and wheat stalks to disperse the locusts and protect the crops. To commemorate this victory, torches are built every year on June 24 to celebrate, and it has been known as the Torch Festival ever since.

2. Customs: Lighting fire, playing with fire, playing with fire, bonfire.