When is the Yi New Year?

The Yi New Year is from October to the middle and late November of the lunar calendar. The Year of the Yi Nationality is a grand traditional festival of the Yi nationality in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, which is called "Kush" in Yi language. The time of Chinese New Year varies from place to place, and most of them choose auspicious days from October to the middle and late November of the lunar calendar every year.

Other festivals of the Yi people:

1, Torch Festival

Torch Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people, which lasts for three days on June 24th of the lunar calendar every year. During the festival, people dressed in costumes gather on the flat dam or gentle slope near the village, singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, sheep shooting, wrestling, beauty contests and so on. The activities are colorful and lively.

2. Dragon Boat Festival

The Yi people in Shiping, Yuanyang and Weishan in Yunnan have to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival twice a year. The first time is the dragon day in February in the summer calendar, and the second time is before the autumn harvest, which means thanking the dragon Lord for the rain and dew.

3. Flower Arrangement Festival

The Yi people in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province hold the Flower Arrangement Festival every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month to wish happiness, well-being, prosperity of six animals and abundant crops.

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Customs and habits of the Yi people:

1. Diet: Yi people's dietary materials and eating methods have a unique style. The staple foods are potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice. Non-staple food 1 includes meat, beans, vegetables, spices and drinks. Carnivores are mainly cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and they kill animals when entertaining guests. Killing cattle is the most expensive, followed by sheep and pigs.

2. Architecture: In the process of adapting to nature, the Yi people have created various distinctive folk houses. Liangshan Yi folk houses are "tile houses"; Guizhou, northern and central Yunnan are "earth palm houses", "square towers", "stacked wooden houses" and "mansion houses"; Guangxi and eastern Yunnan are "dry columns" houses.

3. Costume: The traditional costume of Liangshan Yi people, both men and women wear right-handed clothes with large rows of buttons, shoes, blankets and leggings. They usually tiptoe and wear Ma Xie in winter. The man's head is wrapped in a bun, and different dialects have different styles. There are beeswax beads, silver earrings and so on hanging on his left ear.

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